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Disccrs News</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><b>****DIALOG WEBPAGE CHANGES***</b></div>
<div> I'm in the process of reorganizing the
http://aslo.org/phd.html webpage. One big difference is that<b> all
the resources developed for and from the DIALOG symposia</b> are now
on a separate<b> "resources" page</b>--you can get to it
from the main phd page above, or go directly to:</div>
<div>http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/DIALOGresourcepage/</div>
<div> Resources are now in the form of an annotated list.</div>
<div> -- Be sure to check out the new resource developed from
DIALOG V for<b> teaching slides</b>--itis on the resource page, or you
can go directly to:</div>
<div><font
face="Times New Roman"> http://www.dialog.741.com/ </font>
Stacey Etheridge took the lead on putting this together, and it will
be an ongoing project--see message directly below:</div>
<div> --DISCCRS group: It would be *great* to have a similar
resource for climate change--Please let me know if you would be
interested in developing such a resource. :)</div>
<div>cheers, sue,</div>
<div>weiler@whitman.edu</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Aquatic Science Teaching
Slides:</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"> http://www.dialog.741.com/
This webpage was developed by DIALOG V participant Stacey Etheridge,
to make slides developed by the DIALOG V symposium participants
available to a larger audience. DIALOG symposium participants are each
required to develop a 10-minute oral presentation in plenary format,
to make their work understandable to scientists outside their own
discipline. So many of the DIALOG V participants were requesting
slides from each other's presentations for teaching purposes that
Stacey kindly volunteered to put the slides together as an electronic
resource. This page will be expanded with each symposia.</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">Etheridge, S. et al. 2004. DIALOG V
educational slides: Interdisciplinary topics in aquatic science.
http://www.dialog.741.com/</font></div>
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<div><b>Rethinking the Science of Politics - Multiple Methods
Strengthen Scientific Inference</b></div>
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align="center">http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?pr04080</div>
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<div><b>Qs and AAAs About Global Climate Change</b><br>
http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0603climate.shtml</div>
<div>AAAS held a conference on climate change</div>
<div>June 15, 2004, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm</div>
<div>in Washington, DC. Hopefully they will be publishing the talks on
the above website. I'm sending it to you just in case. :) Here is the
press release describing the conference:</div>
<div> AAAS is pleased to invite you to an
important conference on the science of</div>
<div>climate change: "Qs And AAAs About Global Climate Change."
The meeting,<br>
co-sponsored by the Conference Board, will feature 11 of the
nation's<br>
leading climate scientists discussing what is known and what is not
known<br>
about global climate change in a series of objective,
nonpartisan</div>
<div>presentations..... The conference,</div>
<div>planned and presented by the journal Science and the AAAS
Directorate for<br>
Science and Policy Programs, responds to the Washington policy
community's<br>
need for unbiased, clear-eyed analysis by scientific experts of what
is<br>
known, what is likely but unproven, and what is a plausible but
untested<br>
prospect. The introductory presentation by Professor Sherwood Rowland
of<br>
the University of California, Irvine, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry,
will be<br>
followed by panels of specialists covering a wide range of climate
change<br>
topics: history, role of greenhouse gases, models and their
limitations,<br>
the fates of glaciers, and more. The agenda and the full meeting<br>
announcement is available on the AAAS web site at</div>
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>http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0603climate.shtml</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>UNITED STATES ADOPTS ECOSYSTEM VIEW OF OCEANS
MANAGEMENT</b><br>
U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans says that the Bush
administration is ready to endorse some recommendations made in a
recent report issued by the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. The
congressionally appointed panel released a draft set of
recommendations in April after three years of study and public
hearings. In remarks he made at the Oceans Week Conference on Capitol
Hill, Evans said, "We're committed to developing new approaches
and partnerships to build on our successes, and restore and sustain
healthy oceans." Addressing delegates from business,
non-governmental organizations, and government agencies, Evans
continued: "Ecosystems are highly complex. A better understanding
of species, habitat, and their interactions is central to our efforts
to protect and manage the nation's ocean and coastal
resources."</div>
<div>---SOURCE: AmeriScan, Environment News Service, June 11, 2003.
