<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><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; "><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; 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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>9/22/2006</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>Success Factors for Postdocs: Be Prepared!<SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN><A href="http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2006_09_15/success_factors_for_postdocs_be_prepared"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2006_09_15/success_factors_for_postdocs_be_prepared</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>U.S. National Postdoctoral Association</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nationalpostdoc.org</FONT></SPAN></A>/<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Global Warming Website by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Where has the Money Gone? Declining Industrial Support of Academic R&D. NSF Report</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06328"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06328</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop - October 10 - 12, 2006 - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (USA)</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.thegrantinstitute.com">http://www.thegrantinstitute.com</A></DIV></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 1 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>China’s Environmental Challenges:A Grand-Scale Ecological Experiment</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.frontiersinecology.org/specialissueChina.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.frontiersinecology.org/specialissueChina.php</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 2 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Climate Change Photo Exhibit: A 360 Degree View Of Climate Change</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.northsoutheastwest.org">http://www.northsoutheastwest.org</A>/</SPAN></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>FORUM</I></B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>National Academies Report Finds Bias Keeping Women Out of Science Jobs</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/09/19/report_finds_bias_keeping_women_out_of_science_jobs/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/09/19/report_finds_bias_keeping_women_out_of_science_jobs/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/r79jp"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/r79jp</FONT></SPAN></A> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see FORUM 1 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">Two thoughtful pieces on carbon sequestration appeared in the August 10, 2006 issue of Nature. They are written by science correspondents to be understandable to a broad general audience:</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Schiermeier, Q. 2006. <B>Putting the carbon back. The hundred billion tonne challenge.</B><SPAN style=""> Nature 442: 620 - 623.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7103/full/442620a.html">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7103/full/442620a.html</A> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Marris, E. 2006<B>. Black is the new green.</B><SPAN style=""> Nature 442: 624-626. <A href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7103/full/442624a.html">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7103/full/442624a.html</A> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B><I>SCIENCE NEWS</I></B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Landmark Legal Case: State Of California Sues Automobile Companies For Climate Change Damage</B><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Case filed yesterday by the State of California against the "big six" car companies asking them to pay for damage they have done to our global climate.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.climatelaw.org/media/CA%20auto%20companies"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.climatelaw.org/media/CA%20auto%20companies</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Time to Move the Mississippi, Experts Say</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B></B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/science/19rive.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/science/19rive.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/o2f3b"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/o2f3b</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 1 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>The Denial Industry</B><SPAN style=""> </SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1875762,00.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1875762,00.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 2 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Due To Increased Air Conditioning Needs, Carbon Emissions Will Increase As Climate Changes</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 3 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Carbon from Dying Trees May Add to Climate Change</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20060921-9999-"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20060921-9999-</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: <A href="http://tinyurl.com/ptekv"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/ptekv</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 4 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Bush Prepares Emissions U-turn</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1604092.ece">http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1604092.ece</A> </DIV><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see NEWS 5 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Short-Term Ocean Cooling Suggests Global Warming 'Speed Bump' <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;">NASA press release 06-318</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></SPAN></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see NEWS 6 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <B>Resilience, Vulnerability, And Adaptation : A Cross-Cutting Theme Of The International Human Dimensions Programme On Global Environmental Change </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>- </B><SPAN style="">Marco A. Janssen & Elinor Ostrom, Global Environmental Change 16 (3, 2006): 237-239.