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border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><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>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>9/15/2006</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</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B><I>RESOURCES</I></B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>U.S. NSF Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2007</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06604"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06604</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Carbon Value Analysis Tool (CVAT) Update</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> The CVAT v1.1 is a screening tool to help companies integrate the value of carbon dioxide emissions reductions into energy-related investment decisions The Excel based tool is available for free through World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Climate Northeast Partnership website: <A href="http://www.climatenortheast.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.climatenortheast.org</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></SPAN><B></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>"Climate Risk Management - Integrating Adaptation into World Bank Group Operations” - The World Bank - Executive Summary (new publication)<SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"></SPAN></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">h</SPAN><A href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/GLOBALENVIRONMENTFACILITYGEFOPERATIONS/Resources/Publications-Presentations/GEFAdaptationAug06.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">ttp://siteresources.worldbank.org/GLOBALENVIRONMENTFACILITYGEFOPERATIONS/Resources/Publications-Presentations/GEFAdaptationAug06.pdf</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 1 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Webconference and Online Workshop for Educators "Autosub Under Ice" College of Exploration,</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>18 September - 6 October 2006</B><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.coexploration.org/autosub"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.coexploration.org/autosub</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 2 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Global Warming Educational Initiative Launched: “Focus the Nation” Unveils Website, Tour of Colleges –January 31, 2007</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.focusthenation.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.focusthenation.org</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see RESOURCES 3 below)<O:P></O:P></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><I>SCIENCE NEWS</I></B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><B></B><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Union of Concerned Scientists Cartoon Competition</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://ucsaction.org/campaign/vote_now_for_science_idol/?qp_source=wacucs%5fhomearspotlig"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://ucsaction.org/campaign/vote_now_for_science_idol/?qp_source=wacucs%5fhomearspotlig</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>The Heat Is On - Global warming, it now seems, is for real.</B><SPAN style=""> (The Economist)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7852924"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7852924</FONT></SPAN></A>- <O:P></O:P><B></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Hurricane Breeding Grounds Heat Up</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B></B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr06128"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr06128</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Greenhouse Gas Bubbling From Melting Permafrost Feeds Climate Warming</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/geowissenschaften/bericht-70195.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/geowissenschaften/bericht-70195.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Report Links Global Warming </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <A href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/12/MNG5HL3S611.DTL"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/12/MNG5HL3S611.DTL</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/hp9h3"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/hp9h3</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 1 below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Arctic Sea Ice Diminished Rapidly in 2004 and 2005</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 2 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Humans Affect Sea Warming In Hurricane Zones: Study</B><SPAN style="">.<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://tinyurl.com/fxms6"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/fxms6</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 3 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Changes in Solar Brightness Too Weak to Explain Global Warming</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/ncfa-cis091106.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/ncfa-cis091106.php</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 4 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Study Considers Auto Industry And Consumer Behavior In Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions -Rochester Institute Of Technology Wins $2 Million National Science Foundation Grant</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 5 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Arctic Ice: It's Melting</B><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/2006/09/14/ICE.TMP&type=science"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/14/ICE.TMP&type=science</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN> <A href="http://tinyurl.com/evnob"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/evnob</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 6 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Diversity Up for Grad Students</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.cgsnet.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.cgsnet.org/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 7 below)<O:P></O:P></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><I>SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES</I></B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Ecological Change, Climate Variation Addressed at International Conference Sept. 20-24</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> URL : <A href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr06129"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr06129</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Final Announcement: International Climate Change Symposium – Washington DC (USA)</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B></B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.ir-symposia.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ir-symposia.com</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see MEETING 1 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B><I>JOBS</I></B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Lecturer in Glaciology - Application Deadline: Friday, 6 October 2006</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.swan.ac.uk/personnel/Vacancies/Academic/PostTitle,8404,en.asp"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.swan.ac.uk/personnel/Vacancies/Academic/PostTitle,8404,en.asp</FONT></SPAN></A> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Chair/Reader in Earth Systems Science/Climate Modelling - Application Deadline: Friday, 22 September 2006</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.swan.ac.uk/personnel/Vacancies/Academic/PostTitle,7259,en.asp"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.swan.ac.uk/personnel/Vacancies/Academic/PostTitle,7259,en.asp</FONT></SPAN></A> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Earth System Science/Climate Modelling - Application Deadline: Friday, 22 September 2006</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.swan.ac.uk/personnel/Vacancies/Academic/PostTitle,7260,en.asp"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.swan.ac.uk/personnel/Vacancies/Academic/PostTitle,7260,en.asp</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Asst. Profs. tenure-track - Graduate School of Geography - Clark University, Worcester, MA (USA)</B><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/phd.cfm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/phd.cfm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.clarku.edu/departments/ES/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.clarku.edu/departments/ES/</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 1 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Asst. Prof. tenure track - Physical Geography - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (USA)</B><SPAN style=""> <A href="http://www.geog.utah.edu/~hmiller/documents/2006-physical_geographer.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.geog.utah.edu/~hmiller/documents/2006-physical_geographer.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 2 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Asst. Prof tenure track - Land Change Science Component Of Human Dimensions Of Global And Regional Change, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS (USA)</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 3 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Asst. Prof tenure track - Geographic Information Sciences, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS (USA) </B><SPAN style="">(<A href="http://www.k-state.edu/giscommons/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.k-state.edu/giscommons/</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 4 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Asst. Prof tenure track - Physical Geographer With Expertise In Hydrology Or Biogeography, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS (USA) </B><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.kstate.edu/geography/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.kstate.edu/geography/</FONT></SPAN></A> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 5 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Postdoc/Visiting Scientist Program - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) - NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princton, NJ (USA)</B><SPAN style=""> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.vsp.ucar.