<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="#0030FF" 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>12/01</B><B>/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="#0030FF"><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: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; min-height: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Arial"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">****HOT PICK****</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>The Nov 17 issue of Rolling Stone features a great piece on "Warriors & Heroes Against Global Warming" including a few paragraphs on people like Al Gore, James Hansen, Amory Lovins, Raul Estrada Oyuela. </B> <A href="http://tinyurl.com/do3ja"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000F0">http://tinyurl.com/do3ja</FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>RESOURCES</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Warriors and Heroes Against Global Warming (Rolling Stone)</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="http://tinyurl.com/do3ja">http://tinyurl.com/do3ja</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>AIMES Young Scientist Network</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="http://www.asp.ucar.edu/ess/">http://www.asp.ucar.edu/ess/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>PYRN (Permafrost Young Researchers Network)</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="http://www.awi-potsdam.de/pyrn">http://www.awi-potsdam.de/pyrn</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times New Roman; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>SCIENCE NEWS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Permanent solution to Carbon Storage?</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Science In The News-US Resists Climate Change Pressure at UN Conference from the Guardian (UK)</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Analyses Of Trapped Air Show Current CO2 At Highest Level In 650,000 Years</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>2004 Doctorate Awards Increase in Science and Engineering Fields for the Second Year in a Row </B><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06301"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000F0"></FONT></B></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06301"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000F0">http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06301</FONT></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>New World Wildlife Federation Warns Fish at Risk from Climate Change</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=897&p=health&a=3"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=897&p=health&a=3</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2024FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>FORUM</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Please Be A Mentor For Minority Students At Fall AGU Meeting</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Personal Impact Factors: Be Sure To Document Your Own</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2024FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>17th Global Warming International Conference and Expo (GW17)</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="http://globalwarming.net/">http://globalwarming.net</A>/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; min-height: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2024FF"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>JOBS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>3 New Jobs At Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Michigan State University - Regional Climate Modeler, Assistant Professor</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>5 Postdoctoral Positions at ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Australia</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Virginia Tech Faculty Positions (2)</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B> </B>(see below)<B></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Univ of British Columbia (Canada) - Assistant Professor, Climatologist</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="http://www.geog.ubc.ca/department/recruitment.html">http://www.geog.ubc.ca/department/recruitment.html</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Duke University, Nicholas Institute of Environmental Policy Solutions</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> -- 3 positions: 1) Economist, 2) Ocean and coastal policy position & 3) Water management and policy position (upcoming)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <A href="http://www.env.duke.edu/institute/about.html">http://www.env.duke.edu/institute/about.html</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></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="#0030FF" 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="#0030FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Science News</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" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for</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" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Permanent solution to Carbon Storage?</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Canadian carbon dioxide storage experiment <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>WASHINGTON An experimental project in Canada to inject carbon dioxide into oil fields has proven successful, removing 5 million tons of the heat-trapping "greenhouse" gas, while enhancing oil recovery, the Energy Department said Tuesday. If the methodology could be applied worldwide, from one-third to one-half of the carbon dioxide emissions that go into the atmosphere could be eliminated over the next century and billions of barrels of additional oil could be recovered, the department said. The project is a joint effort by the Energy Department, the Canadian government and private industry. Carbon dioxide is piped from the Great Plains Synfuels plant in Beulah, N.D., where it is a byproduct from coal gasification, to the Weyburn oil field in Saskatchewan, Canada.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"The success of the Weyburn Project could have incredible implications on reducing CO2 emissions and increasing America's oil production," said Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. Bodman, who is visiting the Middle East, said in a statement released by his office that if the process were used in all the oil fields of western Canada, "we would see billions of additional barrels of oil and a reduction of CO2 emissions equivalent to pulling more than 200 million cars off the road for a year." The completion of the first phase of the experimental project gives government officials and industry an indication of how carbon sequestration can both reduce the risk of climate change and allow enhanced oil recovery, extending the oil field's life.