<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear DISCCRS/DIALOG-ers:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The new DISCCRS symposium is approaching quickly, and we are trying to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">spread the word about it as widely as possible. I would greatly appreciate your</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">help. Please</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">• Forward the symposium announcement to institutional representatives, students and colleagues via e-mail. I would particularly appreciate it if you could send it to a key person at your Ph.D.-granting and postdoctoral institutions so they could forward it on to students and new PhDs who might be eligible.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">• Print a few copies the DISCCRS flier posted at <FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf">http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> and post them around your home institution. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">• If you are going to any climate-change meetings, and are willing to put out a stack of the fliers, we would be happy to send the fliers either to your institutional address or to the hotel you would be using on site. Just send a note to <A href="mailto:disccrs@whitman.edu">disccrs@whitman.edu</A> with your name, address, meeting name, and meeting dates. If you would like us to send them to your hotel on site, be sure to provide the hotel address, phone number, and your arrival date. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>Word-of-mouth</B> is extremely effective for advertising this kind of</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">event, so please encourage anyone you know who may be eligible to apply, and also mention the program to any folks in key positions who interact with recent Ph.D. grads doing climate-change or climate impacts-related research.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I will send the symposium announcement in a separate e-mail to make it easy to forward on.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks in advance for your help!</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; 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; 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; 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 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Arial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">**********</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Office for Earth System Studies Tel: 509-527-5948 </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; 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"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Walla Walla, WA 99362</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: 10.0px Arial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><A href="mailto:weiler@whitman.edu">weiler@whitman.edu</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; ; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Programs for Recent PhDs: </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; ; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; ; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> <A href="http://aslo.org/phd.html">http://aslo.org/phd.html</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Resources for early-career development:</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><A href="http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/resources/">http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/resources/</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; ; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">DIALOG symposia for aquatic-science researchers: </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; ; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> <A href="http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf">http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf</A> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; ; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; ; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">DISCCRS symposia for climate-change researchers: </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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