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.vsp.ucar.edu</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 6 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Research Facilitator - Physical Climate Science, Department of Earth Sciences and Sub-Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics - Univ of Oxford (UK) </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/department/resfac.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.earth.ox.ac.uk/department/resfac.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see JOB 7 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Postdoc </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>- Atmospheric Dynamics - University of California, Irvine, CA </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>(USA)</B> <O:P></O:P></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 JOB 8 below) </SPAN></FONT></B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Postdoc. - The oceanic response to the North Atlantic Oscillation - LOCEAN/IPSL, University Paris VI, (FRANCE)</B> <A href="http://dynamite.nersc.no"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://dynamite.nersc.no</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr</FONT></SPAN></A>/<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 9 below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Postdoc. Research Scientist - Rossby Center, Swedish Meterological & Hydrological Institution (SWEDEN)</B><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.smhi.se"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.smhi.se</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (see JOB 10 below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Grad. Student - marine physiological ecology - Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama (USA)</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/rcarmichael/index.shtml"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/rcarmichael/index.shtml</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 11 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV></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"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Resources</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(RESOURCES 1)<B> "Climate Risk Management - Integrating Adaptation into World Bank Group Operations” - The World Bank - Executive Summary (new publication) </B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/GLOBALENVIRONMENTFACILITYGEFOPERATIONS/Resources/Publications-Presentations/GEFAdaptationAug06.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://siteresources.worldbank.org/GLOBALENVIRONMENTFACILITYGEFOPERATIONS/Resources/Publications-Presentations/GEFAdaptationAug06.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climate change is already taking place, and further changes are inevitable. Developing countries, and particularly the poorest people in these countries, are most at risk. The impacts result not only from gradual changes in temperature and sea level but also, in particular, from increased climate variability and extremes, including more intense floods, droughts, and storms. These changes are already having major impacts on the economic performance of developing countries and on the lives and livelihoods of millions of poor people around the world. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climate change thus directly affects the World Bank Group’s mission of eradicating poverty. It also puts at risk many projects in a wide range of sectors, including infrastructure, agriculture, human health, water resources, and environment. The risks include physical threats to the investments, potential underperformance, and the possibility that projects will indirectly contribute to rising vulnerability by, for example, triggering investment and settlement in high-risk areas. The way to address these concerns is not to separate climate change adaptation from other priorities but to integrate comprehensive climate risk management into development planning, programs, and projects. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While there is a great need to heighten awareness of climate risk in Bank work, a large body of experience on climate risk management is already available, in analytical work, in country dialogues, and in a growing number of investment projects. This operational experience highlights the general ingredients for successful integration of climate risk management into the mainstream development agenda: getting the right sectoral departments and senior policy makers involved; incorporating risk management into economic planning; engaging a wide range of nongovernmental actors (businesses, nongovernmental organizations, communities, and so on); giving attention to regulatory issues; and choosing strategies that will pay off immediately under current climate conditions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are several ways in which the World Bank Group can continue helping its clients better manage climate risks to poverty reduction and sustainable development:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(1) Integrating climate risk management into the project cycle, by adopting early risk identification (for instance by applying a quick and simple risk-screening tool) and following up throughout the design process if necessary. (2) Integrating climate risk management into country and sector dialogues, especially in countries and sectors that are particularly vulnerable. (3) Enhancing internal support for and coordination of climate risk management by, for example, expanding analytical work and capacity for cross-support by the Global Climate Change Team and the Hazard Management Unit of the World Bank and by actively developing climate risk management activities within regional departments. (4) Supporting the establishment of proper financing mechanisms for adaptation, using, for example, the Investment Framework for Clean Energy and Development. New funding mechanisms created under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and being made operational by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), as well as the Kyoto Protocol, should be used to leverage maximum adaptation results within the Bank’s broad range of development activities and investments.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By enhancing climate risk management, the World Bank Group will be able to address the growing risks from climate change and, at the same time, make current development investments more resilient to climate variability and extreme weather events. In that way, climate risk management will not only guard the Bank’s investments in a changing climate but will also improve the impact of development efforts right now. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maarten van Aalst<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>( <A href="mailto:maarten.vanaalst@xs4all.nl"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">maarten.vanaalst@xs4all.nl</FONT></SPAN></A> )<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Paulus Potterstraat 12, 3583 SN Utrecht, the Netherlands.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>tel +31 30 2544413<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>mob +31 6 15086199<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>skype mkvaalst<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(RESOURCES 2) <B>Webconference and Online Workshop for Educators "Autosub Under Ice" College of Exploration,</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>18 September - 6 October 2006</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.coexploration.org/autosub"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.coexploration.org/autosub</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Educators are invited to participate in a three week long webconference and online workshop that will focus on the science, technology, and engineering of the Autosub Under Ice Programme from 2000 to 2006.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Autosub is a long range, deep diving, autonomous underwater vehicle. It can carry a wide variety of physical, biological, and chemical sensors to provide scientists with the capability to monitor the oceans in ways not possible with conventional research ships. More information about Autosub is available online at: <A href="http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/aui/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/aui/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Autosub Under Ice (2000-2006) tackled science questions of global importance and relevance, using innovative technology to obtain information from beneath floating ice in some of the most hostile parts of the world's oceans.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This webconference and online workshop will provide an opportunity for educators of all ages to learn about this cutting edge science and technology directly from the scientists and engineers who participated in the program.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New discoveries will be shared, including unique pictures of the underside of sea ice, details of the rate of thinning of the ice, and the composition of water collected from under the ice to name just a few. The presentations will be available in a variety of formats and resources and lesson plans will be provided. Please note that participation is free of charge. Graduate credit, however, is available through Ashland University for a fee. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information and to register, please go to: <A href="http://www.coexploration.org/autosub"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.coexploration.org/autosub</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information, please contact:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Peter Tuddenham<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>E-mail: <A href="mailto:peter@coexploration.net"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">peter@coexploration.net</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(RESOURCES 3) <B>Global Warming Educational Initiative Launched: “Focus the Nation” Unveils Website, Tour of Colleges –January 31, 2007</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.focusthenation.