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<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#0000FF"><b>DIALOG and
Disccrs News</b></font></div>
<div align="center">May 21, 2004</div>
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<div><b>GREAT PROGRAM FOR MINORITY SCHOLARS:</b></div>
<div><b>Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence</b>, Minority
Scholar-in-Residence program</div>
<div>http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/dean/csmp/</div>
<div><font face="Trebuchet MS" color="#000000"> </font><font
color="#000000">The Minority Scholar-in-Residence Program grows out of
the conviction that a strong representation of minority scholars on
the faculties of liberal arts colleges is essential. Member
institutions of the Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence at
Liberal Arts Colleges, an association of selective undergraduate
institutions, have developed a program to meet this challenge. Its
immediate aim is to assist minority scholars in the early stages of
their careers. The further aim of the program is to produce a pool of
minority scholars who will have firsthand experience teaching at
liberal arts colleges and may, therefore, choose to apply for
positions at member institutions of the consortium or at similar
institutions as these become available.</font></div>
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<div><b>START YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD</b></div>
<div>Below please find the 2004 START Young Scientist Award<br>
Program Announcement. As you know, this is an annual program
where<br>
START recognizes the achievements of outstanding young scientists<br>
from Oceania, Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean for their<br>
contributions to global change science as measured by a
peer-reviewed<br>
paper. Please distribute widely throughout your networks and<br>
encourage any qualified candidates to apply.<br>
<br>
Thank you for your assistance.<br>
<br>
With best regards,<br>
Patricia Sipher<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS FROM<br>
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES<br>
<br>
CY 2004 START Young Scientist Award<br>
<br>
<br>
The International START Secretariat is soliciting<br>
nominations/applications for the CY 2004 START Young Scientist<br>
Awards. These awards recognize the research accomplishments
of<br>
outstanding young scientists from developing countries in Africa,<br>
Asia, Oceania, and the Mediterranean. Nominations must be for
young<br>
scientists who have published a paper in an established
peer-reviewed<br>
journal (preferably in English). In keeping with START's mission
of<br>
conducting research on regional aspects of global change, the
paper<br>
must be on an aspect of global change in the context of the
research<br>
projects of START's program sponsor, the Earth System Science<br>
Partnership comprising the International Human Dimensions
Programme<br>
on Global Environmental Change (IHDP - www.ihdp.uni-bonn.de), the<br>
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP -
www.igbp.kva.se),<br>
the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP -<br>
www.wmo.ch/web/wcrp/wcrp-home.html) and DIVERSITAS<br>
(www.diversitas-international.org). Preference will be given
to<br>
papers on the following themes:<br>
<br>
- Land Use Change and its Impacts<br>
- Regional Climate Variability and Change<br>
- Changes in Atmospheric Composition and its Impacts<br>
- Global Change and Coastal Zones, and<br>
- Vulnerability and Adaptation to Global Change<br>
<br>
Candidates for the 2004 START Young Scientist Awards must be 40
years<br>
of age or younger as of the application deadline on Friday 23 July<br>
2004. In the case of multi-authored articles, the candidate must
be<br>
the lead author of the paper. The paper should have been
published<br>
within the last two years. Papers not yet published but accepted
for<br>
publication and in press can qualify for the award. In this
case, a<br>
copy of the letter of acceptance from the journal must accompany
the<br>
application materials.<br>
<br>
Candidates for the START Young Scientist Award are strongly<br>
encouraged to submit articles they may have published based on<br>
research conducted with START support or in one of START's
regional<br>
projects.<br>
<br>
The deadline for submission of nominations/applications is Friday 23
July 2004.<br>
<br>
All nominations/applications will be reviewed in consultation with<br>
the respective START Regional Centers/Secretariats and by a
special<br>
review committee established by the International START
Secretariat.<br>
Award announcements will be made during September 2004.<br>
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<div>Completed nominations/applications must consist of the
following:<br>
- ONE journal paper (multiple papers will not be accepted)<br>
- A brief curriculum vitae (3-5 pages, max)<br>
- Copy of letter of acceptance from the journal, if the paper is
not<br>
yet in print<br>
<br>
Electronic submissions of nominations/Applications are encouraged.<br>
Please submit nominations/applications to:<br>
<br>
Kathleen Landauer<br>
International START Secretariat<br>
2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Suite 200<br>
Washington, DC 20009 USA<br>
Phone: (+1-202) 462-2213<br>
Fax: (+1-202) 457-5859</div>
<div>E-mail: klandauer@agu.org</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Science
News</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="-1">Check out this section both for
news tidbits, and for</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="-1">examples of how to communicate
science to a non-scientist audience</font></div>
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<div><b>AUSTRALIA TO CREATE WORLD'S LARGEST MARINE RESERVE
SYSTEM</b><br>
The largest marine protected area in the world will also
include the<br>
largest network of no-take areas. In late March, the Australian<br>
Parliament passed a bill to re-zone the multiple-use Great Barrier
Reef<br>
Marine Park, setting aside one-third of the
344,000-square-kilometer<br>
park as off-limits to all extractive activity. In doing so,
legislators<br>
created a 115,000-square-kilometer network of no-take zones,<br>
representing all 70 marine bioregions throughout the park. The new<br>
no-take network will raise the no-take percentage of the park
from its<br>
current 4.7 percent to 33 percent—making it roughly the size of<br>
Bulgaria. The law takes effect July 1. To read the in-depth story
and<br>
discussions with several key players in the process leading to
this<br>
law, go to:<br>
http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues.html</div>
<div align="center">---SOURCE: MPA News, volume 5, number 10, May 2004
via SeaSpan</div>
