<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">DISCCRS News</FONT></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">11/17/2006</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">TABLE OF CONTENTS</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">RESOURCES and FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES</FONT></I></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">SCAR Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences (SSG/PS) Programme on Antarctica and the Global Climate System (AGCS)</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/SCAR_ssg_ps/AGCS.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/SCAR_ssg_ps/AGCS.htm</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Article by Maryann Bird about how Stern Report covers China</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> (one of the attractions of the website is the policy of being completely bi-lingual; and encouraging comments).</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.chinadialogue.net"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.chinadialogue.net</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">New Website for US SOLAS, Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">-</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">SOLAS is designed to enable researchers from different disciplines to interact and investigate the multitude of processes and interactions between the coupled ocean and atmosphere.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.us-solas.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.us-solas.org</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program - Sustainability Institute - Now accepting applications for 2007-2008</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.sustainer.org/fellows"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.sustainer.org/fellows</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see RESOURCES 1 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">PEW Report on Options For Strengthening The International Climate Change Effort now available</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Report ( Chinese, French, and Spanish as well as English): </FONT><A href="http://www.pewclimate.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.pewclimate.org</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Webcast: </FONT><A href="http://www.un.org/webcast/unfccc/archive.asp?go=109"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.un.org/webcast/unfccc/archive.asp?go=109</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> (scroll to the 3:00 - 6:00 pm time slot). </FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see RESOURCES 2 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Arctic and Antarctic Activity Book available from NOAA</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see RESOURCES 3 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">National Ice Center Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies Available - National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://nsidc.org/data/g02172.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://nsidc.org/data/g02172.html</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see RESOURCES 4 below)</FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">FORUM</FONT></I></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Two New Reports from EcoEquality:</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">High Stakes: Designing emissions pathways to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=501"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=501</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">An approach to the global climate regime that takes climate protection seriously while also preserving the right to human development</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.ecoequity.org/GDRs/GDRs_Nairobi.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.ecoequity.org/GDRs/GDRs_Nairobi.pdf</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see FORUM 1 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">We invite you to become a contributor to the </FONT></B><A href="http://www.eoearth.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Encyclopedia of Earth</FONT></B></FONT></SPAN></A><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> (EoE).</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.eoearth.org/eoe/about"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.eoearth.org/eoe/about</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see FORUM 2 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">SCIENCE NEWS</FONT></I></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">UN Secretary-General announces "Nairobi Framework" to help developing countries participate in the Kyoto Protocol -Climate-L Press Release</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT><A href="http://unfccc.int/files/press/news_room/press_releases_and_advisories/application/pdf/061115_cop12_pressrel_1.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://unfccc.int/files/press/news_room/press_releases_and_advisories/application/pdf/061115_cop12_pressrel_1.pdf</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Latest International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) Update</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.ihdp.uni-bonn.de/html/publications/update/pdf-files/IHDPUpdatePolicyRelevance3_06.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.ihdp.uni-bonn.de/html/publications/update/pdf-files/IHDPUpdatePolicyRelevance3_06.pdf</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see NEWS 1 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Warming Arctic Trying to Keep Its Cool, Study Finds</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-arctic17nov17,1,4008176.story"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-arctic17nov17,1,4008176.story</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Or: </FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/ygpd89"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://tinyurl.com/ygpd89</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see NEWS 2 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES</FONT></I></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Multinational Symposium - FOSE07 - Middle East Frontiers of Science & Engineering - Sponsored by the US National Academies and others. - March 19-21, 2007 Seville, Spain - Application Deadline: Dec. 15, 2006</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">request application details & PDF with details from </FONT><A href="mailto:jennmarlon@gmail.