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.focusthenation.org</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Portland, OR—A major new educational initiative on global warming is live today on the Internet. Focus the Nation will involve over 1000 universities, colleges and high schools in nationwide, simultaneous one-day symposia that will explore the challenge of “Stabilizing the Climate in the 21st Century”.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Post Katrina, and with 2006 on track to be the hottest year on record, Americans are getting seriously worried about global warming”, said Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, and author of the book Boiling Point. “Focus the Nation will generate a critically-needed, non-partisan, national dialogue about the bold steps we have to take if we are going to stabilize the climate.”<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Students, faculty and staff can sign their schools up to participate at <A href="http://www.focusthenation.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.focusthenation.org</FONT></SPAN></A>. “Although we are working mostly with high schools and up, we also welcome participation by middle school and elementary school teachers” said Project Director, Dr. Eban Goodstein, Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark College. In fact, building from a base in educational institutions, Focus the Nation is also encouraging involvement by faith and civic organizations, businesses, and cities and towns. “The decisions we make over the next decade to either stabilize global warming pollution-- or not-- will profoundly impact our children’s future. We owe our young people a truly national day of focused conversation about global warming solutions,” said Goodstein.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The symposia are scheduled for January 31st, 2008. The date falls in between the New Hampshire and Super Tuesday political primaries, and Focus the Nation organizers expect that with several million students nationwide discussing global warming solutions, political candidates and elected officials from all parties will join the dialogue.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To launch the effort, Goodstein is touring campuses across the country—including stops in the next few weeks at Columbia, Yale, U Mass Amherst, SUNY Albany, Boise State, and the University of Arizona. Regional launch events will be held on September 30th at Middlebury College in Vermont; October 6th at Arizona State University; November 18that the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee; and on December 9th at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. A complete schedule can be found on the project web site at <A href="http://www.focusthenation.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.focusthenation.org</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Focus the Nation intends to spark discussion about practical solutions to stabilizing the climate. An important part of the educational mission is being shouldered by the project’s business partners, including Clif Bar and Stonyfield Farm. “There are important lessons to be learned from companies that have been successfully reducing their footprint on the planet, while also gaining strength in the marketplace.” said Goodstein.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Focus the Nation advisory board includes Dr. Bunyan Bryant, School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan; Senator Gary Hart (D-CO); Denis Hayes, Earth Day founder and President of the Bullitt Foundation; Hunter Lovins, President of Natural Capitalism, Inc; Dr. William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy at Tufts University; Dr. David Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies at Oberlin College; Billy Parish, Director of Energy Action; the Honorable Claudine Schneider, former member of Congress (R-RI), and Dr. James “Gus” Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.<O:P></O:P></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"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Science News</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 1) <B>Report Links Global Warming </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/12/MNG5HL3S611.DTL"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/12/MNG5HL3S611.DTL</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/hp9h3"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/hp9h3</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>San Francisco Chronicle - Scientists say they have found what could be the key to ending a yearlong debate about what is making hurricanes more violent and common – evidence that human-caused global warming is heating the ocean and providing more fuel for the world's deadliest storms.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Employing 80 computer simulations, scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other institutions concluded that there is only one answer: that the burning of fossil fuels, which warms the climate, is also heating the oceans.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Humans, Ben Santer, the report's lead author, told The Chronicle, are making hurricanes globally more violent "and violent hurricanes more common" – at least, in the latter case, in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The findings were published Monday in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 2)<B>Arctic Sea Ice Diminished Rapidly in 2004 and 2005</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>WASHINGTON - The Arctic Ocean's perennial sea ice, which survives the summer melt season and remains year-round, shrank abruptly by 14 percent between 2004 and 2005, according to a newly published study. Researchers found that the loss of perennial ice in the East Arctic Ocean, above Europe and Asia, neared 50 percent during that time as some of the ice moved to the West Arctic Ocean, above North America.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The overall decrease in winter Arctic perennial sea ice totaled 730,000 square kilometers [280,000 square miles]--an area the size of Texas. Perennial ice can be three meters [10 feet] thick, or more. It was replaced in the winter by new, seasonal ice, which was only about 0.3 to two meters [one to seven feet] thick and more vulnerable to summer melt. The study was funded by NASA. The research was published 7 September in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The decrease in perennial ice raises the possibility that Arctic sea ice will retreat to another record low extent this year. This follows four summers of very low ice-cover, as observed by active and passive microwave instruments aboard NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite, the researchers report.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A team of seven scientists, led by Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used satellite data to measure the extent and distribution of perennial and seasonal sea ice in the Arctic. While the total area of all Arctic sea ice was stable in winter, the distribution of seasonal and perennial sea ice changed significantly.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Recent changes in Arctic sea ice are rapid and dramatic," said Nghiem. "If the seasonal ice in the East Arctic Ocean were to be removed by summer melt, a vast ice-free area would open up. Such an ice-free area would have profound impacts on the environment, as well as on marine transportation and commerce."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The researchers are examining what caused the rapid decrease in the perennial sea ice. Data from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction in Boulder, Colorado, suggest that winds pushed perennial ice from the East to the West Arctic Ocean and moved ice through the Fram Strait, a deep passage between Greenland and Spitsbergen, Norway. This movement of ice out of the Arctic is a different mechanism for ice shrinkage than the melting of Arctic sea ice, but it produces the same result: a reduction in the amount of perennial Arctic sea ice.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The researchers say that if the sea ice cover continues to decline, the surrounding ocean will warm, further accelerating summer ice melts and impeding fall freeze-ups. This longer melt season will, in turn, further diminish the Arctic ice cover.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nghiem cautioned that the recent Arctic changes are not well understood and that many questions remain. "It's vital that we continue to closely monitor this region, using both satellite and surface-based data," he said.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">***************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 3) <B>Humans Affect Sea Warming In Hurricane Zones: Study</B><SPAN style="">.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://tinyurl.com/fxms6"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/fxms6</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricanes feed on warm water, and a study released on Monday shows a link between warmer ocean temperatures and human use of fossil fuels, challenging skeptics who blame them on natural climate cycles.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Our paper suggests that it's human-induced burning of fossil fuels that have altered the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that have led to this warming in regions where Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes form," said Benjamin Santer, a climate scientist and co-author of an article in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Santer and his colleagues focused on these hurricane zones, and used computer models to figure out what the world would have been like if the Industrial Revolution had never happened. That way, they could compare what Earth is like now with what all available computer models -- 22 of them -- indicate it would have been like if humans had never burned fossil fuels, Santer said in a telephone interview.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The question of whether humans cause global warming is a subject of heated debate among scientists, but there is general agreement that warm sea surface temperatures in hurricane zones contribute to hurricane intensity.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Santer and the other researchers found only a combination of human-made and natural climate influences could account for the rise in sea surface temperatures by about 1 degree F (between 0.32 to 0.67 degrees Celsius) over the last century.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The scientists estimated an 84 percent chance that at least two-thirds of the sea surface temperature increase were due to human activity.