<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" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>DISCCRS News</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><B>2/17/2007</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style="">************************************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B>TABLE OF CONTENTS</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B><I>RESOURCES and FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES</I></B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Earth System Science Education for the 21st Century Webpage</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://esse21.usra.edu/ESSE21/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://esse21.usra.edu/ESSE21/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">listserv:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://lists.usra.edu/mailman/listinfo/esse"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://lists.usra.edu/mailman/listinfo/esse</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>U.S. Opening Ceremony for International Polar Year 2007-2008</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>WEBCAST - Monday, 26 February 2007 - National Academy of Sciences Auditorium, Washington, DC</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <SPAN style="">The webcast will be accessible at both of the following Web sites: </SPAN><A href="http://www.nationalacademies.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.nationalacademies.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> and </SPAN><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.nsf.gov</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN> For information about the IPY: </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://us-ipy.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://us-ipy.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">/ </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see RESOURCES 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>NewScientist Careers Guide 2007: The employers contact book for scientists – FREE download</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.newscientistjobs.com/forms/200702_NSCA7_REG.html?DCMP=EMC-mailing&nsref=CG07_NS.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.newscientistjobs.com/forms/200702_NSCA7_REG.html?DCMP=EMC-mailing&nsref=CG07_NS.com</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 2 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B><I>SCIENCE NEWS</I></B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://s84.sports-guru.com/Politically-Pushing-Sustainability-and-One-Example-of-the-Fruits/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>Politically Pushing Sustainability, and One Example of the Fruits</B></FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><B>
</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Oregon State University professor Jane Lubchenco, who was chairwoman of the governor’s advisory group on global warming, said that it is urgent that global-warming policies are enacted now. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://s84.sports-guru.com/Politically-Pushing-Sustainability-and-One-Example-of-the-Fruits/">http://s84.sports-guru.com/Politically-Pushing-Sustainability-and-One-Example-of-the-Fruits/</A><O:P></O:P> </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://english.people.com.cn/200702/13/eng20070213_349547.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>European experts discuss climate change impacts on water</B></FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://english.people.com.cn/200702/13/eng20070213_349547.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://english.people.com.cn/200702/13/eng20070213_349547.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Climate change 2007:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>the IPCC report dissected.</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Special report found in 8 February 2007 issue of Nature <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html">http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>2006 Fifth-Warmest Year on Record</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17553"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17553</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Research Squeeze</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-id.scientists11feb11,0,2720533.story"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-id.scientists11feb11,0,2720533.story</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/32hhu3"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/32hhu3</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> (see NEWS 1 below)</SPAN><SPAN style=""><B></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Warming Threatens Double-Trouble in Peru</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.examiner.com/a-559662~Warming_Threatens_Double_Trouble_in_Peru.html">http://www.examiner.com/a-559662~Warming_Threatens_Double_Trouble_in_Peru.html</A> Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2j4rz2"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2j4rz2</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 2 below)</SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Flying the Cleanly Skies?</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0212/p13s02-litr.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0212/p13s02-litr.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2sj797"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2sj797</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 3 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Nasa Study Finds Warmer Future Could Bring Droughts - <SPAN style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">NASA Press Release: 07-37, </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Feb. 12, 2007.</SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 4 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy FY 2008 Budget: Geothermal, Hydropower Zeroed Out; Many Energy Efficiency Programs Cut</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 5 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Europe Fights to Save Its Fish Stocks</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Science/Europes_Troubled_Seas.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Science/Europes_Troubled_Seas.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2kpks9"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2kpks9</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 6 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Nasa Announces Briefing On Discovery Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nasa Media Advisory: M07-021, Feb 13, 2007 </SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see NEWS 7 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <SPAN style=""><B>Groups Sue to Protect Marine Mammals</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.examiner.com/a-563946~Groups_Sue_to_Protect_Marine_Mammals.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.examiner.com/a-563946~Groups_Sue_to_Protect_Marine_Mammals.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2y39oy"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2y39oy</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 8 below)<SPAN style=""><B></B></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><B>Bent Skovmand, Seed Protector, Dies at 61</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/science/14skovmand.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/science/14skovmand.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/ypc59k"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/ypc59k</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> <SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(see NEWS 9 below)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><I></I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Sea Creatures To Be Tracked Electronically</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Fish-and-Chips.html?_r=1&oref=slogin"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Fish-and-Chips.html?_r=1&oref=slogin</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></FONT><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""> </SPAN>(see NEWS 10 below)</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Joint NASA Study Reveals Leaks In Antarctic 'Plumbing System'</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></FONT><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""> </SPAN>(see NEWS 11 below)</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><I>SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES</I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>NECSI Complex Systems Summer School - June 11-22, 2007 - MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA)</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://necsi.org/events/summer2007.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://necsi.org/events/summer2007.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see MEETING 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B><I>JOBS</I></B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><B>Social Science Research Positions - Actor-oriented analysis; Climate adaptation and social learning; Internships - SEI Oxford – (Global)</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>Applications received by 16 February 2007 will be guaranteed consideration.</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.sei.se/index.php?page=jobitem&item=5595"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.sei.se/index.php?page=jobitem&item=5595</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Post-Doc positions (2) Stockholm University Climate Research<SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Environment (SUCLIM) (Sweden)</SPAN></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.suclim.su.se/home/2_postdoctoral_positions.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.suclim.su.se/home/2_postdoctoral_positions.