<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>4/27/2007</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"><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>New climate change news Web site</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> launched by the journal Nature and dedicated to providing thorough investigative reporting on global climate change<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.nature.com/climate"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.nature.com/climate</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></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"><SPAN style=""><B>Something Under the Ice is Moving: Satellites reveal a complex network of subglacial lakes in Antarctica. </B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/IceMoving/icemoving.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/IceMoving/icemoving.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>IPCC impacts assessment released: Fourth Assessment of Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/report070413.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/report070413.htm</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>There is now no doubt that global warming is a security threat to us all</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2059655,00.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2059655,00.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 2 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Fossil Arctic animal tracks point to climate risks</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2441335120070424"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2441335120070424</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>Climate change could trigger 'boom and bust' population cycles leading to extinction</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2007/2007041624800.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2007/2007041624800.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 4 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Schwarzenegger administration to sue U.S. over air quality standards</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://climate.weather.com/articles/arnold042507.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://climate.weather.com/articles/arnold042507.html</FONT></SPAN></A></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"><B>Nepal scientists warn of glacier flood threat</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/nepal-scientists-warn-of-glacier-flood-threat.cfm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/nepal-scientists-warn-of-glacier-flood-threat.cfm</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 6 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>SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES</I></B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>IAI - Inter-American Institute Climate Change Workshop</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - June 3rd - 14th, 2007 - Los Arcos Hotel, La Paz, Baja California Sur, (Mexico).<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/pasi/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/pasi/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Download and print the flyer (pdf): </SPAN><A href="http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/pasi/pix/pasi-flyer-SDSU.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/pasi/pix/pasi-flyer-SDSU.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see MEETING 1below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">I<B>MBER-Call for small articles from young scientists</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see <SPAN style="">OPPORTUNITIES 1</SPAN>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 style=""><B>Postdocs</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Glaciology - Canadian IPY GLACIODYN Project (Canada)<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://web.unbc.ca/%7Eboon/IPY/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://web.unbc.ca/~boon/IPY/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><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;">(see JOBS 1 below)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Faculty, Tenure-track</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> - Chemical oceanography - Univ. of Miami, Florida (USA)</SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 2 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Two Non-Tenure Track Faculty Positions</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Earth Science and Oceanography - Univ. of San Diego, CA (USA)</SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOBS 3 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Post-Doc</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Oceanography - Mohn-Sverdrup Center For Global Ocean Studies And Operational Oceanography, Bergen (Norway)</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)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></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>Science News</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 1): <B>IPCC impacts assessment released: Fourth Assessment of Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/report070413.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/report070413.htm</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>Tiempo Climate Newswatch - The second report of the Fourth Assessment on climate science and policy by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, covering climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, was finalized in April 2007. Newswatch editor </SPAN><A href="http://www.tiempocyberclimate.org/newswatch/editors.htm#mick"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Mick Kelly</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> reports<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"It's the poorest of the poor in the world, and this includes poor people even in prosperous societies, who are going to be the worst hit," said </SPAN><A href="http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/bios/pachauri.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Rajendra Pachauri</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">, chair of the </SPAN><A href="http://ww.ipcc.ch/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> (IPCC), as the second report of the latest IPCC assessment was released on April 6th 2007. Government officials and scientists had met in Brussels, Belgium, to finalize the text of the IPCC </SPAN><A href="http://www.ipcc.ch/press/factsheet.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Working Group II</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> review of climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Martin Parry, working group co-chair, reported that there was now real evidence that climate change was having direct impacts. "For the first time, we are no longer arm-waving with models; this is empirical data, we can actually measure it."