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (see NEWS 7 below)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B>China’s Environmental Challenges:A Grand-Scale Ecological Experiment</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.frontiersinecology.org/specialissueChina.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.frontiersinecology.org/specialissueChina.php</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 2 below - yes, this is a resource, but it is also newsworthy reading and deserves notice as NEWS )<FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B></B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></FONT></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>Environmental Fellows post-doc - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA)</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/funding.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/funding.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Postdoctoral researcher - Microbial Ecology Laboratory at Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI (USA)</B></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 - Environmental Studies – Denison University - Granville, Ohio (USA)</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.denison.edu/enviro/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.denison.edu/enviro/</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></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. Profs. tenure-track - Human Geography – College of Geosciences, Department of Geography ,Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (USA)</B><SPAN style=""> <A href="http://geosciences.tamu.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://geosciences.tamu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><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"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B>Asst. Prof. tenure-track – Environmental Geography - Portland State University, Portland OR (USA)</B><SPAN style=""> <A href="http://www.geog.pdx.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.geog.pdx.edu</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></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" 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>Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop - October 10 - 12, 2006 - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (USA)</B><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.thegrantinstitute.com">http://www.thegrantinstitute.com</A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Grant Institute’s Grants 101 Course is an intensive and detailed introduction to the process, structure, and skill of professional proposal writing. This course is characterized by its ability to act as a thorough overview, introduction, and refresher at the same time. In this course, participants will learn the entire proposal writing process and complete the course with a solid understanding of not only the ideal proposal structure, but a holistic understanding of the essential factors, which determine whether or not a program gets funded. Through the completion of interactive exercises and activities, participants will complement expert lectures by putting proven techniques into practice. This course is designed for both the beginner looking for a thorough introduction and the intermediate looking for a refresher course that will strengthen their grant acquisition skills. This class, simply put, is designed to get results by creating professional grant proposal writers.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Participants will become competent program planning and proposal writing professionals after successful completion of the Grants 101 course. In three active and informative days, students will be exposed to the art of successful grant writing practices, and led on a journey that ends with a masterful grant proposal.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Grants 101 consists of three (3) courses that will be completed during the three-day workshop. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>FUNDAMENTALS OF PROGRAM PLANNING
This course is centered on the belief that “it’s all about the program.” This intensive course will teach professional program development essentials and program evaluation. While most grant writing “workshops” treat program development and evaluation as separate from the writing of a proposal, this class will teach students the relationship between overall program planning and grant writing.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PROFESSIONAL GRANT WRITING
Designed for both the novice and experienced grant writer, this course will make each student an overall proposal writing specialist. In addition to teaching the basic components of a grant proposal, successful approaches, and the do’s and don’ts of grant writing, this course is infused with expert principles that will lead to a mastery of the process. Strategy resides at the forefront of this course’s intent to illustrate grant writing as an integrated, multidimensional, and dynamic endeavor. Each student will learn to stop writing the grant and to start writing the story. Ultimately, this class will illustrate how each component of the grant proposal represents an opportunity to use proven techniques for generating support.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>GRANT RESEARCH
At its foundation, this course will address the basics of foundation, corporation, and government grant research. However, this course will teach a strategic funding research approach that encourages students to see research not as something they do before they write a proposal, but as an integrated part of the grant seeking process. Students will be exposed to online and database research tools, as well as publications and directories that contain information about foundation, corporation, and government grant opportunities. Focusing on funding sources and basic social science research, this course teaches students how to use research as part of a strategic grant acquisition effort.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>REGISTRATION
$597.00 tuition includes all materials and certificates.
