<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>DIALOG and DISCCRS News</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>08/05/2005</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF"><B><I>************************************</I></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>TABLE OF CONTENTS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>RESOURCES</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Listservs relating to climate-change hosted by the EPA:</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterListServs.html">http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterListServs.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Climate Change Budget Tracking & Analysis Project (The BTA Project)</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="https://www1.georgetown.edu/explore/faculty/index.cfm?Action=ViewResearch&NetID=brewert">https://www1.georgetown.edu/explore/faculty/index.cfm?Action=ViewResearch&NetID=brewert</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Investing in Climate Change Solutions: KLD Launches Global Climate 100SM Index</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.kld.com/newsletter/archive/press/070505KLDIntroducesGC100.html">http://www.kld.com/newsletter/archive/press/070505KLDIntroducesGC100.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">A new climate weblog section in the Tiempo Climate Newswatch</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/index.htm#weblogs">http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/index.htm#weblogs</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">New NSF Grant Proposal Guide </SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?gpg">http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?gpg</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">On-Line Guide to Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.jiqweb.org">http://www.jiqweb.org</A> or via direct link</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Permafrost And Seasonally Frozen Ground In A Changing Climate (C04)</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.agu.org/meetings/">http://www.agu.org/meetings/</A>fm05/?pageRequest=search&show=detail&sessid=176</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>SCIENCE NEWS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Ice Ages Linked To Galactic Position</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://tinyurl.com/7aok5">http://tinyurl.com/7aok5</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">New climate plan 'to rival Kyoto'</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4721449.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4721449.stm</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Amazon source of 5-year-old river breath</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Dead zones spreading in world oceans</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Seven fat years and seven lean years? Climate change and </SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">agriculture in Africa</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Oceans Have Fewer Kinds Of Fish</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://tinyurl.com/d888t">http://tinyurl.com/d888t</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Scientists Discover Global Marine Pattern Of Big-Fish Diversity</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/recent.shtml">http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/recent.shtml</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Glacial Meltdown Speeding Up</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29606">http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29606</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Warmer Oceans May Be Killing Marine Life</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002377292_ocean13m.html">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002377292_ocean13m.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>As planet warms, storms grow stronger</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0801/p03s01-sten.html">http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0801/p03s01-sten.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Ocean researchers race to document Arctic regions threatened by climate change</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=CAN%20Hidden%20Ocean">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=CAN%20Hidden%20Ocean</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Variety of ocean's fish down by half, study says Juliet Eilperin</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5531995.html">http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5531995.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Bush Administration Unveils Alternative Climate Pact</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/international/28climate.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/international/28climate.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">New Energy Probe May Harm Sea Life</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://tinyurl.com/bqow5">http://tinyurl.com/bqow5</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>FORUM</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Ocean and Coastal Literacy Legislation Introduced in the Senate</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Most New Graduates in Earth and Space Sciences Find Satisfying Work in their Field</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/cpst/2003PhDSurvey.pdf">http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/cpst/2003PhDSurvey.pdf</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>G8 Climate Plan of Action Delivers Little Change</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#291DFF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">James Martin 21st Century School Fellowships In Climate Policy/Environmental Governance</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk">http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Third International Workshop "Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Risk - an Economic and business View"</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.wiwi.uni-halle.de/lui/bwl/umwelt/">http://www.wiwi.uni-halle.de/lui/bwl/umwelt/</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>JOBS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.vsp.ucar.edu">www.vsp.ucar.edu</A>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/vacancy.htm">http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/vacancy.htm</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">New James Martin 21st Century School Fellowships in the Environmental Change Institute at<BR></SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/vacancy.htm#jamesmartin">http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/vacancy.htm#jamesmartin</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Project Manager-The UNFCCC: Implementation and participation in Asia-Pacific </SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Recruiting for Intermediate and Senior Level Consultants - Energy & Climate Strategy and Carbon Management</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.ecofys.co.uk/uk/work/vacancies.htm">http://www.ecofys.co.uk/uk/work/vacancies.htm</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship, Perth, Australia (up to 3 years): Marine Molecular Ecology and Biogeography.</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.csiro.au/careers">www.csiro.au/careers</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">The GCP has two International Project Offices (IPO): one in Canberra, Australia and one in Tsukuba, Japan.