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Don't be poor in a hot country, don't live in hurricane alley, watch out about being on the coasts or in the Arctic, and it's a bad idea to be on high mountains with glaciers melting," said </SPAN><A href="http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Stephen Schneider</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> from </SPAN><A href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/biology/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Stanford University</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> in the United States.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The report projects that 75 to 250 million people across Africa could face water shortages by 2020. Crop yields could increase by 20 per cent in East and Southeast Asia, but decrease by up to 30 per cent in Central and South Asia. Agriculture fed by rainfall might drop by a half in some African countries by 2020. Twenty to 30 per cent of all plant and animal species are at increased risk of extinction if temperatures rise between 1.5 and 2.5 degrees Celsius. Glaciers and snow cover are expected to decline, reducing water availability in countries supplied by melt water.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Controversy developed during the run-up to the release of the report as scientists and government representatives argued over the final wording. There was, for example, disagreement over the inclusion of a table indicating likely impacts for every degree of global warming and over the inclusion of a statement explicitly linking cause and effect. Objections to the text came mostly from the United States, China and Saudi Arabia. Some scientists walked out at one point and a number said that they would not be involved in the IPCC process in future. Parry acknowledged that "certain messages were lost", but insisted that "the report was not watered down in the broad thrust."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Responding to the report, </SPAN><A href="http://unfccc.int/secretariat/executive_secretary/items/1200.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Yvo de Boer</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">, executive secretary of the </SPAN><A href="http://www.unfccc.int/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">, said that the "projected impacts tell us that we urgently need to launch an agreement on future international action to combat climate change, as well as look for effective ways to generate the funds needed for adaptation." "Our current sources of funding are insufficient to cover... adaptation needs," he continued. "So the international community needs to investigate new and innovative sources of finance, not least through the carbon market, in order to ensure that the most vulnerable communities are able to cope."<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.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=43&ArticleID=5252&l=en"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Achim Steiner</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">, head of the </SPAN><A href="http://www.unep.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">United Nations Environment Programme</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">, called for action at the national level "to mainstream ‘climate proofing’ into all areas of economic life so that countries and communities... have a chance to adapt and thus a chance to avoid some of the more extreme impacts." "This further underlines both how urgent it is to reach global agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and how important it is for us all to adapt to the climate change that is already under way," said European environment commissioner </SPAN><A href="http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/dimas/cv/cv_en.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Stavros Dimas</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">.<SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P> </SPAN></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 2) <B>There is now no doubt that global warming is a security threat to us all </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.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2059655,00.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2059655,00.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The debate on climate change at the UN top table is a sign that the big powers are at last beginning to see sense. If British politics were a dinner party then Tony Blair would be that guest who got up to say goodbye an hour ago, insisting he had to be off - only to hang around by the front door, his coat on and car keys jangling, chatting about this and that and never actually leaving. The result is a strange sense of limbo, where the old period has not quite ended and the new one has not yet begun. A sense of drift has hovered over the government since the attempt to push the prime minister from office last September. Ministers insist they are as busy as ever, but they admit to an absence of leadership. It feels like nothing is happening.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it's heartening to hear of one area, at least, where the British government has taken a lead. Yesterday the security council of the United Nations discussed climate change for the very first time. Not some environmental subcommittee, not a platitudinous exchange of slogans in the general assembly, nor even the intergovernmental panel on climate change, but the security council. The same security council that usually grapples with border disputes, sanctions or weapons of mass destruction - that security council was yesterday debating carbon emissions and the danger they pose to the Earth.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That may seem sensible and obvious: after all, if the council's job is to fret about threats to global security then the threats don't come much bigger than the risk that we might be boiling the planet. But, incredibly, the body had never talked about global warming before - and they were not keen to start yesterday. ... <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 3)<B> Scientists to track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, weather, climate change</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.physorg.com/news96123222.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.physorg.com/news96123222.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Scientists using the nation's newest and most capable aircraft for environmental research are launching a far-reaching field project this month to study plumes of airborne dust and pollutants that originate in Asia and journey to North America. The plumes are among the largest such events on Earth, so great in scope that scientists believe they might affect clouds and weather across thousands of miles while playing a role in global climate.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The PACDEX (Pacific Dust Experiment) project will be led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. NCAR's main sponsor, the National Science Foundation (NSF), will provide most of the funding. The first mission will be launched in late April, with the exact start date dependent on weather patterns in Asia. The project will continue for almost two months. Continued... full article online.