<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>5/4/2007</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>New Website: Earth Portal</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.earthportal.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.EarthPortal.org</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>NOAA Seeks Social Scientists with Aquatic Invasive Species Interest</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></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"><SPAN style=""><B>Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.cies.org/sir/SIR_Guidelines.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.cies.org/sir/SIR_Guidelines.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 3 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"><SPAN style=""><B>Ocean's "Twilight Zone" May Be a Key to Understanding Climate Change</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> NSF Press Release 07-046<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108765&org=olpa&from=news"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108765&org=olpa&from=news</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>First genome comparison of plankton species yields surprising results underlying key ocean processes</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/529501/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/529501/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Rewriting the Science, scientists say that politicians edit global warming research</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - CBS News<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/17/60minutes/main1415985.shtml"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/17/60minutes/main1415985.shtml</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN> <DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Stanford Study On Public Perceptions on Climate Change</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - To be Released May 4, 2007 </SPAN></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>Pacific Whale Decline 'A Mystery'</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6599805.stm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6599805.stm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/39h924"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/39h924</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 2 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Climate Change Talks Grow in Importance</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.examiner.com/a-700289~Climate_Change_Talks_Grow_in_Importance.html">http://www.examiner.com/a-700289~Climate_Change_Talks_Grow_in_Importance.html</A> Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/38grk2"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/38grk2</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 3 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Arctic ice retreating more quickly than computer models project</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>Scorched: </B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><B>Darfur -- the first climate change war?</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,2067637,00.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,2067637,00.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 5 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Coal's Energy Potential Is an Engineering Challenge Now</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/science/01coal.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/science/01coal.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2coeny"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2coeny</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></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>Plan to Reclaim Land Would Divert the Mississippi</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/30/AR2007043001478.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/30/AR2007043001478.html</A> Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/39lnkw"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/39lnkw</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 7 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>The First Refugees of Global Warming</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0705010817may02,1,7033000.story">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0705010817may02,1,7033000.story</A> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2xcl63"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2xcl63</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 8 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<SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></I></B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Climate Scientist</B> - Union of Concerned Scientists – Berkeley, CA (USA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.ucsusa.org/ucs/about/jobs-at-ucs.html#Climate_Scientist"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ucsusa.org/ucs/about/jobs-at-ucs.html#Climate_Scientist </FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Visiting Fellowship</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Development Cooperation in Water Management in the Middle East - Wolfensohn Center for Development - Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. (USA)</SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.brookings.edu/admin/wolfensohn_fellowship_WM.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.brookings.edu/admin/wolfensohn_fellowship_WM.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://www.brookings.edu/global/wolfensohn.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.brookings.edu/global/wolfensohn.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><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)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Post-doc</B><SPAN style=""> - Aerosol Data Analysis - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado (USA)</SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></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>PhD Fellowship</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - NICE-Network for Ice Sheet and Climate Evolution - Marie Curie Research Training Network - Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Belgium<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?page=JobMarieCurieRTN_PhD"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?page=JobMarieCurieRTN_PhD</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 3 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Post-Doc</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Carbon Cycling Modeling: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research Unifob AS (Norway).<O:P></O:P></SPAN><SPAN style=""> (see JOB 4 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Post-Doc</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Atmospheric Modeling: Remote impacts of West African and/or South Asian monsoons. Meteo-France research institute, CNRM, and CERFACS at the Meteo-France campus in Toulouse (France).</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>3 Post-Docs</B> - Glaciology - GLACIODYN & International Polar Year Project to study the response of Arctic tidewater outlet glaciers to climate warming - Edmonton, Vancouver, & St. Johns, - Canada</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 style=""><B>Post-Doc</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Climate Modeling &/or Geochemistry: Marie Curie Research Training Network & NICE – Network for ice sheet and climate evolution (Belgium)<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/action/level_en.