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2003. Republished with
permission from ENS online at:<br>
http://ens-news.com</div>
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<div><b>A NEW ICE AGE? NONE SOON, SNOW 2 MILES DEEP IMPLIES</b></div>
<div>from The New York Times (Registration Required) from Sigma Xi
Science iin the News<br>
Despite the recent trend toward global
warming, scientists have long<br>
wondered whether the earth is nearing another ice age, an end to the
12,000-<br>
year temperate spell in which modern civilizations arose. Some have
said<br>
such a transition is overdue, given that each of the three
temperate<br>
intervals that immediately preceded the current one lasted only
about</div>
<div>10,000 years.<br>
But now, in an eagerly awaited study, a group
of climate and ice experts<br>
say they have new evidence that earth is not even halfway through
the<br>
current warm era. The evidence comes from the oldest layers of
Antarctic</div>
<div>ice ever sampled.<br>
Some scientists earlier proposed similar
hypotheses, basing them on the<br>
current configuration of earth's orbit, which seems to set the
metronome<br>
that ice ages dance to. Temperature patterns deciphered in
sea-bottom<br>
sediments in recent years supported the theory.</div>
<div align="center">http://snipurl.com/6z7y</div>
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<div><b>COALITION SEEKS HALT TO DEEP SEA DESTRUCTION</b></div>
<div>From Pew SeaSpan<br>
A broad international coalition of environmentalists, The
Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, has called on the United Nations to
declare an immediate moratorium on bottom-trawl fishing to protect the
world?s underwater mountains, or seamounts, and their vulnerable
inhabitants. In parallel with the United Nations Open-Ended Informal
Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, experts of the
coalition spoke on the conservation and management of sea beds in
areas outside international jurisdiction, and specifically on the
threat of deep-sea trawling on seamounts and their rich sea life. The
press conference participants were Daniel Pauly, director of the
Fisheries Centre, University of British Colombia; Elliot Norse (PF
'97), president of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute; and
Matthew Gianni, former fisherman turned international fisheries
expert. Coalition members include Conservation International,
Greenpeace International, World Conservation, the Marine Conservation
Biology Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the New
England Aquarium, among others. To read the press briefing, go to:<br>
http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2004/deepseapc.doc.htm</div>
<div>---SOURCE:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0406/S00067.htm</div>
<div> Norse 's Pew Fellowship supported
national and international outreach, education, and policy development
for marine stewardship and initiatives that advance the field of
marine conservation biology. For more on Norse, go to:</div>
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>http://www.pewmarine.org/pewFellowsDirectoryTemplate.php?PEWSerialIn<span
></span>t=3669</div>
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<div><b>SEA CHANGE SINCE ERA OF STEINBECK</b></div>
<div>from The Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)<br>
ISLA CORONADO, Mexico — As warm salt water
lapped against his legs, Chuck<br>
Baxter took delight in the creatures clinging to rocks and
skittering<br>
around the tidal shallows. His sunburned hands dipped beneath the<br>
shimmering surface for a closer examination of starfish, crabs and
sponges</div>
<div>forming a palette of red, orange, yellow and brown.<br>
Out of this bustling seascape surfaced a
question: Why does the marine life<br>
look so rich here, when 64 years earlier author John Steinbeck
considered<br>
this same spot so devoid of life that it appeared "burned,"
as if exposed</div>
<div>to mild "radio-activity"?<br>
That question also rolled around the rear
deck of the Gus D., a shrimp<br>
trawler jury-rigged into a marine lab. Baxter, a retired Stanford<br>
University marine biology professor, and his mates from Monterey,
were<br>
retracing the 1940 voyage of Steinbeck and his pal, marine biologist
Edward<br>
F. Ricketts. Steinbeck made the 4,000-mile trip famous in his
nonfiction<br>
book, "The Log From the Sea of Cortez."</div>
<div align="center">http://snipurl.com/74i0</div>
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<div><b>CONSERVATIVE GROUPS BLOCK INTERNATIONAL SEA TREATY</b></div>
<div>Taken from SeaSpan 6/16/04</div>
<div> The United Nations' Convention on the Law of the
Sea--a comprehensive international accord governing the use of oceans
for shipping, fishing, mining, and naval operations--has been signed
by the United States and unanimously approved by the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, but it languishes in the Senate nonetheless,
awaiting a final vote. Environmental groups have supported the treaty
for years, saying it provides important tools to protect ocean
ecosystems. A thwarted treaty supported by environmentalists is not
big news, but this treaty is also supported by oil and mining
companies, as well as the Defense and State departments. So what's the
holdup? A vocal coalition of far-right groups objects to the
multinational agreement because ... well, because it's multinational.