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Post Doctoral Fellowship - Soft Bottom Ecologist - University of Sidney, Sidney (Australia)</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.serpentproject.com">http://www.serpentproject.com</A><B></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 1 below)</SPAN><SPAN style=""><B></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Assoc Editor(s) - Nature Geoscience</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B></B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOBS 2 below)</SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Port of Tacoma Endowed Chair - Environmental Science - University of Washington, Tacoma WA (USA)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 3 below)</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Asst. Prof. tenure-track - Environmental Geochemistry - Department of Earth Sciences - Memorial University of Newfoundland - St. John's, NL (Canada)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 4 below)</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>PhD and MSc graduate assistantships – Environmental Science - Memorial University - St. John’s, Newfoundland (Canada)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 5 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Asst. Profs. tenure-track (2) - School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Science and Technology Studies - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York (USA)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOBS 6 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><B>Post-Doc - Marine phytoplankton observed with global biooptical methods (PHYTOOPTICS) - Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research – Bremerhaven (Germany)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 7 below)</SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><B>Post-Doc - diatom analysis and climate change - Department of Ecology and Environmental Science - Umeå University – (Sweden)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 8 below)</SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Tenure-track </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>(6 new positions) </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>- Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>Research (CIDER) - Stony Brook University – Stony Brook, NY (USA)</B><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/cider/opportunities/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/cider/opportunities/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOBS 9 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Faculty (one year replacement) - Environmental Geosciene - College of William and Mary – Williamsburg, VA (USA)</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.wm.edu/geology/jobs.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.wm.edu/geology/jobs.php</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 10 below)</SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Resources and Funding Opportunities</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(RESOURCES 1) <B>U.S. Opening Ceremony for International Polar Year 2007-2008</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>WEBCAST - Monday, 26 February 2007 - National Academy of Sciences Auditorium, Washington, DC</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <SPAN style="">The webcast will be accessible at both of the following Web sites: </SPAN><A href="http://www.nationalacademies.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.nationalacademies.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> and </SPAN><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.nsf.gov</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN> For information about the IPY:</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://us-ipy.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://us-ipy.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">/<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The opening ceremony to mark the beginning of International Polar Year in the United States will be held at the National Academy of Sciences Auditorium, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC on Monday, 26 February 2007, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hosted by the National Academies and the National Science Foundation, the ceremony will include remarks from polar scientists about research set to take place during this historic time, as well as remarks from government leaders whose agencies play an active role in this important international effort. This event will provide a unique opportunity to network and learn how to get involved in International Polar Year activities.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Speakers include:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">- Dr. Ralph Cicerone, National Academy of Sciences;<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">- Dr. Arden Bement, National Science Foundation;<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">- Dr. Robin Bell, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory;<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">- Dr. Robert Bindschadler, National Aeronautics and Space<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Administration; and<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">- Dr. Konrad Steffen, University of Colorado.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The International Polar Year 2007-2008 will be an intense, coordinated campaign of polar observations, research, and analysis that will be multidisciplinary in scope and international in participation. Thousands of scientists, teachers, and students from more than 60 nations will participate in this major, worldwide scientific effort to analyze the role of the polar regions in the global system.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To register to attend or view the ceremony via webcast the day of the event, please go to: </SPAN><A href="http://www.us-ipy.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.us-ipy.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information, please contact: Leah Probst, Polar Research Board of the National Academies, Phone: 202-334-2394<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>E-mail: </SPAN><A href="mailto:lprobst@nas.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">lprobst@nas.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>or contact: Peter West, National Science Foundation, Phone: 703-292-8070<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>E-mail: </SPAN><A href="mailto:pwest@nsf.gov"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">pwest@nsf.gov</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(RESOURCES 2) <B>NewScientist Careers Guide 2007: The employers contact book for scientists – FREE download </B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.newscientistjobs.com/forms/200702_NSCA7_REG.html?DCMP=EMC-mailing&nsref=CG07_NS.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.newscientistjobs.com/forms/200702_NSCA7_REG.html?DCMP=EMC-mailing&nsref=CG07_NS.com</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Considering your next career move?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Want to find out what is happening in your field?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Access the New Scientist Careers Guide 2007 FREE for profiles and contact information for key science employers and informative editorial, featuring: 1) How much are you worth?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Find out with our industry-wide salary& benefits survey, sponsored by SRG<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2) How to live a stress-free life<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>3) The moment everything changed – Some of the best and worst experiences that a career in science can give you<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>4)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This much I know – Three leading scientists reveal key lessons that have helped them stay ahead of the game.<O:P></O:P>*</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Science News</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 1)<B> Research Squeeze</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-id.scientists11feb11,0,2720533.story"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-id.scientists11feb11,0,2720533.story</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/32hhu3"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/32hhu3</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Baltimore Sun - Forbidden to talk, Rebecca Fuller nervously took notes as other scientists analyzed her failure to win $275,000 in funding for promising Parkinson's disease research. Laundette Jones, her primary critic on the panel, blamed a lack of clarity in the request Fuller had sent to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"I was looking for the punch line," Jones said, leafing through the grant proposal for effect. "What impact is [the research] going to make? I think I found it -- but not until page 39."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Embarrassed as she was to expose her missteps, Fuller welcomed the blunt feedback from her colleagues at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Her career, like those of most journeyman scientists, hinges on securing funding -- and that has become more difficult in recent years.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*************************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">(NEWS 2) <B>Warming Threatens Double-Trouble in Peru</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.examiner.com/a-559662~Warming_Threatens_Double_Trouble_in_Peru.html">http://www.examiner.com/a-559662~Warming_Threatens_Double_Trouble_in_Peru.html</A> Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2j4rz2"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2j4rz2</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>San Francisco Examiner - PASTORURI GLACIER, Peru - Peru's "White Mountain Range" may soon have to change its name.