Each student will receive: · The Grant Institute Certificate in Professional Grant writing
· The Grant Institute's Guide to Successful Grant Writing
· The Grant Institute Grant Writer's Workbook with sample proposals, forms, and outlines<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>REGISTRATION METHODS <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">1) On-Line -Visit <<A href="http://www.thegrantinstitute.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.thegrantinstitute.com</FONT></SPAN></A>> and click on the Registration area. Fill out the online registration form completely. We'll send your confirmation by e-mail.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">2) By Phone - Call toll free (888) 824 - 4424 to register by phone. Our friendly Program Coordinators will be happy to assist you and answer your questions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">3) By E-mail - Send an e-mail with your name, organization, and basic contact information to <A href="mailto:info@thegrantinstitute.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">info@thegrantinstitute.com</FONT></SPAN></A> and we will reserve your slot and send your Confirmation <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(RESOURCES 2<B>) China’s Environmental Challenges:A Grand-Scale Ecological Experiment</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.frontiersinecology.org/specialissueChina.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.frontiersinecology.org/specialissueChina.php</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the most populous country in the world. Half the country is arid or semi-arid and mountains cover three-quarters of it. Natural resources are scarce. Yet 1.3 billion people live in China, which is undergoing a remarkable rate of economic growth. At the same time, China’s environmental problems of energy and water shortages, water and air pollution, cropland and biodiversity losses are escalating.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The September issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment devotes itself entirely to exploring China’s environmental challenges and potential solutions, with all of the articles written by Chinese scientists.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As the lead guest editorialists Drs. Jingyun Fang and Chia Kiang (both of Peking University) note, “China’s extraordinary rate of economic development makes it a historically unique, grand-scale socioeconomic and ecological “experiment,” and one that will have an unprecedented impact on the world as a whole.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The journal’s research communications examine the ecological consequences of the rapid urban expansion of Shanghai as well as the state of biodiversity in China’s mountains. Focusing on major cities such as Shanghai, Shuqing Zhao (Peking University) and colleagues discuss the major challenges faced by Chinese policy makers in managing the tradeoffs between urbanization and environmental protection. Meanwhile, the country’s mountainous regions still host a surprising number of plant and animals species. Zhiyao Tang (Peking University) and fellow researchers identified ten hotspot regions in China’s major mountain ranges they say should be priorities for the country’s conservation plans.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of the review articles in the issue examines the phenomenon of so-called city clusters in China, which, in contrast to the United States, tend to be much more concentrated and densely populated with little room for natural areas. In the city of Guangzhou, for example, space between residential buildings is so tight that people<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">refer to them as “handshaking buildings.” City clusters often enhance the competitiveness of a region, catalyzing economic growth. The downside is the environmental pollution wrought by rapid urbanization, particularly on water and air quality. Min Shao et al. (Peking University) predict that by 2020, 50 percent of China’s population will be living in towns and cities, and that domestic water needs will be double those of 2000. The amount of sewage generated will go up by a factor of at least 1.3, putting the country’s already fragile freshwater systems under greater strain.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The authors wonder: will China “..continue down the same road as in the past two decades, or will environmental quality, energy efficiency, and the conservation of resources no longer be sacrificed at the altar of economic development?”<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Authors Wei An and Jianying Hu (Peking University) tackle the topic of endocrine disrupting chemicals in China’s rivers and coastal waters, looking particularly at the impacts on Chinese sturgeon, night herons, and carp—all of which have exhibited sex organ malformations.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Frontier’s Finishing Lines columnist Katherine Ellison highlights Goldman Environmental Prize Award winner Yu Xiaogang, a Chinese watershed activist. She notes that the Chinese government realizes it must rely on the support of the private sector and that the country now boasts more than 2000 environmental organizations, working on issues ranging from public transit to the impact of mega-dams.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(RESOURCES 3) <B>Climate Change Photo Exhibit: A 360 Degree View Of Climate Change</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.northsoutheastwest.org">http://www.northsoutheastwest.org</A>/<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climate change already touches every corner of the planet and every aspect of people's lives. As our global temperature increases, its impacts will become even more extreme. To illustrate this we commissioned 10 of the world's top photographers to bring together, in a single volume, what is happening in diverse countries and conditions around the world. This is their record. <SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style="; text-align: center; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT></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>Forum</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (FORUM 1) <B>National Academies Report Finds Bias Keeping Women Out of Science Jobs</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/09/19/report_finds_bias_keeping_women_out_of_science_jobs/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/09/19/report_finds_bias_keeping_women_out_of_science_jobs/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/r79jp"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/r79jp</FONT></SPAN></A> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Boston Globe WASHINGTON - Women are being filtered out of high-level science, math, and engineering jobs in the United States, and there is no good reason for it, according to a National Academies report released yesterday.