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">jennmarlon@gmail.com</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Call for Papers - “Making Science Global: Reconsidering the Social and Intellectual Implications of the International Polar and Geophysical Years” - October 31-November 1, 2007 – Washington, DC (USA)</FONT></B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see MEETINGS 1 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">JOBS</FONT></I></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Postdoc. Researcher - Coastal Physical Oceanography – Dauphin Island Sea Lab – Alabama (USA)</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B></B></FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see JOB 1 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Asst/Assoc Prof. - Department of Marine Sciences - University of South Alabama - Mobile AL (USA)</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.southalabama.edu/marinesciences/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.southalabama.edu/marinesciences/</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see JOB 2 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Program Officer - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) </FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">IIASA's Greenhouse Gas Initiative (GGI) – Vienna (AUSTRIA)</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PE/Jobs/2006-12-ggi-progoff.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PE/Jobs/2006-12-ggi-progoff.html</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(see JOB 3 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Director - Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program - University of Illinois Extension - College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)</FONT></B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></B></SPAN><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Search #10876</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/careers/vacancies/Search10876.html">http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/careers/vacancies/Search10876.html</A> </FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see JOB 4 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Faculty Position Tenure-Track - Marine Science – University of Texas at Austin - Port Aransas, Texas (USA)</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> (see JOB 5 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">***************************************************</FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Resources and Funding Opportunities</FONT></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(RESOURCES 1) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program - Sustainability Institute - Now accepting applications for 2007-2008</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.sustainer.org/fellows"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.sustainer.org/fellows</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program was launched in 2002 to honor and build on the life example of Dr. Donella Meadows (</FONT><A href="http://www.sustainer.org/meadows/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.sustainer.org/meadows</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">) by empowering sustainability leaders to incorporate systems thinking, reflective conversation and vision into their work and life. The Fellows Program seeks to enhance the effectiveness of people whose approach to sustainability displays analytic clarity, systemic change, and attention to spirit, values, and meaning. Making the shift to a sustainable society involves changing complex environmental, social, and economic systems. This is a challenge that requires strategic analysis and action coupled with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills. Donella's system tools enabled her to see clearly the root causes of seemingly intractable problems – poverty, war, environmental degradation – and her deep affection for people and the earth gave her a unique power to reach others.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The Fellowship integrates rigorous systems analysis with skill in articulating feelings, values, and vision because we believe that people with this combination of talents, like Donella, are deeply needed in the world. About two-thirds of the class will be women in order to enhance the number and effectiveness of women sustainability leaders.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The Fellows Program trains sixteen to twenty influential mid-career environmental and social leaders in a series of four workshops and monthly personal coaching. Fellows learn systems skills: seeing the world through a systems lens, drawing and interpreting systems diagrams, analyzing the drivers of sustainability and the system rules and incentives that give rise to sustainability. Fellows complement this rigorous analytical work with skills that are critical for leading change in systems with diverse goals and stakeholders, such as visioning, inquiry, and personal reflection. Coaching focuses on Fellows' on-going application of the newly-acquired tools in their work. Skill development includes systems thinking, reflective conversation, vision, personal mastery, and leadership for sustainability.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">For this cohort of Fellows the curriculum will include a moderate emphasis on climate change because the scope and magnitude of climate change make it an ideal practice field for systems thinking, reflective conversation and vision and because the challenge of addressing climate change requires the attention of all of us even if climate change is not what we would identify as our primary field of work.</FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Selected Fellows will be drawn from the NGO, government, philanthropy, business, tribal, and policy sectors. Criteria for selecting Fellows include a deep desire to shift the world to global sustainability, aptitude to learn and apply systems thinking, the ability to apply learning organization methodology to one's work and home institutions, a commitment to personal reflection and growth, demonstrated leadership ability, and the potential to influence thinking in wide circles of people.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">We design each workshop to respond to the current work of the Fellows, to needs emerging during coaching, to new insights from coaches, and to callings of the world at that time. The coaches actively seek their own continued leadership development and count among our primary teachers Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, Joanna Macy, John Sterman, Robert Gass, Rockwood Institute, The Vermont Leadership Initiative and the Legacy Center.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Logistics: Four 4-day workshops will be held at the Cobb Hill Cohousing community (</FONT><A href="http://www.cobbhill.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.cobbhill.org</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">) that Donella co-founded in Hartland, Vermont.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">1st Workshop: October 21-26, 2007