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ice atop Cordillera Blanca, the largest glacier chain in the tropics, is melting fast because of rising temperatures, and peaks are turning brown. The trend is highlighting fears of global warming and, scientists say, is endangering future water supplies to the arid coast where most Peruvians live.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Glaciologists consider the health of the world's glaciers an indicator of global warming and they warn that what is happening in the Andes signals trouble ahead. "To me it's the rate of ice loss that's a real concern," because when melting accelerates, the ice cannot replenish itself, said Lonnie Thompson, a leading glacier expert at Ohio State University.<O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 3) <B>Flying the Cleanly Skies?</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0212/p13s02-litr.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0212/p13s02-litr.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2sj797"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2sj797</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Christian Science Monitor - Just a few decades from now, people may look back at the early 21st century with both fondness and horror as the Era of the Cheap Airline Flight. They may wax nostalgic for the days when visiting distant relatives and taking vacations in exotic locales were easily affordable for the masses. But they also may be alarmed at how long it took the world to realize the havoc that unfettered air travel was wreaking on the world's climate.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At least one travel industry official predicts that in 30 years, long- distance flying will be undertaken only by the wealthy as ticket prices rise dramatically - and the number of flights shrinks proportionately – to curb the emissions of greenhouse gases created by air travel. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>...Now two factors are conspiring to make airline travel a hot topic in the global-warming debate: If current trends continue, the number of airline tickets sold per year will double to more than 9 billion by 2025, according to a new study by the Airports Council International. At the same time, experts see no viable jet-fuel alternative to kerosene. While some modest fuel-conservation measures still can be taken, more and more people are concluding that fewer flights may be the only way to cut airline emissions significantly.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 4) <B>Nasa Study Finds Warmer Future Could Bring Droughts - <SPAN style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">NASA Press Release: 07-37, </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Feb. 12, 2007.</SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>NASA scientists may have discovered how a warmer climate in the future could increase droughts in certain parts of the world, including the southwest United States. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The researchers compared historical records of the climate impact of changes in the sun's output with model projections of how a warmer climate driven by greenhouse gases would change rainfall patterns. They found that a warmer future climate likely will produce droughts in the same areas as those observed in ancient times, but potentially with greater severity.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"These findings strongly suggest that greenhouse gases and long-term changes in solar activity both can have major influences on climate via similar processes," said Drew Shindell, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York. Shindell is lead author of a paper that appeared in the Dec. 27, 2006, issue of the American Geophysical Union's "Geophysical Research Letters."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"There is some evidence that rainfall patterns already may be changing," Shindell added. "Much of the Mediterranean area, North Africa and the Middle East rapidly are becoming drier. If the trend continues as expected, the consequences may be severe in only a couple of decades. These changes could pose significant water resource challenges to large segments of the population."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Using the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies climate model, researchers found that changes in solar output in the ancient past increased surface warming and altered atmospheric moisture and circulations. These changes likely led to the severe droughts seen in paleoclimate records.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The same model showed that greenhouse-gas warming has similar effects on the atmosphere, suggesting drier conditions may become more common in the subtropics. Rainfall could decrease further in already water-stressed regions such as the southwest United States, Mexico, parts of North Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. Meanwhile, precipitation may increase across the western Pacific, along much of the equator and in parts of southeast Asia.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The computer model considers changes in the oceans, weather, and chemistry of the atmosphere, like ozone concentrations, and accurately reproduced the broad rainfall shifts toward regionally drier or wetter conditions during the past several hundred years. Sunspot and ice core data also link the historical rainfall shifts to variations in the amount of energy released by the sun. Since the size of solar changes is uncertain, the study focused on the location and pattern of precipitation shifts, not their precise amount. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Increases in solar output break up oxygen molecules, raising ozone concentrations in the upper atmosphere. This adds to upper atmospheric heating that leads to shifts in circulations down to the surface. In turn, surface temperatures warm, and the Earth's basic rainfall patterns are enhanced. For instance, in wet regions such as the tropics, precipitation usually increases, while dry areas become more prone to drought since rainfall decreases and warmer temperatures help remove the small amount of moisture in the soil. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Precipitation is hard to predict because it is so highly variable, but these results increase our confidence that continued warming will be associated with large-scale changes in rainfall," said Shindell. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Researchers also considered numerous tree-ring, fire, and lake sediment records from across the Americas, including Mexico, Peru, and the Yucatan Peninsula. These data are reliable indicators of historical climate and confirm a pronounced increase in drought frequency in the southern United States, Mexico, and other subtropical locations during periods of increased solar output in the past 1,200 years. This long-term record of solar output is based on chemical isotopes whose production is related to the sun's brightness. Conversely, in parts of the tropics, ocean sediment data, key indicators of precipitation changes, reflect increased rainfall.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>According to the researchers, the same processes identified by this new research very likely also affected past civilizations, such as the Pueblo people of New Mexico and Arizona who abandoned cities in the 1300s. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit: </SPAN><A href="http://www.nasa.gov/home"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nasa.gov/home</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 5) <B>DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy FY 2008 Budget: Geothermal, Hydropower Zeroed Out; Many Energy Efficiency Programs Cut</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>WASHINGTON – Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) analysis of budget for the U.S. Department of Energy: In signing the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT, P.L. 109-58) on August 8, 2005, President Bush said EPACT “is strengthening America's electrical infrastructure, reducing the country's dependence on foreign sources of energy, increasing conservation, and expanding the use of clean renewable energy.” In his January 23 State of the Union address, President Bush said “It's in our vital interest to diversify America's energy supply -- the way forward is through technology. We must continue changing the way America generates electric power... America is on the verge of technological breakthroughs that will enable us to live our lives less dependent on oil. And these technologies will help us be better stewards of the environment, and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change.”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The funding priorities reflected in the President’s FY 08 budget appear in conflict with these goals of energy independence, renewable energy development, energy conservation, and environmental improvement. The President’s budget is not consistent—given the volume of voices and concerns about energy security, the huge bills residential and business consumers face, loss of economic competitiveness, environmental degradation, and rising greenhouse gas emissions—with his stated goals. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE/RE) program should play a critical role in reducing energy import dependence while protecting the environment by developing and promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. The President's FY 08 budget request for DOE’s EE/RE programs is $1.24 billion (five percent of the DOE budget)—essentially flat with FY 05 appropriations. ( i.e: Rougly a 12-15 % cut based on inflation).Although there are increases for solar PV, biomass and hydrogen, the flat funding for DOE’s energy efficiency and renewable energy technology investments masks several cuts in effective energy efficiency programs and zeroes out investments in geothermal and hydropower technology.