"All these U.N. treaties are invasions of our sovereignty,"
said Phyllis Schlafly of the conservative Eagle Forum. An aide to
Richard Lugar, the treaty's main Senate advocate, said the
conservative objections were expected, but "what did surprise us
is that the administration kowtowed to them so quickly." To read
the full story, go to:</div>
<div
>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sea1jun01,1,231<span
></span>9383.story</div>
<div>---SOURCE: Grist Magazine, June 1, 2003. To subscribe to Grist
Magazine's free daily environmental news email, go to:<br>
http://www.gristmagazine.com/signup/subgrist.asp</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>ALARM SOUNDED ON GLOBAL WARMING</b><br>
from The Washington Post (Registration Required)<br>
<br>
Ten of the nation's top climate researchers warned yesterday that<br>
policymakers must act soon to address the dangers associated with
global<br>
warming, which they described as a looming threat that will hit
hardest and<br>
soonest at the world's poor and at farmers.<br>
<br>
"By mid-century, millions more poor children around the world are
likely to<br>
face displacement, malnourishment, disease and even starvation unless
all<br>
countries take action now to slow global warming" and sea-level
rises that<br>
will follow, Michael Oppenheimer, who teaches geosciences and
international<br>
affairs at Princeton University, said at a conference. "Imagine
the<br>
difficulties faced by families in Bangladesh. An area where about 8
million<br>
people now live would be underwater if global sea level were to rise
half a<br>
meter. Where are they going to go?"<br>
http://snipurl.com/74f7<br>
<br>
Associated Press version (No registration required)</div>
<div>http://snipurl.com/74i3</div>
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<div><b>SUMMERTIME, WHEN PEOPLE AND PARASITES HEAD FOR THE
WATER</b><br>
from The New York Times (Registration Required)<br>
<br>
The more you know about microbiology, the harder it is to go swimming.
The<br>
ocean not only has the odd macrobiotic sting ray and shark but
various<br>
sorts of bacteria, dinoflagellates and viruses. That's in a healthy
ocean.<br>
<br>
As Dr. Michael Beach (his real name), an epidemiologist in the
parasitic<br>
disease section of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
in<br>
Atlanta, said, "A lot of these bugs just live in the wild and we
get in<br>
their way."<br>
<br>
Dr. Beach is involved in the healthy swimming campaign for the agency.
The<br>
seashore and rivers, ponds and lakes are part of its concern, because
they<br>
can certainly contain health hazards, even if they are not polluted.
But<br>
the current focus is on pools and a parasite called
cryptosporidium.</div>
<div align="center">http://snipurl.com/6xh3</div>
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<div><b>Support Basic Research in Europe</b></div>
<div>Sugmitted by Konstantinor Kormos</div>
<div>>Dear Colleague,</div>
<div>> Sign for a petition for European support to basic
research.</div>
<div align="center">> http://fer.apinc.org</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Summer
Programs, Courses, Internships</b></font>,<font size="+1"
color="#0000FF"><b> Meetings</b></font></div>
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<div>ASLA 04-08:<b> New Jefferson Science Fellowship at U.S. State
Department</b><br>
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"Now, more than ever, American science must enlighten
American<br>
statecraft." - Secretary of State Colin Powell<br>
<br>
A new program will help the State Department tap into the
scientific<br>
expertise of senior faculty at the nation's universities. U.S.
Secretary of<br>
State Colin Powell spoke to members of the scientific, philanthropic,
and<br>
diplomatic communities on 26 May about how scientists and the
State<br>
Department can work together for the benefit of the nation and the
world.<br>
"Just as in the days of Franklin and Jefferson, American
scientists and<br>
diplomats share a common goal today: They both seek to apply the
best<br>
knowledge we have to the most significant challenges we face,"
Powell said<br>
at an event celebrating a new program to bring scientific expertise
into the<br>
State Department.<br>
<br>
The new Jefferson Science Fellowship program is based upon
existing<br>
fellowship programs at the State Department, initiated by the
American<br>
Institute of Physics (AIP) and by the American Association for the<br>
Advancement of Science (AAAS). AIP's first State Department
Science<br>
Fellow, George Atkinson, who was named the Science and
Technology</div>
<div>Advisor to Secretary Powell after serving his AIP fellowship, was
the<br>
driving force behind establishment of the Jefferson
Fellowship. <br>
<br>
This new program, a partnership between the State Department, U.S.<br>
institutions of higher education, and several philanthropic
foundations, will</div>
<div>bring tenured science and engineering faculty members from
participating</div>
<div>universities to the State Department. They will join the
fellows from AIP,<br>
AAAS, and several other professional science and engineering
societies,<br>
working in various bureaus throughout the Department, and
contributing<br>
their expertise to the scientific and technological aspects of foreign
policy</div>
<div>issues. As Powell remarked, "They will observe and
participate in the<br>
day-to-day working of American foreign policy. They'll see how
science<br>