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They started work on the project soon after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast a year ago, said Santer, who is based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The 22 computer models in the laboratory's international archive were necessary, since it is impossible to directly observe what Earth's climate might be without modern industry, he said.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Santer questioned U.S. government statements in 2005 that rising global temperatures were due entirely to natural fluctuations.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His study did not deal with questions raised by Chris Landsea of the U.S. National Hurricane Center about whether there has actually has been an dramatic increase in hurricane intensity in recent years. Landsea said the historical record is unreliable. Santer and his colleagues did not address the historical hurricane intensity record.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="">********************<BR></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 4) <B>Changes in Solar Brightness Too Weak to Explain Global Warming</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/ncfa-cis091106.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/ncfa-cis091106.php</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>BOULDER---Changes in the Sun's brightness over the past millennium have had only a small effect on Earth's climate, according to a review of existing results and new calculations performed by researchers in the United States, Switzerland, and Germany.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The review, led by Peter Foukal (Heliophysics, Inc.), appears in the September 14 issue of Nature. Among the coauthors is Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. NCAR's primary sponsor is the National Science Foundation.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Our results imply that, over the past century, climate change due to human influences must far outweigh the effects of changes in the Sun's brightness," says Wigley. Reconstructions of climate over the past millennium show a warming since the 17th century, which has accelerated dramatically over the past 100 years. Many recent studies have attributed the bulk of 20th-century global warming to an increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Natural internal variability of Earth's climate system may also have played a role. However, the discussion is complicated by a third possibility: that the Sun's brightness could have increased.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The new review in Nature examines the factors observed by astronomers that relate to solar brightness. It then analyzes how those factors have changed along with global temperature over the last 1,000 years.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Brightness variations are the result of changes in the amount of the Sun's surface covered by dark sunspots and by bright points called faculae. The sunspots act as thermal plugs, diverting heat from the solar surface, while the faculae act as thermal leaks, allowing heat from subsurface layers to escape more readily. During times of high solar activity, both the sunspots and faculae increase, but the effect of the faculae dominates, leading to an overall increase in brightness.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The new study looked at observations of solar brightness since 1978 and at indirect measures before then, in order to assess how sunspots and faculae affect the Sun's brightness. Data collected from radiometers on U.S. and European spacecraft show that the Sun is about 0.07 percent brighter in years of peak sunspot activity, such as around 2000, than when spots are rare (as they are now, at the low end of the 11-year solar cycle). Variations of this magnitude are too small to have contributed appreciably to the accelerated global warming observed since the mid-1970s, according to the study, and there is no sign of a net increase in brightness over the period.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To assess the period before 1978, the authors used historical records of sunspot activity and examined radioisotopes produced in Earth's atmosphere and recorded in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. During periods of high solar activity, the enhanced solar wind shields Earth from cosmic rays that produce the isotopes, thus giving<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">scientists a record of the activity.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The authors used a blend of seven recent reconstructions of Northern Hemisphere temperature over the past millennium to test the effects of long-term changes in brightness. They then assessed how much the changes in solar brightness produced by sunspots and faculae (as measured by the sunspot and radioisotope data) might have affected temperature. Even though sunspots and faculae have increased over the last 400 years, these phenomena explain only a small fraction of global warming over the period, according to the authors.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indirect evidence has suggested that there may be changes in solar brightness, over periods of centuries, beyond changes associated with sunspot numbers. However, the authors conclude on theoretical grounds that these additional low-frequency changes are unlikely.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"There is no plausible physical cause for long-term changes in solar brightness other than changes caused by sunspots and faculae," says Wigley.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apart from solar brightness, more subtle influences on climate from cosmic rays or the Sun's ultraviolet radiation cannot be excluded, say the authors. However, these influences cannot be confirmed, they add, because physical models for such effects are still too poorly developed.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 5) <B>Study Considers Auto Industry And Consumer Behavior In Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions -Rochester Institute Of Technology Wins $2 Million National Science Foundation Grant </B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tougher environmental policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. transportation sector will affect more than the production of cars and light trucks. Changes throughout the automotive industry will impact consumer behavior and the environment in uncertain ways.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In an effort to predict the ripple effect of environmental policies, researchers James Winebrake, from Rochester Institute of Technology, and Steven Skerlos, from the University of Michigan, are creating a computer-based program for policymakers and analysts to evaluate the impact of future scenarios.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Funded by $2 million from the National Science Foundation's Materials Use: Science, Engineering and Society (MUSES) program, the five-year study will build and link computer models to understand the consumer and industry response to policy decisions, and how the state of the market impacts the environment. The software program will enable analysts to predict the complicated market dynamic between consumers and producers by constructing scenarios.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For instance, a scenario may consider an increase in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, one of the major tools or regulations government can use to force car companies to produce cleaner, more efficient vehicles.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"For 20 years the standards have remained flat until Bush's recent small increase," says Winebrake, chair of Science Technology and Society/Public Policy at RIT. He adds: "If the government passes higher CAFE standards, how will the auto industry respond to using new technology and producing new vehicles? How will consumers respond to the safety, performance and aesthetics of these new vehicles? How will those decisions play out in the market and with what environmental impact?"<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These scenarios also will consider such variables as the amount of production material necessary to meet new regulations as well as the environmental impact associated with the whole production of the vehicle, its use and disposal. Predicting the life cycle of a vehicle can illuminate unintended consequences in policymaking when one action negatively affects something else.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Such a scenario might be that car owners choose to keep their old vehicles longer, producing more pollution for a longer time. Or, perhaps, the production of cleaner cars would introduce environmental problems that would make it a dirtier alternative. Considering intended and unintended environmental impacts will give analysts valuable information they didn't have before.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Right now policy analysts are working in the dark with greenhouse gas emissions," Winebrake says. "They lack the tools to effectively track the impact of policies."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The interdisciplinary study will draw upon economics, environmental science, manufacturing issues, public policy and software engineering using advanced computer modeling techniques. In addition to RIT and UM, the team will include researchers from Northeastern University and the University of California at Berkeley.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">(NEWS 6) <B>Arctic Ice: It's Melting</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/14/ICE.TMP&type=science"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/14/ICE.TMP&type=science</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN> <A href="http://tinyurl.com/evnob"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/evnob</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The San Francisco Chronicle -- The vast expanses of ice floating in the Arctic Sea are melting in winter as well as in the summer, likely because of global warming, NASA scientists said Thursday.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"This is the strongest evidence yet of global warming in the Arctic,'' said Josefino Comiso, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And if the ice continued to melt at the current rate, Comiso said, it could have profound effects on all life in the Arctic and other consequences around the world.