<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">06/16/2006</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>Research and Teaching Funding - Opportunity at NCEAS: Distributed Graduate Seminars</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (see below)<O:P></O:P><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"><B>Images Viewable Using Google Earth - National Snow and Ice Data Center</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://nsidc.org/data/google_earth/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://nsidc.org/data/google_earth/</FONT></SPAN></A> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Radiosonde Data Products from NCDC</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></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">SCIENCE NEWS</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Report to the Unites States Senate: From Sea to Shining Sea, Priorities for Ocean Policy Reform</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.jointoceancommission.org/press/press/release0613_assets/Sea%20Report.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.jointoceancommission.org/press/press/release0613_assets/Sea%20Report.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P><B></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Photographic Comparisons of Alaskan Glaciers National Snow and Ice Data Center</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B></B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://nsidc.org/data/glacier_photo/special_collection.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://nsidc.org/data/glacier_photo/special_collection.html</FONT></SPAN></A> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>New satellite set to collect most-detailed data yet about atmospheric particles</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Nighttime flights 'boost warming'</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>How Melting Glaciers Alter Earth's Surface, Spur Quakes, Volcanoes</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Pollution From Chinese Coal Casts a Global Shadow</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Polar Bears Driven to Cannibalism because of Global Warming</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Alaska Coastal Villages Face Costly and Rapid Relocation</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Arctic Dips As Global Waters Rise</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B></B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Taking Evolution's Temperature: Researchers Pinpoint The Energy It Takes To Make A Species</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B></B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><B>Thawing Permafrost Could Unleash Tons Of Carbon</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (see below)</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P><SPAN style=""> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></B><O:P></O:P></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">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>RAPID Climate Change International Conference - Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromsø, January 2007. Deadline for registration is July 15</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/rapid//rapid2006/ic06prelimprog.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/rapid//rapid2006/ic06prelimprog.php</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P><B></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>2006-2007 INPE-IAI Research Internship Positions</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B></B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Earth Science, Logistics, and Outreach Terrainbases (EarthSLOT)– 1</B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>st</B></SPAN></FONT><B> Annual Virtual Globes Scientific Users Converence</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Meeting Announcement - Shelf-Basin Exchange at the Margins of the Arctic: IPY and Beyond</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Training Opportunity - IAI-NCAR Colloquium - “Policy planning and Decision making involving Climate Change and Variability”</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"> </FONT></B></SPAN><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>Director of Climate Change Science, The Nature Conservancy, any large TNC office.</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Academic Coordinator, Institute of the Environment.</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>University of California at Los Angeles.</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Assistant Professor in Political Science - The Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management - University of California, Santa Barbara, California</B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B></B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Marine Resource Management Instructor needed for Fall Semester 2006
- Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE)</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Research Position: Analytical Chemist - Ohio State University (USA)</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Post-Doc In Meso-Scale Air Quality Modeling - Western Kentucky University (USA)</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Job Opportunity for Climate Researcher - PartnerRe New Solutions Inc</B>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (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><O:P style=""></O:P></B></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Earth System Modeling Support Position</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (see below)<O:P></O:P><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Postdoctoral Research Positions Available in Science, Technology and Society
- University of Texas at Austin</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (see below)</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P><SPAN style=""> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></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>Research and Teaching Funding - Opportunity at NCEAS: Distributed Graduate Seminars</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, at the University of California, Santa Barbara (NCEAS), invites PI’s to submit proposals for a unique research and teaching opportunity. Distributed Graduate Seminars involve faculty and students at multiple universities, distributed nationally or globally. Initially the scientific leaders of the seminar meet at NCEAS to collaboratively plan seminar courses that will take place at their own institutions, on the same topic, to address an overarching research question. Students at the participating institutions are then enrolled in these courses held simultaneously across sites, and each seminar leader teaches the seminar course in-person at his or her own institution. Each group works with local or regional data, interacting with other groups through web-based collaborative spaces (e.g., data entry portals). At the end of the seminar course representatives from each group come to NCEAS to conduct a “grand synthesis”. The seminar affords students the opportunity to use data-sharing tools, and to participate in collaborative and synthetic research. Seminar leaders benefit from the opportunity to collaborate with their colleagues at widely distributed universities while engaging in meaningful and creative pedagogy at their home institutions. A relatively high level of participation (~25%) from Minority-Serving Institutions is expected, and the participation of undergraduates is encouraged. PIs may be faculty, professional researchers, postdoctoral associates or graduate students. Proposals may originate from and include undergraduate institutions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Since 1995, NCEAS has hosted 3,500 individuals, 50-75% of whom are typically new to NCEAS each year. Thus far NCEAS has supported 370 projects yielding more than 1,000 scientific articles. Proposal deadlines are twice a year. The next deadline is <B>July 24, 2006</B><SPAN style="">. Prospective PIs are encouraged to contact the Deputy Director Stephanie Hampton (<A href="mailto:hampton@nceas.ucsb.edu">hampton@nceas.ucsb.edu</A> <<A href="mailto:hampton@nceas.ucsb.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">mailto:hampton@nceas.ucsb.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>>) or the Director Jim Reichman (<A href="mailto:reichman@nceas.ucsb.edu">reichman@nceas.ucsb.edu</A> <<A href="mailto:reichman@nceas.ucsb.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">mailto:reichman@nceas.ucsb.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>>) during proposal development. For additional information and application instructions, go to:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/opportunity/rfp.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/opportunity/rfp.