</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.globalcarbonproject.org">http://www.globalcarbonproject.org</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Physical Scientist - Ice Climatologist</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.jobs.doc.gov">http://www.jobs.doc.gov</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Regulatory Analyst</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> <A href="http://www.natsource.com">http://www.natsource.com</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>***************************************************</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Resources</B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Listservs relating to climate-change hosted by the EPA:</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterListServs.html">http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterListServs.html</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>********************</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Climate Change Budget Tracking & Analysis Project (The BTA Project)</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="https://www1.georgetown.edu/explore/faculty/index.cfm?Action=ViewResearch&NetID=brewert">https://www1.georgetown.edu/explore/faculty/index.cfm?Action=ViewResearch&NetID=brewert</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>********************</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Investing in Climate Change Solutions: KLD Launches Global Climate 100SM Index</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Includes Companies Taking Positive Steps to Reduce Global Warming: <A href="http://www.kld.com/newsletter/archive/press/070505KLDIntroducesGC100.html">http://www.kld.com/newsletter/archive/press/070505KLDIntroducesGC100.html</A><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>********************</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>A new climate weblog section in the Tiempo Climate Newswatch</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/index.htm#weblogs">http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/index.htm#weblogs</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>********************</B></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>New NSF Grant Proposal Guide</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV> Please consult the new Grant Proposal Guide before writing NSF proposals, <A href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?gpg">http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?gpg</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>********************</B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;"><B>On-Line Guide to Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)</B></DIV><DIV> An online guide to the CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) by Joris Laseur is now available on the Foundation JIN website: </DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.jiqweb.org">http://www.jiqweb.org</A> or via direct link: <A href="http://jiq.wiwo.nl/CDM.htm">http://jiq.wiwo.nl/CDM.htm</A> and <A href="http://jiq.wiwo.nl/unilateralcdm.pdf">http://jiq.wiwo.nl/unilateralcdm.pdf</A> respectively.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>********************</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Permafrost And Seasonally Frozen Ground In A Changing Climate (C04).</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> In the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting from 5-9 Dec. 2005 in San Francisco there will be a session on Permafrost And Seasonally Frozen Ground In A Changing Climate (C04).</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Further information can be found at: <A href="http://www.agu.org/meetings/">http://www.agu.org/meetings/</A>fm05/?pageRequest=search&show=detail&sessid=176</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Deadline for abstract submission is 8 September 2005 (<A href="http://submissions.agu.org/submission/entrance.asp">http://submissions.agu.org/submission/entrance.asp</A>).</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>*************************************************** </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Science News</B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Ice Ages Linked To Galactic Position</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">from San Francisco Chronicle via Sigma Xi Science in the News</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> It might sound preposterous, like astrology, to suggest that galactic events help determine when North America is or isn't buried under immense sheets of ice taller than skyscrapers. But new research suggests the coming and going of major ice ages might result partly from our solar system's passage through immense, snakelike clouds of exploding stars in the Milky Way galaxy.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Resembling the curved contrails of a whirling Fourth of July pinwheel, the Milky Way's spiral arms are clouds of stars rich in supernovas, or exploding stars. Supernovas emit showers of charged particles called cosmic rays.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Theorists have proposed that when our solar system passes through a spiral arm, the cosmic rays fall to Earth and knock electrons off atoms in the atmosphere, making them electrically charged, or ionized. Since opposite electrical charges attract each other, the positively charged ionized particles attract the negatively charged portion of water vapor, thus forming large droplets in the form of low-lying clouds. <A href="http://tinyurl.com/7aok5">http://tinyurl.com/7aok5</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <B>********************</B></DIV><DIV><B>New climate plan 'to rival Kyoto'</B></DIV><DIV> The US and Australia are developing a new pact on climate change with a group of Asian countries, believed to include China, India and South Korea. <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4721449.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4721449.stm</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B></B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>********************</B></DIV><DIV><B>Amazon source of 5-year-old river breath</B></DIV><DIV>Nature 27-Jul-2005</DIV><DIV> The rivers of South America's Amazon basin are "breathing" far harder – cycling the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide more quickly – than anyone realized.</DIV><DIV> Most of the carbon being exhaled – or outgassed – as carbon dioxide from Amazonian rivers and wetlands has spent a mere 5 years sequestered in the trees, other plants and soils of the surrounding landscape, U.S. and Brazilian researchers report in the July 28 issue of Nature.</DIV><DIV> It had been hoped that regions such as the nearly 2.4 million-square-mile Amazon River basin – where tropical forests rapidly gulp carbon dioxide during photosynthesis – were holding onto that carbon for decades, even centuries, says Emilio Mayorga, University of Washington oceanographer and lead author of the Nature piece with Anthony Aufdenkampe of the Stroud Water Research Center in Pennsylvania.</DIV><DIV> As policy makers turn increasingly to carbon-credit trading as a means of grappling with the impacts of human-induced climate change, knowing how much carbon can be stored – and where and for how long – is critical, the authors say.</DIV><DIV> "Our results were surprising because those who've previously made measurements found carbon in the rivers that came from the surrounding forests to be 40 to more than 1,000 years old," Aufdenkampe says. "They assumed that the return of this forest carbon to the atmosphere must be a slow process that offered at least temporary respite from greenhouse effects.</DIV><DIV> "As part of the largest radiocarbon age survey ever for a single watershed, we show that the enormous amount of carbon dioxide silently being returned to the atmosphere is far younger than carbon being carried downstream," he said. "Previous studies failed to detect the rapid recycling of forest carbon because they never dated the invisible greenhouse gas as it is literally exhaled by the river organisms."</DIV><DIV> "River breath is much deeper and faster than anyone realized," says Jeff Richey, UW oceanographer and another co-author.</DIV><DIV> Carbon is carried by rains and groundwater into waterways from soils, decomposing woody debris, leaf litter and other organic matter. Once in waterways it is chewed up by microorganisms, insects and fish. The carbon dioxide they generate quickly returns to the atmosphere, some 500 million tons a year, an amount equal to what is absorbed each year by the Amazonian rainforest.