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<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="-2">TABLE OF
CONTENTS</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"
color="#0000FF"><b>RESOURCES</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"><b>NCAR Faculty Fellowship Program
supports visits to NCAR </b>
http://www.asp.ucar.edu/ffp</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-2" color="#0000FF"><b>SCIENCE
NEWS</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"><b>Effects of Ocean Fertilization
with Iron to Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere Reported</b>
http://www.whoi.edu/media/buesseler_iron_fertilization.html</font></div
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"><b>Antarctica, Warming, Looks Ever
More Vulnerable </b> http://snipurl.com/ca4u</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"><b>Computer Models Indicate Global
Warming</b> http://snipurl.com/cc30</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2" color="#191919"><b>Scientists Debate
Climate Change Amic Stark Warnings</b>
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID<span
></span>=7440311</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"
color="#0000FF"><b>FORUM</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"><b>Top 25 jobs according to Fast
Company</b> http://biz.yahoo.com/special/bestjobs05.html</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-2" color="#0000FF"><b>SUMMER PROGRAMS,
COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"><b>Satellite Remote Sensing Training
Course for Biological Oceanographers</b>
http://www.eas.cornell.edu/ocean/rs_course</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"
color="#0000FF"><b>JOBS</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"><b>SOLAS International Project
Office Position</b>
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/PO_ad.html</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"><b>NSF Position Announcement-Program
Director for Diversity and Education, Geosciences
Directorate</b></font></div>
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http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/e20050008/e20050008.txt</font></div>
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color="#0000FF"><b>Resources</b></font></div>
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<div><b>NCAR Faculty Fellowship Program supports visits to
NCAR</b></div>
<div><b> </b> University faculty interested in visiting
NCAR between 1 June 2005 and 31 May 2006 are invited to apply to the
Faculty Fellowship Program. Operated by the NCAR Advanced Study
Program (ASP), this effort provides opportunities to foster fruitful
and lasting intellectual collaborations and partnerships between
university faculty and the NCAR staff. All faculty employed full
time at a college or university are eligible; those from UCAR member
institutions and academic affiliates are strongly encouraged to
apply. Durations of stay at NCAR range from three months to one
year.</div>
<div> Application deadline: 15 March</div>
<div> Contact: Scott Briggs, NCAR/ASP</div>
<div> 303-497-1607, sbriggs@ucar.edu</div>
<div> http://www.asp.ucar.edu/ffp</div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Helvetica" color="#0000FF"><b>Science
News</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Helvetica">Check out this section both
for news tidbits, and for</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Helvetica">examples of how to
communicate science to a non-scientist audience</font></div>
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<div><b>Effects of Ocean Fertilization with Iron to Remove Carbon
Dioxide from the Atmosphere Reported</b></div>
<div><b> </b> April 16, 2004</div>
<div> Media Relations Office</div>
<div> Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</div>
<div> Dumping iron in the ocean is known to spur the
growth of plankton that remove carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from
the atmosphere, but a new study indicates iron fertilization may not
be the quick fix to climate problems that some had hoped. Scientists
have quantified the transport of carbon from surface waters to the
deep ocean in response to fertilizing the ocean with iron, an
essential nutrient for marine plants, or phytoplankton. Prior work
suggested that in some ocean regions, marine phytoplankton grow faster
with the addition of iron, thus taking up more carbon dioxide.
However, until now, no one has been able to accurately quantify how
much of the carbon in these plants is removed to the deep ocean.</div>
<div> To read more :
http://www.whoi.edu/media/buesseler_iron_fertilization.html</div>
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<div><b>Antarctica, Warming, Looks Ever More Vulnerable</b></div>
<div>from The New York Times (Registration Required) courtesy of Sigma
Xi Science in the News</div>
<div> OVER THE ABBOTT ICE SHELF, Antarctica - From an
airplane at 500 feet, all that is visible here is a vast white
emptiness. Ahead, a chalky plain stretches as far as the eye can see,
the monotony broken only by a few gentle rises and the wrinkles
created when new sheets of ice form.</div>
<div> Under the surface of that ice, though, profound and
potentially troubling changes are taking place, and at a quickened
pace. With temperatures climbing in parts of Antarctica in recent
years, melt water seems to be penetrating deeper and deeper into ice
crevices, weakening immense and seemingly impregnable formations that
have developed over thousands of years.</div>
<div> As a result, huge glaciers in this and other remote
areas of Antarctica are thinning and ice shelves the size of American
states are either disintegrating or retreating - all possible
indications of global warming. Scientists from the British Antarctic
Survey reported in December that in some parts of the Antarctic
Peninsula hundreds of miles from here, large growths of grass are
appearing in places that until recently were hidden under a frozen
cloak. http://snipurl.com/ca4u</div>
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<div><b>Computer Models Indicate Global Warming</b></div>
<div>from Newsday via Sigma Xi Science in the News </div>
<div> The world's climate may be more sensitive to rising
levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases than previously
believed, according to an unusual study that enlisted more than 2,000
computer owners around the world.</div>
<div> David Stainforth, a research fellow at Britain's
Oxford University and the chief scientist for climateprediction.net,
said he hoped his group's results would add a sense of urgency to the
issue rather than be construed as "fear-mongering."</div>
<div> But the study, published Thursday in the journal
Nature, may further fuel the hot-button debate over global warming,
which reached a slow boil with Monday's release of a separate report
warning that the warming trend is fast approaching a critical point of
no return.http://snipurl.com/cc30</div>
<div> "An ecological time bomb is ticking away,"
said report co-chairman Stephen Byers, a confidant of British Prime
Minister Tony Blair, in comments to The Associated Press. "World
leaders need to recognize that climate change is the single most
important long-term issue that the planet faces."</div>
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<div><b>Scientists Debate Climate Change Amic Stark Warnings</b></div>
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<div> LONDON (Reuters) - World scientists gather next week
to discuss the climate change crisis threatening the planet amid stark
warnings that the time for talking is over and action is urgently
needed.</div>
<div> But far from making any recommendations for action
to their political masters, the scientists from 30 countries will
review the state of knowledge and try to define just what constitutes
"dangerous" levels of climate warming.</div>
<div> "We will not try to come up with a consensus
number on what should be a target. That is a job for the politicians,"
conference chairman Dennis Tirpak said Wednesday.</div>
<div> "The purpose is to have a debate of the
scientific facts. We will collect the best information we have to give
to the politicians ... but don't expect to make any recommendations,"
he told reporters.</div>
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<div><b>Top 25 jobs according to Fast Company</b></div>
<div>Submitted by Sue Weiler</div>
<div> I'm not advocating this as a reliable site by any
means, but I thought some of you might be interested in how the
business community views jobs--the Fast Company used four criteria:
job growth, salary potential, education and room for innovation.
