<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>DIALOG and DISCCRS News</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">05/12/2006</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">************************************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><B>TABLE OF CONTENTS</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">RESOURCES</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>The World Ocean Observatory</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.thew2o.net/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.thew2o.net</FONT></SPAN></A> (see below)<O:P></O:P><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"></FONT></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">SCIENCE NEWS</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>For the U.S., the cost of the Iraq war will soon exceed the anticipated cost of the Kyoto Protocol... For both, the cost is somewhere in excess of $300 billion.</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050901502.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050901502.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>The "RealClimate" scoop on Al Gore's movie:</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/al-gores-movie/#more-299"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/al-gores-movie/#more-299</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>New World Bank project to promote clean energy in developing countries. </B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/index.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/index.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Tibet Provides Passage for Chemicals to Reach the Stratosphere</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2006-074"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2006-074</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Monster Hurricanes: New research calls into question the linkage between major Atlantic hurricanes and global warming (EurekAlert!)</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2006GL025757.shtml"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2006GL025757.shtml</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV><B>No winner in future climate league (New Scientist)</B><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see below)<O:P></O:P><SPAN style=""></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Plankton Blooms Linked to Quakes</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see below)<O:P></O:P><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Shivering and Unsung, Scientists Monitor the Arctic Year After Year After Year</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see below)<O:P></O:P><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"></FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></FONT></DIV></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Second Announcement and Call for Registration for the 2006 World Water Week in Stockholm</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see below)<O:P></O:P><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"> </FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">JOBS</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Postdoctoral Positions, Science, Technology and Society - University of Texas at Austin</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see below)<O:P></O:P><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Resources</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>The World Ocean Observatory</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.thew2o.net/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.thew2o.net</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The World Ocean Observatory is dedicated to information, education and public discourse about the ocean defined as an integrated global social system. We believe that informed citizens worldwide can unite to sustain the ocean through mitigation and change of human behavior on land and sea. Our intent is to communicate the full spectrum of ocean issues — climate, fresh water, food, energy, trade, transportation, public health, finance, governance, recreation and culture — as a realization of our belief that the sea connects all things.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The w2o.net is a place of exchange for ocean information, education and public discourse about the future of the ocean and its implication for human survival. Incorporating The Physical Ocean, the UN Atlas of the Oceans and other useful sites; The World Ocean Directory, an indexed network of organizations worldwide with ocean interests; The World Ocean Forum, a digest of ocean conferences, publications, exhibits, news and media; and The World Ocean Classroom, an inventory of curriculum, ocean exemplars and educational resources for global distribution.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For Breaking Waves, an on-line posting of ocean-related news, please follow this link: <A href="http://www.thew2o.net/oceanForum.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.thew2o.net/oceanForum.html</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">To subscribe to our monthly newsletter, The W2O Observer, please follow this link: <A href="http://www.thew2o.net/subscribeNewsletter.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.thew2o.net/subscribeNewsletter.html</FONT></SPAN></A>.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Science News</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <B>No winner in future climate league (New Scientist)</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>FLASH floods in the Mediterranean, more snow for north-eastern Europe and irregular weather patterns across eastern North America. That's the forecast for later this century, according to the most recent climate-change predictions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Using the latest data from 20 global climate simulations, Filippo Giorgi of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, has calculated which parts of the world will have experienced the biggest swings in climate by the end of this century. Based on projected changes in precipitation, temperature and climate variability, he developed a climate-change index that he used to rank regions according to the severity of change they will experience.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Mediterranean and north-eastern Europe came out top of the list of climate-change extremes (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025734). The Med can expect less rainfall overall but more variability in summer rain, making both droughts and flash floods more likely. North-eastern Europe looks set to have much more snow. Eastern North America was also high up on the list, with a variety of changes in different locations.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Plankton Blooms Linked to Quakes</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>from BBC News Online<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Concentrations of the natural pigment chlorophyll in coastal waters have been shown to rise prior to earthquakes.