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/action/level_en.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (see JOB 7 below)</DIV></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>2 Asst Prof - tenure-track</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Physical Geography (Atmosheric/Climate Scientist & GIS) – National University of Singapore (Singapore)</SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOBS 8 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Post-doc Research Associate</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - History of Science/Science Studies - Joint Appointment between University of California, San Diego, and Princeton University Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (USA)</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (see Job 9 below)<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>Resources and Funding Opportunities</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(RESOURCES 1) <B>New Website: Earth Portal</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.earthportal.org/"><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.EarthPortal.org</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Earth Portal is a comprehensive, free and dynamic resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment built by a global community of environmental experts: educators, physical, life, and social scientists, scholars, and professionals who have joined together to communicate to the world.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In contrast to information from anonymous sources with no quality control, the Earth Portal is created and governed by individuals and organizations who put their names behind their words and where attribution and expert-review for accuracy are fundamental.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Earth Portal includes:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1) </SPAN><A href="http://www.eoearth.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Encyclopedia of Earth</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> (</SPAN><A href="http://www.eoearth.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.eoearth.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">) has an initial 2,300 articles from over 700 experts from 46 countries, as well as such content partners as the World Wildlife Fund and the United Nations Environment Programme. The Encyclopedia is a means for the global scientific community to come together to produce the first free, comprehensive expert-driven information resource on the environment. The Encyclopedia includes articles, e-books and reports, interactive maps, and biographies, and will eventually be published in other major languages. Environmental scholars and experts are invited to become contributors to the Encyclopedia. </SPAN><A href="http://www.eoearth.org/eoe/contribute"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Click here.</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2) </SPAN><A href="http://www.earthportal.org/news/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Earth News</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> (</SPAN><A href="http://www.earthportal.org/news/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> www.earthportal.org/news</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">) includes breaking news updates from many sources, with links from key words to Encyclopedia articles, enabling readers to learn about the science behind the headlines. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>3) </SPAN><A href="http://www.earthportal.org/forum/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Earth Forum</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> (</SPAN><A href="http://www.earthportal.org/forum"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.earthportal.org/forum</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> ) allows the public to engage in discussions with experts, ask questions and get answers, and to participate in community debates about issues that matter to them. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>4) </SPAN><A href="http://www.earthportal.org/?page_id=70"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Environment in Focus</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> (</SPAN><A href="http://www.earthportal.org/?page_id=70"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.earthportal.org/?page_id=70</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> ) provides an exploration of a major issue each week – energy, climate change, environmental economics and other topics – led by a prominent expert in the subject and involving articles, news, places, discussions, Q&A, interesting facts, and more.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">The National Council for Science and the Environment (</SPAN><A href="http://www.ncseonline.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> www.NCSEonline.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the scientific basis for environmental decision-making. The NCSE specializes in programs that foster collaboration among diverse institutions, communities and individuals. The NCSE serves as secretariat for a growing Environmental Information Coalition of environmental experts and organizations, which is building the Earth Portal. ManyOne Networks, an innovative IT firm based near San Jose, California, has provided engineering and vision for the Earth Portal.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">********************</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><BR clear="ALL" style=""></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(RESOURCES 2) <B>NOAA Seeks Social Scientists with Aquatic Invasive Species Interest</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is compiling a list of social scientists (construed broadly) with a publication record or general interest in understanding, preventing, responding to, and managing aquatic species invasions in U.S. coastal ecosystems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This list will be used for purposes related to developing a human dimensions focus in our invasive species program.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Such purposes may include, but are not limited to, invitations to participate in research planning workshops, invitations to conduct seminars, and requests for proposal reviews.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those interested should reply directly to Marybeth Bauer, Ph.D. at </SPAN><A href="mailto:marybeth.bauer@noaa.gov"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">marybeth.bauer@noaa.gov</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> and provide your name, affiliation, a brief description of your specific research interest, and any relevant publications.</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="">(RESOURCES 3)<B> Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program</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://www.cies.org/sir/SIR_Guidelines.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.cies.org/sir/SIR_Guidelines.