<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><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>08/04/2006</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></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<SPAN style=""> </SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B>RESOURCES</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>"The Future Oceans: Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour"</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Released by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) is now available for download at <A href="http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_sn2006_en.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_sn2006_en.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>NSF Geosciences Directorate Support for Postdoctoral Appointees and Graduate Students: Guidelines for Principal Investigators</B><SPAN style=""> (this Dear Colleague Letter mentions DIALOG/DISCCRS resource page -- be sure to check it out if you haven't already)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06038"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06038</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P> <SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B>FORUM</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>New York Times Editorial on NASA changes</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B>SCIENCE NEWS</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Former President Clinton Launches Clinton Climate Initiative</B><B></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see below)<B></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Reflecting Global Warming</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.scenta.co.uk/scenta/news.cfm?cit_id=990567&FAArea1=widgets.content_view_1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.scenta.co.uk/scenta/news.cfm?cit_id=990567&FAArea1=widgets.content_view_1</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Time to get serious about climate change</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>John P. Holdren, Alan I. Leshner - Sunday, July 30, 2006<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/07/30/EDG7BIQ76J1.DTL"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/07/30/EDG7BIQ76J1.DTL</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>New Report Says Human Tampering Threatens Planet's Life-Sustaining Surface</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=107127"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=107127</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Altered Oceans: A 5-Part Series from the LA Times</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Part I: A Primeval Tide of Toxins<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Part II: Sentinels Under Attack<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Part III: Dark Tides, Ill Winds<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Part IV: Sea Preserves a Plastic Plague\<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Part V: A Chemical Imbalance </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Media attacked for 'climate porn' (UK)</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5236482.stm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5236482.stm</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Warm Words" report: <A href="http://www.ippr.org.uk/ecomm/files/warm_words.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ippr.org.uk/ecomm/files/warm_words.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Extreme heat: Who is most likely to die?</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Public health professionals should pay particular attention to the elderly, diabetics and African Americans on days with extreme heat, such as during the current heat wave sweeping across much of the U.S. <A href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/hsop-ehw080406.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/hsop-ehw080406.php</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Amazonian drought - RealClimate discussion about an experiment that diverted rain over a 1-ha plot of rainforest.</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/08/amazonian-drought/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/08/amazonian-drought/</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Energy from the Restless Sea</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Performing High-Altitude Research on Global Warming</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>New Social Science Strategy - Harmful Algal Blooms</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(see below)</SPAN></FONT></B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B>SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>SMHI Course on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see below)<SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B>JOBS</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>National Science Foundation Social Scientist, AD-0101-03, Survey Statistician, AD-1530-03 OR Economist, AD-0110-03.</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/e20060117/e20060117.txt"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/e20060117/e20060117.txt</FONT></SPAN></A> - Annual salary ranges from $77,353 to $121,856. LOCATION: Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, Division of Science Resources Statistics, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.<O:P></O:P><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></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Forum</B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>New York Times Editorial on NASA changes</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>our editorial page, at least, followed up: <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Published: July 28, 2006<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At a time when global warming has become an overriding issue, NASA has been delaying or canceling programs that could shed light on how the climate changes. The shortsighted cutbacks appear to result from sharply limiting NASA’s budget while giving it hugely expensive tasks like repairing the stricken shuttle fleet, finishing construction of the space station, and preparing to explore the Moon and Mars. Something had to give, and NASA’s choices included research into how the planet’s climate is responding to greenhouse gas emissions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The agency’s shifting priorities may have been signaled by subtle changes in its mission statement this year, as described by Andrew Revkin in The Times. Although the agency had previously led off its goals with “to understand and protect our home planet,” a new mission statement reads simply, “To pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.”<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Agency officials note that sub-goal 3A still proposes to “study earth from space to advance scientific understanding and meet societal needs.” But earth studies seem to be in trouble.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The agency has canceled a deep space observatory to monitor solar radiation, water vapor, clouds, aerosols and other things important to climate change. It has delayed a mission with Japan to measure global precipitation, decided not to pay for a mission to measure soil moisture around the world, and reduced the money available to analyze data. Under Congressional pressure, the agency has reinstated a mission to study aerosols and solar radiation from orbit. But it has little money to do much else in coming years. A National Academy of Sciences panel warned that the nation’s system of environmental satellites was “at risk of collapse.”