<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="font-family:Helvetica"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 3)<B> Fossil Arctic animal tracks point to climate risks</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2441335120070424"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2441335120070424</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>COAL MINE SEVEN, Svalbard, Norway (Reuters) - Fossils of a hippopotamus-like creature on an Arctic island show the climate was once like that of Florida, giving clues to risks from modern global warming, a scientist said.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fossil footprints of a pantodont, a plant-eating creature weighing about 400 kg (880 lb), add to evidence of sequoia-type trees and crocodile-like beasts in the Arctic millions of years ago when greenhouse gas concentrations in the air were high.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"The climate here about 55 million years ago was more like that of Florida," Appy Sluijs, an expert in ancient ecology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, said in Coal Mine Seven on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Continued... full article online.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 4)<B> Climate change could trigger 'boom and bust' population cycles leading to extinction </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://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2007/2007041624800.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2007/2007041624800.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climate change could trigger "boom and bust" population cycles that make animal species more vulnerable to extinction, according to Christopher C. Wilmers, an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Favorable environmental conditions that produce abundant supplies of food and stimulate population booms appear to set the stage for population crashes that occur when several "good years" in a row are followed by a bad year. "It's almost paradoxical, because you'd think a large population would be better off, but it turns out they're more vulnerable to a drop in resources," says Wilmers.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Understanding how environmental changes influence fluctuations in animal populations is crucial to predicting and mitigating the influence of global climate change. In a paper that appears in the May issue of The American Naturalist, Wilmers describes a powerful new mathematical model that evaluates how climate and resources interact with populations, including a fine-grained analysis of impacts on juveniles, reproducing adults, and adults.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In areas where climate change leads to more "good years," with the occasional poor year still occurring, populations will fluctuate dramatically and be more prone to extinction as a result, said Wilmers. Highly prolific species will be particularly vulnerable to such fluctuations because their populations will build up most rapidly, noted Wilmers, a vertebrate conservation ecologist. Dramatic population fluctuations make species more vulnerable to extinction due to disease, inbreeding, and other causes; in addition, each crash reduces the genetic diversity of a species, lowering its ability to adapt and making it more prone to extinction.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 5) <B>Schwarzenegger administration to sue U.S. over air quality standards</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://climate.weather.com/articles/arnold042507.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://climate.weather.com/articles/arnold042507.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration will sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for acting too slowly on California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, a spokesman said Wednesday.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At issue is a request the state made in 2005 for a waiver that would exempt it from the federal Clean Air Act, allowing California to more aggressively regulate automobile emissions as air pollutants.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"It's a priority for Californians to protect our environment, and if the federal government fails to act to protect our environment, we will take steps to do so ourselves," Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear told The Associated Press.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>California is the world's 12th largest producer of the emissions blamed for contributing to global climate change.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Schwarzenegger will send a letter Wednesday to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, whom he met with earlier this month without gaining a commitment.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The governor was to announce the state's intention to sue during a luncheon speech at the Milken Institute's 10th Anniversary Global Conference in Beverly Hills.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">The waiver also carries implications for at least 10 other states that have adopted California's standard. Federal law allows states to choose between the federal and the California rules.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Automakers have sued California and Vermont, saying the emission standards are akin to fuel economy standards, which can be set only by the federal government.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>California wants to implement a 2002 state law that would require automakers to reduce emissions by 25 percent from cars and light trucks and 18 percent from sport utility vehicles starting with the 2009 model year. To do so, the waiver is needed.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The EPA had delayed acting on California's request because the agency maintained it did not have the authority to regulate the gases that contribute to global warming. But earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the EPA does have that authority, a position that had long been rejected by the administration of President George W. Bush.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On Tuesday, Johnson said he had begun the formal process to act on California's request. That involves a public hearing May 22 in Washington and a public comment period that ends June 15. But Johnson refused to set a timetable specifying when the agency would issue a decision on California's request.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"We will move expeditiously, but we are going to be moving responsibly," Johnson told the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Supreme Court decision did not require the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. But it said the agency must show that carbon dioxide emissions are not a danger to public health if it chooses not regulate them under the Clean Air Act.