</DIV><DIV> "Having established that the amount of carbon outgassing is much greater than anyone imagined, the issue then becomes, where does it come from," Mayorga says. "If it's young, that indicates the carbon pool is dynamic, which could make the system much more reactive to deforestation and climate change."</DIV><DIV> For example, data from a region of active deforestation in the southern Amazon already shows that the carbon leaving rivers has an identifiable isotopic signature of pasture grasses.</DIV><DIV> "You're changing the land use, changing vegetation and other conditions. In terms of what's being respired, the system is responding fairly quickly," Mayorga says. "Human and natural systems, in turn, will be impacted."</DIV><DIV> No previous tropical study has used both radioactive carbon-14 and stable carbon-13 isotopes to address these questions. Funding from the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made the analysis by Mayorga and Aufdenkampe possible. The samples were collected by Richey's research group and Brazilian scientists on expeditions going back as far as 1991 that were funded by the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Research Support Foundation for the State of San Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil. Other co-authors are Paul Quay and the late John Hedges, both UW oceanographers; Caroline Masiello of Rice University; Alex Krusche of the University of São Paulo, Brazil; and Thomas Brown of the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.</DIV><DIV> For more information:</DIV><DIV> Mayorga, (206) 295-5778, <A href="mailto:emiliom@u.washington.edu">emiliom@u.washington.edu</A></DIV><DIV> Aufdenkampe, (610) 268-2153 ext. 263, <A href="mailto:aufdenkampe@stroudcenter.org">aufdenkampe@stroudcenter.org</A>;</DIV><DIV> Aufdenkampe will be away from his office July 25-29 but reachable through Sandra Hines</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>********************</B></DIV><DIV><B>Dead zones spreading in world oceans</B></DIV><DIV> Cheryl Lyn Dybas-IN:BioScience 55 (7, 2005):552-557</DIV><DIV> The phrase "dead zone" -- coastal waters too low in oxygen to sustain life -- is almost synonymous with the Gulf of Mexico. But a similar situation now exists in many other places, says Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies in Cambridge, Maryland. "There's a dead zone right outside my office window every summer in Chesapeake Bay," says Boesch. "Since the 1970s, this lifeless zone has become a yearly phenomenon, sometimes affecting 40 percent or more of the bay." Boesch says that the expanding dead zone could be changing the entire ecosystem of the Chesapeake. Animals tolerant of hypoxia are becoming more common in the bay's waters: jellyfish may be displacing oysters, crabs, and finfish like striped bass. Worldwide, there are now some 146 coastal dead zones. Since the 1960s, according to a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Global Environment Outlook Year Book 2003, the number of dead zones has doubled with each passing decade. Most are seasonal, but some persist year-round. Where did these killing fields for fish and other marine life begin?</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV><B>Seven fat years and seven lean years? Climate change and agriculture in Africa</B></DIV><DIV> Coleen Vogel - IN:IDS Bulletin 36 (2, 2005): 30-35</DIV><DIV>While extreme climate events can significantly affect African agriculture, equally important are more gradual changes as well as interactions with socially rooted shocks and vulnerabilities. Existing scenarios of climate change's impact in Africa are diverse and uncertain, but largely unfavorable and point to the importance of mediating social factors such as governance, HIV/AIDS, land tenure, trade patterns and market structures. Efforts are needed to improve technical and institutional adaptive capacities and to improve understanding of climate fluctuations, human vulnerability and their interaction.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><B>Oceans Have Fewer Kinds Of Fish</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">from The Washington Post (Registration Required)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The variety of species in the world's oceans has dropped by as much as 50 percent in the past 50 years, according to a paper published today in the journal Science.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> A combination of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change has narrowed the range of fish across the globe, wrote biologists Boris Worm and Ransom A. Myers of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and three other scientists. In some areas, such as off northwest Australia where a wide variety of tuna and billfish used to thrive, diversity has declined precipitously.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "Where you used to put out a fishing line 50 years ago and catch 10 species, now you catch five species for the same amount of effort," Worm said in an interview yesterday. "That's a recipe for ecological collapse and disaster." <A href="http://tinyurl.com/d888t">http://tinyurl.com/d888t</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Scientists Discover Global Marine Pattern Of Big-Fish Diversity</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">From Pew/SeaSpan</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> A new study released in Science (via ScienceExpress) on July 28th reveals a striking downward trend in the diversity of fish in the open ocean. In a sequel to their groundbreaking study in the journal Nature in 2003, showing the depletion of 90 percent of the big fish in the ocean, authors Boris Worm, Ransom Myers, and colleagues reveal that the diversity of tuna, marlins, and swordfish in the oceans has declined by up to 50 percent in the last 50 years. The scientists highlight a surprising global pattern of open ocean hotspots--areas with predictable congregations of tuna, marlin, swordfish, and other ocean predators. Perhaps most surprising is the discovery that patterns of big fish diversity match those for tiny zooplankton, and both are linked to sea surface temperature. "This is the great joy of science," says first author Boris Worm. "It is like solving a giant puzzle and seeing the night sky in constellations for the first time--even as the stars are blinking out. It's beautiful--and tragic at the same time….Everywhere you go, in every ocean basin, our 'hotspots' today are only relics of what was once there. It really hurts to see this." To read the report online (subscribers only), go to: <A href="http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/recent.shtml">http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/recent.shtml</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Glacial Meltdown Speeding Up</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">from Pew/SeaSpan</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> According to a U.S. researcher, the Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier in southeastern Greenland has suddenly become one of the world's fastest-melting glaciers. Scientist Gordon Hamilton from the University of Maine took the first-ever direct measurements on the surface of Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier on July 18 and discovered it is now moving at an unglacial 38 meters per day, or 14 kilometers per year. That is nearly three times faster than in 2002, when a NASA plane flew over to take measurements. The glacier has also unexpectedly retreated five kilometers since 2002 after maintaining a stable position for the past 40 years. Global warming has resulted in much warmer temperatures over southern Greenland in the past decade, melting the tops of the glaciers in the region and creating large melt-water lakes, Hamilton said. But those covering the Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier disappeared in 2002. Hamilton surmises that cracks or crevices in the glacier likely drained the water to the bottom, where it acts as