2nd Workshop: February 24-28, 2008
3rd Workshop: July 13-17, 2008
4th Workshop: November 9-13, 2008</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Attendance at all four workshops, participation in periodic coaching telephone conferences, and completion of exercises between workshops is mandatory. Please do not apply if you cannot make all four workshops.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Cost: Travel expenses, plus $600 per 4-day workshop ($600 in 2007, $1800 in 2008) to cover meals, lodging, venue and materials. Scholarships are available. Sustainability Institute provides all workshop coordination, design, curriculum and delivery. Financial support for the 2007-2008 class of Fellows so far is from the Morgan Family Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and many individuals.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Applicants should be active practitioners in their field; applicants who are primarily students, teachers or researchers will not be accepted. This is not a train-the-trainer program; it is designed to give hands-on sustainability leaders tools to be more effective.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Application deadline is January 15, 2007</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">. Applications are submitted online. Please go to </FONT><A href="http://www.sustainer.org/fellows/apply/index.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.sustainer.org/fellows/apply/index.php</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> to submit application.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">For program description see: </FONT><A href="http://www.sustainer.org/fellows/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.sustainer.org/fellows/index.html</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">See reports of previous workshops at: </FONT><A href="http://www.sustainer.org/fellows/reports.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.sustainer.org/fellows/reports.html</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">See testimonials from previous Fellows at: </FONT><A href="http://www.sustainer.org/fellows/testimonials.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.sustainer.org/fellows/testimonials.html</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">For bios of previous Fellows see: </FONT><A href="http://www.sustainer.org/fellows/fellows.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.sustainer.org/fellows/fellows.html</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Questions? Contact Daniella Malin at </FONT><A href="mailto:daniella@sustainer.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">daniella@sustainer.org</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> and cc: Edie Farwell at </FONT><A href="mailto:efarwell@sustainer.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">efarwell@sustainer.org</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">********************</FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> (RESOURCES 2) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">PEW Report on Options For Strengthening The International Climate Change Effort now available</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Report ( Chinese, French, and Spanish as well as English): </FONT><A href="http://www.pewclimate.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">www.pewclimate.org</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Webcast: </FONT><A href="http://www.un.org/webcast/unfccc/archive.asp?go=109"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.un.org/webcast/unfccc/archive.asp?go=109</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> (scroll to the 3:00 - 6:00 pm time slot).</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">On November 16, delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi heard recommendations from the Climate Dialogue at Pocantico, a group of policymakers and stakeholders from 15 countries convened by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change to examine options for strengthening the international climate effort. The group's report was presented to the Dialogue on Future Action to Address Climate Change, a set of talks launched by governments last year in Montreal to consider next steps under the Framework Convention.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">********************</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(RESOURCES 3) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Arctic and Antarctic Activity Book available from NOAA</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science offers the Arctic and Antarctic Activity Book in their ongoing series of regional children's activity books. The series' goal is to begin the process of forming an environmentally aware citizen population, and encourage future careers in marine sciences.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">This activity book, produced for the International Polar Year of 2007-2008, is for K-5th graders. The 25 page book is filled with information about both poles, along with facts, drawings, mazes, find-a-word puzzles, connect-the-dots, and other activities about organisms and life in the coldest areas of the world.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">To download the activity book and to learn more about the series, go to their website at: <</FONT><A href="http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/education/</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">********************</FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(RESOURCES 4) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">National Ice Center Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies Available - National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://nsidc.org/data/g02172.