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<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#0000FF"><b>DIALOG and
Disccrs News</b></font></div>
<div align="center">07/16/04</div>
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<div><b>ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP</b><br>
APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 2004<br>
The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) Fellowship is
an innovative program dedicated to training and supporting a diverse
network of action-oriented emerging environmental leaders from the
United States. The fellowships provide training, project funding, and
a vibrant peer network for 20-25 individuals each year engaged in
environmental and social change work. ELP fellows come from
nonprofits, businesses, government, tribal government, and higher
education, and include activists, artists, writers, lawyers, policy
makers, entrepreneurs, and scientists. ELP is committed to fostering a
reflective, diverse environmental movement capable of responding to
our complex social and environmental challenges. For more information
and application materials, go to:</div>
<div align="center">http://www.elpnet.org/fellowship.html</div>
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color="#0000FF"><b>Resources</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">The spring/summer issue of<b>
Passport to the Sea</b>, the electronic newsletter of SouthEast COSEE
is now on our website:</font> <a
href="http://www.scseagrant.org/se-cosee/"><font face="Arial"
size="-1">http://www.scseagrant.org/se-cosee/</font></a></div>
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Just click on the words “Passport to the Sea.” If you want
to read the winter issue, just click on “Archives.”</font></div>
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size="-1"> Please complete the Reader’s Survey at the top of the
newsletter to assist us in meeting needs. Your input is
valuable.</font></div>
<div><font size="-2"> </font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> Please pass this announcement to your friends
and colleagues. If they would like to receive this newsletter
and other information, please ask them to complete the Research and
Education Inventory on the home page of the SouthEast COSEE
web.</font></div>
<div><font size="-2"> </font><font
face="Arial" size="-1"> We will have great stories of the upcoming
2004 Ocean Sciences Education Leadership Institute, hosted by the
University of Georgia Marine Education Center and Aquarium, Savannah
Georgia and the 2004 Coastal Legacy Workshop, Charleston, SC. We
are proud of the SouthEast COSEE staff, contributing organizations,
educators and scientists who enable us to offer these high-quality
programs.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Sincerely,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Lundie Spence, Ph.D.</font></div>
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<div><b>U.S. CLIMATE POLICY: TOWARD A SENSIBLE CENTER</b></div>
<div>The Pew Center on Global Climate Change and the Brookings
Institution co-sponsored a conference bringing together senators,
CEOs, federal and state officials, and other prominent leaders to
debate the future of U.S. policy on climate change.</div>
<div>To view archived webcasts or read the transcripts for individual
speakers:</div>
<div>http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=436458&l=43904<br>
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<div><b>ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: NEW PEW CENTER REPORT</b></div>
<div>A new Pew Center report, "Coping with Global Climate Change:
The Role of Adaptation in the United States," discusses the
importance of adapting to climate change, the options available, and
the challenges involved.<br>
Read the full report:</div>
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>http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=436458&l=43905</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>AGU Education Brief 04-08: Conference on Research and
Undergraduate</b></div>
<div><b>Education; House Education Appropriates Update</b><br>
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"Integrating Research into Undergraduate Education: The Value
Added"<br>
November 18-19, 2004; Washington, DC.<br>
<br>
This national conference, being convened by The Reinvention Center<br>
and co-sponsored by The National Science Foundation and The
Woodrow<br>
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, will bring together
faculty,<br>
administrators, professional staff and graduate students to
consider<br>
ways that research universities can re-conceive their
undergraduate<br>
education so that it builds on their unique assets and impacts
their<br>
large and diverse student populations. Colleagues from
disciplinary<br>
societies, government agencies, and private foundations are invited
to<br>
join in the discussions as well. The conference program and<br>
registration materials are posted on the Reinvention Center Web site
at:</div>
<div
>http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Conference%2004/urconfabout.<span
></span>htm.<br>
The conference encompasses a wide range of
subjects and has numerous<br>
sessions that should be of special interest to faculty and
professional<br>
staff in the geosciences. Two sessions will focus on curriculum
and<br>
pedagogy exclusively within the context of physical science
disciplines.<br>
Other sessions will address challenges and opportunities that
are<br>
unique to research universities. These cover such varied topics
as</div>
<div>bringing research to the fore in large introductory courses,
to<br>
translating ongoing research into the curriculum, to forming<br>
multi-campus partnerships. The speakers and breakout session
leaders<br>
are all distinguished individuals, well known both for their
expertise<br>
in their fields and their efforts to improve undergraduate
education.<br>
Carl Wieman, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Fellow of JILA
at<br>
the University of Colorado-Boulder and recipient of the 2002
Nobel</div>
<div>Prize in Physics, will give a talk at the opening plenary
session.<br>
The Reinvention Center was established in
2000 as an outgrowth of the<br>
Boyer Commission report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A<br>
Blueprint for America's Research Universities (1998), which offered