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The President’s FY 08 budget request includes:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Zeroing out the Geothermal Program<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Zeroing out the Hydropower Program<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$98.5 million cut in Weatherization Assistance (41% cut from FY 06 appropriations)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$9.9 million cut in Industrial Technologies<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$1.0 million cut in Tribal Energy Activities<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$22.6 million increase in Hybrid Electric Systems<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$9.9 million increase in State Energy Program Grants (28% increase from FY 06 appropriations)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$3.1 million increase in Clean Cities (47% increase from FY 06 appropriations)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>$7.5 million for the Asia-Pacific Partnership, one of the President’s priorities for addressing climate change<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 6) <B>Europe Fights to Save Its Fish Stocks</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Science/Europes_Troubled_Seas.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Science/Europes_Troubled_Seas.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2kpks9"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2kpks9</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Registration Required) - ADRA, Spain - The catch of the day brings up a squirming pandemonium of creatures from the deep: sea bream and red snapper, miniature lobsters, an electric ray packing 150 volts, a baby octopus watching with one unblinking eye.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But skipper Mariano Lopez, gazing at this mound of exuberance on his trawler's deck, is disappointed. Like many patches of the Mediterranean, this overworked fishing ground is not yielding the bounty it once did. "There should be twice as much," Lopez says, shaking his head.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fishermen were long seen as Europe's last true hunters, but the romance that comes with the struggle against nature has dwindled as fast as the once-bountiful fish. The European Union has desperately implemented fishing curbs and other measures to keep Mediterranean and Atlantic waters alive - policies fishermen complain are destroying their traditions and livelihoods. But Europe's campaign to save fishing stocks could be a losing battle.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 7) <B>Nasa Announces Briefing On Discovery Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nasa Media Advisory: M07-021, Feb 13, 2007<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>WASHINGTON - Researchers from NASA and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif., will unveil new results from an unprecedented study of water deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. The study will be presented on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at Hotel Nikko, San Francisco.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Using data from NASA satellites, the scientists created a technique that offers a breakthrough perspective of the ice sheet and the environment far below its surface. The study will be published in the Feb. 16 edition of Science magazine.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Robert Bindschadler of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and Helen Amanda Fricker of Scripps will discuss their findings and answer media questions. Interested media should contact AAAS at </SPAN><A href="mailto:scipak@aaas.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">scipak@aaas.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> or 202-326-6440 to request call-in information to participate in the briefing.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Participants may access images available at the briefing time by visiting: </SPAN><A href="http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/antarctic_plumb_media.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/antarctic_plumb_media.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit: <A href="http://www.nasa.gov">www.nasa.gov</A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(NEWS 8) <B>Groups Sue to Protect Marine Mammals</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.examiner.com/a-563946~Groups_Sue_to_Protect_Marine_Mammals.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.examiner.com/a-563946~Groups_Sue_to_Protect_Marine_Mammals.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2y39oy"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2y39oy</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>San Francisco Examiner - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday claiming marine mammal regulators are not doing enough to protect polar bears and walruses against the combined threat of oil and gas exploration and global warming.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The groups say the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not fully consider the effects of global warming, such as diminished sea ice, as it wrote regulations allowing for incidental harassment of polar bears and walruses by the industry in the Beaufort Sea and nearby coastal areas.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Polar bears depend on sea ice for their main prey, ringed seals and bearded seals. Beaufort Sea females use coastal land or sea ice for digging snow caves to give birth. Female walruses follow the receding ice edge north in spring and summer, using the ice as a platform to dive to the bottom and feed while calves remain on the ice.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 9) <B>Bent Skovmand, Seed Protector, Dies at 61</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/science/14skovmand.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/science/14skovmand.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/ypc59k"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/ypc59k</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New York Times (Registration Required) - Bent Skovmand, a plant scientist who helped to create the "doomsday vault," a massively fortified cavern to safeguard three million kinds of unique crop seeds against catastrophe, died Tuesday in Kavlinge, Sweden. He was 61. His wife, Eugenia, announced his death, The Associated Press reported. The cause was complications of a brain tumor, Swedish news reports said. The vault was only part of Dr. Skovmand's crusade to save and propagate the best of the best strains of valuable food plants. His mission, he often said, was ending hunger.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He searched the world to discover and preserve lost strains of wheat and other crops and helped breed them into stronger, more disease-resistant strains. He helped assemble more than 150,000 varieties of wheat seed and more than 20,000 kinds of corn. He worked with scientists, farmers and industrial groups in developing countries to make triticale, a hybrid of rye and wheat, a commercial crop.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 10)<B> Sea Creatures To Be Tracked Electronically</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Fish-and-Chips.html?_r=1&oref=slogin"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Fish-and-Chips.html?_r=1&oref=slogin</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Associated Press - 12 February 2007 - Researchers are planning a worldwide effort to track the movement of sea creatures tagged with tiny electronic devices. Following pilot testing in the north Pacific, the Ocean Tracking Network will expand to the Atlantic, Arctic, Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sea life ranging from salmon to whales, turtles to sharks, will be tagged so they can then be tracked as they swim past arrays of sensors placed at critical locations in the oceans. Initial research for the effort was done as a joint U.S.-Canada project in the north Pacific.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The goal is to eventually have 5,000 ocean receivers arranged in 60 lines worldwide, capable of tracking up to 1 million animals at the same time. Headquarters will be at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. In the new system tagged sea creatures will also collect data from other tagged animals they encounter. The scientists said the tracking system will allow them to better understand animal movements and behavior changes that occur due to global warming. That will help in managing fisheries both for conservation and business.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style="">(NEWS 11)<B>Debate Over Global Warming Is Shifting</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE"><A href="http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/02/15/debate_over_global_warming_is_shifting/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/02/15/debate_over_global_warming_is_shifting/</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style=""> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><SPAN lang="DE"><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2nappj"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2nappj</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Boston Globe (Registration Required) - WASHINGTON -- With Democrats controlling the environmental agenda in Congress, a panel of international scientists saying there's a greater-than- 90 percent chance that humans contribute to global warming, and former vice president Al Gore calling climate change a moral issue, many besieged global warming skeptics are starting to tone down their rhetoric.