<O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*******************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 7) <B>Diversity Up for Grad Students</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.cgsnet.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.cgsnet.org/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The enrollment of graduate students increased by 2 percent — to more than 1.5 million — from 2004 to 2005, according to a report released today by the <A href="http://www.cgsnet.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Council of Graduate Schools.</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While the 2 percent increase is modest, data in the report suggest that those in the pool of faculty candidates in the future may be less likely to be white males than they are today. The enrollment increase for women outpaced that for men, 3 percent to 1 percent, leading to a one percentage point increase in the overall female share of the grad student population, to 58 percent. The gender gap is particularly pronounced among black graduate students, 71 percent of whom are female.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Underrepresented minority groups also saw healthy increases, although their total share continues to lag. Black enrollment was up 6 percent. First-time Hispanic enrollment was up 10 percent. And these increases took place during a period in which many universities found themselves being forced to change the rules on fellowships for minority graduate students, facing threats that they might be sued if they didn’t do so.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Also notable in the data are increases for black and Hispanic graduate students in selected science and technology fields where their numbers have been extremely low. Black enrollment was up 11 percent in engineering and Hispanic enrollment was up 16 percent in the biological sciences, for instance.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The study also confirmed reports previously conducted by the council projecting a rebound for international graduate enrollments. First-time enrollment of foreign graduate students was up 4 percent in 2005, the first increase in four years. Total international enrollment was down slightly (-1 percent), but it had been falling by larger percentages in recent years. Foreign enrollment levels are crucial for certain fields, as non-American students make up 48 percent of those in engineering programs and 40 percent in the physical sciences.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Debra Stewart, president of the Council of Graduate Schools, called the minority figures “the most encouraging of the numbers,” and she noted the importance of this progress for creating future faculty members. “This is the pool,” she said.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While she was pleased with the progress, she said that it was clear that “a lot needs to be done” for colleges to continue both to attract more students to graduate study and to diversify their student bodies. She said that one important thing universities need to do is show minority students “a clear career path” for pursing graduate education. For those from families without a lot of money or who are the first in their families to go to college, it’s vital that people see the opportunities — in and out of academe — available to those with graduate degrees.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The University of Washington provides an example of how colleges are making progress. Underrepresented minority students make up about 8 percent of graduate students there, 50 percent more than five years ago. Suzanne Ortega, vice provost and graduate dean, said that the progress is now starting to take off, and that a wide range of strategies are being used. The graduate program is trying to recruit more undergraduates, promoting research careers in local schools, and creating new partnerships.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For instance, Washington’s materials research center started a partnership with Norfolk State University, a historically black college clear across the country, more than two and a half years ago. There have been faculty and student exchanges, joint research projects, and many other activities. This fall, three Norfolk State graduates are enrolling in the doctoral program at Washington.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Our approach has been to create partnerships and also to give them time to flourish,” Ortega said. “These things have a life of their own,” she said. “If you attract a cohort of students, and provide them with the mentoring they deserve, they will be doing a lot of recruiting for you.”<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(MEETING 1) <B>Final Announcement: International Climate Change Symposium – Washington DC (USA)</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://www.ir-symposia.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ir-symposia.com</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>TITLE: Death by a Thousand Coasts: the Ethics of Climate Change<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ORGANIZERS: Inter-Research Science Center, Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany & Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>DATE: 24-27 November 2006<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>LOCATION: Washington, D. C. (USA), The Melrose Hotel<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>DEADLINES: Early Registration & Abstracts: 30 September 2006.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Late registration: 24 November 2006<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SYMPOSIUM FEES: US$ 350 per delegate; US$ 250 per student residing at symposium venue; US$ 150 per student attending day lectures only<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: <A href="http://www.ir-symposia.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ir-symposia.com</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SESSIONS & KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(1) Earth Systems & Climate Change: Mark Pagani (Yale) Geologic Past; James McCarthy (Harvard) Next 100 y; (2) Climate Change & Human History: Daniel Sandweiss (Maine) Human Adaptation; (3) Ecology & Biodiversity: Stuart Pimm (Duke) Biodiversity Effects; (4) Economics & Climate Change: Richard Howarth (Dartmouth) Economic Effects; (5) Ethics & Climate Change: Rock Ethics Institute (Penn. State) Discussion<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mary C. BATSON, EEIU Coordinator.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eco-Ethics International Union, Nordbuente 28, 21385 Oldendorf/Luhe, GERMANY<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tel: +49 (0) 4132 7127 / Fax: +49 (0) 4132 8883 / E:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:eeiu@eeiu.org">eeiu@eeiu.org</A> / URL: <A href="http://www.eeiu.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.eeiu.org</FONT></SPAN></A></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"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Jobs</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style="">Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Or, visit <A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/</FONT></SPAN></A> and click on 'Join this group' </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 1<B>) Asst. Profs. tenure-track - Graduate School of Geography - Clark University, Worcester, MA (USA)</B><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/phd.cfm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/phd.cfm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.clarku.edu/departments/ES/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.clarku.edu/departments/ES/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Graduate School of Geography seeks to fill <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><B><I>two</I></B></SPAN> positions with expertise in Earth Systems Science (ESS). Primary undergraduate responsibilities will reside in the School's ESS concentration in the new Environmental Science major at Clark (<A href="http://www.clarku.edu/departments/ES/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.clarku.edu/departments/ES/</FONT></SPAN></A>). Expertise and teaching proficiency in any ESS theme will be considered, including earth science, climate change, biodiversity, and landscape modeling. Graduate advising and research responsibilities will be linked to one or more of the School's graduate research foci, such as GIScience, remote sensing, or human-environment geography (<A href="http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/phd.cfm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/phd.cfm</FONT></SPAN></A>).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants are expected to pursue cutting-edge<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>scholarship at the nexus of environmental science and our linked graduate research foci, and be committed to securing extramural funding and engaging in team-based research. Strong undergraduate and graduate teaching, advising, and mentoring are a requisite in the "university college" tradition of Clark.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PhD required at time of appointment. Send CV, a detailed statement of professional experience and research and teaching interests, and contact information for three references to Ms. Jean Heffernan, Assistant to the Director, Graduate<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>School of Geography, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Positions start August 2007. Review of applications commences 15 October, 2006; applications will be accepted until the posts are filled. AA/EOE Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. MASSACHUSETTS, WORCESTER 01610 <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 2<B>) Asst. Prof. tenure track - Physical Geography - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (USA)</B><SPAN style=""> <A href="http://www.geog.utah.edu/~hmiller/documents/2006-physical_geographer.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.geog.utah.edu/~hmiller/documents/2006-physical_geographer.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level starting July 2007.