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Carbon dioxide, produced from the burning of fossil fuels, is the leading so-called "greenhouse" gas because when released into the atmosphere it creates a heat-trapping blanket. Many scientists believe the growth of manmade sources of these gases will lead to a warming of the earth if the trend is not reversed. In the Weyburn project, the carbon dioxide when pumped into the oil reservoir increased the pressure and brought more oil to the surface. It increased the field's production by 10,000 barrels a day and "demonstrated the technical and economic feasibility of permanent carbon sequestration," the DOE said in a statement. Such a process can enhance oil recovery up to 60%, extend the life of aging oil fields by decades, and provide a permanent repository for the carbon dioxide in geologic formations, the DOE said. Now that the first phase of the Weyburn project is completed, researchers are developing a manual on the findings for industry. They also will expand the carbon injection process to an adjacent field where the plan to develop try to improve injection efficiencies and refine the process, according to the DOE statement.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Science In The News-US Resists Climate Change Pressure at UN Conference from the Guardian (UK)</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">from Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Crucial talks aimed at combatting the threat of global warming opened in Montreal yesterday with the US government signalling that it will resist attempts to be drawn into a new international process to cut emissions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Delegates at the United Nations climate conference - the first since the Kyoto protocol came into force in February - will discuss what action to take to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases when the Kyoto agreement expires in 2012.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The US has refused to sign up to Kyoto and sent a clear message that it was in no mood to rethink its opposition to binding international agreements. The US chief negotiator, Harlan Watson, said he would strongly resist Canadian plans to combine the US, other developed nations and the developing countries in a joint commitment to action. He told the BBC: "We feel very strongly that it is not appropriate, that the ground is not there yet; there are many different ideas; people are not yet ready to move ahead under the convention." Despite not joining the Kyoto process, the US participates in the UN framework convention on climate change, which gave rise to the protocol. <A href="http://tinyurl.com/84fl5"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/84fl5</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Analyses Of Trapped Air Show Current CO2 At Highest Level In 650,000 Years </B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Chemical and Engineering News, Bette Hileman<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ice cores drilled at vostok Station in East Antarctica provide evidence of Earth's temperatures and greenhouse gases for the past 440,000 years. Now, data from a new ice core called EPICA Dome C, drilled roughly 600 miles from Vostok, extends that record back another 210,000 years. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A study by Thomas F. Stocker of the Physics Institute at the University of Bern, in Switzerland, and colleagues describes Dome C core data that reveal the relationship between global temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations for the period 390,000 to 650,000 years before present ( see Science 2005, 310, 1313). The data indicate that the current concentration of CO2, at 380 ppm, is 27% higher than the preindustrial level and higher than any level attained during the past 650,000 years.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" 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="#0030FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Forum</B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Please Be A Mentor For Minority Students At Fall AGU Meeting</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you plan to attend the fall AGU meeting, Please consider serving as a meeting mentor for a student participating in Phase I of the 2005-2006 MS PHD'S (Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success in Earth System Science) Professional Development Program during the 2005 Fall AGU meeting.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a science meeting mentor, you will interact with an undergraduate or graduate student interested in pursuing an earth/ocean science-related career. If you agree to serve as a meeting mentor you will be asked to: * Communicate with one student before the 2005 Fall AGU meeting (an opportunity to introduce yourselves, discover common academic interests, etc.) if possible<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>* Participate in a 30 minute orientation on Monday, Dec. 5th from 12:30PM-1:00PM in the Moscone Center Room 3010 (lunch will be provided) and meet with your mentee immediately following the orientation<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>* Discuss a minimum of four presentations with your assigned mentee during the 2005 Fall AGU meeting<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>* Facilitate networking (introduce your mentee to other scientists with similar interests) during and after the 2005 Fall AGU meeting<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>* Offer academic and career advice during and after the 2005 Fall AGU meeting<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can learn more about the MS PHD'S Professional Development Program at <A href="http://www.msphds.usf.edu/ProgramInformation.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.msphds.usf.edu/ProgramInformation.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are interested in serving as a mentor, please complete the brief on-line survey found at <A href="http://www.msphds.usf.edu/survey/mentor_survey.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.msphds.usf.edu/survey/mentor_survey.php</FONT></SPAN></A> as soon as possible.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you have previously served as a mentor in the MS PHD'S Professional Development Program you do not need to complete a new survey. However, you will need to send an email to <A href="mailto:msphds@marine.usf.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">msphds@marine.usf.edu</FONT></SPAN></A> indicating your willingness to serve as a mentor during the 2005 Fall AGU Meeting.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thanks in advance for considering participating in this worthwhile endeavor!