lubricant, speeding up the glacier's flow to the ocean. If the same conditions are occurring elsewhere, sea levels around the world will rise much faster than predicted, he said. If the Greenland Ice Sheet melts completely, that alone would raise sea levels approximately seven meters. For the full story, go to: <A href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29606">http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29606</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<B></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><B>Warmer Oceans May Be Killing Marine Life</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">from Pew/SeaSpan</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Scientists suspect that rising ocean temperatures and dwindling plankton populations are behind a growing number of seabird deaths, reports of fewer salmon and other anomalies along the west coast of the United States. Coastal ocean temperatures are 2-5 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, apparently caused by a lack of upwelling--a process that brings cold, nutrient-rich water to the surface. Upwelling fuels algae and shrimplike krill populations that feed small fish, which provide an important food source for a variety of sea life. "Something big is going on out there," said Julia Parrish, an associate professor in the School of Aquatic Fisheries and Sciences at the University of Washington. "I'm left with no obvious smoking gun, but birds are a good signal because they feed high up on the food chain." This spring, scientists reported a record number of dead seabirds washed up on beaches along the Pacific coast, from central California to British Columbia.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> SOURCE: Carina Stanton, Seattle Times, 13 July 2005, <A href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002377292_ocean13m.html">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002377292_ocean13m.html</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV><B>As planet warms, storms grow stronger Christian Science Monitor</B></DIV><DIV> <A href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0801/p03s01-sten.html">http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0801/p03s01-sten.html</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;"><B>Ocean researchers race to document Arctic regions threatened by climate change, Associated Press</B></DIV><DIV> <A href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=CAN%20Hidden%20Ocean">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=CAN%20Hidden%20Ocean</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV><B>Variety of ocean's fish down by half, study says Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post</B></DIV><DIV> <A href="http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5531995.html">http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5531995.html</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV><B>Bush Administration Unveils Alternative Climate Pact</B></DIV><DIV> <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/international/28climate.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/international/28climate.html</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>New Energy Probe May Harm Sea Life</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">from The Christian Science Monitor</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Faced with its biggest energy challenge in more than 20 years, the United States is poised to look for offshore reserves of oil and natural gas as never before.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> By using the latest techniques, government officials hope to update surveys more than two decades old and, perhaps, discover new pools of oil and gas hidden miles under the ocean floor. Such discoveries could boost US production and lessen reliance on foreign oil.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> But not everyone is pleased. Many legislators fear that such surveys will boost political pressure to begin offshore drilling in areas where it has been banned for decades. Even without drilling, the new survey – which involves blasting the ocean floor with sound waves - could threaten marine life, environmentalists say. <A href="http://tinyurl.com/bqow5">http://tinyurl.com/bqow5</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B></B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>***************************************************</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Forum</B></FONT></DIV><DIV><B>Ocean and Coastal Literacy Legislation Introduced in the Senate</B></DIV><DIV>Submitted by Jana Davis</DIV><DIV> In response to the declining math and science skills of U.S. students relative to other nations, Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) has introduced a bill to capitalize upon the natural allure of our oceans and coastlines to spark an interest in science. S. 1465, the Ocean and Coastal Literacy in Urban and other Environments Act (Ocean CLUE) will organize and strengthen existing federal ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes education programs and will focus attention on K-12 level initiatives to increase minority participation in ocean and coastal sciences. This will improve the general science understanding of Americans and increase awareness of the proper care and management of our oceans and fragile coastal regions. Current cosponsors of Senator Lautenberg’s bill are Senators Inouye (D-HI), Sarbanes (D-MD), Levin (D-MI), and Boxer (D-CA), and the bill is supported by marine science education groups, environmental groups, and research institutions. Ocean and coastal science professionals who also support the bill can call the legislative staff of their Senators offices and ask them to cosponsor. They may also contact staff of Senator Sununu, who chairs the subcommittee with jurisdiction, to urge him to take up this issue. For more information, contact Jana Davis at <A href="mailto:Jana_Davis@Lautenberg.senate.gov">Jana_Davis@Lautenberg.senate.gov</A>.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Most New Graduates in Earth and Space Sciences Find Satisfying Work in their Field</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">AGU Press Release # 05-27</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> WASHINGTON - The vast majority of 2003 graduates in the Earth and space sciences found work in that field, earning salaries commensurate with or slightly higher than in 2001 and 2002. This was a key finding in the annual survey of recent Ph.D. recipients conducted by the American Geophysical Union and the American Geological Institute.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The study, reported in the 2 August issue of Eos, the AGU newspaper, covered 180 Earth and space science Ph.D. recipients who received degrees from U.S. universities in 2003. The survey asks graduates about their education and employment, their efforts to find their first job, and their experiences in graduate school.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Key results from the 2003 report include:</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> * The vast majority (87%) of the 2003 graduates found work in the Earth and space sciences, earning salaries commensurate with or slightly higher than in 2001 and 2002. Most (64%) of them were employed in academia (including postdoctoral appointments), with the remainder in government (19%) , industry (10%), and other (7%) sectors. Most graduates were positive about their employment situation and found that their work was challenging, relevant, and appropriate for someone with a Ph.D.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> * The number of Ph.D. recipients accepting postdoctoral positions (58%) increased slightly from 2002. In contrast, the fields of physics and chemistry showed significant increases in postdoctoral appointments during the same period.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> * As in previous years, recipients of Ph.D.s in the Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences are slightly older (median age of 32.7 years) than Ph.D. recipients in most other natural sciences (except computer sciences), which is attributed to time taken off between undergraduate and graduate studies.