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We seek a Physical Geographer interested in environmental change and specializing in: (1) Biogeography with a research emphasis in one or more of the following: past environments, climate change, dendrochronology or landscape analysis and modeling, or (2) Climatology with a research emphasis in<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>paleoclimatology or climate change.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The applicant’s research skills should complement current departmental strengths in paleoecology, wildfire, fire modeling, Quaternary geomorphology, glaciology, and remote sensing of vegetation and the cryosphere.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ability to teach Cartography is desirable, as is field experience, remote sensing, GIS, or spatial statistical skills.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(Job 3) <B>Asst. Prof tenure track - Land Change Science Component Of Human Dimensions Of Global And Regional Change, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS (USA)</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We seek a geographer with research interests in the. Individuals with research experience in the social drivers of land use and land cover change and/or in the modeling of land cover change are strongly encouraged to apply. Expectations include a commitment to the pursuit of extramural research grants and interdisciplinary collaboration with ecologists to help delineate feedbacks within human and ecological systems and associated changes in ecosystem goods and services. This is a new tenure-track faculty line which is partially supported by an interdisciplinary Ecological Forecasting grant from the National Science Foundation.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates should have completed a Ph.D. by the time of the January, 2008, appointment and be able to demonstrate a capability for high quality and effective classroom instruction. Teaching responsibilities will be two classes per semester (four per year), at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Candidates can expect to work with a wide range of constituencies and diverse student populations. Successful candidates will value diversity in all of its dimensions, employ innovative approaches in their research and teaching, and consider different technical and cultural perspectives to solving problems.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Send an application letter describing: your background, research interests, teaching qualifications, and how you see yourself contributing to the geography program at K-State. Additional documentation to include are: a curriculum vitae, evidence of scholarship, indicators of teaching effectiveness, and a list of names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of at least three referees. Send materials or direct questions to the address below. Apply: Dr. Doug Goodin, Search Committee Chair, Department of Geography, 118 Seaton Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2904. <B>Review of applications begins November 3, 2006</B><SPAN style="">, and will continue until the position is filled. Kansas State University is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks diversity among its employees. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*****************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 4) <B>Asst. Prof tenure track - Geographic Information Sciences, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS (USA) </B><SPAN style="">(<A href="http://www.k-state.edu/giscommons/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.k-state.edu/giscommons/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We seek candidates with expertise in the to further strengthen internationally recognized initiatives in agricultural biosecurity, ecological forecasting, rural geography and/or human dimensions of global change. Geographers whose research program addresses one or more of the Grand Challenges in Environmental Sciences and places emphasis on the spatial aspects of epidemiology, ecological forecasting, human-environment interactions, rural systems, agroecosystems, or natural/technological hazards, are strongly encouraged to apply. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates should have completed a Ph.D. by the time of the either January or August 2007 appointment, be able to demonstrate a capability for: development of a strong research program including extramural grant awards in one of our interest areas, establishment of an outstanding record of scholarly publications, and effective geospatial instruction. Candidates will work with a wide range of constituencies and diverse student populations and are expected to be involved in cross-campus collaboration involving the GIS Commons (<A href="http://www.k-state.edu/giscommons/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.k-state.edu/giscommons/</FONT></SPAN></A>). Teaching responsibilities will be two classes per semester (possibly 3 per year, with an appropriate level of grant activity), and include GISci instruction at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Successful candidates will value diversity in all of its dimensions, employ innovative approaches in their research and teaching, and consider different technical and cultural perspectives to solving problems. Evidence of, and a commitment to quality teaching, the pursuit of extramural research grants, and interdisciplinary collaboration are expected. This new tenure-track faculty line supports the Kansas State University Targeted Excellence program in GIScience Infrastructure Enhancement. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Send an application letter indicating your background qualification, research interests, teaching experience and interests, and how you see yourself contributing to the interdisciplinary GISci program at Kansas State University. Additional documentation to include are a curriculum vitae, evidence of scholarship and teaching effectiveness, and a list of names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of at least three referees to the contact person below. <B>Review of applications begins September 15, 2006</B> and will continue until the position is filled. Kansas State University is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks diversity among its employees<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apply to: Dr. Max Lu (<A href="mailto:maxlu@ksu.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">maxlu@ksu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>), Search Committee Chair, Department of Geography, 118 Seaton Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2904.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*******************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 5) <B>Asst. Prof tenure track - Physical Geographer With Expertise In Hydrology Or Biogeography, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS (USA) <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><A href="http://www.kstate.edu/geography/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.kstate.edu/geography/</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></SPAN></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">For this new faculty line, we seek to complement our existing areas of strength. Cutting-edge skills in GIS and/or quantitative modeling of spatial complexity are highly desirable, and applicants should have an appreciation for the study of coupled human and natural systems. Visit </SPAN><A href="http://www.kstate.edu/geography/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.kstate.edu/geography/</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> for information about the department.</SPAN></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. by the time of the August 2007 appointment, and be able to demonstrate the potential to develop a strong research program, including the pursuit of extramural research grants, collaborative research, and publication in highly-ranked journals. Candidates are expected to value diversity in all of its dimensions and consider different technical and cultural perspectives in solving problems appropriate to a land grant institution. Excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching and advising is expected, as is a commitment to work with a wide range of constituents and diverse student populations.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Submit an application letter that describes your qualifications and the contributions you could offer to the department. Please also provide a curriculum vita, evidence of scholarship and teaching effectiveness, a plan for extramural funding, plus names and contact information for three referees.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>Review of applications begins 15 October 2006</B><SPAN style=""> and will continue until the position is filled. Kansas State University is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks diversity among its employees. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apply to: Dr. Charles W. Martin, Search Committee Chair, Department of Geography, 118 Seaton Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2904.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 6) <B>Postdoc/Visiting Scientist Program - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) - NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princton, NJ (USA)</B><SPAN style=""> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.vsp.ucar.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.vsp.ucar.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is recruiting postdoctoral scientists and short-term senior visitors to work in Princeton at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) as part of the Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI).<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>GFDL conducts fundamental and applied oceanic and atmospheric research on a variety of problems of importance to society and central to NOAA's mission.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These problems include global climate change; hurricane prediction; modeling and prediction of El Nino and its influence on the global atmosphere; atmospheric radiation, aerosol and cloud physics; sea ice and land ice modeling; climate variability and prediction; atmospheric chemistry; the circulation of the atmosphere and ocean, the carbon cycle in the oceans and on land; and fundamental problems in oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics of relevance to climate change.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>GFDL is a world leader in global change research, specializing in the modeling of the climate system.