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A committee of specialists looked at some commonly suspected reasons -- biological differences in ability, hormonal influences, child-rearing demands, and differences in ambition -- and found no good explanation for why women are being locked out.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Compared with men, women faculty members are generally paid less and promoted more slowly, receive fewer honors, and hold fewer leadership positions," the Academies said in a statement. "These discrepancies do not appear to be based on productivity, the significance of their work, or any other performance measures."</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>News</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 1) <B>Time to Move the Mississippi, Experts Say</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/science/19rive.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/science/19rive.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/o2f3b"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/o2f3b</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New York Times - Scientists have long said the only way to restore Louisiana's vanishing wetlands is to undo the elaborate levee system that controls the Mississippi River, not with the small projects that have been tried here and there, but with a massive diversion that would send the muddy river flooding wholesale into the state's sediment-starved marshes.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And most of them have long dismissed the idea as impractical, unaffordable and lethal to the region's economy. Now, they are reconsidering. In fact, when a group of researchers convened last April to consider the fate of the Louisiana coast, their recommendation was unanimous: divert the river.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Far from rejecting the idea, state officials have embraced it, motivated not just by the lessons of Hurricane Katrina but also by growing fears that global climate change will bring rising seas, accelerating land loss and worse weather.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 2) <B>The Denial Industry</B><SPAN style=""> - <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1875762,00.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1875762,00.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Guardian - September 19, 2006 - For years, a network of fake citizens' groups and bogus scientific bodies has been claiming that science of global warming is inconclusive. They set back action on climate change by a decade. But who funded them? Exxon's involvement is well known, but not the strange role of Big Tobacco. In the first of three extracts from his new book, George Monbiot tells a bizarre and shocking new story.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 3) <B>Due To Increased Air Conditioning Needs, Carbon Emissions Will Increase As Climate Changes</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Observed atmospheric carbon dioxide increases are expected to continue, leading to continued increases in near-surface air temperatures. As temperatures change, so too will the amount of energy required for heating and cooling buildings, with fossil fuel emissions increasing as a result. Hadley et al. melded the results of detailed climate and energy economics models, running simulations for the United States through year 2025 for a low (1.2 degrees Celsius) [2.2 degrees Fahrenheit] and a high (3.4 degrees Celsius) [6.1 degrees Fahrenheit] temperature response to carbon dioxide doubling. They found that energy for heating in the low temperature change scenario is relatively consistent in the end years of the simulation, but continues to decline in the high temperature change scenario, making projected net energy use in the latter actually slightly lower than former by 2025. In northern regions, the net energy requirements are lower due to climate warming, but southern and western regions of the U.S. will experience increases in energy use as air conditioning needs increase with rising temperatures. As a whole, increases in carbon emissions from higher air conditioning needs more than offset decreases in carbon emissions from reduced heating needs.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Authors: Stanton W. Hadley, David J. Erickson III, Jose Luis Hernandez, and T. J. Blasing: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.; Christine T. Broniak: Oregon State University, Oregon, U.S.A. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Title: Responses of energy use to climate change: A climate modeling study<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Source: Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) paper 10.1029/2006GL026652, 2006<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 4) <B>Carbon from Dying Trees May Add to Climate Change</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20060921-9999-"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20060921-9999-</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: <A href="http://tinyurl.com/ptekv"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/ptekv</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>San Diego Union-Tribune <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-- In the middle of Terry McGlynn's lab at the University of San Diego sits a seemingly incongruous object for a biologist dedicated to teasing out secrets about how tropical rain forests work. It's a brown metallic Singer sewing machine that looks to be decades old. Around it are neatly sewn bags about the size of McGlynn's hand and remnants of mesh materials from which the bags are made.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The sewing machine, it turns out, is one small piece of a major scientific undertaking to examine the relationship between tropical rain forests and global warming. McGlynn and several colleagues in the Ciclos Project in Costa Rica are trying to model how carbon and nutrients such as phosphorous flow through the ecosystem.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For years, Central and South American woodlands have been popularly regarded as carbon sponges that help combat greenhouse gas buildup by absorbing and storing atmospheric carbon. But now, Ciclos scientists and others are exploring more sinister ways in which the forests may be involved in climate change - by releasing more and more carbon as environmental conditions shift. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">***************** </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 5) <B>Bush Prepares Emissions U-turn</B><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1604092.ece">http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1604092.ece</A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Independent (UK) -17 September 2006 - President Bush is preparing an astonishing U-turn on global warming, senior Washington sources say.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>After years of trying to sabotage agreements to tackle climate change he is drawing up plans to control emissions of carbon dioxide and rapidly boost the use of renewable energy sources.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Administration insiders privately refer to the planned volte-face as Mr Bush's "Nixon goes to China moment", recalling how the former president amazed the world after years of refusing to deal with its Communist regime. Hardline global warming sceptics, however, are already publicly attacking the plans.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The rethink follows increasing pressure on the White House from Republican governors such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, the mayors of more than 300 cities, business leaders and Congress.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Over the past few days rumours swept the capital that the "Toxic Texan" would announce his conversion this week, in an attempt to reduce the impact of a major speech tomorrow by Al Gore on solutions to climate change.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The White House denied the timing, but did not deny that a change of policy was on its way. Sources say that the most likely moment is the President's State of the Union address in January.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Environmentalists expect the measures to fall far short of what is needed, but say this does not matter. "The very fact that Bush would reverse his position will liberate many Republicans to vote for meaningful pollution cuts," says Phil Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But Iain Murray, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Mr Bush's chief climate change cheerleader, is deeply alarmed: "We are left with the unpleasant conclusion that the only motivation is political."<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 6) <B>Short-Term Ocean Cooling Suggests Global Warming 'Speed Bump'</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>NASA press release 06-318<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The average temperature of the water near the top of the Earth's oceans has significantly cooled since 2003. New research suggests global warming trends are not always steady in their effects on ocean temperatures.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Although the average temperature of the upper oceans has significantly cooled since 2003, the decline is a fraction of the total ocean warming over the previous 48 years.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"This research suggests global warming isn't always steady, but happens with occasional 'speed bumps'," said Josh Willis, a co-author of the study at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "This cooling is probably natural climate variability. The oceans today are still warmer than they were during the 1980s, and most scientists expect the oceans will eventually continue to warm in response to human-induced climate change."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Willis said the findings have significant implications for global sea-level rise. "Average sea level goes up partly due to warming and thermal expansion of the oceans and partly due to runoff from melting glaciers and ice sheets," Willis said. "The recent cooling episode suggests sea level should have actually decreased in the past two years. Despite this, sea level has continued to rise. This may mean that sea level rise has recently shifted from being mostly caused by warming to being dominated by melting. This idea is consistent with recent estimates of ice-mass loss in Antarctica and accelerating ice-mass loss on Greenland," he said.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the study, John Lyman at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, and his co-authors estimated the heat content of the upper 2,500 feet of Earth's oceans from 1993 to 2005. This area represents about 20 percent of the global ocean's average depth.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Researchers found the average temperature of the upper ocean rose by 0.16 degrees Fahrenheit from 1993 to 2003, and then fell 0.055 degrees Fahrenheit from 2003 to 2005. The recent decrease is a dip equal to about one-fifth of the heat gained by the ocean between 1955 and 2003. They analyzed data from a broad array of ocean moorings, floats and shipboard sensors, and supported their results with data from NASA's Jason and Topex/Poseidon satellites.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lyman said the recent cooling is not unprecedented. "While global ocean temperatures have generally increased over the past 50 years, there have also been substantial decadal decreases," he said. "Other studies have shown that a similar rapid cooling took place from 1980 to 1983. But overall, the long-term trend is warming."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Monitoring the heat content of the oceans is vital to understanding how Earth's energy balance is changing. "The capacity of Earth's oceans to store the sun's energy is more than 1,000 times that of Earth's atmosphere," Lyman said. "It's important to measure upper ocean temperature, since 84 percent of the heat absorbed by Earth since the mid-1950s has gone toward warming the ocean. Measuring ocean temperature is really measuring the progress of global warming."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The recent changes in ocean temperature run deep. A small amount of cooling was detected at the ocean's surface, consistent with global measurements of sea-surface temperature. The maximum amount of cooling was at a depth of about 1,300 feet, but substantial cooling was still observed at 2,500 feet, and the cooling appears to extend deeper.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lyman said the cause of the recent cooling is not yet clear. Research suggests it may be due to a net loss of heat from the Earth. "Further work will be necessary to solve this cooling mystery," he said.