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> * Women in the Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences earned 33% of Ph.D.s in the class of 2003, surpassing the percentage of Ph.D.s earned by women in chemistry (32%), computer sciences (20%), physics (19%), and engineering (17%). Participation of other underrepresented groups in the Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences remained extremely low.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The survey was conducted by the Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics. The AGU/AGI report draws on results from eight prior AGU/AGI surveys of Ph.D. classes (1996- 2003), as well as data from the National Science Foundation Survey of Earned Doctorates.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The full 2003 report is available at <A href="http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/cpst/2003PhDSurvey.pdf">http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/cpst/2003PhDSurvey.pdf</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>G8 Climate Plan of Action Delivers Little Change</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> AUCHTERARDER, Scotland, July 8, 2005 (ENS) - The G8 leaders have signed a climate change agreement without measurable targets and timetables for reducing heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> At the close of the G8 Summit at Gleneagles today, the heads of government of the world's eight wealthiest nations agreed that "climate change is happening now, that human activity is contributing to it, and that it could affect every part of the globe." But they decided on dialogue, technological development and marketing rather than emissions limits to address the problem.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "We know that, globally, emissions must slow, peak and then decline, moving us towards a low-carbon economy. This will require leadership from the developed world," the G8 leaders state.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "We resolved to take urgent action to meet the challenges we face," they declare. "The Gleneagles Plan of Action which we have agreed demonstrates our commitment. We will take measures to develop markets for clean energy technologies, to increase their availability in developing countries, and to help vulnerable communities adapt to the impact of climate change."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> But the Gleneagles Plan of Action disappointed environmentalists who had hoped for an immediate emission reduction program to avoid catastrophic climate change. The campaign group Friends of the Earth blamed the United States for the lack of progress, saying the Gleneagles document offered nothing new, with no commitment to firm action agreed.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who hosted the gathering, said, "We speak in the shadow of terrorism. But it will not obscure what we came here to achieve." Referring to the terrorist bomb blast in London Thursday that claimed at least 50 lives, Blair said, "There is no hope in terrorism, nor any future in it worth living. And it is hope that is the alternative to hatred."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "We came here to acknowledge our duty to be responsible stewards of the global environment," said Blair.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "We do not hide the disagreements of the past but we have agreed a process, with a plan of action, that will initiate a new Dialogue between the G8 and the emerging economies of the world to slow down and then, in time, to reverse the rise in harmful greenhouse gas emissions," said Blair. "The Dialogue will begin on 1 November with a meeting here in Britain."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> To further their Plan the G8 leaders have asked the World Bank to create a new framework for mobilizing investment in clean energy and development. World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said, "A first high-level meeting on this is scheduled to be hosted in Britain on November 1st by Prime Minister Blair and the World Bank Group.”</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> These arrangements were not strong enough to reassure environmentalists. Friends of the Earth International Vice Chair Tony Juniper said, "Despite the growing evidence of human induced climate change and the dangers of its impacts becoming more widely known and understood, the outcomes of this summit leave us very little further ahead. While the leaders carry on talking, the world continues warming."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The G8 leaders "warmly welcomed" the involvement of the leaders of the emerging economy nations of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, who they said contributed "ideas for new approaches to international co-operation on clean energy technologies between the developed and developing world."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "Our discussions mark the beginning of a new Dialogue between the G8 nations and other countries with significant energy needs, consistent with the aims and principles of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This will explore how best to exchange technology, reduce emissions, and meet our energy needs in a sustainable way, as we implement and build on the Plan of Action," the G8 said in the Chair's Summary document.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> But developing countries already facing the impacts of climate change were offered no direct financial assistance or support.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">The statement issued Thursday by Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa mentions the threat of climate change to their countries, but the G8 Plan only mentions providing further access to information and developing scientific capacity.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "We will advance the global effort to tackle climate change at the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal later this year. Those of us who have ratified the Kyoto Protocol remain committed to it, and will continue to work to make it a success," the G8 leaders declared.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">All the G8 countries have ratified the Kyoto Protocol with the exception of the United States.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> U.S. President George W. Bush framed the global warming issue as the challenge of providing energy to the two billion people who need modern energy services.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "Providing affordable, reliable and secure energy is essential to end extreme poverty and build a better and cleaner world," the U.S. State Department said in a statement. "Stagnant economies are one of the world's greatest environmental threats. Improved access to cleaner and more secure energy resources will also reduce the growth of greenhouse gas emissions associated with long-term climate change."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The G8's Gleneagles Plan of Action will, "Power a cleaner future by promoting the use of nuclear power, clean coal technologies, clean diesel and methane, renewable energy, bioenergy, and more efficient power grids and strengthen research and development of hydrogen-powered vehicles that emit only water, not fumes," the U.S. said.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The Plan will, "Finance the transition to cleaner energy through a strengthened World Bank and national policies that support markets, remove barriers to direct investment, leverage private capital, and promote investment."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> It will, "Manage the impact of climate change through strong funding of climate change science, improved scientific and monitoring capabilities of poorer regions such as Africa, and full implementation of the 10-year plan developing the Global Earth Observation System of Systems."