a<br>
vision of undergraduate education that is synergistic with its
research<br>
and graduate program. The Reinvention Center's mission
is to bring</div>
<div>together colleagues from research universities to work
collectively to<br>
implement this vision and to be an active and informed voice for<br>
promoting change. The Center carries out its activities through
four<br>
regional network it has formed, conferences, special initiatives
and<br>
multi-campus experimental projects. Thus far over 200 faculty,<br>
administrators, and professional staff have participated in its
regional<br>
networks meetings, and 400 individuals, including colleagues from
100<br>
public and private universities and 11 professional and
disciplinary<br>
societies, attended the Center's first major conference in
2002.</div>
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<div><b>STUDY: BAD AIR HURTS SEA LIFE</b></div>
<div>from Newsday<br>
WASHINGTON - The oceans have soaked up nearly half of the carbon
dioxide<br>
released by industrial activity during the past two centuries,
researchers<br>
say, and changes in ocean chemistry could pose a long-term risk to
corals</div>
<div>and shell-forming marine life.<br>
The findings suggest that burning fossil
fuels such as coal and oil could<br>
have ecological consequences by the end of the century that go
beyond</div>
<div>current concerns about global warming.<br>
The research is reported in a pair of papers
published today in the journal<br>
Science. Oceanographer Christopher Sabine of the National Oceanic
and<br>
Atmospheric Administration and his colleagues found that oceans
absorbed 48<br>
percent of the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning and
cement<br>
manufacturing between 1800 and 1994, or about 118 billion metric tons
of<br>
carbon.</div>
<div>http://snipurl.com/7sxu</div>
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<div><b>SOMETHING'S FISHY ABOUT SO-CALLED RED SNAPPER</b></div>
<div>from Scripps Howard News Service<br>
Just because it says "red snapper" at the
fish market counter doesn't make</div>
<div>it the tasty whitefish that you would expect. A new genetic study
done by<br>
graduate students at the University of North Carolina found that more
than<br>
three in four fish tested and sold as red snapper in eight eastern
and</div>
<div>central states were actually other species.<br>
How much of the mislabeling, which violates
federal law, was intentional or<br>
due to mistaken identification by fishermen and wholesalers is
unknown, but<br>
the result may be that catches of the prized species are being
dramatically<br>
overstated, said Peter Marko, a professor of marine sciences and
lead</div>
<div>author of a report on the findings published today in the journal
Nature.<br>
"Red snapper is the most sought-after
snapper species and has the highest<br>
prices, and many people, including me, believe it tastes best,"
Marko<br>
said. "Mislabeling to this extent not only defrauds consumers,
but also<br>
risks adversely affecting estimates of stock size of this
species."<br>
http://snipurl.com/7sz3</div>
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<div><b>SUNSPOTS REACHING 1,000-YEAR HIGH</b><br>
from BBC Online</div>
<div><br>
A new analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been
at<br>
anytime in the previous 1,000 years.<br>
<br>
Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich used ice
cores<br>
from Greenland to construct a picture of our star's activity in the
past.<br>
<br>
They say that over the last century the number of sunspots rose at the
same<br>
time that the Earth's climate became steadily warmer.</div>
<div>http://snipurl.com/7kw3</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><b>Berlin Conference on Greening Policies and academic
environmental teaching programs</b></div>
<div>As every year our Environmental Policy Research centre organizes
a Berlin Conference which will take place in December 2005. This year
our topic is: Greening of Policies Interlinkages and Policy
Integration. In addition to this research focus we will host a special
panel on academic environmental teaching programs: For more
information:<br>
http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu/akumwelt/bc2004/</div>
<div>For more information please don´t hesitate to contact me:
Kirsten</div>
<div>Dr. Kirsten Jörgensen<br>
Environmental Policy Research Centre<br>
Ihnestr. 22/14195 Berlin<br>
fon: (+)49 - 30 - 838 550 97</div>
<div>fax: (+)49 - 30 - 838 566 85<br>
Master´s Program Public and Private Environmental Management</div>
<div align="center">http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu/</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> HDGEC Coastal Management Specialist-Team Leader
position</b></div>
<div>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Coastal Services Center in Charleston, SC has a vacancy for a Coastal
Management<br>
Specialist-Team Leader. This individual serves as the Program
Manager for</div>
<div>the Outreach Program, located in the Center's Coastal Management
Services Branch. The Outreach program develops and provides
products and services that increase the capabilities of federal,
state, and local coastal and marine resource managers to incorporate
sound social science information, techniques, and skills into their
management strategies, ultimately resulting in improved resource
management decision making.<br>
Preferred experience in: a state or local coastal resource
management</div>
<div>agency; applying social science concepts and methods to coastal
management decision making. The position closes July 26, 2004.
To view a full description and/or apply for the position, click on the
link below and<br>
search for position: ECS-4063001.KLD<br>
http://www.jobs.doc.gov/<br>
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Thomas E. Fish, Ph.D.<br>
Human Dimensions Specialist<br>
U.S. Department of Commerce<br>
NOAA Coastal Services Center<br>
2234 South Hobson Avenue<br>
Charleston, SC 29405<br>
Tel: 843.740.1271<br>
Fax: 843.740.1313<br>
Email: Tom.Fish@noaa.gov</div>
<div align="center">Web: http://www.csc.noaa.gov</div>
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Ph.D. <br>
Biology
Department <span
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509-527-5948 </div>
<div>Whitman
College <span
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>
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