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<div align="center"><font size="+2" color="#0000FF"><b>DIALOG and
Disccrs News</b></font></div>
<div align="center">9/16/04</div>
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<div><b>GLOBAL CHANGE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROPOSALS</b></div>
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<div><b>U.S. COMMISSION ON OCEAN POLICY TO RELEASE FINAL
REPORT</b></div>
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<div><b>BLAIR CALLS FOR UK TO LEAD ON CLIMATE CHANGE</b></div>
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<div><b>SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM TO GET $60 MILLION EXHIBIT</b></div>
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<div><b>FUEL SUSPECTED DEEP INSIDE EARTH</b></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>President Bush Nominates Ardent
Bement as NSF Director</b></font></div>
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<div><b>Mathematical Statistician position - Seattle, WA</b></div>
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<div><b>GLOBAL CHANGE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROPOSALS</b></div>
<div>On behalf of the IAI, we are pleased to announce the 2nd round of
the</div>
<div>IAI Collaborative Research Network (CRN II) program.</div>
<div> Building upon the successes of the first round
of IAI CRNs, the program</div>
<div>is expected to provide a second major thrust to<b> global change
research</b></div>
<div><b>in the Americas</b> within the framework of the IAI Science
Agenda. It is<br>
designed to create networks of scientists throughout the region who
will<br>
synergistically work on global change problems of importance to
the<br>
Americas. The individual projects are expected to significantly<br>
contribute to the development and strengthening of the regional
capacity<br>
to deal with global environmental change issues and their
socio-economic<br>
impacts in the region. The approach will be integrative - involving
the<br>
natural and social sciences in a collaborative way - and the
program<br>
seeks to provide sound scientific understanding in support of</div>
<div>sustainable development in the region.</div>
<div> The program is intended to support 10-12
global change research networks selected on a competitive basis.
Projects must be collaborative efforts with Principal Investigators
(PIs) and Co-Principal Investigators<br>
(Co-PIs) representing institutions from at least four IAI member<br>
countries. Under this program, proposals may be submitted for
support<br>
for a period of five years, with annual budgets up to US$ 200K,
however,</div>
<div>we also encourage smaller projects to be presented.<br>
The application process for CRN II consists
of two phases. This letter<br>
is inviting submission of pre-proposals and comprises Phase 1.
After<br>
evaluation of Phase 1, the IAI will invite 25-30 selected
pre-proposals<br>
to develop full proposals in Phase 2. Submission of a pre-proposal
in<br>
Phase 1 is prerequisite to be eligible for submission of a full
proposal</div>
<div>in Phase 2.<br>
A detailed description of this announcement
and all other necessary<br>
documents to prepare and submit a pre-proposal can be found on<br>
"http://www.iai.int/CRN2" Please download the 'CRNII
Pre-proposal<br>
General Guidelines' and other documents and strictly follow the</div>
<div>instructions given.<br>
Pre-proposals must be in English language and
must be RECEIVED by the<br>
IAI Directorate no later than midnight (24:00) - Sao Paulo (Brazil)
time</div>
<div>- on Wednesday, 20 October 2004.<br>
Please note that you will be required to submit
your pre-proposal<br>
electronically via "http://www.iai.int/CRN2" and that the
submission<br>
process will require a valid Account & Password. To obtain a
valid</div>
<div>Account & Password please contact iaiweb@dir.iai.int.<br>
WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU OBTAIN YOUR
ACCOUNT & PASSWORD WELL IN</div>
<div>ADVANCE TO DEADLINE FOR PRE-PROPOSAL SUBMISSION.</div>
<div>If you have any questions regarding pre-proposals for IAI CRN II,
please<br>
contact Dr. Gerhard Breulmann, IAI Scientific Officer, phone</div>
<div>55-12-3945.6865, fax (55-12-3941.4410) or e-mail
gerhard@dir.iai.int<br>
Gustavo V. Necco<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
Director</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>U.S. COMMISSION ON OCEAN POLICY TO RELEASE FINAL
REPORT</b></div>
<div>Source: SeaSpan. The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation,
a program of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science.
http://www.pewoceanscience.org</div>
<div> As mandated by the Oceans Act of 2000, the U.S.
Commission on Ocean Policy will submit its final report, "An
Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century," to the President and
Congress on September 20. Under the Act, the President must then
submit his statement of proposals to implement or respond to the
Commission's findings and recommendations to Congress within 90 days.