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some, though, are sticking to aggressive tactics, even contending they are gaining momentum. And they have influential allies: some scientists, conservative think-tank pundits, a minority of Republicans in Congress, and a sympathetic White House that has rejected attempts to force companies to curb carbon dioxide emissions -- even though the vast majority of scientists say those emissions are heating up the earth.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Still, both sides acknowledge that the global warming debate has changed significantly in recent weeks. The biggest factor is the Feb. 2 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC -- a review of scientific literature by hundreds of scientists who determined that it is more than 90 percent certain humans contribute to global warming.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 12 </SPAN>) <B>Joint NASA Study Reveals Leaks In Antarctic 'Plumbing System'</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>NASA RELEASE: 07-42 - WASHINGTON - Scientists using NASA satellites have discovered an extensive network of waterways beneath a fast-moving Antarctic ice stream that provide clues as to how "leaks" in the system impact sea level and the world's largest ice sheet. Antarctica holds about 90 percent of the world's ice and 70 percent of the world's reservoir of fresh water.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With data from NASA satellites, a team of scientists led by research geophysicist Helen Fricker of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif., detected for the first time the subtle rise and fall of the surface of fast-moving ice streams as the lakes and channels nearly a half-mile of solid ice below filled and emptied. Results were presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Francisco. The study will be published in the Feb. 16 issue of Science magazine.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"This exciting discovery of large lakes exchanging water under the ice sheet surface has radically altered our view of what is happening at the base of the ice sheet and how ice moves in that environment," said co-author Robert Bindschadler, chief scientist of the Laboratory for Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"NASA's state-of-the-art satellite instruments are so sensitive we are able to capture an unprecedented three-dimensional look at the system beneath the thick ice sheet and measure from space changes of a mere 3 feet in its surface elevation. That is like seeing an elevation change in the thickness of a paperback book from an airplane flying at 35,000 feet."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The surface of the ice sheet appears stable to the naked eye, but because the base of an ice stream is warmer, water melts from the basal ice to flow, filling the system's "pipes" and lubricating flow of the overlying ice. This web of waterways acts as a vehicle for water to move and change its influence on the ice movement. Moving back and forth through the system's "pipes" from one lake to another, the water stimulates the speed of the ice stream's flow a few feet per day, contributing to conditions that cause the ice sheet to either grow or decay. Movement in this system can influence sea level and ice melt worldwide.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"There's an urgency to learning more about ice sheets when you note that sea level rises and falls in direct response to changes in that ice," Fricker said. "With this in mind, NASA's ICESat, Aqua and other satellites are providing a vital public service."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In recent years, scientists have discovered more than 145 subglacial lakes, a smaller number of which composes this "plumbing system" in the Antarctic. Bindschadler and Fricker; Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.; and Laurence Padman of Earth and Space Research in Corvallis, Ore.; observed water discharging from these under-ice lakes into the ocean in coastal areas. Their research has delivered new insight into how much and how frequently these waterways "leak" water and how many connect to the<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">ocean.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The study included observations of a subglacial lake the size of Lake Ontario buried under an active area of west Antarctica that feeds into the Ross Ice Shelf. The research team combined images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite and data from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) on NASA's Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) to unveil a multi-dimensional view of changes in the elevation of the icy surface above the lake and surrounding areas during a three-year period. Those changes suggest the lake drained and that its water relocated elsewhere.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>MODIS continuously takes measurements of broad-sweeping surface areas at three levels of detail, revealing the outline of under-ice lakes. ICESat's GLAS instrument uses laser altimetry technology to measure even the smallest of elevation changes in the landscape of an ice sheet. Together, data from both have been used to create a multi-year series of calibrated surface reflectance images, resulting in a new technique called satellite image differencing that emphasizes where surface slopes have changed.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For more information online about NASA and agency programs, visit: <A href="http://www.nasa.gov">www.nasa.gov</A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style="font-family:Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(MEETING 1)<B> NECSI Complex Systems Summer School - June 11-22, 2007 - MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://necsi.org/events/summer2007.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://necsi.org/events/summer2007.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Week One - Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Week Two - Modeling, Networks and Evolution of Complex Systems<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each program is the equivalent of a one semester course in a one week format. They may be taken independently or consecutively. If desired, arrangements for credit at a home institution should be made in advance.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Week One - Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems - <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>June 11-15, 2007<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This course offers an introduction to the essential concepts of complex systems and related mathematical methods and simulation strategies with application to physical, biological and social systems. The course will particularly focus on the use of multiscale representations as a unifying approach to complex systems concepts, methods and applications. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Concepts to be discussed include: emergence, complexity, networks, self-organization, pattern formation, evolution, adaptation, fractals, chaos, cooperation, competition, attractors, interdependence, scaling, dynamic response, information, and function.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Methods to be discussed include: statistical methods, cellular automata, agent-based modeling, pattern recognition, system representation and informatics.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Week Two - Modeling, Networks and Evolution of Complex Systems - June 18-22, 2007<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This course offers a systematic study of three key complex systems areas.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Modeling:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"how to" build models of complex systems (physical, biological, social and engineering).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Networks:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>network models of complex systems: nodes and links, connectivity; topologies: small worlds, scale free, modular; dynamics of networks.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Evolution:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>evolution in biology, social and engineered systems, altruism and selfishness, speciation, diversity, and spatial models.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>TARGET AUDIENCE: These courses are intended for faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and others who would like to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of complex systems, and develop methodological tools for conducting research in their respective fields.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Jobs</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Or, visit <A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/</FONT></SPAN></A> and click on 'Join this group'<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*******************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOBS 1) <B>Post Doctoral Fellowship - Soft Bottom Ecologist - University of Sidney, Sidney (Australia)</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.serpentproject.com">http://www.serpentproject.com</A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a result of a recent ARC Linkage-Project grant entitled Effect of deep-sea drilling on sustainability of deep-sea ecosystems, the University’s School of Biological Sciences has a unique research role available with the SEA SERPENT project. If you’re a qualified Soft Bottom Ecologist who is experienced in deep sea/shallow water ecosystems, then the SEA SERPENT global project might be what you’ve been looking for. As one of the projects leading scientists, you’ll enjoy initiating research projects, studying sedimentary habits and covering benthic ecosystems. You’ll be required to work closely with our interdisciplinary team consisting of Invertebrate and Vertebrate Hard Bottom Ecologists, Physical Oceanographer, Animal Physiologist and Natural Products Chemist. With a PhD in a suitable discipline and experience in shallow or deep-sea environments, you’ll have the research expertise required to make a significant contribution to the SERPENT team. The position is full-time fixed term for 3 years with a remuneration package of $72,327 - $77,638 p.a. (which includes a base salary Level A $61,117 - $65,605 p.a., leave loading and up to 17% employer’s contribution to superannuation). For full advertisement please refer to SERPENT website at </SPAN><A href="http://www.serpentproject.