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://nsidc.org/data/g02172.html</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) now offers sea ice charts and climatologies in gridded format produced by the US National Ice Center (NIC).</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">NIC is an interagency NOAA, Navy, and Coast Guard operational sea ice analysis and forecasting center. Since 1972, NIC has produced weekly or biweekly Arctic and Antarctic sea ice charts. These analyses are produced using available in situ, remotely sensed, and model data sources and are generated primarily for mission planning and safety of navigation. Overall, the record of sea ice concentration from the NIC series is believed to be more accurate than that from passive microwave sensors, especially from the mid-1990s on. The ice edge in particular is more accurate and precise in the chart series. The product, however, has some inconsistencies due to the operational nature of NIC chart production, which should be kept in mind when using the product.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">This data set includes both the charts and an arctic sea ice concentration climatology derived from the chart series, covering 1972 through 2004. The climatology consists of median, maximum, minimum, first quartile, and third quartile concentrations as well as frequency of occurrence of ice at any concentration for 33 year, 10 year, and 5 year periods. Climatology products are in EASE-Grid (gridded binary) and GIS compatible format; chart files are in EASE-Grid; and browse images are GIF files.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">If you have any questions, please contact: NSIDC User Services E-mail: </FONT><A href="mailto:nsidc@nsidc.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">nsidc@nsidc.org</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">***************************************************</FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Forum</FONT></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(FORUM 1) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Two New Reports from EcoEquality:</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">High Stakes: Designing emissions pathways to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=501"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=501</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">An approach to the global climate regime that takes climate protection seriously while also preserving the right to human development</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.ecoequity.org/GDRs/GDRs_Nairobi.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.ecoequity.org/GDRs/GDRs_Nairobi.pdf</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The first, High Stakes: Designing emissions pathways to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change, is one that Paul Baer, EcoEquity’s Research Director, just did for the Institute for Public Policy Research in England. Coauthored with Mike Mastrandrea of Stanford University, it basically shows, by way of fairly robust risk calculations, that even if we could orchestrate an extremely steep and nearly immediate decline in global emissions, we’d still face a risk on the order of 10-20% or more of exceeding the 2ºC threshold, the most broadly endorsed “precautionary” temperature target. High Stakes can be downloaded at </FONT><A href="http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=501"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=501</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">
The second is a brief new paper, with the snappy title of : An approach to the global climate regime that takes climate protection seriously while also preserving the right to human development. We call this "the Nairobi draft” because, while it's ready for COP12/MOP2 in Kenya, it’s hardly the last word on Greenhouse Development Rights. But it does mark real progress since we debuted GDRs at COP10. For one thing, we’re no longer treating countries as monolithic, but rather calculating their “responsibility and capacity indexes” in a manner that is sensitive to intra-national income disparities. Not to say class. For another, and just as importantly, adaptation, and obligation to pay for adaptation, are now fully integrated into the GDRs framework. 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IHDP takes a social science perspective on global change and it works at the interface between science and practice.) Several articles of interest to the DISCCRS Community:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">- Turning Up the Volume on the Science-Practice Interface in Global Change (Dabelko)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">- Global Environmental Assessments Between North and South (Biermann)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">- Politics, the Missing Link in the Science-Policy Interface (Guimaraes)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">- Making Global Change Research Relevant to Policy; The Experience from 10 Years of Research Networks in the Americas 14 (Tiessen)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">- Pulling the Strings for Policy - The Urban Bias and Environmental</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Challenges in Uganda</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(Lwasa)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">- Building the Capacity for Assessment and Deliberation (Lebel & Tang)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">- Act Local But Think Global - The LOICZ Master Study Programme (Newton)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">( NEWS 2) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Warming Arctic Trying to Keep Its Cool, Study Finds</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-arctic17nov17,1,4008176.story"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-arctic17nov17,1,4008176.story</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Or: </FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/ygpd89"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://tinyurl.com/ygpd89</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">An international team of scientists Thursday reported that rising temperatures were steadily transforming the Arctic — warming millions of square miles of permafrost, promoting lush greenery on previously arid tundras and steadily shrinking the annual sea ice. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Yet the researchers also found new patterns of cooling ocean currents and prevailing winds that suggested the Arctic, long considered a bellwether of global warming, may be reverting in some ways to more normal conditions not seen since the 1970s.