http://biz.yahoo.com/special/bestjobs05.html</div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Helvetica" color="#0000FF"><b>Summer
Programs, Courses, Internships</b></font><font
face="Helvetica">,<font color="#0000FF"><b>
Meetings</b></font></font></div>
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<div><b>Satellite Remote Sensing Training Course for Biological
Oceanographers</b></div>
<div><b>June 3 -17, 2005, Cornell University</b></div>
<div>Submitted by Bruce Monger</div>
<div> Many biological oceanographers have ongoing research
that would benefit from the addition of a satellite remote sensing
perspective. A significant number of these people, however, are
prevented from using satellite data in their research because they
lack the training needed to make easy and effective use of satellite
data. Even people beginning a research career that is specifically
devoted to satellite remote sensing can be slowed down initially
because they lack some basic skills. To address this problem, a
2-week summer training course is being offered to people who may have
little or no prior experience with satellite remote sensing. The goal
of the training course is to teach participants the skills needed to
work independently to acquire data sets derived from a variety of
satellite sensors (SeaWiFS, MODIS, AVHRR, QuikSCAT and Topex-Poseidon)
and to merge these data sets to examine biological response to changes
in the physical environment. The training course is open to advanced
undergraduate students, graduate students and post-graduate
professionals. Past computer programming experience is desirable, but
by no means required. For more information about the course -
including a course syllabus and instructions on how to apply, visit
http://www.eas.cornell.edu/ocean/rs_course. The
application deadline is<b> May 1, 2005.</b></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Helvetica" color="#0000FF"><b>Jobs for
PhDs</b></font></div>
<div align="center">http://www.higheredjobs.com/about/</div>
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<div><b>NSF Position Announcement-Program Director for Diversity and
Education, Geosciences Directorate</b></div>
<div> Application Deadline Extended: Monday, 14 February
2005</div>
<div> The Geosciences Directorate at the National Science
Foundation is hiring for the position of Program Director for
Diversity and Education. The position is being advertised as both an
IPA (1-2 years through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act) and as a
permanent position.</div>
<div> The application deadline has been extended to
Monday, 14 February 2005.</div>
<div> For complete information, see the announcement at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/e20050008/e20050008.txt</div>
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<div><b>SOLAS International Project Office Position</b></div>
<div> We are pleased to announce that we are looking to
recruit a second member of staff in the SOLAS international project
office. The Project Officer will assist the newly appointed Executive
Officer in running SOLAS on a day-to-day basis.</div>
<div> A person suitable for the post will have a BSc in a
relevant discipline, and appropriate postgraduate experience. They
will have excellent personal and presentational skills. Fluent written
and spoken English are prerequisites, as is a high level of electronic
communication ability.</div>
<div> This post is for up to 4 and a half years from mid
2005 and is based in Norwich, UK. It will involve some international
travel. Starting salary will be in the range of £19,460 to £23,643
per annum, depending on the experience and qualifications the post
holder brings to the role, on the Research and Analogous 1A salary
scale. Interviews for this post will be held on 4 March 2005.</div>
<div> For more details, see
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/PO_ad.html</div>
<div> Informal enquires should be made to Professor Peter
Liss, Tel: +44 (0)1603 592563; e-mail: p.liss@uea.ac.uk</div>
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<div><font size="-1">This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan
Weiler to distribute 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. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler
reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the
list.</font></div>
<div><font size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> Please
submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to
phd@whitman.edu. </b></font><font size="-1"> Send a short message
in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate
websites. Do not send attachments.</font></div>
<div><font size="-1"> <font
color="#0000FF"><b> Moving?</b></font> Send address changes to
dialog@whitman.edu or disccrs@whitman.edu</font></div>
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<div>C. Susan Weiler,
Ph.D. <br>
Office of Earth System Studies Tel:
509-527-5948 <br
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Whitman
College <span
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Walla Walla, WA 99362<br>
weiler@whitman.edu <br>
Programs for Recent
PhDs <span
></span>
http://aslo.org/phd.html<br>
DIALOG poster
http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf<br>
DISCCRS poster
http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf <br>
DIALOG VII Symposium Application Deadline May 1, 2005 <br>
DISCCRS II Symposium Applicaton Deadline October 2,
2005 <br>
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Workshop Report, Meeting the Needs of Interdisciplinary Ph.D.
Graduates in a Changing Global Environment<br>
http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/ <span
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