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> And recognizing the connection between land use and climate change, the Plan will, "Combat illegal logging by working with poor countries struggling to enforce their own forest management laws to prevent harm to ecosystems and land use changes that are a factor in climate change."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> As the Gleneagles document was signed, the global conservation organization WWF issued a new report that models climate change impacts in the Mediterranean region if the world's average temperature rises by two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> According to WWF, if climate change is not curbed, "the region could expect searing temperatures with up to six weeks more of extreme heat days - defined as plus 35 °C - per year." The increased number of hotter days would translate into a higher fire risk, with implications for the safety of tourists visiting the region.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "The southern part of the Mediterranean would be at risk of forest fires practically all year round," WWF said, "and nearly everywhere else in the region the risk of fire would be expected to extend by up to six weeks."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Scientists with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Thursday that the rate of sea level rise has nearly doubled in the past 12 years.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "Roughly half of that is attributed to the expansion of ocean water as it has increased in temperature, with the rest coming from other sources," said Dr. Steve Nerem, associate professor with the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> For the first time, NASA scientists have the tools and expertise to understand the rate at which sea level is changing, some of the mechanisms that drive those changes and the effects that sea level change may have worldwide.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "We've found the largest likely factor for sea level rise is changes in the amount of ice that covers the earth. Three-fourths of the planet's freshwater is stored in glaciers and ice sheets or the equivalent of about 220 feet of sea level," said Dr. Eric Rignot, principal scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> "Ice cover is shrinking much faster than we thought, with over half of recent sea level rise due to the melting of ice from Greenland, West Antarctica's Amundsen Sea and mountain glaciers," he said.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B></B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#291DFF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>*************************************************** </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#291DFF" face="Helvetica"><B>Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings</B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>James Martin 21st Century School Fellowships In Climate Policy/Environmental Governance</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> ECI is pleased to announce the first round of James Martin 21st Century School fellowships in climate policy and in environmental governance. Ads will appear in the Guardian and Nature next week. We have a short deadline for the first round as funds are in hand and we would like to get started.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">see <A href="http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk">http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> We will entertain applications now and later for the second and third years of the programme. </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Professor Diana Liverman Director</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Environmental Change Institute</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Oxford University Centre for the Environment Dyson Perrins Building</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QY 01865-275847</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV><B>Third International Workshop "Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Risk - an Economic and business View"</B></DIV><DIV> Call for Proposals - deadline extended for the third international workshop "Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Risk - an Economic and business View". We particularly invite young scientists (e.g. research fellows, Dr./PhD students & fellows, post-docs, habilitation candidates, assistant/junior professors) to take part in the workshop and to present a paper.</DIV><DIV> The workshop will take place November, 16th - 18th in Lutherstadt Wittenberg/Germany. It is organized by the Chair of Environmental </DIV><DIV>Economics and the Chair of Corporate Environmental Management of the University Halle-Wittenberg/Germany.</DIV><DIV> The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 20. This small group shall facilitate intensive discussions. International leading researchers will give key note presentations.</DIV><DIV> Detailed information can be obtained from our homepage: <A href="http://www.wiwi.uni-halle.de/lui/bwl/umwelt/">http://www.wiwi.uni-halle.de/lui/bwl/umwelt/</A> (click on "Workshop </DIV><DIV>Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Risk - an Economic and business View" in the menu on the left side).</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>***************************************************</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2125FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Jobs</B></FONT></DIV><DIV><B>University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)</B></DIV><DIV> The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is recruiting postdoctoral scientists and short-term senior visitors to </DIV><DIV>work in Princeton, New Jersey at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) as part of the Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI). For further information, please call 303-497-8649, send e-mail to: <A href="mailto:vsp@ucar.edu">vsp@ucar.edu</A> or visit the VSP website at: <A href="http://www.vsp.ucar.edu">www.vsp.ucar.edu</A>.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV><B>UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)</B></DIV><DIV> The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) <A href="http://www.ukcip.org.uk">www.ukcip.org.uk</A> was set up by the UK Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in 1997 to help organisations assess how they might be affected by climate change, so that they can plan to adapt. Since 1997 the Programme has grown rapidly: regional partnerships working on climate impacts and adaptation now exist across the UK , in addition to sectoral studies and stakeholder-led groups addressing climate risks in a diverse range of organisations including business and local authorities.</DIV><DIV> There are currently 3 posts available at UKCIP:</DIV><DIV> I. Two Project Officers (Business and Local Authorities)</DIV><DIV> II. Scientific Officer</DIV><DIV> UKCIP is looking to recruit a science graduate with relevant post-graduate experience to assist in the provision of scientific advice and data to stakeholders on how to prepare for and adapt to the impacts of a changing climate. The Scientific Officer will also be responsible for some of the research studies in UKCIP's portfolio as well as supporting the development and take-up of UKCIP data and tools, including web-based information.</DIV><DIV> For further details please see <A href="http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/vacancy.htm">http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/vacancy.htm</A> or contact the HR Officer on Tel. 01865 285079. Closing date: 3 August 2005. Interviews: week beginning 22 August 2005</DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B></B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV><B>New James Martin 21st Century School Fellowships in the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford </B></DIV><DIV> Please encourage (or consider) applications for the new James Martin 21st Century School Fellowships in the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford (details below or at <A href="http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/vacancy.htm#jamesmartin">http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/vacancy.htm#jamesmartin</A>)</DIV><DIV> We are getting lots of applicants but often not of the quality or in the themes that we are looking for. The fellowships can be used for sabbatical leaves or visits from 6 months to 3 years.