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><B>Images Viewable Using Google Earth - National Snow and Ice Data Center</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://nsidc.org/data/google_earth/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://nsidc.org/data/google_earth/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has made a select set of images viewable through the popular interactive desktop application, Google Earth. Currently, Google Earth users can view images showing permafrost, snow, sea ice extent, and photographs of glaciers. Distribution of permafrost, snow, and ice are displayed as overlays on the Google Earth base map. Snow and ice information are updated daily.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Radiosonde Data Products from NCDC</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>NOAA announces the availability of a new dataset consisting of monthly time series of homogeneity-adjusted radiosonde temperatures. These are more suitable for the study of longer-term climate variability and change (e.g., interdecadal time-scales and trends) than unadjusted data from more traditional data archives. Temporal homogeneity may be compromised by artificial changes introduced via historical changes in instruments and recording practices.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These new data, Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing Climate (RATPAC), are now available online from the National Climatic Data Center. Data coverage is near-global from a limited network of 85 stations, beginning in 1958 and continuing to present. Data are available on 13 pressure levels from the surface to the stratosphere (up to 30 hPa).<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>RATPAC consists of two subsets of data:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(1) RATPAC-A contains averages over large regions (e.g., global, hemispheric, tropical and extratropical domains). This set is recommended for analysis of interannual and longer-term changes over large areas.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(2) RATPAC-B contains data for individual stations. This set is recommended for analysis of interannual and longer-term changes at individual station locations or for regional means spatial scales smaller than those provided by RATPAC-A.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The RATPAC datasets were created through a collaborative effort involving NOAA scientists from the Air Resources Laboratory, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and the National Climatic Data Center.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For more a complete explanation of the dataset construction methodology and rationale, and to access these data visit: <A href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/cab/ratpac/index.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/cab/ratpac/index.php</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>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>Photographic Comparisons of Alaskan Glaciers National Snow and Ice Data Center</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://nsidc.org/data/glacier_photo/special_collection.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://nsidc.org/data/glacier_photo/special_collection.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announces the release of a special photographic collection, featuring repeat photography of Alaskan glaciers. This collection matches photos of glaciers taken as early as the 1890s with recent photos taken at the same physical location. The photos tell a captivating visual story of the changes glaciers have experienced through time. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>New satellite set to collect most-detailed data yet about atmospheric particles</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A new satellite that last week began gathering data from the Earth's atmosphere could be a key tool in unraveling just how much effect the reflectivity of clouds and tiny particles called aerosols are having on the planet's changing climate..."For the first time we will have access to global data telling us the altitudinal location of clouds and haze plumes in the atmosphere," said Anderson. "This is going to greatly advance the space-based study of aerosol-and-cloud interactions because we will have authoritative knowledge about whether the aerosol layer and the cloud layer are really at the same level in the atmosphere." <A href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/uow-nss061206.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/uow-nss061206.php</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> ********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Nighttime flights 'boost warming'</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Night flights by aircraft are much more damaging to the environment than air travel during the day, a study shows.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The reason, says a UK team, is that vapour trails from aircraft have a greater warming effect during darkness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Writing in the journal Nature, they say cutting night flights could help minimise the climate impact of the aviation industry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Winter flights have a bigger effect on global warming than flights during the rest of the year, they add. <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5082918.stm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5082918.stm</FONT></SPAN></A> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>How Melting Glaciers Alter Earth's Surface, Spur Quakes, Volcanoes</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Imagine the surface of Earth as a giant trampoline that accumulated a slab of ice over the winter, and you can get a sense of what a growing number of scientists say is in store for the planet as glaciers keep melting....<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"It's unavoidable that glacial retreat will induce tectonic activity," says geoscientist Allen Glazner of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill...<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That link has reared its ugly head in the past, especially during periods of rapid climate change such as the end of ice ages. When ice sheets retreated 10,000 years ago, for instance, Iceland experienced a surge in volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes in the Mediterranean, Antarctica and eastern California also seem to have been awakened by retreating ice...<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The retreat of ice sheets 10,000 years ago also triggered a wave of powerful earthquakes in Scandinavia. Since isostatic rebound continues for thousands of years, it may still be contributing to quakes in eastern Canada, says geoscientist Patrick Wu of the University of Calgary.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wall Street Journal: <A href="http://tinyurl.com/ltowk"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/ltowk</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Pollution From Chinese Coal Casts a Global Shadow</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of China's lesser-known exports is a dangerous brew of soot, toxic chemicals and climate-changing gases from the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In early April, a dense cloud of pollutants over Northern China sailed to nearby Seoul, sweeping along dust and desert sand before wafting across the Pacific. An American satellite spotted the cloud as it crossed the West Coast.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Researchers in California, Oregon and Washington noticed specks of sulfur compounds, carbon and other byproducts of coal combustion coating the silvery surfaces of their mountaintop detectors. These microscopic particles can work their way deep into the lungs, contributing to respiratory damage, heart disease and cancer.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>China knows it has to do something about its dependence on coal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The government has set one of the world's most ambitious targets for energy conservation: to cut the average amount of energy needed to produce each good or service by 20 percent over the next five years. But with an economy growing 10 percent a year and with energy consumption climbing even faster, a conservation target amounting to 3.7 percent a year does not keep pace.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All new cars, minivans and sport utility vehicles sold in China starting July 1 will have to meet fuel-economy standards stricter than those in the United States. New construction codes encourage the use of double-glazed windows to reduce air-conditioning and heating costs and high-tech light bulbs that produce more light with fewer watts.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Meanwhile, other sources of energy have problems. Oil is at about $70 a barrel. Natural gas is in short supply in most of China, and prices for imports of liquefied natural gas have more than doubled in the last three years. Environmental objections are slowing the construction of hydroelectric dams on China's few untamed rivers. Long construction times for nuclear power plants make them a poor solution to addressing blackouts and other power shortages now.