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A separate 2006 California law requires emissions to be reduced 25 percent by 2020. That law requires California to reduce emissions by an estimated 174 million metric tons.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The auto regulations would account for about 17 percent of the state's target, according to the California Air Resources Board.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 6) <B>Nepal scientists warn of glacier flood threat</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/nepal-scientists-warn-of-glacier-flood-threat.cfm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.scidev.net/content/news/eng/nepal-scientists-warn-of-glacier-flood-threat.cfm </FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climate scientists in Nepal have warned that poor coordination of research and an inactive early warning system are putting Nepal's people at risk of flooding caused by melting glaciers.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Glacial lakes created by melting glaciers can overflow, releasing several thousand cubic metres of water per second along stream channels. These flooding events are called glacier lake outburst floods. There have been more than 15 of these floods in Nepal, occurring at a frequency of one every two to five years, according to the Nepalese Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM). This has been attributed to global warming, which, according to DHM research, is increasing temperatures in the Nepalese Himalayas by 0.04 degrees Celsius per year. There are 3,252 glaciers and 2,323 lakes at or above 3,500 metres above sea level in Nepal. Twenty glacier lakes are at risk of bursting due to melting glaciers, according to a 2002 report by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the UN Environment Programme.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The situation was discussed at a conference organised by the DHM last month (23 March). Remote sensing and satellite imaging have been used to identify potentially dangerous lakes, but field studies are limited, according to Pradeep Mool, a remote sensing specialist at ICIMOD. He added that a lack of coordination and information sharing between researchers and institutions is leading to inadequate documentation and archiving.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tsho Rolpa is one of the biggest and potentially dangerous glacier lakes in Nepal. Scientists predict that an outburst flood would endanger thousands of lives and cost millions of dollars in economic losses.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The DHM has already established an early warning system consisting of a network of sensors and sirens in 19 villages downstream of Tsho Rolpa. But according to Om Ratna Bajrachary, senior divisional hydrologist at the DHM, the monitoring system has yet to be put into use because Nepal is concentrating on the establishment of peace after years of internal conflict. "We are planning to revive it," he added.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Glacial lake outburst floods first attracted scientific and government attention when the Dig Tsho glacier in Nepal's Khumbu region flooded in 1985. The disaster completely destroyed a hydropower plant and washed away agricultural land, bridges and houses over a distance of 42 kilometres.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></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> IAI - Inter-American Institute Climate Change Workshop</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - June 3rd - 14th, 2007 - Los Arcos Hotel, La Paz, Baja California Sur, (Mexico).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/pasi/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/pasi/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Download and print the flyer (pdf): </SPAN><A href="http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/pasi/pix/pasi-flyer-SDSU.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/pasi/pix/pasi-flyer-SDSU.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Global Climate Change in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Program for the Integration of Development of International Collaborations<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The focus of this Institute will emphasize the impacts of climate change on natural and managed ecosystems, society, and the associated feedbacks of management strategies and their consequences in Pan-American countries.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are interested in attending this conference as a student, please see the Applications section of our website: </SPAN><A href="http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/pasi"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://gcrg.sdsu.edu/pasi</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications can be sent standard mail or e-mail. <B>All applications must be received by May 15th, 2007, 5 P.M. Pacific Standard Time</B></SPAN><SPAN style="">. All travel, room, and board will be covered for attendees.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Participants will be selected from the United States and other countries in the Americas. 3rd year Doctoral students or recent Post Docs in environmental science, environmental engineering, environmental economics/policy are encouraged to apply. Recent masters students in government or business will be considered.<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="">(OPPORTUNITIES 1) I<B>MBER-Call for small articles from young scientists</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>IMBER (Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research) is seeking contributions from young scientists for the Science highlight section of the IMBER Update .<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are looking for small articles reporting on recent scientific activities related to biogeochemistry and ecosystems research from your laboratory or country. Your suggestions for topic are welcome.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The article should contain about 700 words (max. 800) with a maximum of two graphs/illustrations (highest possible resolution in jpeg, psd or eps). Thank you to send the text in word format. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The deadline for sending your contribution for publication in the issue n°7 is May 22nd, 2007. Please note that contributions for the following issues are also welcome.