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These chlorophyll increases are due to blooms of plankton, which use the pigment to convert solar energy to chemical energy via photosynthesis.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A joint US-Indian team of researchers analysed satellite data on ocean coastal areas lying near the epicentres of four recent quakes.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Details of the research appear in the journal Advances in Space Research.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4750557.stm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4750557.stm</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>or<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/z43p8"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/z43p8</FONT></SPAN></A> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Shivering and Unsung, Scientists Monitor the Arctic Year After Year After Year</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>from the New York Times (Registration Required)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On April 22, two divers from the University of Washington entered a manhole-size opening in the veneer of floating sea ice around the North Pole.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the fifth year in a row they descended into the blue-green 29-degree water in pursuit of the least glorious, and perhaps most important, facet of earth and ocean science: the collection of basic information on conditions in the same place year after year.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their task was to retrieve a two-mile-long strand of instruments that for a year had been anchored to the sea floor recording shifting currents, temperatures, salinity, ice thickness and other vital signs. Now, after an acoustic signal released it from the anchor, the strand was bunched in a tangle of floats and Kevlar line under the ice.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/science/09arct.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/science/09arct.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>or<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/z46jb"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/z46jb</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <B>Second Announcement and Call for Registration for the 2006 World Water Week in Stockholm</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The 2006 World Water Week in Stockholm will continue its important role at the nexus of the water, environment, development and poverty reduction fields when it takes place August 20-26 at the Stockholm City Conference Centre in the Swedish capital. The full programme has just been announced and can now be found online at <A href="http://www.worldwaterweek.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.worldwaterweek.org</FONT></SPAN></A>. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(To view, save or print the programme announcement directly in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format, click here: <A href="http://www.worldwaterweek.org/Downloads/2006_WWW_2nd_%20Announcement.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.worldwaterweek.org/Downloads/2006_WWW_2nd_%20Announcement.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A>)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In 2006, the World Water features 10 workshops, 35 seminars and 23 side events and an overarching theme of “Beyond the River – Sharing Benefits and Responsibilities”. Some 90 diverse organisations are on board as convenors or co-convenors of different activities. Plenary sessions, panel debates, technical tours, social events, exhibitions and special events, including the 2006 Stockholm Water Prize presentation and the international Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition, round out the programme for the 2006 World Water Week in Stockholm.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Among the many events and activities taking place in Stockholm are the 10th anniversary celebration of the Global Water Partnership, the presentation of the results of the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, the multi-stakeholder meeting of the European Union Water Initiative, and much more.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For more on these and the other events in Stockholm, visit <A href="http://www.worldwaterweek.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.worldwaterweek.org</FONT></SPAN></A>. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Jobs</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Or, visit </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> and click on 'Join this group'</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <B>Postdoctoral Positions, Science, Technology and Society - University of Texas at Austin</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Science, Technology & Society Program at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce two positions for postdoctoral research in its growing program in societal impacts of science and technology. The successful applicants will conduct research on some aspect of the societal impacts of science and technology. As postdoctoral fellows they will teach one seminar course per semester and will work with faculty and graduate students in activities designed to foster the understanding of social impacts of science and technology. Major focus areas can include: impacts of nanoscience, biotechnology, emerging communication technologies, digital gaming, the environment, as well as other areas. Fellows will be expected to participate in the STS Program's educational and outreach activities. The University of Texas at Austin provides many opportunities for collaboration, with leading programs in public policy, business, engineering, the sciences, law, and liberal arts.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants should be recent recipients of a PhD degree; areas of specialization and disciplinary approach open. The positions are 12-month positions with a flexible starting date. Salary $35,000, plus benefits. Postdocs are expected to be in residence in Austin, Texas for the time of the fellowship.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please send a detailed cover letter, CV, and 1-page proposal for research work during the postdoc period to Professor Elizabeth Keating, Director, Science, Technology & Society Program at: <A href="mailto:ekeating@mail.utexas.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">ekeating@mail.utexas.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications received by July 1 will be given first consideration. For further information about the program, please see the website of the STS program <A href="http://www.sts.utexas.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.sts.utexas.edu</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">**************************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler to distribute information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate-change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:phd@whitman.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">phd@whitman.edu</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. 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