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With Chinese leaders under constant pressure to create jobs for the millions of workers flooding from farms into cities each year, as well as the rapidly growing ranks of college graduates, there has been little enthusiasm for a change of strategy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed, China is using subsidies to make its energy even cheaper, a strategy that is not unfamiliar to Americans, said Kenneth Lieberthal, a China specialist at the University of Michigan. "They have done in many ways," he said, "what we have done."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=57264"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=57264</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Polar Bears Driven to Cannibalism because of Global Warming</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Several prominent polar bear biologists have published a stunning paper in the journal Polar Biology in which they report, for the first time, evidence of a male polar bear killing a mother in her maternal den (two cubs also died) (PDF copy attached, including graphic photos). They also describe two other bears who had been victims of cannibalism: a mother (who was with a cub) having recently emerged from her den, and also a yearling male (Amstrup et al., 2006). All of these field observations took place within a mere 2 ½ month period in 2004.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The killings occurred adjacent to the Southern Beaufort Sea, where global warming has caused significant ice retreats, and the nutritional condition of the bears was compromised.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"During 24 years of research on polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea region of northern Alaska and 34 years in northwestern Canada, we have not seen other incidents of polar bears stalking, killing, and eating other polar bears," stated the researchers in their paper.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"We hypothesize that nutritional stresses related to the longer ice-free seasons that have occurred in the Beaufort Sea in recent years may have led to the cannibalism incidents we observed", concluded the scientists.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Associated Press<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><<A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061201266.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061201266.html</FONT></SPAN></A>><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>article describing the report has appeared in over 125 newspapers worldwide. <A href="http://tinyurl.com/q8l28"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/q8l28</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> ********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Alaska Coastal Villages Face Costly and Rapid Relocation</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In response to a Congressional request, the Army Corps of Engineers has issued a report detailing relocation needs for seven Alaska coastal communities.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many communities on Alaska's western and northern coasts are being seriously threatened by global warming, for four reasons: 1) melting permafrost; 2) more intense storms; 3) less buffering from sea ice; and 4) rising sea level.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The report estimates that Shishmaref, Kivalina and Newtok have only 10 to 15 years left at their present storm-battered locations,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and predicts that it will cost as much as $355 million to move them.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stanley Tom, tribal liaison for Newtok noted: "I'd like to tell the Corps they're wrong about the timing. It's way off, 100 percent off. We have only three to four more years here." (Anchorage Daily News 6/11/06) (summarized by Deborah Lee Williams & Associates)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> ********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Arctic Dips As Global Waters Rise</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Arctic sea level has been falling by a little over 2mm a year - a movement that sets the region against the global trend of rising waters. "We have high confidence in the results; it's now down to the geophysics community to explain them," said Dr Remko Scharroo, from consultants Altimetrics LLC, who led the study.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>...Next year has been designated International Polar Year, and major oceanographic expeditions are planned to take research vessels into the northern region to sample its icy waters.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"This may provide clues as to what is causing the changes we're seeing," explained co-researcher Dr Seymour Laxon, from University College London (UCL). "I think it's a true statement to say the Arctic Ocean is the least well understood body of water out there."<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The recent trend could be linked to changes in the temperature and salinity (saltiness) of Arctic waters. This would have to be investigated, he said.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Full article: <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5076322.stm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5076322.stm</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Taking Evolution's Temperature: Researchers Pinpoint The Energy It Takes To Make A Species</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>EurekAlert: GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Comfortable living is not why so many different life forms seem to converge at the warmer areas of the planet. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Writing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say higher temperatures near the equator speed up the metabolisms of the inhabitants, fueling genetic changes that actually lead to the creation of new species.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The finding - by researchers from the University of Florida, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Harvard University and the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque - helps explain why more living species seem to exist near the equator, a scientific observation made even before naturalist Charles Darwin set sail to South America on the H.M.S. Beagle nearly two centuries ago.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may also have a bearing on concepts such as global warming and efforts to preserve diversity of life on Earth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"We've shown that there is indeed a higher rate of evolutionary change in the form and structure of plankton in the tropics and that it increases exponentially because of temperature," said James Gillooly, Ph.D., an assistant professor of zoology with the UF Genetics Institute. "It tells us something about the fundamental mechanisms that shape biodiversity on the planet."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Speciation - when animals or plants actually evolve into a new species - occurs when life forms with a common ancestor undergo substantial genetic change. Using a mathematical model based on the body size and temperature-dependence of individual metabolism, the researchers made specific predictions on rates of speciation at the global scale. Then, using fossils and genetic data, they looked at rates of DNA evolution and speciation during a 30-million-year period in foraminifera plankton, a single-celled animal that floats in the ocean.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Researchers compared arrivals of new species of this type of plankton with differences in ocean temperatures at different latitudes ranging from the tropics to the arctic. The results agreed closely with predictions of their model.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"It takes more energy than all the fossil fuel people burn on the planet in a year to form one new species of plankton," said Andrew Allen, Ph.D., the study's lead researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "In terms of conservation, this really highlights that biodiversity does have a price, and the price is very high."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To put a number on it, it takes about 10 to the 23rd power - that is a 1 followed by 23 zeros - of energy units called joules to generate a new species of foraminifera plankton.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"From a scientific perspective, we can now quantify biodiversity in terms of energy," Allen said. "This will help efforts to identify and model areas for protection and conservation."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By observing changes in a unicellular animal whose body temperature varies according to its surroundings, as opposed to a mammal, which regulates a constant body temperature, scientists could more precisely measure rates of speciation caused by the environment. In the end, it is individual metabolic rate - how fast an organism burns food relative to its body weight - that primarily determines evolutionary rate. And higher environmental temperatures help increase metabolism.