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the past several years GFDL has developed a new generation of climate and Earth system models to support its research for the coming decade, including new atmospheric, oceanic, land, atmospheric chemistry, and oceanic biogeochemistry models which are currently being enhanced and integrated into an interactive system for studies of variability and change.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of these new postdoctoral positions may evolve into permanent civil service hires as it expands its staff in the next several years. Placement into permanent civil service positions will require additional competition.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Areas of current interest include:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(1) Development of a numerical model of land-based ice sheets to be incorporated into the Earth System Model. Modeling issues relevant to climate change in high latitudes, including sea ice and Arctic ocean circulation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(2) Studies of radiative forcing of climate, both natural and anthropogenic; aerosol effects; and distributions, and related cloud microphysical processes relevant for climate change. Studies of the differences in equilibrium and transient responses to changes in radiative forcing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(3) Detection of climate change and the attribution of these changes to human and natural causes, including extreme events and regional climate change.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(4) Sensitivity of midlatitude stormtracks and tropical storms to global warming and their relation to natural variability on interannual and decadal time scales.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(5) Modeling of regional climate change with high resolution global atmospheric models and/or limited area atmospheric models.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(6) Atmospheric subgrid parameterizations<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and model development: planetary boundary layer, moist convection, and middle atmospheric gravity waves; stratospheric processes affecting climate variations and change.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(7) Studies of climate variability and predictability on interannual to multi-decadal timescales.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(8) Large-scale ocean dynamics and ocean circulation, and its effect on the climate system and on climate variability. Studies of the ocean's role in climate and climate change. Ocean model development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(9) Data assimilation, including ocean data assimilation, for climate prediction and circulation<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>studies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(10) Modeling of land hydrology and biogeochemical cycles in the land and ocean; the effect of climate change on the carbon, nitrogen, iron, and silica cycles. Incorporation of tracers and biogeochemistry into the Earth System model.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In addition to junior postdoctoral applicants, GFDL is looking for senior visitors interested in the areas listed above, including visitors from other climate change modeling centers interested in model intercomparisons.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How to apply:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no application form.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Send the following materials to the UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs: --Cover letter identifying this program --Curriculum vitae with a list of publications in refereed journals --Names and addresses of three references. It is the applicant's responsibility to contact the references and request that they submit letters in support of your application to VSP. --PhD thesis abstract for recent PhDs. --Proposed project description, including a statement of relevance to the CCRI.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Proposal must be titled and not exceed three pages, including references and figures.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Application deadlines are November 1 and April 15</B><SPAN style="">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications are reviewed twice yearly by a steering committee and will not be reviewed unless they are complete, including letters of reference. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Send applications and letters of reference to:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Meg Austin, Director,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>P.O. Box 3000,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Boulder, CO<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>80307-3000 USA<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may send all this material electronically. For further information, please call 303-497-8649, send e-mail to: <A href="mailto:vsp@ucar.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">vsp@ucar.edu</FONT></SPAN></A> or visit the VSP website at: <A href="http://www.vsp.ucar.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.vsp.ucar.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>, or directly contact a member of GFDL's scientific staff. UCAR is an EO/AAE who values and encourages diversity in the workplace.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*******************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 7)<B>Research Facilitator - Physical Climate Science, Department of Earth Sciences and Sub-Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics - Univ of Oxford (UK) </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/department/resfac.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.earth.ox.ac.uk/department/resfac.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division invites applications for the post of Research Facilitator for Physical Climate Science. Understanding the climate system is a major research challenge given urgency by global warming. The University has significant climate-science research programmes in several departments. The Research Facilitator will be the point of contact for climate science within the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, helping to foster links and collaboration between research groups. The Facilitator will play an active role in raising funds for projects in the physical climate sciences, including: seeking out funding from all relevant sources; matching funding opportunities to expertise available within the departments; and administering the submission of major grant applications. Through the maintenance of a website and other outreach activities, they will also present physical climate science to the public and to schools.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate will have a PhD or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline, and excellent organizational, communication and teamwork skills. Previous experience in the facilitation of research is desirable but not essential. This position presents an opportunity for a scientist to enter the rapidly developing field of research management and administration.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The post is initially for a period of three years. Further particulars, including details of the application procedure and of the duties attached to the appointment are available at <A href="http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/department/resfac.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.earth.ox.ac.uk/department/resfac.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A> or from Mrs Sue Ling, (<A href="mailto:Sue.Ling@earth.ox.ac.uk"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Sue.Ling@earth.ox.ac.uk</FONT></SPAN></A>), Department of Earth Sciences, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK. The closing date for applications is 30th September, 2006.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*******************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 8) <B>Postdoc </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>- Atmospheric Dynamics - University of California, Irvine, CA </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>(USA)</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine seeks a postdoctoral research associate to work in the area of atmospheric dynamics, both in analyzing re-analysis data and dynamical modeling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate will have the opportunity to expamine the impacts of tropospheric Rossby wave breaking on the large scale circulation, which is highly relevant to climate variability as well as shorter timescale weather patterns. This work has important implications for understanding teleconnection mechanisms or climate patterns, including the NAO, as well as understanding how the interaction between wave breaking and the Asian and North American monsoons influences the large scale circulation. Scientists with a strong dynamics background are encouraged to apply. A PhD in atmospheric or related sciences is required.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The initial appointment is for one year that may be extended for up to three years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Annual salary depends upon qualifications, starting at $42,780.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The appointment includes medical, dental and vision insurance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please send a CV with the names of three references to Prof. Gudrun Magnusdottir, Dept. of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3100, or by email to <A href="mailto:gudrun@uci.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">gudrun@uci.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>. The University of California Irvine is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">(JOB 9) <B>Postdoc. - The oceanic response to the North Atlantic Oscillation - LOCEAN/IPSL, University Paris VI, (FRANCE)</B> <A href="http://dynamite.nersc.no"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://dynamite.nersc.no</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr</FONT></SPAN></A>/<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the frame of the EU FP6 project DYNAMITE (Understanding the DYNAMIcs of the Coupled ClimaTE System , see <A href="http://dynamite.nersc.no"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://dynamite.nersc.no</FONT></SPAN></A>), LOCEAN/IPSL is opening a postdoctoral position.