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.serpentproject.com</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> or for further information contact Dr. Adele Pile on +61 2 9351 2440 or e-mail: </SPAN><A href="mailto:apile@bio.usyd.edu.au"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">apile@bio.usyd.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <B>Closing Date: 1 March 2007</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOBS 2) <B>Assoc Editor(s) - Nature Geoscience</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nature Publishing Group, the publisher of Nature, is pleased to announce the launch of Nature Geoscience. This international monthly journal will launch in January 2008 providing in-depth coverage of the Earth Sciences. Nature Geoscience will publish research related to the understanding of the Earth as a system, including relevant investigations of the solid Earth, hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere and climate, as well as the planets of the solar system. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We seek three Associate Editors to establish Nature Geoscience as the essential publication for the Earth Science community. The ideal candidates will have (or expect shortly to receive) a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in one of the disciplines of the geosciences.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Postdoctoral experience is preferred (not required), but emphasis will be placed on broadly trained applicants. The successful candidates will play an important role in determining the representation of their fields in the journal. Key elements of the position include the selection of manuscripts for publication, as well as commissioning, editing and writing for the journal. Close contact with related research communities, through conferences and laboratory visits, will be an essential component of this position.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a demanding and intellectually stimulating role, which calls for a keen interest in the practice and communication of science. The successful candidates will therefore be highly motivated and outgoing, and must possess excellent interpersonal skills. The salary and benefits are competitive, reflecting the critical importance and responsibilities of this position.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants should send a CV (including a brief account of their research and other relevant experience), a research highlight in Nature style (200 words or less) on a recent relevant Nature paper, and a brief cover letter explaining their interest in the post and their salary expectations. Applications should be sent to Rebecca Innes, Personnel Assistant at </SPAN><A href="mailto:londonrecruitment@macmillan.co.uk"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">londonrecruitment@macmillan.co.uk</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> Applicants should clearly mark on their submissions the reference number NPG/LON/613. Incomplete applications will not be considered. <B>Closing Date: 23rd February 2007</B></SPAN><SPAN style="">; applications will be considered as they arrive.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 3) <B>Port of Tacoma Endowed Chair - Environmental Science - University of Washington, Tacoma WA (USA)</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The University of Washington, Tacoma is seeking to fill the newly endowed Port of Tacoma Chair in Environmental Science (funded by the Port of Tacoma, SSA Marine, and the City of Tacoma). Ph.D. required. The successful candidate will be appointed with tenure at the full-professor level and will have an active research program, a record of successful grant writing, an ability to conduct applied research relevant to the South Puget Sound, and a record of successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Preference will be given to candidates who can conduct research and teach in fields with clear implications for the health of the urban estuarine environment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This includes, but is not limited to, fields such as the fate and transport of contaminants in aquatic systems, environmental remediation and restoration, stormwater runoff, or ballast water and invasive species. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate will also work collaboratively with other researchers at the University of Washington and with Urban Waters, a community based initiative, to expand externally funded urban marine research in the South Puget Sound. Appointment effective September 16, 2007.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The rapidly expanding Port of Tacoma is one of the ten largest container ports in North America and was ranked as the top U.S. seaport in a recent readers’ poll conducted by Marine Digest and Cargo Business News for productivity, reliability and cost efficiency. Tacoma is the second largest city in western Washington and is undergoing a rapid revitalization, driven to a large extent by the University of Washington, Tacoma (UWT). One of three campuses of the University of Washington, UWT is a non-residential metropolitan university that currently offers undergraduate and graduate education to students of a wide variety of ages and backgrounds. UWT was established in 1990 and the Environmental Science program, started in 1996, has a strong curricular base in aquatic sciences.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Faculty at the University of Washington engage in interdisciplinary teaching, research, and service. For information about UWT and the Environmental Science program see our website at </SPAN><A href="http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Screening of applications will begin March 1, 2007 </B></SPAN><SPAN style="">and will continue until the position is filled. Applications and nominations should be submitted electronically to </SPAN><A href="mailto:tfaculty@u.washington.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">tfaculty@u.washington.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> and should include a current curriculum vitae, a statement of research, teaching and community partnership experience and qualifications, as well as contact information for three references. For additional information contact Dr. Cheryl Greengrove at </SPAN><A href="mailto:cgreen@u.washington.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">cgreen@u.washington.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> or by phone at (253) 692-5658.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 4) <B>Asst. Prof. tenure-track - Environmental Geochemistry - Department of Earth Sciences - Memorial University of Newfoundland - St. John's, NL (Canada)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland invites applications for a tenure track faculty position at the assistant professor level in the broad field of environmental geochemistry (Ref.: VPA #EASC-2006-011). The applicants’ specific interests may include but are not limited to biogeochemistry, application of geochemical and isotopic methods to environmental problems, microbe-mineral interaction, chemical speciation, transport and fate of organic and organometallic compounds, water resources, and global environmental change. We are particularly interested in applicants with experience and a continuing interest in applications of genomic, molecular, or isotopic approaches to geomicrobiological and/or biogeochemical research.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate will have access to modern analytical facilities listed at (</SPAN><A href="http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/facilities/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.mun.ca/earthsciences/facilities/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">). In addition, Memorial University’s CREAIT (</SPAN><A href="http://www.mun.ca/creait/maf/ICPMS.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.mun.ca/creait/maf/ICPMS.php</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">) network is accessible to all faculty and offers additional analytical and experimental facilities, many overseen by faculty in the Department of Earth Sciences. Other research and teaching resources available at Memorial University include the Ocean Sciences Centre, the Bonne Bay Marine Station in Gros Morne National Park, the Labrador Institute, and the Harlow Campus outside London, England.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants must possess a Ph.D. and should preferably have post-doctoral experience. The successful candidate is expected to maintain a vigorous research program, sustain a strong record of peer-reviewed publication and external funding, advise and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, and contribute energetically to the teaching mission of the department. In addition to its own M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in environmental earth science, the Earth Sciences Department participates in Memorial’s interdisciplinary graduate program in environmental science (</SPAN><A href="http://www.mun.ca/science/envs/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.mun.ca/science/envs/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>Applications must be received by March15th, 2007.