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Diversity is the hallmark of the living. Understanding the principles underlying the generation and maintenance of diversity will allow us to understand life, and also how to preserve it," said Pablo Marquet, Ph.D., an associate professor and member of the Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, who was not involved in the research. "Changes in our environment, such as global warming, will not only affect the way the ecosystem functions, but also how life will evolve and hence how diversity is distributed across the planet."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of the novel insights in the paper is the finding that the energy required to produce a new species is a fixed quantity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"These authors are changing evolutionary biology, ecology and biogeography, putting them into a firm and quantitative foundation based on the first principles underlying individual metabolism," Marquet said.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><B>Thawing Permafrost Could Unleash Tons Of Carbon</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ancient roots and bones locked in long-frozen soil in Siberia are starting to thaw, and have the potential to unleash billions of tons of carbon and accelerate global warming, scientists said on Thursday. This vast carbon reservoir, contained in permafrost soil in northeastern Siberia, contains about 75 times more carbon than the amount released into the atmosphere each year by the burning of fossil fuels, the researchers said in a statement. ..."There's a huge pool of carbon, even more than people thought before, perhaps double the amount of carbon that we thought," said Schuur, one of the article's co-authors. "If you have twice as much carbon there, essentially in the future twice as much could be released into the atmosphere." <A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060615/ts_nm/environment_permafrost_dc"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060615/ts_nm/environment_permafrost_dc</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></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>2006-2007 INPE-IAI Research Internship Positions</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A program for research internship positions in Climate Variability in the Americas at Brazil’s Center for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies (CPTEC).<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) through the Center for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies (CPTEC) and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) announce 6 internship positions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>CPTEC´s mission is to be a leading weather and climate forecast center based on up to date scientific and technological capacity in order to continuously improve the meteorological information for the benefit of society. CPTEC started operations in 1994 and in addition to operations, research and development in numerical weather and climate forecasts, CPTEC represents a large investment in personnel capacity building, including 57 scientists with Doctorate and 62 with Master degrees of a total of almost 300 employees.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>IAI is an inter-governmental organization supported by 19 countries in the Americas dedicated to understanding global environmental change in the region. The Institute pursues the principles of scientific excellence, international cooperation, and the full and open exchange of scientific information relevant to global change. The IAI mission is to develop the capacity to understand the integrated impact of present and future global changes on regional and continental environments in the Americas and to promote collaborative research and informed action at all levels.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Internship Objectives:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To augment capacity building in global change research and to foster partnership and multinational collaboration with Latin American scientists. The internship program provides an opportunity for Masters, PhDs and young scientists to continue to pursue their research interest in global change and related sciences and to apply their training to research.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Internship Positions:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One time internship positions of 6 months duration to be developed at CPTEC in Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil. Internships must be related to the following science themes of global environmental change and must look at ways to promote multinational collaboration among Latin American countries.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Understanding Climate Change and Variability in the Americas:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tropical Atlantic Variability (TAV), El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and other forms of low-frequency climate variability.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ocean variability, including sudden climate change, and its influence on climate and weather of the surrounding continents.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Variability of the American Monsoon systems.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ocean/Land/Atmosphere interactions and Hydrology, including atmospheric mesoscale processes.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Global and regional changes in the water cycle.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Aerosol impact on climate change and variability.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climate change at regional scales: scenarios, impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climate changes in the past.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Development of the Americas component for a Global Observing System for climate.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Internships can be developed as a component of a Masters or a PhD program (sandwich type).<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Interns will have an appointed CPTEC adviser. CPTEC and IAI expect to develop collaboration with individuals and their home institutions based on the research developed during the internship program.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stipends and benefits:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A stipend of R$ 2000,00 /month during the 6 months of the internship and low cost accommodation;<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Travel support (round-trip airfare, travel insurance, visa fees, vaccines);<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Expert mentorship and the use of CPTEC research facilities (computer time, office facilities, etc);<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A notebook to provide access to CPTEC network and that interns can take home after the internship program to continue developing their research work.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Application requirements:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To have (or to be enrolled in) a Masters or PhD degree;<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To be a citizen or permanent resident of an IAI member country in Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela);<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To have the consent of their direct supervisor, employer or thesis adviser.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Application documents:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Curriculum Vitae;<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2 letters of reference;<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1 essay (3-5 pages maximum) describing research areas and internship proposal to be developed at CPTEC;<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Letter of agreement from supervisor/employer or academic advisor.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications may be submitted in English or Spanish.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Application deadline:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications and references must be submitted on line at the IAI Website: <A href="http://www.iai.int/TrainingOpportunities"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.iai.int/TrainingOpportunities</FONT></SPAN></A> by no later than June 16, 2006. All applications will be reviewed by IAI and CPTEC. Results of selection process will be announced by July 31st, 2006.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Incomplete applications will not be accepted.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Internships are supposed to start in second semester of 2006 and in 2007.