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<div><b>COD COULD BE GONE BY 2020</b></div>
<div> Cod stocks around the world could be eliminated by
2020 because of<br>
overfishing, illegal catches, and oil exploration, according to a
new<br>
report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). According to the<br>
report, the global catch has declined from 3.1 million tons in 1970
to<br>
950,000 tons in 2000, and if this trend continues, cod stocks will<br>
disappear in 15 years. The Barents Sea, north of Russia and
Norway,<br>
which is home to one of the last healthy cod fisheries, is
especially<br>
threatened. For more details or to download the WWF report, go to:<br>
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/news/news.cfm?uNe<span
></span>wsID=13051</div>
<div align="center">---SOURCE: Boston Globe, May 13, 2004,
http://www.boston.com/globe via SeaSpan</div>
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<div><b>BACKGROUND NOISE INFLUENCES COMMUNICATION AMONG WHALES</b><br>
A study reported in Nature finds that killer whales
(Orcinus orca)<br>
living in the nearshore waters of Washington state (USA) adjust
their<br>
behavior to compensate for anthropogenic noise once it reaches a<br>
threshold level. The authors found longer call durations in the<br>
presence of boats for all three pods of whales studied, but only
in<br>
recent recordings made following a period of increasing boat
traffic.<br>
---SOURCE: Andrew D. Foote, Richard W. Osborne, and A. Rus
Hoelzel:<br>
Environment: Whale-call response to masking boat noise. Nature,
volume</div>
<div>428, page 910, April 29, 2004. http://www.nature.com/</div>
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Programs, Courses, Internships</b></font>,<font size="+1"
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<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Jobs for
PhDs</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><b>Georgia Tech’s Schools of Biology, Chemistry
and Biochemistry, and Civil and Environmental Engineering are
searching for<br>
<u>2 Post-Doctoral Fellows</u> to join an NSF (IGERT) funded
interdisciplinary group working in the areas of<u> Aquatic Chemical
Signaling (including Ecology, Chemistry, Fluid Dynamics, Sensory
Biology, and Behavior)</u></b></div>
<div
align="center">http://www.biology.gatech.edu/postdoc_openings.html<br>
</div>
<div>Georgia Tech’s program in Aquatic Chemical Signaling invites
recent Ph.D.s to apply for post-doctoral positions working with
faculty and graduate students in a collaborative, interdisciplinary,
and well-funded research effort<b> combining chemistry, ecology, fluid
dynamics, sensory biology and behavior</b>. <u> Applicants must
be U.S. citizens or permanent residents</u>. We are especially
interested in candidates who bridge disciplinary borders between
chemistry, biology and physics, as well as highly trained scientists
from a single discipline who now want to broaden their approach to
include interdisciplinary questions. We seek applicants to
conduct research and help train IGERT graduate students at the
juncture of two, or more, of the above disciplines. This program
is devoted to training graduate students and post-docs in
investigations of how chemical signals are produced, transported,
received, and processed in aquatic systems, as well as the role of
chemical signaling in affecting population and community structure.
Post-docs will be funded 50% by NSF IGERT funds and 50% by a PI with
whom they will be closely associated. Depending on the PI
involved, post-docs may have considerable flexibility in choices of
processes (defense, mate selection, prey sensing) and systems (coral
reefs, plankton, microbes) to investigate. For additional information
contact Dr. Mark Hay at<font color="#0000FF"><u>
mark.hay@biology.gatech.edu</u></font> or any of the IGERT faculty
listed at<font color="#0000FF"><u>
http://www.biology.gatech.edu/igert.htm</u></font>.</div>
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<div>Salary will be about $36,000/yr with benefits. Applicants
should send a resume, up to 3 reprints, a statement of research
interests, and have 3 letters of references sent to:
Signals-in-the-Sea Post-Doc Search, School of Biology, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230. Applications will be
considered beginning August 1, 2004. Georgia Institute of
Technology is a unit of the University System of Georgia and an
affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.</div>
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<div>Mark Hay<br>
Teasley Professor of Environmental Biology<br>
School of Biology<br>
Georgia Institute of Technology<br>
Atlanta, GA 30332-0230<br>
<br>
Phone office - 404-894-8429<br>
FAX - 404-385-4440<br>
internet <mark.hay@biology.gatech.edu></div>
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color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.biology.gatech.edu/professors/hay.html</u
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<div align="center"><font size="-1">This newsletter has been developed
by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of
potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic
science or climate change research, and to build an international
sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international
forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research,
professional and social issues.</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="-1">The views and opinions expressed
are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has
submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed
do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring
societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the
right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#0000FF"><b>Please submit
announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or
weiler@whitman.edu.</b></font></div>
<div align="center">For ease of transmission, please do not send
attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message,
and link to any appropriate websites.</div>
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<div>C. Susan Weiler,
Ph.D. <br>
Biology
Department <span
></span> Tel:
509-527-5948 </div>
<div>Whitman
College <span
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>
Fax: 509-527-5961<br>
Walla Walla, WA 99362<br>
weiler@whitman.edu <br>
Programs for Recent
PhDs <span
></span> http://aslo.org/phd.html<br>
Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences
http://www.aslo.org/mas.html<br>
DIALOG poster
http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf<br>
DISCCRS poster
http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf <span
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