</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> Candidates should submit a letter of application with the names and addresses (including email) of three referees, current curriculum vitae, and a statement of planned research program and teaching interests to: Dr. John M. Hanchar, Head, Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada A1B 3X5, or, preferably, Email applications in PDF format to: </SPAN><A href="mailto:head@esd.mun.ca"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">head@esd.mun.ca</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> Additional information is available at </SPAN><A href="http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/about/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.mun.ca/earthsciences/about/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> or by contacting Dr. John M. Hanchar, Head of Earth Sciences at </SPAN><A href="mailto:head@esd.mun.ca"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">head@esd.mun.ca</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> or by telephone at 709-737-2334<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Partners of candidates for positions are invited to include their resume for possible matching with other job opportunities and candidates eligible for NSERC University Faculty Awards are encouraged to apply.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 5) <B>PhD and MSc graduate assistantships – Environmental Science - Memorial University - St. John’s, Newfoundland (Canada)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ph.D. and M.Sc. graduate assistantships are available at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada to study the effects of environmental change on the biogeochemistry in boreal watersheds. The impact of environmental change on dissolved organic matter (DOM) cycling within the continuum from streams to coastal marine ecosystems is the focus of a Canada Research Chair funded program.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Microorganisms drive aquatic biogeochemical processes, therefore their function and how they are altered by environmental perturbation is paramount to our understanding of the interactions between the physical, chemical and biological parameters that affect aquatic ecosystem function. Dissolved organic matter is a critical component of the global carbon cycle and represents the largest active reservoir of organic matter in the aquatic environment. Integrating energy from both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, DOM fuels the microbial activity central to ecosystem function. A major goal of our research group is to understand the impact of nutrient enrichment, elevated temperatures, and changes in land use activities on watershed dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen cycling. The research group is focused on two main questions: (1) How is DOM cycling impacted by environmental change in boreal watersheds?; and (2) How can changes in DOM cycling within boreal watersheds impact coastal biogeochemistry? Students joining the group will have the opportunity to use stable isotope tracers and the analysis of the isotopic composition of biomarkers to study the flow of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur in aquatic ecosystems. The precise research undertaken by individual students will depend upon their strengths and interests and may include, but are not limited to investigations of: (1) sulfur isotope composition of DOM in boreal watersheds, (2) DOM bioreactivity and photoreactivity along a continuum from boreal streams to coastal ecosystems, and (3) The impact of environmental change on microbial biofilm structure and function in boreal streams.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those interested are strongly encouraged to <B>contact Susan Ziegler (DIALOG III participant) by March 1st, 2007</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> directly to discuss possible opportunities. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dr. Susan Ziegler, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Science, Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland A1B 3X5<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Canada<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>709-737-2669<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="mailto:sziegler@esd.mun.ca"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">sziegler@esd.mun.ca</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Ziegler/Main.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Ziegler/Main.php</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/about/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.mun.ca/earthsciences/about/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOBS 6) <B>Asst. Profs. tenure-track (2) - School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Science and Technology Studies - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York (USA)</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are looking for a candidate who can contribute to the departmental strength in transnational/global dimensions of science and technology. Particular areas of interest are environmental studies, global trade and finance, development and sustainability; and peace and conflict studies. The candidate’s background may be in quantitative or qualitative methods, or both. Preference will be given to candidates with a background in design studies, who will therefore be able to contribute to the Product Design and Innovation (PDI) program at Rensselaer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Send CV, letter of application, three letters of reference, and sample publications/project summaries to Sharon Anderson-Gold, Chair, STS Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590. <B>Screening will begin immediately</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> and continue until the position is filled. The starting date is negotiable, but the preferred date is August, 2007.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The second position is also a tenure-track position as assistant professor. The candidate’s research and teaching interests should focus on issues of diversity as they relate to STS, with interests that may include, but are not limited to those of race and ethnicity, queer theory, feminist theory, disability studies, class analysis, historical geography, and environmental justice. The candidate’s background may be in quantitative or qualitative methods, or both. Preference will be given to candidates with a background in design studies, who will therefore be able to contribute to the Product Design and Innovation (PDI) program at Rensselaer. Send CV, letter of application, three letters of reference, and sample publications (and design portfolios if applicable) to Sharon Anderson-Gold, Chair, STS Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590. <B>Screening will begin with receipt of applications</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> and continue until the job is filled. Starting date is negotiable, but the preferred date is August 2007.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family: Helvetica">*******************</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style="">(JOB 7) <B>Post-Doc - Marine phytoplankton observed with global biooptical methods (PHYTOOPTICS) - Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research – Bremerhaven (Germany) </B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This newly formed Helmholtz-University young investigator group is hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar Research in Bremerhaven under the leadership of Dr. Astrid Bracher (DIALOG III). There is a strong cooperation of the group with the University of Bremen (Institute of Environmental Physics) where the satellite data are processed and the Ph D students are enrolled.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The research group will focus on: 1) retrieval of global biooptical information from highly spectrally resolved data with interdisciplinary methods (satellite remote sensing, in-situ measurements, modelling)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2)investigation of changes in composition, growth and productivity of marine phytoplankton on a global long-term scale (10 years and more) and the influence of abiotic and biotic factors on phytoplankton and its functioning in the marine ecosystem and carbon cycle.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate will perform lab and field measurements of optical and photosynthetical parameters on marine phytoplankton, as well as measurements of optical properties of other water constituents. These measurements are important both as reference spectra and for the validation of the satellite retrivals and as input parameters and for the validation of phytoplankton production and composition models. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Requirements: Master/Diploma in natural science, PhD in biological, chemical or physical oceanography. Deep knowledge of general and biological oceanography, biogeochemistry and marine optics, as well as experience in spectralphotometrical and radiometrical measurements. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Beneficial: Experience in HPLC methods to determine phytoplankton pigments. The position requires the participation in several longer (3 to 6 weeks each) ship cruises. Further requirements are excellent team work capabilities in a multidisciplinary team, fluency in English (written and spoken).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information, please contact Dr. Astrid Bracher (email:<A href="mailto:bracher@uni-bremen.de">bracher@uni-bremen.de</A>).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The position is limited to three years.