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information about the IAI, please visit the website <A href="http://www.iai.int/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.iai.int</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information about CPTEC, please visit the website <A href="http://www.cptec.inpe.br">www.cptec.inpe.br</A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Earth Science, Logistics, and Outreach Terrainbases (EarthSLOT)– 1</B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>st</B></SPAN></FONT><B> Annual Virtual Globes Scientific Users Converence </B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As virtual globes, such as Google Earth, are becoming increasingly important, NSIDC is supporting the First Annual Virtual Globes Scientific Users Conference in Boulder, Colorado, on 10-12 July 2006.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For more information and to register, please see: <A href="http://www.earthslot.org/vgconference/index.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.earthslot.org/vgconference/index.php</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you have any questions, please contact NSIDC at <A href="mailto:nsidc@nsidc.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">nsidc@nsidc.org</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Meeting Announcement - Shelf-Basin Exchange at the Margins of the Arctic: IPY and Beyond</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>4th Shelf-Basin Interactions Pan-Arctic Meeting<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>26-29 September 2006 - Sopot, Poland<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information, please contact:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jackie Grebmeier, Director<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SBI Project Office<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>E-mail: <A href="mailto:jgrebmei@utk.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">jgrebmei@utk.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The U.S. Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Project Office and the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAS) are pleased to co-sponsor the 4th Shelf-Basin Interactions Pan-Arctic Meeting to be held in Sopot, Poland, on 26-29 September 2006. The meeting will be held at the Hotel Haffner with special events at the nearby IOPAS facility.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The goal of the SBI Pan-Arctic meetings is to encourage open discussion of arctic science in a forum that will foster international collaboration on topics relevant "to providing a clear understanding of the physical and biogeochemical connections between the arctic shelves, slopes, and deep basin. That understanding will in turn allow realistic assessment both of the potential responses of the arctic system to global change, and of the role of these interactive processes on the global system" (SBI Science Plan, 1998; <A href="http://sbi.utk.edu/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://sbi.utk.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>).<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The challenge to the 2006 meeting participants is to evaluate and coordinate developing circum-arctic studies of Shelf-Basin Exchange (SBE) for both the upcoming International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 and development of longer-term collaborative international efforts as planned under the umbrella of the International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC), Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), and the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP) II Working Group 5 (Arctic margins and gateways) science plan. To this end, the 4th SBI Pan-Arctic Meeting will focus on two sub-themes:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1. Evaluation of ongoing and planned circum-arctic shelf-basin exchange and boundary current studies as part of the "ARCTIC SNAPSHOT" approach developed for the IPY (see <A href="http://sbi.utk.edu/InternationalPolarYear.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://sbi.utk.edu/InternationalPolarYear.htm</FONT></SPAN></A>), and<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2. Coordination of short-term SBE IPY implementation planning activities with proposed longer-term efforts to better evaluate pan-arctic margin and gateways dynamics and environmental change ( see <A href="http://www.iasc.se/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.iasc.se</FONT></SPAN></A>/).<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The meeting format will include 10-15 invited plenary speakers and 30-35 additional participants to a maximum of 50 participants. There is a $100 USD (or EURO equivalent) registration fee to cover coffee breaks, lunches, and partial meeting expenses. Limited financial support may be available for young and/or emerging scientists.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information (meeting registration form, hotel information), please visit the meeting website at: <A href="http://sbi.utk.edu/meetingsites.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://sbi.utk.edu/meetingsites.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Training Opportunity - IAI-NCAR Colloquium - “Policy planning and Decision making involving Climate Change and Variability”</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>IAI-NCAR Colloquium. IAI and NCAR are pleased to announce their joint Colloquium on “Policy planning and Decision making involving Climate Change and Variability” (Sept. 11 – 22, 2006, National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, Colorado USA). Applications due <B>July 10, 2006</B><SPAN style="">.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For more information, visit <A href="http://www.iai.int/files/opportunities/iai/FinalAnnouncement_NCAR.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.iai.int/files/opportunities/iai/FinalAnnouncement_NCAR.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A> to visualize the announcement<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>Director of Climate Change Science, The Nature Conservancy, any large TNC office.</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>JOB TITLE: Director Of Climate Change Science<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>JOB FAMILY: Applied Scientists<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>JOB NUMBER: 6027<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>FLSA STATUS: Exempt<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>RELATED JOB TITLES: Director, Research Program<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Director of Climate Change Science provides technical and scientific leadership on climate change science and conservation strategies. They are charged with incorporating science-based assessments of climate-change impacts into all aspects of/ Conservation by Design./ She/he reports to the Director of the Global Climate Change Initiative and advises senior management on complex aspects of this broad and important program. The work encompasses the following functions:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lead a team that assesses risks and vulnerabilities of conservation targets to climate change at global, regional, and local scales.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Develop strategies for mitigating threats and facilitating adaptation to change, and communicate tools to TNC management and staff, to the global conservation community, TNC policy staff, and other decision makers.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lead development of a network of sites that will demonstrate field-based climate-adaptation strategies, serve as sentinels of climate-change effects, export best practices to other sites and programs, reinforce climate policy goals, and catalyze marketing and fundraising.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Work across global boundaries and collaborate with scientists/science community around the world to enhance conservation practices and establish TNC as a global leader in the integration of climate change science into conservation.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With the support of a team, identify and secure public and private funding for climate change science work at TNC.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Conduct original research; publish findings in scientific journals to add to the body of conservation science knowledge and support TNC conservation goals.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Strengthen use of science within TNC by ensuring that climate change science is integral to conservation planning from the outset, and considered as a component before pursuing large organizational strategies.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Master's degree in science-related field and 5-7 years experience or PhD and 3-5 years related experience<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Expert knowledge of current and evolving trends in relevant discipline(s) and regions<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Experience conceiving and implementing strategic initiatives.