</DIV><DIV> Please send to those you think might be interested.</DIV><DIV> Thanks (and please note new office address and phone as of June 1 2005)</DIV><DIV> Professor Diana Liverman</DIV><DIV> Director, Environmental Change Institute</DIV><DIV> Oxford University Centre for the Environment</DIV><DIV> Dyson Perrins Building</DIV><DIV> South Parks Road</DIV><DIV> Oxford OX1 3QY</DIV><DIV> 01865-275847</DIV><DIV> Applications are invited for several new James Martin 21st Century School Fellowships in the areas of (a) international environmental governance and (b) climate policy. Fellows will be based in the Environmental Change Institute, which forms part of the new Oxford University Centre for the Environment (OUCE). The focus of the 21st <BR></DIV><DIV>Century School is on stimulating Oxford 's research overall, by giving the University's scholars the resources and the time to think imaginatively and positively about the problems and the opportunities that the future will bring. The new School is designed on a 'hub and spoke' model, with a Director and small staff at the centre, and a number of institutes each undertaking leading-edge research in its own subject area. At the launch of the School, these will be: the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization; the Environmental Change Institute; the e-Horizons Institute; the Oxford Institute of Ageing; the International Migration Institute; the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute; the Programme on Ethics of the New Biosciences; the Institute for Emergent Infections of Humans; and the Institute for the Future of the Mind.</DIV><DIV> The ECI James Martin 21st Century School fellows are expected to undertake research that will contribute to (a) critical and constructive evaluations of policies and institutions designed to prevent dangerous climate change including carbon trading, adaptation measures, and energy alternatives at a range of scales and implemented by various agents and/or (b) assessments of new approaches to international environmental governance that include the rescaling of environmental management (to more local and global levels), the privatisation or pricing of environmental services, and joint ventures between the state, private and non-profit sectors. Fellows will work under the general direction of the ECI director, Professor Diana Liverman, and will be encouraged to collaborate with other staff in the OUCE, and across the university. Appointments will be made for 6 months to three years in the first instance, may range from postdoctoral to senior research fellow level and can include partial funding of sabbatical visitors. Fellows are encouraged to contribute lectures or options to one or more of the five postgraduate environmental MSc programmes offered through the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. Initial appointments will be available from October 2005. Applicants should have a postgraduate degree and evidence of a commitment to collaborative and policy relevant research and outreach. Senior appointments must have a strong record of academic publishing and policy interaction and junior fellows must have outstanding potential for academic and policy contributions. Further details are available from Sue King (<A href="mailto:sue.king@eci.ox.ac.uk">sue.king@eci.ox.ac.uk</A> ) OUCE, Dyson Perrins Building , South Parks Road , Oxford , UK OX1 3QY , Tel 01865 275847.</DIV><DIV> Informal inquiries may be made to Professor Liverman (E-mail: <A href="mailto:diana.liverman@eci.ox.ac.uk">diana.liverman@eci.ox.ac.uk</A>). The closing date for receipt of the first</DIV><DIV>round of applications is Aug 15 2005. Interviews will be held in Oxford (in person or by teleconference) on 30 August 2005.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B></B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Project Manager-The UNFCCC: Implementation and participation in Asia-Pacific </B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">From Climate-L </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> WWF has recently secured a 3 year grant from the EU Commission to improve the implementation and participation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 4 countries across Asia-Pacific: Cook Islands and Tuvalu in South Pacific, Indonesia and Nepal. In each country a Project Team of WWF and its partners will build alliances and capacity at the national level to implement and engage in UNFCCC treaties and negotiations. At the international level lessons learned will be shared between countries and used to improve the ability of countries with fewer political resources to effectively represent their national interest in the UNFCCC the negotiations.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> WWF is seeking a Project Manager, based at WWF India in Delhi, who will:</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Be responsible for managing the project and delivering on its objectives as well as ensuring complete and accurate accounting and reporting to the donor.<BR></DIV><DIV> Support national programmes with the implementation of their UNFCCC related activities.</DIV><DIV> Engage at the international level in disseminating lessons learned and building alliances of countries within the context of UNFCCC negotiations.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The successful candidate will:</DIV><DIV> Possess demonstrated their ability to efficiently and successfully manage international projects and work with international teams.</DIV><DIV> Possess a relevant educational or employment background in areas such as environmental policy, climate change policy or international politics.</DIV><DIV> Be able to show a demonstrated commitment to securing change on environmental issues.</DIV><DIV> Possess experience or understanding of working with NGOs</DIV><DIV> Show an ability to work as part of a well co-ordinated team</DIV><DIV> Demonstrate an ability to take initiative and make independent management decisions</DIV><DIV> Be available to travel extensively to support the programmes at the national level and at the UNFCCC negotiations.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Contract duration is 3 years. </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Salary will be competitive with Indian pay scales, weighted to account for the International nature of the project.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> CVs should be emailed to Ma-Anne Roque (<A href="mailto:maroque@wwf.org.ph">maroque@wwf.org.ph</A>) and Climate Change & Energy Programme, India (<A href="mailto:climate@wwfindia.net">climate@wwfindia.net</A>) by August 12, 2005.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV><B>Recruiting for Intermediate and Senior Level C</B><B>onsultants - Energy & Climate Strategy and Carbon </B><B>Management</B></DIV><DIV> Ecofys is an international consultancy, specialising in sustainable energy and climate issues. The Ecofys UK office in London is currently expanding and we are recruiting for intermediate and senior level consultants in the areas of Energy & Climate Strategy and Carbon Management. For more details of the current vacancies please see our website: <A href="http://www.ecofys.co.uk/uk/work/vacancies.htm">http://www.ecofys.co.uk/uk/work/vacancies.htm</A> Note that the closing date for all vacancies is the 14th of August 2005.<BR></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship, Perth, Australia (up to 3 years): Marine Molecular Ecology and Biogeography.