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Through the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program brings scholars from abroad to U.S. campuses to significantly internationalize host institution campuses and curricula. Grants are available to bring scholars as resident fellows for one term or an entire academic year to teach and consult in area studies programs, interdisciplinary programs that focus on global issues or courses where participation of a foreign Scholar can provide a cross-cultural or international perspective. Preference is given to institutions that infrequently or never host Visiting Scholars and that serve student populations underrepresented in international exchange programs, especially minority students. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Application deadline October 15, 2007.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To Apply: Download the Fulbright Guidelines for Scholar-in-Residence Proposals from: </SPAN><A href="http://www.cies.org/sir/SIR_Guidelines.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.cies.org/sir/SIR_Guidelines.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">, or contact Karen Watts, Senior Program Officer at<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="mailto:kwatts@cies.iie.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">kwatts@cies.iie.org</FONT></SPAN></A><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>Science News</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 1) <B>Stanford Study On Public Perceptions on Climate Change</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - To be Released May 4, 2007</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A new nationwide survey, conducted April 5-10, 2007, highlights startling ways that Americans' thinking on the issue of climate change has altered during just the past 12 months, as well as during the last decade. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Normally, Americans' views on public policy issues change very slowly.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One third of Americans now say global warming ranks as the world's single largest environmental problem, double the number who gave it top ranking last year, and seven in 10 Americans want more federal action on global warming.<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 2) <B>Pacific Whale Decline 'A Mystery'</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6599805.stm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6599805.stm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/39h924"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/39h924</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>BBC News Online - Grey whales in the eastern Pacific appear to be in some trouble, with the cause far from clear, scientists say. Researchers with the conservation group Earthwatch found that whales are arriving in their breeding grounds off the Mexican coast malnourished.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The same thing happened just after the 1997/8 El Nino event, which warmed the waters and depleted food stocks. Scientists are not sure whether the current decline is climate related or part of a natural predator-prey cycle.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"We're not really sure what is going on now," said William Megill, a member of the Earthwatch team who also holds posts at Bath University in the UK and the University of British Columbia in Canada. "We certainly saw in Mexico this winter a very large number of starving whales. ... There is currently an El Nino building, and this is a worry."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 3) <B>Climate Change Talks Grow in Importance</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.examiner.com/a-700289~Climate_Change_Talks_Grow_in_Importance.html">http://www.examiner.com/a-700289~Climate_Change_Talks_Grow_in_Importance.html</A> Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/38grk2"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/38grk2</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 As the world warms and scientists' warnings grow urgent, climate negotiators are counting down toward make-or-break talks later this year, hoping for progress on a long-term deal to sharply reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Experts are beginning to fear, however, that as time runs down the best that can be hoped for may be an extension of the relatively weak Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012. The alternative is a world without any carbon-reduction rules at all.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In February, a U.N.-sponsored scientific network reported that unabated global warming would produce a far different planet by 2100... In early April, the scientists said animal and plant life was already being disrupted. In the third installment, coming Friday in Bangkok, Thailand, the authoritative panel is expected to say the world could still head off severe damage if all countries act urgently, with the best policies and technology, to rein in carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping emissions - an improbable scenario.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">******************** <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 4) <B>Arctic ice retreating more quickly than computer models project</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>American Geophysical Union, National Snow and Ice Data Center, National Center for Atmospheric Research<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Joint Release<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>AGU Release No. 07-11 <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>WASHINGTON -- Arctic sea ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than projected by even the most advanced computer models, a new study concludes. A comparison of newly available observational data to the results of numerous simulations indicates that, during the past 50 years, Arctic sea ice has been disappearing about three times faster than the average rate of loss that computer models have shown.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because of the disparity between actual observations and the models, the shrinking of summertime ice is about 30 years ahead of climate model projections, the researchers conclude. As a result, the Arctic could be seasonally free of sea ice earlier than recently projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC timeframe for ice-free conditions is any time from 2050 to well beyond 2100.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the new analysis, Julienne Stroeve of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and his colleagues compared model simulations of past climate with observations by satellites and other instruments. They found that, on average, the models simulated a loss in September ice cover of 2.5 percent per decade from 1953 to 2006. The fastest rate of September retreat in any individual model was 5.4 percent per decade. (September marks the yearly minimum of sea ice in the Arctic.)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In contrast, newly available data sets, blending early aircraft and ship reports with more recent satellite measurements that are considered more reliable than the earlier records, show that the September ice actually declined at a rate of about 7.8 percent per decade during the 1953-2006 period.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"This suggests that current model projections may in fact provide a conservative estimate of future Arctic change, and that the summer Arctic sea ice may disappear considerably earlier than IPCC projections," Stroeve says.