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Knowledge of advanced techniques to modify practices in area of expertise<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Advanced knowledge of species, natural communities, ecosystems, ecosystem processes, and their conservation needs<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Working knowledge of common software applications (e.g. Word, Excel, Web browsers) and ability to use provided computer technology to enhance the quality of work<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Communicating clearly via written, spoken, and graphical means in English and other relevant languages<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Successful experience in fundraising<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Peer-reviewed publication record<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>COMPLEXITY/PROBLEM SOLVING:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As an individual researcher or specialist, creates and/or improves techniques and procedures for complex projects independently<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Directs major program of strategic importance to the Conservancy through management of multi-disciplinary teams.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Diagnose complex problems and identify create solutions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cultivate the creative ideas of others to identify potential solutions to complex and less-defined problems. Experiment to find creative solutions - thinks out of the box.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Designs, implements, and directs complex and diverse projects, encompassing multiple programs and coordinating the work of other professionals inside and outside the organization. Incorporates cross-disciplinary knowledge to support program objectives.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>DISCRETION/LATITUDE/DECISION-MAKING:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maximum opportunity to act independently.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Decisions may bind the organization financially or legally.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Work checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than by directives of superiors.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>RESPONSIBILITY/OVERSIGHT - FINANCIAL & SUPERVISORY:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Manage multi-disciplinary administrative and professional staff, with responsibility for performance management, training and career development. Establish clear directions and set stretch objectives.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In supervisory capacity, plans, organizes, and directs assigned project programs. Supervises project staff of 2-5 Applied Scientists I-III and Science Technicians I-II<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Responsible for operating within budget guidelines to ensure sound financial performance. Develop and administer departmental budget and has authority to modify budget based on changing circumstances.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Establish and maintain optimal standards of performance for the department or program while controlling costs and administering budgets.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Responsible for ensuring that public and private funds are raised to meet program needs.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>COMMUNICATIONS/INTERPERSONAL CONTACTS:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Acts as a technical liaison to individuals within and outside TNC with responsibility to act indendepently regarding technical matters pertaining to his/her field<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ability to establish excellent working relationships with outside partners, state/local/federal agencies, land managers, private landowners and the academic community.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Leverages constructive and effective relationships inside and outside TNC<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Work effectively in high-tension situations and maintain composure under pressure. Diffuses high-tension situations comfortably<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Work and communicate effectively with a diverse group of people, including scientists, preserve staff, and others, providing and obtaining needed information<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Collaborates with a wide range of conservation partners to identify research needs, present technical concepts at national or international conferences, and support fieldwork<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Provides training for internal and external colleagues on ecological and conservational scientific principles<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ability to simplify and explain complex scientific data to general audiences<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL EFFORT:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Director of Climate Change Science may work in variable weather conditions, at remote locations, on difficult and hazardous terrain, and under physically demanding circumstances. These conditions may:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>require physical exertion and/or muscular strain<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>present possibility of injury<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>require long hours in isolated settings<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>LOCATION:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The location of the position is negotiable, but ideally will be in a TNC office of significant size. Strong relationships with leading universities or other climate change research institutions are encouraged. Location of the position may be influenced by this consideration.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please send CV and cover letter to:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Selma Garrido (<A href="mailto:sgarrido@tnc.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">sgarrido@tnc.org</FONT></SPAN></A>)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(703)841-7436<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Nature Conservancy is an Equal Opportunity Employer<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <B>Academic Coordinator, Institute of the Environment.</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>University of California at Los Angeles.</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Institute of the Environment at The University of California at Los Angeles is accepting applications from qualified applicants for the newly-created position of Academic Coordinator. This position plays a central role in planning and execution of the Institute's new undergraduate major in Environmental Science, as well as in environmental research, policy development and public outreach. This individual will be heavily involved with curriculum design, program coordination and promotion, establishment of student advising services, faculty and departmental coordination. The Academic Coordinator is the Institute liaison with campus departments, the College of Letters and Science, and the Academic Senate regarding the Interdepartmental Degree Program (IDP) in Environmental Science. The Coordinator will work collaboratively with a wide range of UCLA administrators, faculty, staff and students to assure effective strategic planning and execution among all concerned parties. Opportunities exist for teaching and engagement in personal research.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates should possess a Ph.D. degree with an emphasis in ecology and have knowledge and experience in the pedagogical issues related to interdisciplinary education, preferably in the Environmental Science area. Also required is a proven record of achievement, including teaching, research experience and obtaining funding through the competitive grant process.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA or University) is an equal employment opportunity employer.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How to Apply:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications will be accepted through June 23, 2006. Interested candidates may submit an application including cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, and the names and contact information for three references to: Ms. Bonnie Barclay, Assistant to the Director, Institute of the Environment, University of California at Los Angeles, P.O. Box 951496, La Kretz Hall, Suite 300, Los Angeles, California 90095-1496. Electronic applications may be submitted to:_ <A href="mailto:bbarclay@ioe.ucla.edu_"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">bbarclay@ioe.ucla.edu_</FONT></SPAN></A>. No phone calls will be accepted.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Assistant Professor in Political Science - The Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management - University of California, Santa Barbara, California</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (<A href="http://www.bren.ucsb.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.bren.ucsb.