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our group is currently forming. Information on this AWI's PHYTOOPTICS group, the AWI department “climate science” and the Institute of Environmental Physics can be found at:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE"><A href="http://www.gmes-bremen.eu/productsservices/phytoopticsmarinephytoplankton/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.gmes-bremen.eu/productsservices/phytoopticsmarinephytoplankton/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A>,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Climate/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Climate/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A>,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications with curriculum vitae, list of publications, certificates and academic transcripts should be<B> submitted not later than March 10, 2007</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style=""> to: Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Personalabteilung, PO Box 12 01 61, 27515 Bremerhaven </SPAN><SPAN lang="DE"><A href="http://www.awi.de/de/go/jobs/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.awi.de/de/go/jobs/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style="">Please quote the reference number 14/III<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*******************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family: Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style="">(JOB 8) <B>Post-Doc - diatom analysis and climate change - Department of Ecology and Environmental Science - Umeå University – (Sweden)</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are offering a Post-doc position to join a research project using sedimentary diatom remains as indicators of climate change. The successful candidate will work with lake sediments from alpine (Switzerland) and northern (Iceland, Sweden) areas, focusing on climate changes during the past 1000 years. The project is financed through the EUproject “The past climate and its dynamics: Millennium European climate of the past millennium”, (see </SPAN><SPAN lang="DE"><A href="http://ralph.swan.ac.uk/millennium/index.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://ralph.swan.ac.uk/millennium/index.htm</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style="">) offering a multidisciplinary network with leading scientists working in the field of paleoclimatology. To qualify for this position you need a PhD degree in natural sciences, with experience relevant to the project (i.e., sedimentology, diatom analysis, statistical methods). The position is for a 12-month period (extension possible).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information, please contact Dr. Christian Bigler <A href="mailto:christian.bigler@emg.umu.se">christian.bigler@emg.umu.se</A>. Union information is available from SACO, +46-(0)90-786 51 53, SEKO civil, +46-(0)90-786 52 96 and ST, +46-(0)90-786 54 31. Applications will be discarded or, if the applicant so wishes, returned two years after the position has been filled. Your application should include a CV, publication list, and contact information of at least two academic references. Your complete application, marked with reference number 313-182-07, should be sent to <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:jobb@umu.se">jobb@umu.se</A> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden<B> to arrive March 15, 2007 at the latest.</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Umeå University, in northern Sweden, is a dynamic university with ca. 4,200 employees and more than 29,000 students, of which 1,300 are in PhD programs. The Department of Ecology and Environmental Science has about 170 members including 50 PhD students (for more information see the department’s homepage: </SPAN><SPAN lang="DE"><A href="http://www.emg.umu.se/index_eng.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.emg.umu.se/index_eng.html</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style="">. See also the International office, </SPAN><SPAN lang="DE"><A href="http://www.umu.se/international_office/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.umu.se/international_office/</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style=""> for a general presentation of Umeå and the University.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style="">(JOBS 9) <B>Tenure-track </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>(6 new positions) </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>- Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental </B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>Research (CIDER) - Stony Brook University – Stony Brook, NY (USA)</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/cider/opportunities/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/cider/opportunities/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In October, 2006, Stony Brook University announced the creation of a new center, the Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental Research (CIDER). This initiative was undertaken to bring together the many faculty at the university from diverse disciplines, housed in many departments, to create synergistic collaborations that could address large, complex environmental issues.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The participants (faculty, postdoctoral investigators, and graduate students) in CIDER are formally associated with existing academic departments at Stony Brook University, including departments in Arts and Sciences, Engineering, the Medical School, and the Marine Sciences Research Center. However, all participants also see the value in working across disciplines, not necessarily reflective of traditional academic separations, to form multi-disciplinary teams of researchers that can tackle the complexities of large environmental problems. Thus, individuals in the natural and medical sciences combine with social scientists and engineers to pursue large research programs. Such teams are required to develop new research centers for environmental research at Stony Brook, and as well provide new and exciting educational opportunities for the next generation of environmental researchers.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stony Brook University invites applicants for six new tenure-track positions associated with its new Consortium for Inter-Disciplinary Environmental Research (CIDER), designed to bring together faculty from the natural sciences, medical sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. Individuals with demonstrated expertise in any of the following areas are encouraged to apply: (a) environmental health, including investigations of contaminants in air, food and water, mechanistic studies of their toxic effects on mammals and their societal impact on different subpopulations; (b) the causes and influence of global climate change, including effects on biogeochemical cycles, pattern of disease and human living conditions and (c) environmental remediation, land use planning, and conservation. Applications from individuals or from teams that address any of these research areas are welcome. A successful candidate will hold a tenure track or tenured appointment in an academic department that best suits his/her expertise; affiliation with nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory is also possible. Faculty will be expected to teach at the undergraduate and/or graduate level, generate external funding to support their research and participate in interdisciplinary activities to support CIDER's mission.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Required: Ph.D. or M.D., outstanding research and teaching potential.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Positions generally will be filled at the Assistant Professor level, however applications from exceptional established individuals also will be considered. The <B>review of applications will begin on February 1, 2007 and will continue until all six positions are filled</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="DE" style="">.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To apply, please send a resume; a statement of research and career goals; the proposed Stony Brook University departmental affiliation(s); and arrange <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>to have three letters of reference sent to: CIDER Search Committee, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Positing number F-3755-06-12,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-1401<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For on-line applications visit: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>www.stonybrook.edu/cjo , posting number <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>F-3755-06-12. On-line applicants should request reference letters be sent to the CIDER Search Committee address above.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 10) <B>Faculty (one year replacement) - Environmental Geosciene - College of William and Mary – Williamsburg, VA (USA)</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.wm.edu/geology/jobs.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.wm.edu/geology/jobs.php</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Geology Department at the College of William & Mary is seeking applications for a full-time one-year faculty-replacement position for the academic year 2007/08. The successful applicant will teach an undergraduate GIS course, environmental geology, and an upper-level special topics course (e.g., environmental geophysics, environmental geochemistry, an advanced GIS course, climate change). We seek a colleague eager to interact with undergraduates in an environment in which teaching and research are emphasized. We prefer candidates who will have PhD in hand at the time of appointment, but will consider those nearing completion of the PhD. Applicants should submit their application electronically using the procedure described on the website: </SPAN><A href="http://www.wm.edu/geology/jobs.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.wm.edu/geology/jobs.php</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Review begins March 6, 2007</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> and will continue until the position is filled. The College of William & Mary is an EEO/AA university.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style="font-family:Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="DE" style="font-family:Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">**************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">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. 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