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Another implication of the study is greater uncertainty in estimates of long-term ocean warming rates. "Understanding decadal rises and dips in Earth's ocean temperature is important in predicting Earth's climate," Lyman said. "Hopefully, the results of our study will help refine the ability of computer models to make these predictions."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The study included researchers from NASA, NOAA, and the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research of the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Results are published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit: <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/home"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nasa.gov/home</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Other media contacts: Alan Buis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 818-354-0474; Kent Laborde, NOAA, Washington, 202-482-5757; Jim Manke, University of Hawaii 808-956-4153<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*******************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (NEWS 7) <B>Resilience, Vulnerability, And Adaptation : A Cross-Cutting Theme Of The International Human Dimensions Programme On Global Environmental Change </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>- </B><SPAN style="">Marco A. Janssen & Elinor Ostrom, Global Environmental Change 16 (3, 2006): 237-239.<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The concepts resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation are increasingly important for the study of the human dimensions of global environmental change. Events during the last 2 years, such as the hurricane Katrina, the Southeast Asian tsunami, and the Pakistan earthquake, together with the bird flu and continuing droughts in Africa, dramatically illustrate the potential vulnerability of human society to disturbances and variability. The concepts of resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation are used to analyze these and similar events. While these concepts are becoming more important within the global change research community, they do have diverse and somewhat separate intellectual histories. In organizing this special issue, we initially experienced a Tower of Babel in hearing the diverse definitions made of core concepts. The diversity is largely explained by the distinct communities from which the concepts originate. As editors of this special issue, we have not aimed to impose a uniform language, but recognize the diversity of ways in which the terms and concepts are used. By bringing together the various insights on resilience, vulnerability, and adaptation, we hope to provide a comprehensive overview of diverse approaches.</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" face="Helvetica"><B>Jobs</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><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>Postdoctoral researcher - Microbial Ecology Laboratory at Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI (USA)</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A Postdoctoral Research position is available in the Microbial Ecology Laboratory at Michigan State University’s W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS). The researcher will work on a recently funded project examining the compositional and functional responses of soil microbes to temporal variability of environmental drivers. Qualified applicants should have experience with molecular microbial analyses, cultivation-based microbial techniques, plant-soil science, and biogeochemistry (gas fluxes). The applicant should also have a strong quantitative background (multivariate statistics and time series analyses), and a desire to apply ecological theory to microbial systems. The postdoc will be in residence at KBS, which has excellent infrastructure for conducting research in microbial, community, and ecosystem ecology (<A href="http://www.kbs.msu.edu/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.kbs.msu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>). Opportunities exist to collaborate with scientists on main campus in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (<A href="http://www.mmg.msu.edu/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.mmg.msu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>) and the program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior (<A href="http://www.msu.edu/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.msu.edu/~eebb</FONT></SPAN></A>). Interested applicants should send a CV, a brief statement of their research experience, along with the names and contact information for three references to Jay Lennon (<A href="mailto:lennonja@msu.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">lennonja@msu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>). Salary will be commensurate with education and experience. <B>Review of applications will begin immediately</B><SPAN style="">. Start date is flexible.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-weight:normal">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 2)<B>Asst. Prof. tenure-track - Environmental Studies – Denison University - Granville, Ohio (USA)</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.denison.edu/enviro/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.denison.edu/enviro/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Environmental Studies Program at Denison University invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning in August, 2007. A strong potential for excellence in teaching and a productive research program that may involve undergraduate students are essential. Ph.D. is required; postdoctoral experience and demonstrated teaching ability are assets. The successful candidate will have expertise in geographic information systems (GIS) sufficient to teach Introduction to Environmental Mapping and to manage the GIS lab at Denison. Other teaching responsibilities will include two introductory courses, People and the Environment and Science and the Environment, an advanced course in the area of specialization, and an occasional course for non-majors. All areas involving environmental applications of GIS will be considered; specialties such as cultural geography, environmental history or sociology, ecological anthropology or archaeology, environmental health, or environmental justice would complement the present ENVS faculty. For more information about Denison's Environmental Studies Program visit: <A href="http://www.denison.edu/enviro/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.denison.edu/enviro/</FONT></SPAN></A>. Denison