<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dr. Ashanti "Suné" Johnson Pyrtle, Assistant Professor<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>College of Marine Science, University of South Florida,<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>140 7th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>tel: 727.553.1301, fax: 727.553.1189, E-mail: <A href="mailto:apyrtle@marine.usf.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">apyrtle@marine.usf.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.marine.usf.edu/faculty/ashanti-pyrtle.shtml"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.marine.usf.edu/faculty/ashanti-pyrtle.shtml</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://msphds.usf.edu/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://msphds.usf.edu</FONT></SPAN></A></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>Personal Impact Factors: Be Sure To Document Your Own</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cynthia Cudeback<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Subject: IMPACT FACTORS: The number that's devouring science<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just for practice, I looked up the citations for my own papers, on web of science. It only took a minute (admittedly I have an unusual name, so it would take longer for some). If decisions are being based on "impact factors" instead of on personal impact, that's a shame. Each scientist approaching tenure and promotion decisions should document his/her personal impact, just in case the department blows off this basic respoinsibility.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Impact Factors: The number that's devouring science<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A good article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (52:8, Oct.14) on the problems of journal 'impact factors' and its effects on research and science publishing. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The number that's devouring science: <A href="http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i08/08a01201.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i08/08a01201.htm</FONT></SPAN></A> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" 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; "><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Summer Programs, Courses, Internships and Meetings</B></FONT></DIV></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Dear Colleagues,<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Contents:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> A. Thank-you and intro<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> B. Availabiliy of power point presentations online<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> C. Open Meeting success stories and pictures<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> D. Publications coming out of the 6th Open Meeting<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> E. Venue announcement for the 7th Open Meeting in 2008<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> F. Other announcements<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> A.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Dear Colleagues, <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> I would like to thank you for contributing to what was a very successful Open Meeting last month here in Bonn. Nearly 1,000 participants attended from 80 countries over this 4-day event. Please continue to check the Open Meeting website, <A href="http://openmeeting.homelinux.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://openmeeting.homelinux.org</FONT></SPAN></A>, for updates, pictures and power point presentations from plenary speakers and session organizers.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> B. I would like to welcome any session organizers who wish to send me their power point presentations to please do so. We will then make them available to view or download on our website.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> C. We also welcome any Open Meeting success stories or pictures for our website and the next IHDP Update Newsletter covering the Open Meeting.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> D. We are currently discussing publications coming out of the Open Meeting, and I will be in contact with you as more information on this arises.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> E. Finally, I am pleased to announce that the next 7th Open Meeting will be taking place in 2008 in New Delhi, India. The host organizatation will be The Energy and Resources Insitute (TERI): <A href="http://www.teriin.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.teriin.org</FONT></SPAN></A>/.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> F. Two final announcements: We are now accepting applications for our biannual International Human Dimensions Workshop (IHDW) taking place in Chiang Mai, Thailand in October 2006. If you are interested, please see or forward the attached application and note all qualification requirements and deadlines.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Finally, we would like to bring your attention to a new platform on the topics of Environment, Conflict and Cooperation: <A href="http://www.ecc-platform.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.ecc-platform.org</FONT></SPAN></A>. We welcome all who are interested to get involved.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Wishing you all the best from Bonn,<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Elisabeth Mullin, Open Meeting Coordinator I H D P<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Walter-Flex-Strasse 3<O:P></O:P> D-53113 Bonn Germany<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Tel.: +49 (0) 228 73 4957 Fax.: +49 (0) 228 73 9054<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> e-mail: <A href="mailto:emullin.ihdp@uni-bonn.de"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">emullin.ihdp@uni-bonn.de</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P> website: <A href="http://www.ihdp.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ihdp.org</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> 6th Open Meeting website is now up!<O:P></O:P> <A href="http://openmeeting.homelinux.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://openmeeting.homelinux.org</FONT></SPAN></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="#0030FF" 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="#0030FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Jobs</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" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs</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" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to: </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;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;"> Or, visit </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000F4">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> and click on 'Join this group'</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>3 New Jobs At Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences <A href="http://www.bigelow.