and statecraft work together to improve the lives of people around
the<br>
world. They'll gain an appreciation for the daily challenges
confronting the<br>
men and women of the State Department...[and] take their experiences
with<br>
them back into our nation's classrooms and laboratories." A
key element of<br>
the Jefferson Fellowship is that fellows, once they return to
their<br>
universities, will remain available as consultants to the Department
for<br>
several years.<br>
<br>
Powell concluded, "I look to our new Jefferson Fellows and to all
the men<br>
and women of America's scientific community to help us in
government<br>
build a safer, healthier and better world. We have
unprecedented<br>
opportunities before us, and, with imagination, with compassion, and
in<br>
partnership, we can seize these opportunities."<br>
<br>
<br>
The various fellowship programs at the State Department provide</div>
<div>opportunities for many in the science community to contribute
their<br>
know-how to America's foreign policy. Qualified members of any
of the 10<br>
AIP Member Societies are eligible to apply for the AIP State
Department<br>
Science Fellowship; see www.aip.org/gov/sdf.html for details on the
AIP<br>
program. Applications for the AIP Fellowship are due by 1
November<br>
2004 for the Fellowship selection in early 2005.<br>
<br>
Readers interested in learning more about the Jefferson Fellowship
should</div>
<div>see www.national-academies.org/jsf.<br>
<br>
The full text of Secretary Powell's May 26 speech can be viewed
at</div>
<div align="center">www.state.gov/secretary/rm/32864.htm.</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Jobs for
PhDs</b></font></div>
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<div><b>POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION</b><br>
<br>
A post-doctoral position is available in the Dept. of Earth Sciences,
Montana State University (http://www.montana.edu/wwwes/) in the field
of geoscience education. Responsibilities include:<br>
· Development of exemplars in the effective use of digital
instructional materials at the undergraduate level, with emphasis on
integrating research and education (2-year funding from NSF, Digital
Library for Earth System Education DLESE program).<br>
· Teach one course/semester in the Dept. of Earth Sciences (to be
determined)<br>
<br>
In addition, there is the opportunity to<br>
· Assist with curriculum development of new introductory courses and
labs in Earth system science, and<br>
· Develop and teach on-line courses in the MSU Master's of Science
and Science Education program (www.montana.edu/msse) and other
distance-learning courses through the MSU Burns Telecommunications
Center (http://btc.montana.edu; e.g. the Nationals Teachers
Enhancement Network, www.scienceteacher.org)<br>
<br>
This is a great opportunity to jump start an academic career by
building a portfolio of teaching experiences such as course and
curriculum design, instructional materials development, and related
research on learning activities.<br>
<br>
A completed PhD in the geosciences, with evidence of contributions to
geoscience education is required. Experience developing digital
instructional materials and designing curricula is preferred. Please
send your CV and the names of three references and their contact
information. The position is currently available. Review of
applications will begin immediately and continue until a successful
candidate has been identified. Please contact:<br>
David Mogk<br>
Dept. Earth Sciences<br>
Montana State University<br>
(406) 994-6916; mogk@montana.edu</div>
<div>MSU is an ADA/EO/AA/Veteran's Preference Employer</div>
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<div><b>GEO EDUCATION POSTDOCS AT CARLETON</b><br>
Greetings-<br>
<br>
I would like to bring to your attention several opportunities here at
SERC for those interested in a sabbatical or postdoctoral position
that focuses on geoscience education.</div>
<div><br>
For the 2004-2005 academic year, we have two positions working on
websites and associated resource collections addressing on-going
issues in geoscience education: Teaching Quantitative Skills and
Preparing Teachers to Teach Earth Sciences. The
Quantitative Skills appointment can be up to 5 months. The
Preparing Teachers appointment can be up to 3 months.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>For those of you who would like to plan further ahead, we
anticipate three openings for the 2005-2006 academic year.
Positions up to 2.5 months will be available to add to and develop
further the Teaching Quantitative Skills and Preparing Teachers to
Teach Earth Sciences sites. In addition, we will have a position
for up to four months to work on developing web resources that bring
Cutting Edge workshops to the broader community.<br>
<br>
For further information, please visit our website:
<http://serc.carleton.edu/serc/jobs.html> or contact me.<br>
<br>
Cathy Manduca<br>
<br>
Dr. Cathryn A. Manduca<br>
Director, Science Education Resource Center<br>
Carleton College<br>
Northfield, MN 55057<br>
507 646-7096<br>
cmanduca@carleton.edu</div>
<div align="center">serc.carleton.edu</div>
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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>
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<div>C. Susan Weiler,
Ph.D. <br>
Biology
Department <span
></span> Tel:
509-527-5948 <br
>
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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