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Taken together, researchers said, these findings may be evidence of the region struggling to keep its balance as rising temperatures slowly overturn the long-established order of seasonal variations. "This is a region that is fighting back," said lead author Jacqueline A. Richter- Menge, a civil engineer at the Army Corps of Engineers' Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: auto;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">***************************************************</FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities</FONT></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(MEETINGS 1) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Call for Papers - “Making Science Global: Reconsidering the Social and Intellectual Implications of the International Polar and Geophysical Years” - October 31-November 1, 2007 – Washington, DC (USA)</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The program committee of “Making Science Global: Reconsidering the Social and Intellectual Implications of the International Polar and Geophysical Years” invites papers for a possible two-day conference at the Smithsonian Institution on October 31-November 1, 2007, examining the impetus for (and the impact upon) science, society, and culture of the International Polar Years (IPYs) of 1882-83 and 1932-33, and the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58, as well as how this perspective might be useful for planners of the current IPY in 2007-2008. We intend to explore the origins of these efforts, their political dimensions, and their consequences. Themes might include the place of the poles in human imagination, discipline formation, cultural nationalism, politics, and trans-nationality prior to and after 1882; the emergence of the modern geosciences in the first half of the twentieth century; the uses of new technologies to explore the poles; and changing assessments of the nature of human cultures in high latitudes. Papers addressing the International Geophysical Year might examine its role in the Cold War and the extent to which multi-disciplinarity and multi-national cooperation and competition shaped the geosciences and contributed to environmental awareness.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Pending funding, the conference will be held in Washington, D.C., immediately prior to the History of Science Society meeting in 2007. International scholars and graduate students seeking exposure to the history of the geosciences are particularly welcome. We hope that the papers will merit publication. Proposals for papers should include a title and abstract, as well as curriculum vita.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">DEADLINE: December 31, 2006.</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Please send these electronically to all three convenors: 1) David DeVorkin </FONT><A href="mailto:devorkind@si.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">devorkind@si.edu</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">2) Roger Launius </FONT><A href="mailto:launiusR@si.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">launiusR@si.edu</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">3) James Fleming </FONT><A href="mailto:jfleming@colby.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">jfleming@colby.edu</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">***************************************************</FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Jobs</FONT></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></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"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Or, visit </FONT><A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> and click on 'Join this group' </FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(JOB 1) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Postdoc. Researcher - Coastal Physical Oceanography – Dauphin Island Sea Lab – Alabama (USA)</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">A postdoctoral position in Coastal Physical Oceanography is available at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama. The successful applicant will join a research team consisting of physical, biological and fisheries oceanographers investigating physical-biological couplings in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The applicant should have a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography or a closely related field. Experience with moored instruments and time-series analysis is strongly desired. The initial appointment is for one year, and renewal is contingent upon annual performance reviews and availability of funds. Applicants should send electronically a letter of application, curriculum vitae with a list of publications, a brief (1-2 pages) statement of research interests, and a list of at least three references to Dr. Kyeong Park (</FONT><A href="mailto:kpark@jaguar1.usouthal.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">kpark@disl.org</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">). Review of complete applications will begin immediately until the position is filled. More information regarding the Dauphin Island Sea Lab can be found at </FONT><A href="http://disl.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.disl.org</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(JOB 2) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Asst/Assoc Prof. - Department of Marine Sciences - University of South Alabama - Mobile AL (USA)</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.southalabama.edu/marinesciences/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.southalabama.edu/marinesciences/</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The Department of Marine Sciences at the University of South Alabama invites applications for a full-time, 9-month, tenure-track faculty position. Applicants with research interests that complement existing expertise in the Department (</FONT><A href="http://www.southalabama.edu/marinesciences/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.southalabama.edu/marinesciences/</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">) and at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (</FONT><A href="http://www.disl.