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The new findings will appear May 1 in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stroeve and his coauthors at NSIDC and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) speculate that the computer models may fail to capture the full impact of increased carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Whereas the models indicate that about half of the ice loss from 1979 to 2006 was due to increased greenhouse gases, and the other half due to natural variations in the climate system, the new study indicates that greenhouse gases may be playing a significantly greater role.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Arctic is especially sensitive to climate change partly because regions of sea ice, which reflect sunlight back into space and provide a cooling impact, are disappearing. In contrast, darker areas of open water, which are expanding, absorb sunlight and increase temperatures. This feedback loop has played a role in the increasingly rapid loss of ice in recent years, which accelerated to 9.1 percent per decade from 1979 to 2006 according to satellite observations.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are a number of factors that may lead to the low rates of simulated sea ice loss. Several models overestimate the thickness of the present-day sea ice. The models may also fail to fully capture changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation that transport heat to polar regions. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Although the loss of ice for March is far less dramatic than the September loss, the models underestimate it by a wide margin as well. The study concludes that the actual rate of sea ice loss in March, which averaged about 1.8 percent per decade in the 1953-2006 period, was three times larger than the mean from the computer models. March is typically the month when Arctic sea ice is at its most extensive.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stroeve and his colleagues find that the Arctic's ice cover is retreating more rapidly than estimated by any of the 18 computer models used by the IPCC in preparing its 2007 assessments.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The National Science Foundation, which is NCAR's principal sponsor, and NASA funded the new study.<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="">(NEWS 5) <B>Scorched: </B></SPAN><SPAN style="">Darfur -- the first climate change war? <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,2067637,00.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,2067637,00.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Guardian (UK) - April 28, 2007 - As the conflict in Darfur spreads across central Africa, with thousands more displaced and killed, Julian Borger in Chad investigates the origins and contradictions of what is likely to be seen as the first climate change war<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Special Report - In the relief camps scattered around the Chad-Sudan border, the refugees from Darfur tell the same story - of an ancient shared way of life catastrophically lost.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Less than a generation ago, Arabs and Africans coexisted peacefully and productively in Darfur, Sudan's arid western province which is more than twice the size of the United Kingdom. African farmers had allowed Arab herders to graze their camels and goats on the land, and the livestock had fertilised the soil.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The coexistence was so natural, in fact, the tribes of Darfur did not even think of themselves as Arab or African. It is only now, in light of the bloodshed of the past four years, that they look back and affix ethnic titles to the protagonists in their story, with all non-Arabs claiming the title African. Only a few years ago, it was just nomads and farmers.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"There was never any big problem between the livestock herders and the people living in the village," Yacoub Adam Omar, a 38-year-old refugee from Darfur, told me.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Some of my own tribe would even travel with the Arabs when they went north into the desert in the rainy season and back in the dry season. And if the Arabs had heavy baggage they would leave it with us until they came back."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But here was Omar sitting in a refugee camp along with two million of his fellow Darfurians after being ethnically cleansed from their homes by Arab militia, the Janjaweed. UN officials now believe 400,000, mostly African civilians, have been killed.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Something fundamental has changed in this part of Africa, and it happened within a generation. From a state of sectarian innocence in which the dividing line between Arab and African was meaningless, something made people pick sides, and hardened their new sense of identity into ethnic hatred, all in the past two decades. What changed, the evidence suggests, was the climate.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The current conflict began in 2003. It was triggered when Darfurians launched a revolt against the central government, which fought back by unleashing the Janjaweed.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the real roots of the disaster stretch back to the mid-1980s when a ferocious drought and famine transformed Sudan and the whole Horn of Africa. It killed more than a million people and laid waste livestock herds. Whether they maintained their way of life or tried to take up settled cultivation, the pastoralists of Darfur clashed repeatedly with its farmers. A string of conflicts broke out as both sides armed themselves, and those conflicts created the template for today's disaster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(continued – see </SPAN><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,2067637,00.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,2067637,00.html</FONT></SPAN></A>)<SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*******************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 6) <B>Coal's Energy Potential Is an Engineering Challenge Now</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/science/01coal.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/science/01coal.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2coeny"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2coeny</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) - WASHINGTON - Coal is so cheap and so widely available that its increased use is inevitable, but clearing the hurdle to burning it on a wide scale - separating the carbon dioxide and sequestering it - could turn out to be one of the great engineering challenges of the century, energy experts say.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are at least a dozen proposals on Capitol Hill for sequestering all the carbon from coal burning, and the Senate Energy Committee began hearings last month on how to refocus research on the problem. It's a challenge that has captured the attention of engineers across the country who hope to perfect a clean-coal technology that could provide climate-friendly energy for hundreds of years at modest cost.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Coal has to be in our energy mix, because of its value for society and its importance to the country," said Mark Gray, vice president for engineering services at American Electric Power, which recently announced three projects to capture carbon. "We have enough coal for anywhere from 200 to 450 years."