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, to start July 1, 2007. Applicants should possess a PhD or have completed all requirements for the degree by the time of appointment. Although the initial appointment will be without tenure, we encourage candidates who are currently assistant professors to apply.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We seek a scientist who is committed to research and teaching that brings the models, methods, and data of political science to bear on human-environment relations. The successful candidate will become a major player in the Bren School's research cluster on Governance for Sustainable Development and take an interest in collaborating with colleagues working in the areas of Environmental Economics and Corporate Environmental Management. Strong preference will be given to candidates whose existing or emerging research program engages with one or both of the School's research clusters dealing with the Sustainable Management of Water Resources and Ecological Sustainability. The successful candidate will have demonstrated skill in identifying and using methods suitable for the study of problems arising from human/environment interactions and is likely to have a high level of competence in statistical and quantitative methods.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Bren School is a graduate school providing rigorous, multi-disciplinary training in environmental science and management to Master's and PhD students. The faculty is drawn from the natural sciences, social sciences and management. Although this appointment will be wholly within the Bren School, a 0% affiliation with the Political Science Department is possible.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Send applications to: Political Science Search Committee, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131; e-mail <A href="mailto:polisci@bren.ucsb.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">polisci@bren.ucsb.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>; fax (805) 893-7612. Applications must include a curriculum vitae, names of three references, a statement of research interests and teaching experience, and copies of up to three publications or research papers. Applicants should arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly to the Search Committee.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For fullest consideration, all materials should be received no later than <B>September 1, 2006</B><SPAN style="">, although the position will remain open until filled.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We encourage applicants who would like to discuss the position at the 2006 APSA Conference to contact Professor Lorelei Moosbrugger (<A href="mailto:moosbrugger@polsci.ucsb.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">moosbrugger@polsci.ucsb.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>) before August 1st to arrange for a meeting.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including minorities, women, and persons with disabilities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The school is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <B>Marine Resource Management Instructor needed for Fall Semester 2006
- Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE)</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) seeks an Instructor for a Study Abroad Program in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. The program offers students a comprehensive semester abroad including four undergraduate courses and independent research. The position is a semester-long appointment. Responsibilities include: teaching Marine Resource Management, directing student research projects, participation in scientific and cultural excursions, providing diving support for the Coral Reef Ecology and Fundamentals of Scientific Diving courses and participating in center activities such as weekly cookouts. The course description can be found using the following link: <A href="http://ciee.org/program_search/program_detail.aspx?page=2&sec=1&program_id=1739&type=part"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://ciee.org/program_search/program_detail.aspx?page=2&sec=1&program_id=1739&type=part</FONT></SPAN></A>. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Qualifications: PhD preferred (ABDs are welcome to apply), scientific dive experience with a minimum of 50 dives, teaching experience, and a commitment to undergraduate field education. A stipend, travel expenses, housing and most meals are provided. Send CV, teaching philosophy statement and cover letter to <A href="mailto:rpeachey@ciee.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">rpeachey@ciee.org</FONT></SPAN></A>. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">CIEE is a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to helping people gain understanding, acquire knowledge, and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Research Position: Analytical Chemist - Ohio State University (USA)</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Ice Core Paleoclimatology Group at The Ohio State University (OSU) is seeking a scientist to join our research team and take responsibility for analyzing major, minor and trace chemical species in ice cores collected from polar and low-latitude ice fields. The group's goal is to reconstruct past atmospheric and climatic conditions with particular emphasis on volcanic history, biomass burning, and trace metal fluxes. Tasks include preparing samples under cold room and clean room conditions and conducting anion and cation analyses from ppm to ppt levels. Ion chromatography experience is essential. Other duties will include assisting graduate students in the laboratory on occasion, working with ice core group members on the interpretation of the chemical data, and preparing scientific manuscripts for publication, The potential exists for additional methods development that supports of the objectives of OSU's ice core paleoclimate reconstruction program.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Qualifications: Ph.D. in environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry or geochemistry is preferred, but an M.S. degree with at least three years of experience with ion chromatography may also be acceptable. The successful candidate should have a demonstrated ability and interest in contributing to scientific inquiry. To apply for this position please send your letter of interest and curriculum vitae to: Dr. Lonnie Thompson & Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson at The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar Research Center, 108 Scott Hall, 1090 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210. </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Post-Doc In Meso-Scale Air Quality Modeling - Western Kentucky University (USA)</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Western Kentucky University, Department of Geography and Geology is seeking applicants for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in applications of meso-scale model in air quality simulation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This position is funded by the USDA.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The position is available August 1, 2006 and expected to continue for several years pending budgetary approval and satisfactory performance evaluations.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Responsibilities:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Conducting research and writing papers for peer-reviewed journals.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Qualifications:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Must have a Doctoral Degree in Atmospheric Science, Science, Air Pollution Meteorology, Agricultural Meteorology, Geography, or in other related fields.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Must have strong oral and written communication skills.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Strong background in the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) is preferred.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Strong background in MM5, Eta, or other meso-scale models will also be considered.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Additional background in emission transport simulation will be a plus.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Must be able to move computers, connect computers with relevant accessories and upload software.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Must be able to think creatively and perform research duties.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be able to couple a meso-scale model with other emission models.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Expected Salary Range:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$35,000 - $39,000 annually.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications for employment will be accepted electronically only. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter with statement of professional goals, and up-to-date CV including list of publications, and names, addresses and daytime phone numbers of<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>three professional references.