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.disl.org/</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">) are particularly sought. USA is a member of the Alabama Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active, extramurally-funded research program, advise graduate students and teach graduate courses in areas relevant to his/her expertise. Applicants must hold an earned Ph.D. and be fluent in written and spoken English. Applicants should send a letter of application, CV, concise (maximum three pages) statement of research and teaching interests, and the names and contact information for at least three references to: Search Committee Chair, Department of Marine Sciences, LSCB 25, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688. Inquiries may be sent to Dr. Kyeong Park (</FONT><A href="mailto:kpark@jaguar1.usouthal.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">kpark@disl.org</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">). </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Review of applications will begin December 1, 2006</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> and continue until the position is filled. The preferred starting date is August 15, 2007. AA/EEO/M/F/D</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-weight:normal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(JOB 3) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Program Officer - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) </FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">IIASA's Greenhouse Gas Initiative (GGI) – Vienna (AUSTRIA)</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PE/Jobs/2006-12-ggi-progoff.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PE/Jobs/2006-12-ggi-progoff.html</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">IIASA’s Greenhouse Gas Initiative (GGI) is offering a position of a </FONT><A href="http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/PE/Jobs/2006-12-ggi-progoff.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Program Officer </FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">to coordinate its inter-program collaborative research effort on climate change. This position includes up to 50% time to carry out research relevant to GGI. The fields represented in this interdisciplinary program range from demography to energy and air pollution modeling, to land use, to risk and vulnerability assessments. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (</FONT><A href="http://www.iiasa.ac.at/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www.iiasa.ac.at</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">) is located just outside Vienna, Austria. IIASA is an independent, international institution, supported by the U.S. and sixteen other governments, that engages in scientific research aimed at providing policy insight on issues of regional and global importance. The National Academy of Sciences serves as the U.S. National Member Organization (NMO). A profile of GGI co-leader Brian O’Neill that was featured in the Oct. 13 issue of Science magazine can be accessed from the U.S. IIASA NMO Web site, </FONT><A href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-iiasa/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-iiasa/index.html</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">. (Direct access is otherwise not permitted without a subscription to the magazine.)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Requirements include demonstrated experience with scientific coordination in an interdisciplinary setting, excellent organizational skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, and the ability to contribute substantively to a relevant area of climate change-related research. The candidate should have an advanced degree (Ph.D. preferable) in a relevant field.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The successful candidate will be offered an initial fixed-term contract for 2 years, beginning early in 2007, with the possibility of extension. The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. It is exempt from taxation in Austria, but subject to the principle of income aggregation. The appointment includes moving and settlement allowances.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The closing date for applications is 15 December 2006</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">. Questions about the positions should be directed to Walter Foith, the head of IIASA's Human Resources Department (</FONT><A href="mailto:foithw@iiasa.ac.at"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">foithw@iiasa.ac.at</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(JOB 4) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Director - Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program - University of Illinois Extension - College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)</FONT></B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></B></SPAN><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Search #10876</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/careers/vacancies/Search10876.html">http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/careers/vacancies/Search10876.html</A></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The University of Illinois and Purdue University seek a director for the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program, headquartered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The program is part of NOAA's National Sea Grant College Program, a network of 32 university-based programs in coastal and Great Lakes states. Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant sponsors and conducts research, education, and outreach that empower citizens and communities in the Lake Michigan region to secure a healthy environment and economy. Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant has been a college level Sea Grant program since 1997 and received highest level rating for performance in 2004. The program includes 23 staff members located at six institutions in Illinois and Indiana that are supported through partnerships with over 11 departments, organizations, or administrative units.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The director will serve as the full time (100%, 12-month) administrative leader for the program and all of its staff members. This position may be filled at the associate or full professor level with a tenure/tenure-track appointment in an appropriate academic department at University of Illinois.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Administrative Responsibility: The director represents and acts on behalf of the states of Illinois and Indiana through the University of Illinois and Purdue University and reports to the Associate Dean, Extension and Outreach, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois, working in conjunction with the program’s Administrative Advisory Committee.