The "Summary of Changes to the Preliminary Report," which is
available on the website, is a selective summary of significant
changes proposed by Governors and Tribal Leaders, non-gubernatorial
stakeholders, and other experts and advisers, as well as technical
corrections provided from federal agencies, that have been
incorporated in the Commission's final report. The final report will
also be posted on the website after September 20.
http://www.oceancommission.gov/documents/welcome.html</div>
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<div><b>BLAIR CALLS FOR UK TO LEAD ON CLIMATE CHANGE</b></div>
<div>from The Guardian (UK)<br>
Tony Blair has called a world scientific
conference for next February to</div>
<div>decide an upper limit on how much the temperature can rise before
the world faces the "catastrophic consequences of climate
change".<br>
He said the idea was to put pressure on the
US administration to take</div>
<div>action and to include China and India in a programme of cutting
greenhouse gas emissions.</div>
<div> Speaking last night in London to an
audience mainly of business people but including the Prince of Wales
and environmental groups, he said global<br>
warming "has become alarming and was simply unsustainable in the
long<br>
term". It was not just a question of adjustment. "I mean a
challenge so far-<br>
reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that
it</div>
<div>alters radically human existence."<br>
He said it was not some distant threat
centuries ahead. "I mean in the<br>
lifetime of my children certainly; and possibly within my
own."</div>
<div align="center">http://snipurl.com/9364</div>
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<div><b>SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM TO GET $60 MILLION EXHIBIT</b></div>
<div>from The Washington Post (Registration Required)</div>
<div> The Smithsonian's National Museum of
Natural History plans to announce today the largest renovation in its
nearly 95-year history, creating Ocean Hall, an unusual hybrid of
public display and research.</div>
<div> Ocean Hall will cost $60 million and
cover 28,000 square feet -- 3,000 more than the successful makeover of
the Hall of Mammals last year. It will<br>
bring together for the first time all 50 of the museum's marine
scientists<br>
and government specialists in what's being called the Smithsonian
Ocean</div>
<div>Science Initiative.</div>
<div> "Oceans are going to be the most
important topic for the public in the next decade. They will be the
rainforest issue," says Robert Sullivan, the<br>
museum's associate director for public programs. "The hall will
be a<br>
provocative starting point for those discussions. We are going to do
what<br>
has been impossible for a natural history museum. We are going to do
what<br>
is current."</div>
<div>http://snipurl.com/940x</div>
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<div><b>FUEL SUSPECTED DEEP INSIDE EARTH</b></div>
<div>from The San Francisco Chronicle<br>
Oceans of fossil fuel-like gases and fluids,
enough to support a high-tech<br>
society for many millennia to come, might exist far deeper inside the
Earth</div>
<div>than we've ever drilled before, researchers speculate.<br>
Since the mid-19th century, a small but
enthusiastic minority of scientists<br>
have argued that petroleum and other fuels are formed by purely
chemical,<br>
or abiogenic, processes hundreds of miles inside Earth. An early
champion<br>
was the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev, pioneer of the
periodic<br>
table that hangs on the wall of virtually every high school
chemistry</div>
<div>classroom.<br>
But most experts scoff at the idea. According
to traditional theory, fossil<br>
fuels -- energy-rich, carbon-based molecules -- are formed over
millions of<br>
years by biological processes, the disintegration of primeval plants
and<br>
animals into smelly or gunky hydrocarbons like methane and petroleum.
Such<br>
biogenic fossil fuels exist fairly close to Earth's surface, in
reservoirs<br>
such as the oil fields of the Middle East.<br>
http://snipurl.com/931a</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><b>President Bush Nominates Ardent
Bement as NSF Director</b></font></div>
<div>From<font face="Arial" size="-1"> National Council for Science
and the Environment</font></div>
<div> <font face="Arial" size="-1"> September
16, 2004 -- President George W. Bush announced his nomination of Arden
L. Bement, Jr. as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) at
an Oval Office meeting yesterday. Bement's nomination was sent
to the U.S. Senate just three days before the expiration of his
210-day appointment as Acting Director of NSF. If confirmed by
the Senate, he will serve for the remainder of a six-year term
expiring August 2, 2010. </font></div>
<div> I<font face="Arial" size="-1">n a
memorandum to NSF staff, Bement stated, "The Foundation has a
rich history of strong and independent Directors, and I look forward
to continuing with that tradition." He continued,
"Although NSF faces significant challenges in the near future due
to Federal budget issues, I am committed to the policies and
operations that have stood the test of time and have helped make NSF
an extraordinary agency." Bement said, "This is an
extraordinary and inspiring honor for me -- and one that I feel very
humble in accepting." </font></div>
<div> <font face="Arial" size="-1"> Rep.