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.bigelow.org/</FONT></SPAN></A>><A href="http://www.bigelow.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.bigelow.org</FONT></SPAN></A> is beginning a major expansion in ocean microbial ecology and invites applications for three positions as Senior Research Scientist:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1) Chemical Ecologist (e.g. chemical signaling, marine toxins, or natural products)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2) Marine Molecular Microbiologist (e.g. bio-informatics, gene expression, genome research, or microarray studies; focus on algae, bacteria, protozoa or viruses)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>3) Dissolved Organic Matter Chemist (e.g. chemical characterization, DOM as a source of nutrition, global carbon cycling, or polymer gels).<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Successful candidates will maintain an active, externally-funded research program. Bigelow Laboratory provides partial salary support, and generous benefits. Send research interests, C.V. and names of three references to: Chair, PI Search Committee, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, P.O.B. 475, West Boothbay Harbor, ME 04575 (207-633-9600). Review of applications begins December 15, 2005 and continues until positions are filled. Bigelow Laboratory is an equal opportunity employer.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Michigan State University - Regional Climate Modeler, Assistant Professor</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The Department of Geography at Michigan State University is seeking applications for a tenure track faculty appointment in the area of regional climate modeling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The appointment will be at the rank of assistant professor, beginning August, 2006.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A Ph.D. in geography, atmospheric science, or closely related field, with expertise and interest in modeling weather and climate at regional spatial scales is required. The successful candidate will be expected to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment with researchers in the Department of Geography and across the University; and to actively contribute to and expand the current climatology and meteorology curriculum.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Duties include developing an externally funded research program, teaching undergraduate and graduate student courses including dynamic meteorology, and mentoring graduate students.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>International experience or demonstrated interest in international regions is an advantage.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants should submit a current curriculum vitae, a letter of interest, no more than two sample publications, and names of three references. Michigan State University in an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution and strongly encourages applications from women and minorities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apply:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dr. Julie Winkler, chair of the search committee, 238 Geography Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48823 <A href="mailto:winkler@msu.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">winkler@msu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A> 517-353-9186.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Review of applications will begin January 15 and continue until the position is filled.</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 style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Department of Economics invites applications for a position at the assistant professor level, full-time, tenure track, beginning August 1, 2006.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The candidate should have a primary specialization in environmental and natural resources economics.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The individual is expected to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in environmental and resource economics and in a secondary area such as public economics or microeconomics, supervise M.A. and Ph.D. students, and conduct high quality research. The appointee would be expected to engage in interdisciplinary research and seek extramural funding.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The candidate must have a Ph.D. in economics or an allied field by August 1, 2006.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We expect a firm commitment to teaching and an interest in innovative education strategies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will begin conducting interviews at the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations in Boston, MA January 5-8, 2006.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The application, including vita, 3 reference letters, evidence of teaching effectiveness and one recent paper must be received by the closing date of January 3, 2006.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No e-mail submissions allowed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The University of Hawaii is an EEO/AA employer. CONTACT: Recruiting Chair, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa, 2424 Maile Way, Saunders 542, Honolulu, HI 96822.</DIV></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 class="MsoNormal"><B>5 Postdoctoral Positions at ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Australia</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies is an international research centre, administered by James Cook University, with strong linkages to the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the Australian National University, CSIRO, the University of Queensland and 23 other institutions and Industry Partners in 9 countries.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants must have been awarded or are about to receive a relevant PhD, and have an exceptional publication record for their stage of career. There is considerable scope for the applicant to shape their role as programs develop and mature. Five positions are available immediately or by negotiation in the following Programs:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1. Environmental History of coastal Queensland:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The appointee will be based at the Centre's headquarters at JCU in Townsville for 3 years and will work with a team of ecologists, historians, archeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, and end-users.