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I kindly ask you to inform me as soon as possible if you will be able to contribute to the coming IMBER Update <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Elena Fily, Administrative Assistant<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">IMBER International Project Office<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer Place <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">N. Copernic 29280 Plouzané, France<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="mailto:elena.fily@univ-brest.fr"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">elena.fily@univ-brest.fr</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Tel. +33 (0)2 98 49 86 72<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Fax. +33 (0)2 98 49 86 09</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' </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOBS 1) <B>Postdocs</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Glaciology - Canadian IPY GLACIODYN Project (Canada)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://web.unbc.ca/%7Eboon/IPY/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://web.unbc.ca/~boon/IPY/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications are being accepted for three postdoctoral positions and one PhD student position on the Canadian IPY project GLACIODYN, an international study of the dynamic response of arctic tidewater glaciers to climate change. The project involves six Canadian universities, the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, and collaborators in the United Kingdom.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The postdoctoral positions are located at the University of Alberta, Edmonton; Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; and Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's. The PhD student position is located at the University of Ottawa.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Full project and position descriptions, including required qualifications, available funding, principle investigator contact information, and application instructions, are available at: </SPAN><A href="http://web.unbc.ca/%7Eboon/IPY/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://web.unbc.ca/~boon/IPY/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> or contact: Martin Sharp, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Phone:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>780-492-5249 <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>E-mail: </SPAN><A href="mailto:martin.sharp@ualberta.ca"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">martin.sharp@ualberta.ca</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 2)<B> Faculty, Tenure-track</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - chemical oceanography - Univ. of Miami, Florida (USA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Division of Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry plans to add a tenure track scientist to its faculty. Scientists employing observational and/or modeling techniques related to the marine environment will be considered. A Ph.D. in chemistry, marine geochemistry, oceanography or related field is required. The selection will be based on scientific excellence and the potential of disciplinary integration within both the Division faculty and other School divisions. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an independent, externally funded research program and to publish in refereed journals. Teaching and student mentoring interests and skills are required. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A curriculum vitae, a summary of research and education experience and goals, and the names/addresses/phone numbers of three referees should be <B>sent by June 30, 2007.</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Send applications to: Marine Chemistry Faculty Search Chair, Division of Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida 33149 USA; <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1-305-421-4731<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/divs/mac/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/divs/mac/</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="">(JOBS 3) <B>Two Non-Tenure Track Faculty Positions</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Earth Science and Oceanography - Univ. of San Diego, CA (USA) <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The University of San Diego (USD) Department of Marine Science and Environmental Studies invites applications for two non-tenure track faculty positions for the 2007-2008 academic year. The first position is a full-time sabbatical replacement position in marine geology and earth system science. Expected teaching responsibilities include: two upper-division/graduate courses (Geological Oceanography with laboratory and History of Earth and Climate) and two other courses, which may at the introductory or upper-division level. The second position is a 5/8th time benefited position in oceanography. Teaching responsibilities include one upper-division/graduate level course (Physical & Chemical Oceanography with laboratory) and two other courses. USD is an independent Catholic university whose primary aim is teaching excellence. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae and list of three references <B>by May 15th, 2007</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> to: Chair, Department of Marine Science and Environmental Studies, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110-2492. For further information contact Dr. Michel Boudrias: </SPAN><A href="mailto:boum@sandiego.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">boum@sandiego.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">. </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 4) <B>Post-Doc</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Oceanography - Mohn-Sverdrup Center For Global Ocean Studies And Operational Oceanography, Bergen (Norway)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Mohn-Sverdrup Center seeks one post-doc for 2 years for eddy-resolving modelling studies of the Nordic Seas: <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The post.doc will continue the developments of a high-resolution HYCOM model covering the Nordic Seas. The model system will be used to study the mesoscale eddy activity in the area, in order to achieve a better understanding of the large scale circulation and mixing processes. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The post-doc will work in a dynamic team of 15 and will participate to collaborative project work with both international and Norwegian partners. The post-doc is funded by a grant from the Norwegian Research Council through the project "Ocean Weather and Ecosystems". <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates must hold a PhD in oceanography and have experience in ocean modelling.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Leaderteam of the Mohn-Sverdrup Center is: Prof. Ola M. Johannessen, Director, Dr. Laurent Bertino, Co-Director, Dr. Geir Evensen, Research Director II (part time position). <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>Deadline for application is 15th May 2007</B></SPAN><SPAN style="">. Send application with CV and publication list to Ola M. Johannessen (</SPAN><A href="mailto:Ola.Johannessen@nersc.no"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> Ola.Johannessen@nersc.no</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">).<O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">**************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler to distribute information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate-change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. 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