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Duties and Responsibilities:</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">1) Assume programmatic, fiscal, personnel, and administrative management of the program; 2) Lead Sea Grant’s Program Management Team and staff towards implementation of the strategic and implementation plans; 3) Coordinate and participate in state, regional, and national collaborative projects focusing on Great Lakes and Sea Grant priority research, outreach, and education issues; 4) Develop and oversee existing and new sponsored activities; 5) Provide guidance on natural resources issues at the state and federal level; 6) Develop partnerships in other natural resource programs with universities and agencies; 7) Comply with University of Illinois Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity policies and guidelines; 8) Other duties as assigned.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Required Qualifications: 1) A Ph.D. in a natural science, social science, or engineering field relevant to Sea Grant’s mission; 2) A demonstrated ability to build and lead cross-campus, cross-institutional programs in research and outreach; 3) Extensive experience in outreach and research administration and evidence of success managing grant awards, particularly interdisciplinary programs that relate to the mission of Sea Grant; 4) A knowledge of federal and state public programs and private groups that are involved in research and outreach in the Great Lakes; 5) Demonstrated leadership in personnel, budget, and other programmatic activities.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Preferred Qualifications: 1) Prior experience with Sea Grant College Programs; 2) Demonstrated excellence in instruction and research at levels that qualify for a tenured faculty appointment at the rank of associate or full professor in an appropriate department at the University of Illinois.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Proposed Start Date:</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">May 2007, or as soon as possible thereafter.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. To ensure full consideration, </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">all application materials must be received by December 15, 2006 at 5:00 PM</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Application: Send a letter of application referencing the specific position, CV, and contact information for three references: </FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Irene Miles, Search Committee Chair, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Director Search, </FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">c/o ACES Human Resources, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 117 Mumford Hall, MC-710, 1301 W Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">217-333-2664; (</FONT><A href="mailto:hr@aces.uiuc.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">hr@aces.uiuc.edu</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">)</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">For additional information, contact:</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Dr. Richard Warner, Interim Assistant Dean, Extension Program</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Coordination at (217) 333-5900.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">(JOB 5) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Faculty Position Tenure-Track - Marine Science – University of Texas at Austin - Port Aransas, Texas (USA)</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The University of Texas at Austin Department of Marine Science and Marine Science Institute invite applications for a faculty position in marine science.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">All fields will be considered, but areas of particular interest include estuarine and/or coastal ecology with an emphasis on benthos or nekton.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree at the time of appointment.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Postdoctoral experience, a strong research and publication record, and an emphasis on field research are preferred.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The position, based at the Marine Science Institute (<A href="http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu">www.utmsi.utexas.edu</A>) in Port Aransas, TX, includes 9 months of annual salary support for research and teaching activities. The Institute manages the newest site in the National Estuarine Research Reserve system, which includes 185,000 acres of subtropical estuarine habitat.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Each applicant should send a PDF file containing a statement of research and specific teaching interests (3 pages maximum) and curriculum vitae to </FONT><A href="mailto:facsearch@utmsi.utexas.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">facsearch@utmsi.utexas.edu</FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">, and have at least three letters of recommendation mailed to: Search Committee Chair, The University of Texas Marine Science Institute, 750 Channel View Dr., Port Aransas, Texas 78373-5015.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The statement of research interests should indicate how the proposed research activities would benefit from being based on the Gulf Coast and how the applicant might interact with existing research programs.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Review of applications will start January 15, 2007</FONT></B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> and will continue until the position is filled.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">State law requires a background check on the selected applicant. The University of Texas at Austin values diversity and is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. UT Austin will make every effort to accommodate professional couples.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></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">**************************************************</FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler to distribute information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate-change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:phd@whitman.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">phd@whitman.edu</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. 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