<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I will be on vacation for the next two weeks, and so there will be no DISCCRS news from this office. I did want to mention one resource that came in from Jay Cullen, though --</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) Project </B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> IMBER is an international and multi-disciplinary activity jointly sponsored by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). The IMBER project goal is:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">To understand how interactions between marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems respond to and force global change.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> The science plan and implementation strategy is just going to press. Information on the program can be found at </FONT><A href="http://www.imber.info/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.imber.info/</FONT></A></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> A pdf of the SP/IS is available for download. Given the global scope and interdisciplinary nature of the program IMBER could/should figure prominently in the careers of the next couple cohorts of DIALOGers.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Cheers,</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">**********</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. </FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">Office for Earth System Studies Tel: 509-527-5948 </FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">Whitman College <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Fax: 509-527-5961</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial">Walla Walla, WA 99362</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:weiler@whitman.edu">weiler@whitman.edu</A> </FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> Programs for Recent PhDs <A href="http://aslo.org/phd.html">http://aslo.org/phd.html</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> DIALOG poster <A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf">http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN> DISCCRS poster <A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf">http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf</A> </FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"> Workshop Report, Meeting the Needs of </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"> Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Graduates in a </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"> Changing Global Environment</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial"><A href="http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/">http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/</A> </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Helvetica"> </FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>