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please refer to the following website to apply: <A href="http://acsweb1.wku.edu/wkujobs"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://acsweb1.wku.edu/wkujobs</FONT></SPAN></A>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further assistance please call (270) 745-5934.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please reference requisition number S1224.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Additional questions can be forwarded to Dr. Rezaul Mahmood [e-mail: <A href="mailto:rezaul.mahmood@wku.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">rezaul.mahmood@wku.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>; phone# (270) 745-5979].<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To ensure full consideration please submit application materials by <B>July 15, 2006.</B><SPAN style=""> Position will remain open until filled.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply including women, minorities, persons with disabilities and disabled veterans.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Western Kentucky University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Job Opportunity for Climate Researcher - PartnerRe New Solutions Inc</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am responsible for the weather risk management unit of PartnerRe, a leading international reinsurer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are seeking to expand our quantitative capabilities in the weather unit and are searching for individuals for our climate research team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our unit underwrites weather risks around the world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our clients include energy companies, agribusinesses, construction companies, wind farms and emerging market governments exposed to drought, excessive precipitation, adverse temperatures, low annual wind speeds and windstorms.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The focus of our underwriting is to understand the physical forcing mechanisms behind the historical outcomes of climate with an ultimate objective of quantifying the distribution of outcomes of a given weather peril.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As such, we prefer researchers with experience in the study of climatology over meteorologists with an emphasis on forecasting.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ideal candidate would have an advanced degree, strong knowledge of the physical processes behind seasonal and extreme weather outcomes in temperature, precipitation and wind, an excellent background in weather time series analysis, experience in testing for non-stationarity in weather time series, good programming skills, a top performer and have a commercial mindset.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would appreciate any recommendations you might be able to make.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My contact details are below.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you!<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Brian Tobben, Vice President, Weather<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PartnerRe New Solutions Inc.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One Greenwich Plaza, 4th Floor<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Greenwich, CT<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>06830<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>phone:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>+1-203-485-4626<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>fax:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>+1-203-485-4627<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>mobile:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>+1-203-952-7759<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>email:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:brian.tobben@partnerre.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">brian.tobben@partnerre.com</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>web:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.partnerre.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.partnerre.com</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Earth System Modeling Support Position</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has an opening for a Physical or Earth Scientist (Master's level or above is desired, at least a Bachelor's is required) to provide computational and scientific support for the development and use of GFDL's Earth System Model (ESM). The starting salary will be between $38,378 and $67,202, depending on education level and experience. This is a government vacancy in the ZP Career Path and the 1301 Occupational Series. It will be filled at Pay Band Two, the equivalent of government grades GS-7-to GS-10, with known promotion potential to Pay Band Four, the equivalent of government grades GS-13 to GS-14. The goal of the work is to develop and use computer models that improve our understanding of natural climate, biogeochemical and ecological variability and anthropogenic interactions. The incumbent will serve in GFDL's Biospheric Processes Group as a member of a team responsible for the ongoing software support for the development, testing, and use of such models, including the coupling of various component sub-models (e.g., atmosphere, ocean, land, cryosphere, and biosphere) into an integrated ESM. The incumbent will perform and analyze model integrations to assess model suitability for scientific research and climate and Earth System product generation. The incumbent will have the opportunity to conduct research leading to the publication of scientific papers and participate in the design and construction of software for the efficient processing of model output for scientific analysis and public dissemination. Desired areas of experience include: background in one or more of the geosciences fields including atmospheric and/or oceanic sciences, geology or applied mathematics; diagnostic analysis, preferably using both model and observational data; strong computational skills, preferably with UNIX, Fortran 90, and parallel computer architectures; numerical modeling, preferably using atmospheric and/or oceanic general circulation models; ability to work in a team setting; good communication skill. This is a full time permanent position, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, located in Princeton, New Jersey. It includes paid sick leave, vacation, health insurance, and retirement. The Department of Commerce is an equal opportunity employer and does not condone or tolerate discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation. For more information and to apply visit: <A href="http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobID=44256293"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobID=44256293</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Postdoctoral Research Positions Available in 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.
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.
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>
Applications received by <B>July 1</B><SPAN style=""> 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>
<O:P></O:P></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"><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. Do not send attachments.</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;"> Moving? Send address changes to </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:dialog@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;">dialog@whitman.edu</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> or </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:disccrs@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;">disccrs@whitman.edu</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"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">**********</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Office for Earth System Studies Tel: 509-527-5948 </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Walla Walla, WA 99362</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:weiler@whitman.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">weiler@whitman.edu</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Programs for Recent PhDs </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://aslo.org/phd.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">http://aslo.org/phd.html</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""><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" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> DIALOG poster </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""><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" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> DISCCRS poster </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Workshop Report, Meeting the Needs of </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Graduates in a </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Changing Global Environment</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; 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