offers competitive start-up funds and summer support for student and faculty research. Candidates should send cover letter addressing their interest in liberal arts education; curriculum vitae; statements of teaching philosophy and research interests; copies of transcripts (graduate and undergraduate); and the names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three references to: Bahram Tavakolian, Director, Environmental Studies Program, Denison University, Granville OH, 43023. <B>Review of applications will begin December 15, 2006</B><SPAN style="">. Denison is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apply online at <A href="http://aaanet.jobcontrolcenter.com/jobdetail.cfm?job=2410585.32"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://aaanet.jobcontrolcenter.com/jobdetail.cfm?job=2410585.32</FONT></SPAN></A> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(JOB 3) <B>Asst. Profs. tenure-track - Human Geography – College of Geosciences, Department of Geography ,Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (USA)</B><SPAN style=""> <A href="http://geosciences.tamu.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://geosciences.tamu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Department of Geography (<A href="http://geog.tamu.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://geog.tamu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>) invites applications for <B><I>two</I></B><SPAN style=""> tenure-track positions in Human Geography positions for "Global Economic and/or Political Processes" at the Assistant Professor level to begin in September 2007. We seek geographers researching global economic and/or political processes. Possible specializations are health geography, urbanization, large-scale organizations and institutions, or public policy, however other specializations will be seriously considered. One of these geographers must be capable of teaching an introductory undergraduate GIS course. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These positions are part of a major expansion at Texas A&M, the College of Geosciences, and the Department of Geography. The successful candidates are expected to solidify the human geography research cluster and support the human-environment research cluster. Outstanding opportunities exist for collaboration with other departments, research units, and interdisciplinary initiatives within the College of Geosciences (<A href="http://geosciences.tamu.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://geosciences.tamu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>) and the University (e.g., the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, and the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Agriculture & Life Sciences, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning). The successful applicants must have a strong commitment to quality teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels and demonstrate the potential to initiate and maintain vigorous, externally funded research programs. The Ph.D. is required at time of appointment. Candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names and addresses (including e-mail addresses) of three referees to the address below. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apply: Professor Jonathan M. Smith, Search Committee Chair <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:jmsmith@tamu.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">jmsmith@tamu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Review of applications will begin on November 1st, 2006.</B><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-weight: normal">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> (JOB 4)<B>Asst. Prof. tenure-track – Environmental Geography - Portland State University, Portland OR (USA)</B><SPAN style=""> <A href="http://www.geog.pdx.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.geog.pdx.edu</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Department of Geography ( <A href="http://www.geog.pdx.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.geog.pdx.edu</FONT></SPAN></A> ) at Portland State University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Environmental Geography at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin September 2007.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are seeking research expertise in one of the following areas:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>environmental dimensions of global change, environmental modeling or analysis, or economic development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate will be expected to develop a funded research agenda that complements the<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>department's and university's specializations, and to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the area of specialization, an introductory course in either physical or human geography, and an upper division course in geographic techniques.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful applicant must have a strong commitment to quality teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels and demonstrate the potential to initiate and maintain an externally funded research program.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ph. D. is required at time of appointment.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Portland State University is a comprehensive public university with approximately 20,000 students. The Geography Department offers bachelors and masters degrees in Geography and a doctoral degree in conjunction with the Environmental Sciences and Resources program. University-wide initiatives include a commitment to sustainability, internationalization, diversity, and innovative pedagogy.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names and addresses (including e-mail addresses) of three referees to the address below.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Review of applications will begin December 1, 2006 </B><SPAN style="">and continue until finalists are identified<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apply:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Search Committee Chair, Dept . of Geography, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207-0751.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PSU is an AA/EO institution and, in keeping with the President's diversity initiative, welcomes applications from diverse<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>candidates and candidates who support diversity.<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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