</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Capitalising on the wealth of multidisciplinary knowledge flowing from the Western Australian Strategic Research Fund for the Marine Environment initiative this project will exploit the power of the emerging science, molecular ecology, to gain insights into how the distributions of key marine organisms are influenced by physical, oceanographic, climatic and hydrodynamic processes operating off Western Australia.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> A central focus of our research is the influence of ocean processes such as the Leeuwin Current, its eddies and associated minor currents on the spatial and temporal dynamics of marine organisms, from zooplankton to macroalgae. These influences are manifested partly via dispersal of reproductive propagules within and between populations across local and geographic scales. Understanding these processes is central to interpreting the biological patterns observed in marine species. It is also important to understand these processes if marine reserves are to be effective tools for conserving biodiversity in exploited systems because it helps ensure reserves are representative and viable.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The project will investigate dispersal, gene flow, biogeographical patterns and evolutionary relationships using DNA-based genetic markers and models of dispersal and population dynamics. Biogeographic patterns observed in WA will be related to larger scale, continent, and basin-wide ocean processes. CSIRO at Floreat has ideal facilities with which to conduct this research, including modern molecular biology laboratories and an impressive capacity to conduct field based marine biological research.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> This will be a well resourced postdoc and the research environment in which it will be conducted is extremely stimulating and dynamic. Furthermore, the lifestyle and climate in Perth is about as good as it gets. I encourage good early career molecular ecologists and phylogeneticists not to miss this opportunity.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Details of the application process will be posted on the CSIRO website by August 5 2005 (<A href="http://www.csiro.au/careers">www.csiro.au/careers</A>).</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> If you are interested in this area of research please contact Phillip England (<A href="mailto:phillip.england@csiro.au">phillip.england@csiro.au</A>) or Peter Craig (<A href="mailto:peter.craig@csiro.au">peter.craig@csiro.au</A>).</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV><B>The GCP has two International Project Offices (IPO): one in Canberra, </B><B>Australia and one in Tsukuba, Japan.</B></DIV><DIV> The Global Carbon Project (GCP) is a joint program of the IHDP, IGBP, WCRP, and DIVERSITAS under their Earth System Science Partnership. The GCP has two International Project Offices (IPO): one in Canberra, Australia and one in Tsukuba, Japan. The GCP is seeking to appoint a highly motivated and independent person as Executive Officer (director) of its International Project Office in Tsukuba, Japan at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES). The successful candidate will work with the GCP Science Steering Committee, its three co-chairs, and the Executive Officer of the other GCP International Project Office in Canberra, Australia to implement the science framework of the GCP.</DIV><DIV> Further information on the position and the GCP is available from Penelope Canan (<A href="mailto:penelope.canan@nies.go.jp">penelope.canan@nies.go.jp</A>), Pep Canadell [<A href="mailto:pep.canadell@csiro.au">pep.canadell@csiro.au</A>], or by viewing the GCP homepage, <A href="http://www.globalcarbonproject.org">http://www.globalcarbonproject.org</A>. Other useful information on Tsukuba and the host Institution can be view at: NIES: <A href="http://www.nies.go.jp/index.html">http://www.nies.go.jp/index.html</A>; Housing: <A href="http://www.jistec.or.jp/house/">http://www.jistec.or.jp/house/</A>; and Tsukuba city: <A href="http://www.info-tsukuba.org/english/index.html">http://www.info-tsukuba.org/english/index.html</A> </DIV><DIV> We are seeking a person with excellent working knowledge of the policy-relevant scientific objectives of the GCP and a keen interest in devising methods to integrate social and policy sciences into the understanding of the carbon-climate system as a coupled human/natural system. The Tsukuba IPO is especially focused on fostering and coordinating research related integrating the human and natural dimensions of the global carbon cycle and global/regional/urban carbon management. The Science Framework of the Global Carbon Project is available on the web, as are a number of publications, conference proceedings, and presentations that provide more background information.</DIV><DIV> Post- graduate qualifications (preferably a PhD) are desirable. The appointee will have demonstrated high organizational, communication and interpersonal skills; experience in drafting a diverse range of scientific documents; ability to communicate in English effectively with groups of scientists of diverse disciplinary, national, and cultural backgrounds; and the flexibility and willingness to undertake extensive, long-distance overseas travel.</DIV><DIV> This appointment at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba (Japan), is for a fixed term of two years, with the possibility of an extension up to five years. The successful candidate will be invited to commence the job as early as February 2006.</DIV><DIV> Closing date for applications: 1 October 2005</DIV><DIV> Please, send your application by email, including descriptions of skills, qualifications and work achievements, and contact details of three referees, to Ms. Yukako Ojima <A href="mailto:ojima.yukako@nies.go.jp">ojima.yukako@nies.go.jp</A>).</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Physical Scientist - Ice Climatologist</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) seeks an enthusiastic research scientist to perform research and develop forecasting models on Great Lakes ice. Research will involve both the statistical analysis and forecasting of Great Lakes ice cover for application to environmental problems in the Great Lakes, as well as development of thermodynamically-based and/or statistically-based practical ice forecasting models for short-term, seasonal, and long-term ice prediction. The incumbent will also update and maintain the Great Lakes digital ice climatology data base as well as work with the National Weather Service, National Ice Center and Canadian Ice Center on problems involving ice on the Great Lakes. The incumbent should have experience in seasonal to inter-annual climate forecasting. The individual will present results in peer-reviewed publications and scientific presentations and grow the program by submitting research proposals.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> This is a full time permanent federal position (GS-12) with a starting salary of $64,886. Closing date is 09/30/05; however, the position may be filled before that date. pplications received by August 31, 2005 will be given full consideration. Applications will be reviewed on a monthly basis thereafter until the closing date.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> This position is posted on the U.S. Department of Commerce website: <A href="http://www.jobs.doc.gov">www.jobs.doc.gov</A> under two vacancy numbers OAR-LABS-2005-0018 and OAR-LABS-2005-0019 (current federal employees).</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Regulatory Analyst</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Natsource seeks a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Regulatory Analyst to provide analysis in support of the company's Greenhouse Gas-Credit Aggregation Pool (GG-CAP). The GG-CAP purchases, on behalf of corporate clients, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions that can be used to comply with regulatory obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Send cover letter and resume to: Tara Sheehan at <A href="mailto:tsheehan@natsource.com">tsheehan@natsource.com</A>. Natsource is seeking to fill this position quickly. Please send cover letters and resume by August 30, 2005. 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