Sherwood Bohlert, Chairman of the House Science Committee, said,
"I'm delighted that the President has nominated Arden Bement to
be the Director of the National Science Foundation. Arden knows
the agency well and brings a wealth of experience in industry,
government and academia to the job. His calm, soft-spoken,
steady, open-minded and firm leadership has already left its mark on
NSF. With a permanent appointment, he will be able to be an even
more forceful, effective and inventive director. It would be
hard to think of a better person for the job." </font></div>
<div> <font face="Arial" size="-1"> Arden
Bement became Acting Director of the National Science Foundation on
February 22, 2004. He joined NSF from the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, where he has been Director since December 7,
2001. Prior to his appointment as NIST director, Bement served
as the David A. Ross Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering
and head of the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University.
He previously held a variety of positions in academia, industry and
government, including senior positions with the Department of
Defense. Bement has served on the National Science Board, which
is the governing body of NSF. He earned his bachelor's degree
from the Colorado School of Mines, his master's degree from the
University of Idaho, and his Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan.</font></div>
<div> <font face="Arial" size="-1">
Bement will continue serving as Acting NSF Director while his
nomination is pending before the Senate. His nomination ended
speculation that NSF might be left without a strong leader as Congress
completes action on its FY 2005 budget and the agency prepares its FY
2006 budget request. </font></div>
<div> <font face="Arial" size="-1">
Bement was appointed Acting Director of NSF when Rita Colwell stepped
down as Director in February. Shortly after leaving NSF, Rita
Colwell rejoined the Board of Directors of the National Council for
Science and the Environment. </font></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>Mathematical Statistician position - Seattle, WA</b></div>
<div>Sugmitted by Alex De Robertis"
<Alex.DeRobertis@noaa.gov></div>
<div>Alex notes: We are particularly interested in hearing from
applicants with a background in applied statistics, spatially explicit
analyses, and quantitative</div>
<div>methods. Applicants must be US citizens.</div>
<div>see
https://www.jobs.doc.gov/cool/doc/APP_VAC_LIST?F_AG_ID=11</div>
<div> The incumbent will serve in the
fisheries acoustics group within the<br>
Midwater Assessment and Conservation Engineering (MACE) Program,
which<br>
is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA),</div>
<div>National Marine Fisheries Service. The MACE program is
located at the<br>
Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington. The
incumbent<br>
carries out assignments in accordance with established fisheries<br>
acoustics research methodology. He/she serves as a member of a team
that<br>
applies spatial statistical methods and other statistical analyses
to<br>
acoustic-trawl survey data and conducts experiments related to<br>
acoustic-survey research needs. Most research is designed to
identify<br>
and quantify sources of uncertainty and bias in acoustic-trawl
survey<br>
estimates of fish distribution and abundance. Research and survey<br>
efforts focus on the Alaska fishery resources. Duties include
providing<br>
expertise in statistical analysis and mathematical model development
to<br>
current and developing fisheries research projects within the MACE<br>
program. Included in these duties, for example, will be
collaboration<br>
with other researchers to design and execute a multi-year field
research<br>
project to compare the acoustic-trawl survey performance of a new,<br>
large, noise-quieted research vessel with other more conventional<br>
research vessels. The project will 1) develop a standardized
field</div>
<div>sampling data collection protocol for inter-vessel comparison
studies:<br>
2) develop analytical procedures, including statistical analysis
for<br>
processing data from inter-vessel comparison studies; and 3)
provide</div>
<div>guidance for the use of the inter-vessel comparison results in
stock<br>
assessment efforts to monitor and manage living marine resources.<br>
Research projects are expected to result in publications in the</div>
<div>scientific literature. For additional information, contact
Dr. Chris</div>
<div>Wilson (chris.wilson@noaa.gov, 206-526-6435).</div>
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