<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The problems in earth sciences are part of a broader slowdown in science missions as NASA tries to do too much with too little. NASA officials sometimes say that they are slowing the rate of growth in science budgets. But Congressional analysts say the agency cut its science spending in 2006 to cover unexpectedly expensive shuttle repairs. It now plans small increases that won’t keep up with inflation or bring spending back to previous levels for many years. One analyst likened NASA to a mugger who takes $100 from a victim and then returns $20 a year, telling the recipient to be thankful. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A Senate committee has approved $1 billion in emergency funds to reimburse programs that were cut to pay for the shuttle repairs. If that doesn’t fly, count home-planet studies and other science programs as a casualty of the administration’s insistence on completing the space station. </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Science News<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>Former President Clinton Launches Clinton Climate Initiative</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Press Release, August 1, 2006, Clinton Foundation Press Office<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>President Clinton, Mayor Ken Livingstone Announce Partnership Between Clinton Climate Initiative and Large Cities Climate Leadership Group<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Partnership Will Reduce Carbon Emissions and Increase Efficiency In Largest Cities Across the World<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Los Angeles, CA - President Clinton today launched the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a Clinton Foundation initiative dedicated to making a difference in the fight against climate change in practical and measurable ways.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>President Clinton was joined by London Mayor Ken Livingstone, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to announce the first project of CCI, a partnership between the Clinton Climate Initiative and the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group. The Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, chaired by the Mayor of London, is an organization comprised of most of the largest cities in the world that have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Urban areas are responsible for over 75% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Therefore reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in cities is fundamental to any effort to slow the pace of global warming.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"It no longer makes sense for us to debate whether or not the earth is warming at an alarming rate, and it doesn't make sense for us to sit back and wait for others to act," said President Clinton. "The fate of the planet that our children and grandchildren will inherit is in our hands, and it is our responsibility to do something about this crisis. The partnership between my Foundation and the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group will take practical and, most importantly, measurable steps toward helping to slow down global warming, and by taking this approach I think we can make a big difference. I commend Mayor Livingstone and the Large Cities Group for their leadership on this issue."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Last October, London convened a meeting of large cities to discuss cooperation on addressing global warming. The Large Cities Climate Leadership Group recognized the need for action and cooperation on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and pledged to work together towards that end.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone said: "There is no bigger task for humanity than to avert catastrophic climate change. The world's largest cities can have a major impact on this. Already they are at the centre of developing the technologies and innovative new practices that provide hope that we can radically reduce carbon emissions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Former President Clinton and his Foundation have proved that they can intervene decisively to make a real impact on one of the world's biggest problems, AIDS. On behalf of the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, I am delighted to be able to enter into this new partnership to rapidly accelerate cities' response to global warming. Our aim is simple - to change the world."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Clinton Climate Initiative will assist the large cities in the group in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing energy efficiency by using the same business-oriented approach that has made other Clinton Foundation initiatives successful. The Clinton Foundation has made a major contribution to the global fight against HIV/AIDS over the past four years by building efficient and effective systems for procurement and distribution of medicine and tests, thus drastically reducing the cost of treatment. More recently, the Clinton Foundation used the same business-oriented approach to make strides against childhood obesity, working with major beverage manufactures to take high-sugar drinks out of the nation's schools.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To enable partner cities to reduce energy use and green house gas emissions CCI will:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1. Create a purchasing consortium that will pool the purchasing power of the cities to lower the prices of energy saving products and accelerate the development and deployment of new energy saving and greenhouse gas reducing technologies and products. This will be similar to the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative total quality management approach that has substantially lowered AIDS drug prices for members of its purchasing consortium.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2. Mobilize the best experts in the world to provide technical assistance to cities to develop and implement plans that will result in greater energy efficiency and lower greenhouse gas emissions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>3. Create and deploy common measurement tools and internet based communications systems that will allow cities to establish a baseline on their greenhouse gas emissions, measure the effectiveness of the program in reducing these emissions and to share what works and does not work with each other.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many cities have worked individually to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions but most of these practices are not in widespread, systematic or coordinated use, thus greatly reducing their effectiveness. CCI will engage the largest cities in the world and allow them to be leaders for all cities by making the direct benefits from the purchasing consortium, technical assistance, and measurement and communication tools available to other cities throughout the world.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are a number of practical steps cities can take to increase efficiency and reduce emissions including:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-More energy efficient lighting for traffic and street lights.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-Building codes and practices that make use of more effective insulation, more energy efficient windows, more energy efficient heating and ventilation systems and more energy efficient lighting.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-More energy efficient municipal water and sanitation systems<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-Localized, cleaner electric generation systems<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-Use of bio-fuels or hybrid technologies for city buses, garbage trucks and other vehicles<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-Schemes to reduce traffic congestion<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-Reduction of emissions from city garbage dumps and the use of biomass to generate electricity<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-More intelligent design of electric grids both across the city and within office and municipal buildings<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The CCI-Large Cities partnership begins with 22 of the largest cities in the world participating - Berlin, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Caracas, Chicago, Delhi, Dhaka, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Rome, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Toronto, Warsaw and the partnership anticipates that many more cities will join over the next four to six months.