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The objective is to reconstruct the environmental, social and economic history of the Great Barrier Reef and its catchment. The project will build on a planning workshop for participants scheduled for early February 2006.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Additional information contact: Professor Terry Hughes <A href="mailto:Terry.Hughes@jcu.edu.au"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Terry.Hughes@jcu.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></A> phone 61 (0)7 47816665<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2. Mental Models in Linked Social-Ecological Systems: The appointee will investigate how individuals and organisations perceive the way in which natural resource systems function and their interactions with, and impacts on, natural resource systems. The focus will be on the diversity and evolution of mental models and their role as a determinant of human behaviour in coastal Queensland. A background in the behavioural or social-sciences and community-based scenario-setting is highly desirable. The applicant will work with a team of resource economists, social scientists, ecologists, community psychologists, marine scientists, and resource managers. The position will be co-funded with CSIRO's Sustainable Ecosystems Division. A planning Working Group will meet in March 2006. The appointee will be located at JCU and CSIRO's Davies Laboratory, both in Townsville.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Additional information contact: Professor Terry Hughes <A href="mailto:Terry.Hughes@jcu.edu.au"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Terry.Hughes@jcu.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></A> phone 61 (0)7 47816665.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>3. Institutional analysis and adaptive governance. The appointee will contribute to a broad research focus on social-ecological systems, their institutional dynamics, with a focus on multi-scale adaptive governance of tropical maritime regions in developed and developing nations. This is a 3 year position based at JCU in Townsville, with the opportunity for extensive fieldwork throughout the tropics.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Additional information contact: Professor Terry Hughes <A href="mailto:Terry.Hughes@jcu.edu.au"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Terry.Hughes@jcu.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></A> phone 61 (0)7 47816665<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>4. Understanding and Managing Coral Reef Biodiversity:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The appointee will contribute to improving understanding of mechanisms and processes that maintain local and global biodiversity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants with an excellent publication record, strong modelling or analytical skills and an interest in any scientific area relevant to the biodiversity of coral reefs, including biogeography, phylogenetics, phylogeography, macroecology, mathematical modelling, biodiversity, ecosystem function, or resilience. Considerable scope exists for the successful candidate to shape a role that suits their particular strengths and interests. This position will be based at JCU in Townsville for a period of 1 to 3 years. Additional information contact: Professor David Bellwood <A href="mailto:David.Bellwood@jcu.edu.au"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">David.Bellwood@jcu.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></A> phone 61 (0)7 47814447.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>5. Landscape ecology of reserves:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>regional resilience: interlinked systems of people and nature at multiple scales. This project examines the role of networks of protected areas in the long-term social-ecological resilience of entire regions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It requires analysis of institutional and ecological dynamics across scales.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The position will be co-funded with The Resilience Alliance, supported in part by grants from the Packard Foundation and the Christiansen fund. A workshop for this project will meet in March 2006. We seek an analytical modeler with a focus on complex non-linear threshold dynamics at multiple scales, who will work in collaboration other mathematicians, ecologists and social scientists. This is a 2-year position based at JCU in Townsville, with the potential for extension to 3 or more years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Additional information contact: Professor Terry Hughes <A href="mailto:Terry.Hughes@jcu.edu.au"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Terry.Hughes@jcu.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></A> phone 61 (0)7 47816665<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Salary range is from AU$52317 to $63260 depending on experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A full statement of the selection criteria is available <A href="http://www.jcu.edu.au/app/jobs/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.jcu.edu.au/app/jobs/</FONT></SPAN></A>... Please forward a CV, statement of research interests, pdfs of recent publications, email addresses of three potential referees, and a cover letter which addresses the selection criteria to the Recruitment Officer. Further general information regarding the positions can be obtained by contacting the Centre's Chief Operations Officer: <A href="mailto:Jennifer.lappin@jcu.edu.au"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Jennifer.lappin@jcu.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Virginia Tech Faculty Positions (2)</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> Academic year, tenure track faculty positions (2) in wildlife and/or fisheries sciences, likely to be filled at the Assistant Professor level. Anticipated start date August 10, 2006. Research focus in wildlife and/or fisheries ecology, with applied emphasis. The incumbent will be expected to teach and to conduct research in their area of expertise. Evidence of innovative research, grantsmanship, teaching experience, and commitment to cultural diversity are required. Candidate must have a PhD in wildlife, fisheries, conservation biology, or allied field. Applications must be submitted electronically through <A href="http://jobs.vt.edu">http://jobs.vt.edu</A>, posting numbers 043225 (wildlife) or 043226 (fisheries). Application review will begin Jan. 2, 2006 and must be received by that date for full consideration. Full position information is at : http://www.fishwild.vt.edu . Direct preliminary inquires to Dr. Dean F. Stauffer, fiwsearch@vt.edu. Virginia Tech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><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" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">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. 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