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Deeper understanding of the intrinsic variability and stability properties of the main climate variability modes is needed to assess confidence in the detection, attribution and prediction of climate change, to improve seasonal predictions, and to understand the shortcomings of current prediction systems. DYNAMITE will explore the fundamental dynamical mechanisms of two of the most important modes of climate variability: the North Atlantic Oscillation/Arctic Oscillation (NAO/AO) and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The postdoctoral work will be to contribute to our understanding of the processes that determine the response of the large-scale circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean, both its horizontal gyre component and its meridional overturning component, to variations in the NAO. The Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) makes a major contribution to the northward heat transport of the Atlantic Ocean, and it is thought that variations in the MOC on decadal timescales can modulate climate. MOC variations are driven partly by variations in wind-stress and partly by anomalous buoyancy fluxes, especially over the high latitude regions of deep oceanic convection. LOCEAN participates in coordinated experiments in which coupled ocean/sea-ice GCMs are forced with idealised surface wind stress and flux fields representative of NAO variability. The post doc will investigate the coupled ocean-sea ice processes that govern the formation of salinity anomalies in the arctic, the influence of the NAO on deep convection in the North Atlantic, and their subsequent impact on the MOC. The changes in the northward flux of warm and salty Atlantic surface water, and their back interaction on the formation of deep water will also be analysed. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The position will be hosted by LOCEAN, University Pierre and Marie Curie<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Paris VI) (see <A href="http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr</FONT></SPAN></A>/), which is part of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL). Candidates should have a Ph.D in ocean or / and atmosphere dynamics, and /or research interests and experience in any aspect of large-scale ocean dynamics or ocean modelling. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The position could be opened on October 1, and will end in February 2007. Salary will depend on qualification and follow CNRS scales. Applicants should submit a CV, a description of research interests, and the names and e-mail of three references to Prof. Claude Frankignoul, (<A href="mailto:cf@lodyc.jussieu.fr"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">cf@lodyc.jussieu.fr</FONT></SPAN></A>), For more information, contact: Prof. Claude Frankignoul,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>LOCEAN, case 100, Universit Paris 6, Tour 45-55, 4 tage 4, Place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>tel 33(0)144272732<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>fax 33(0)144273805 <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 10) <B>Postdoc Research Scientist - Rossby Center, Swedish Meterological & Hydrological Institution (SWEDEN)</B><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.smhi.se"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.smhi.se</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Rossby Centre, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) seeks a postdoctoral research scientist to work on oceanographical analyses and the development of advanced ocean modeling, with applications in climate and climate change research especially in the Baltic Sea region and the Arctic. A successful candidate will have the possibility to contribute to international networks, such as BALTEX and DAMOCLES.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The candidate should have:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Ph.D in Oceanography, or in a related field given,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>demonstrated experience on ocean research. - Familiarity with Linux/UNIX and Fortran, and preferably MPI. - Experience on 3-dimensional ocean and sea ice models. - Good command of the English language. Good organization and communication skills, to able to work on own initiative and an ability to prioritise is important.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Rossby Centre is the SMHI climate modelling research unit with 14 co-workers with research and development of regional climate modeling, meteorological, oceanographic and hydrological processes as well as supercomputing. The Rossby Centre is involved in a number of research projects carried out in co-operation on a national as well as an international level, such as ENSEMBLES, DAMOCLES and BALTEX. The oceanographic work is co-ordinated with the SMHI Oceanographic research unit that works on short and medium range ice-ocean forecasts in the Baltic and North Sea and in the Arctic Ocean, short-range wave forecasts, seasonal forecasts, data assimilation, climate analysis, coupled physical-biogeochemical modelling, and marine remote sensing. For more information on the Rossby Centre<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and the Oceanographical research unit, go to <A href="http://www.smhi.se"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.smhi.se</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information please contact the<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Head of Rossby Centre: Markku Rummukainen,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>tel +46 11-495 8605<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(markku.rummukainen at smhi.se)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>or Karin Aspeqvist, Human Resources, (<A href="mailto:karin.aspeqvist@smhi.se"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">karin.aspeqvist@smhi.se</FONT></SPAN></A>.) Written applications marked with reference number 1669 should be sent not later than the 30th of September to:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SMHI,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SE-601 76 Norrköping,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sweden<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>or by e-mail to registrator at smhi.se.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Assoc. Prof. Lars Bärring Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Geobiosphere Science Centre,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.natgeo.lu.se"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.natgeo.lu.se</FONT></SPAN></A>,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lund University,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ph+46-(0)46-2229684<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sölvegatan 12,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fax+46-(0)46-2224011<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SE-223 62 LUND,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sweden<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Hämtställe 16)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>AND<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rossby Centre,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SE-601 76 Norrköping,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sweden<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.smhi.se"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.smhi.se</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 11) <B>Grad. Student - marine physiological ecology - Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama (USA) <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/rcarmichael/index.shtml"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/rcarmichael/index.shtml</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A></SPAN></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am looking to recruit a graduate student interested in marine physiological ecology. This would be a 2-3 year Master position with the University of South Alabama and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. The student would work with me at DISL. There are a number of possible projects, including 1) tracing entry of anthropogenic N to estuaries using N stable isotopes in bivalve shells, 2) cross-system comparisons of the effects of dykes and wastewater treatment plants on coastal systems in Gulf of Maine and Gulf of Mexico, 3) cross-system comparison of population dynamics and feeding ecology of horseshoe crabs in Gulf of Maine and Gulf of Mexico, 4) assessment of natural diet of oysters in coastal reef systems, effects of oyster filtration on local water quality, and implications for restoration projects, among others. A strong background in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Ecology is preferred, as well as field and lab experience. Start date is flexible, from March 2007, but ideally no later than Sep 2007. Depending on level of interest, success, and funding, there is potential for transition to Ph.D. candidacy. Please refer promising interested students to me at the address below until Dec 15, 2007 (then I will be on the go to Alabama).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thanks!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ruth<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ruth H. Carmichael, Ph.D.,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Assistant Professor of Marine Biology,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>University of Maine at Machias, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>117 Science building,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>9 O'Brien Ave.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Machias, ME 04654<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Phone: 207-255-1206<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fax: 207-255-1390<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:rcarmichael@maine.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">rcarmichael@maine.edu</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><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">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.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to <A href="mailto:phd@whitman.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">phd@whitman.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. 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