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Contact: Clinton Foundation Press Office 212-348-0360</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Energy from the Restless Sea</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>from the New York Times (Registration Required)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>NEWCASTLE, England - There is more riding the waves here than surfers, thanks to a growing number of scientists, engineers and investors.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A group of entrepreneurs is harnessing the perpetual motion of the ocean and turning it into a commodity in high demand: energy. Right now, machines of various shapes and sizes are being tested off shores from the North Sea to the Pacific - one may even be coming to the East River in New York State this fall - to see how they capture waves and tides and create marine energy.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The industry is still in its infancy, but it is gaining attention, much because of the persistence of marine energy inventors, like Dean R. Corren, who have doggedly lugged their wave and tidal prototypes around the world, even during the years when money and interest dried up. Mr. Corren, trim and cerebral, is a scientist who has long advocated green energy and pushed through numerous conservation measures when he was chairman of the public energy utility for the city of Burlington, Vt.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/business/worldbusiness/03tides.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/business/worldbusiness/03tides.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/gdgez"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/gdgez</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Performing High-Altitude Research on Global Warming</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>from the San Francisco Chronicle<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stately corpses of bristlecone pine trees, some dead for 2,000 years but still refusing to lie down, stood watch last week as botanist Ann Dennis and a crew of naturalists stepped off plots on the shoulders of 14,246-foot White Mountain Peak near the Nevada border.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Working more than 10,000 feet above the sunbaked floor of the Owens Valley, the scientists were transforming one of California's highest mountaintops into a living laboratory of climate change.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dennis and her colleagues are part of a global network of mountain-climbing researchers, all using precisely the same methods to observe the impact of global warming at high altitudes on five continents simultaneously. "This is an international effort to deal with an international problem," Dennis said.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/02/BAGMOK9D6J1.DTL"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/02/BAGMOK9D6J1.DTL</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/egw96"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/egw96</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>New Social Science Strategy - Harmful Algal Blooms</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A new multi-agency report, "Harmful Algal Research and Response: A Human Dimensions Strategy," provides a detailed implementation plan for human dimensions research necessary to reduce the public health, sociocultural, and economic impacts of harmful algal blooms.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The report is an important first effort to stimulate and guide routine integration of public health, sociocultural, and economic researchers into national efforts to implement the President's U.S. Ocean Action Plan, the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments Act of 2004 (HABHRCA), and the National Plan for Algal Toxins and Harmful Algal Blooms (HARRNESS). Beyond HABs, the report serves as a framework for developing human dimensions research as a cross-cutting priority of ecosystem science supporting coastal and ocean resource management.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It substantially informs priorities of the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST) and Subcommittee on Integrated Management of Ocean Resources (SIMOR).<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The research strategy can be accessed electronically at: <A href="http://www.coastalscience.noaa.gov/stressors/extremeevents/hab/HDstrategy.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.coastalscience.noaa.gov/stressors/extremeevents/hab/HDstrategy.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For more information, please contact: Marybeth Bauer, Human Dimensions Research Coordinator, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, <A href="mailto:marybeth.bauer@noaa.gov"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">marybeth.bauer@noaa.gov</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></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>SMHI Course on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At SMHI, we are proud to announce the new course "Climate Change-Mitigation and Adaptation", scheduled for March 2007, as we have been commissioned by Sida to organise this International Training Programme.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A first set of information can be found on our web-site "<A href="http://www.smhi.se/en/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.smhi.se/en/</FONT></SPAN></A>" where you follow the link=> "Climate change training programme".<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>More and detailed information, incl application form, will become available on the same web-site in the later part of August 2006, information will also be disseminated through Swedish Embassies. Deadline for applications is November 15th, 2006. Check that your country is on the Sida list as eligible for participation before considering an application. Please send any questions regarding the course to => <A href="mailto:climate2007@smhi.se"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">climate2007@smhi.se</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The training programme is designed not only for hydrologists, meteorologists and climate change specialists, as a matter of fact main target group is persons that have managing or key positions related to national, regional or local community planning. </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">**************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler to distribute information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate-change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:phd@whitman.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">phd@whitman.edu</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. 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Susan Weiler, Ph.D. </SPAN></FONT></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" 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" 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;">Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961</SPAN></FONT></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" 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" 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></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:weiler@whitman.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; 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