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">**********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 7) <B>Plan to Reclaim Land Would Divert the Mississippi</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/30/AR2007043001478.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/30/AR2007043001478.html</A> Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/39lnkw"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/39lnkw</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Washington Post (Registration Required) - ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. -- Over two centuries, engineers have restrained the Mississippi River's natural urge to wriggle disastrously out of its banks by building hundreds of miles of levees that work today like a riverine straitjacket.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is time, Louisiana officials propose, to let the river loose. To save the state from washing into the ocean at the astonishing rate of 24 square miles per year, Louisiana officials are developing an epic $50 billion plan that would rebuild the land by rerouting one of the world's biggest rivers. The proposal envisions enormous projects to provide flood protection and reclaim land-building sediment from the river, which now flows uselessly out into the Gulf of Mexico.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The cost of the project, which was initiated by the legislature after hurricanes Katrina and Rita revealed the dangers of the sinking coast, dwarfs those of other megaprojects such as the $14 billion "Big Dig" in Boston and the $8 billion Everglades restoration.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">******************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 8) <B>The First Refugees of Global Warming</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0705010817may02,1,7033000.story">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0705010817may02,1,7033000.story</A> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2xcl63"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2xcl63</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>Chicago Tribune (Registration Required) ANTARPARA, Bangladesh -- Muhammad Ali, a wiry 65-year-old, has never driven a car, run an air conditioner or done much of anything that produces greenhouse gases. But on a warming planet, he is on the verge of becoming a climate refugee.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the past 10 years the farmer has had to tear down and move his tin-and-bamboo house five times to escape the encroaching waters of the huge Jamuna River, swollen by severe monsoons that scientists believe are caused by global warming and greater glacier melt in the Himalayas.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now the last of his land is gone, and Ali squats on a precarious piece of government-owned riverbank -- the only ground available -- knowing the river probably will take that as well once the monsoons start this month. ...Bangladesh is hardly the only low-lying nation facing tough times as the world warms. But scientists say it in many ways represents climate change's "perfect storm" of challenges because it is extremely poor, extremely populated and extremely susceptible.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*******************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 9) <B>Climate Change 'Can Be Tackled'</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://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6620909.stm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6620909.stm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2bedd7"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2bedd7</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>BBC News Online - The growth in greenhouse gas emissions can be curbed at reasonable cost, experts at a major UN climate change conference in Bangkok have agreed. Boosting renewable energy, reducing deforestation and improving energy efficiency can all help, they said.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the third report this year from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and aims to set out the costs and benefits of various policies. IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri said the report was "stunning."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Human society as a whole has to look for changes in consumption patterns," he told reporters at a news conference in the Thai capital. The report suggests that if major climate impacts are to be avoided, global emissions should peak and begin declining within one or two decades.<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">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 1) <B>Visiting Fellowship</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Development Cooperation in Water Management in the Middle East - Wolfensohn Center for Development - Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. (USA)</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.brookings.edu/admin/wolfensohn_fellowship_WM.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.brookings.edu/admin/wolfensohn_fellowship_WM.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://www.brookings.edu/global/wolfensohn.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.brookings.edu/global/wolfensohn.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The mission of the Wolfensohn Center is to examine how development interventions can be successfully implemented, scaled up and sustained to solve key development challenges at a national, regional and global level. To pursue this goal, the Wolfensohn Center strives to bridge the gap between development theorists and practitioners, working in partnership with others, especially partners in developing countries, to promote local ownership and capacity, and ensure development impact.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The two-year Visiting Fellowship is devoted to the study of water management in Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. The goal of the fellowship is to foster cooperative research between academics from Israel and neighboring States on national and regional approaches to water management in the hopes of fostering progressive national and regional solutions to what is a critical development concern in the Middle East.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We would appreciate if you could distribute this information to interested scholars and practitioners within your organization as well as other relevant institutions and we welcome your feedback and suggestions regarding other regional institutions, academics and organizations working on issues of water management in the region.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your interest in our project. Please do not hesitate to be in touch with us should you have any questions or concerns. You may contact me via e-mail at </SPAN><A href="mailto:opidufala@brookings.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">opidufala@brookings.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">, or by phone at +1-202-797-6468.<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 2) <B>Post-doc</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Aerosol Data Analysis - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado (USA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A postdoctoral position is available to work in a collaborative project between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado. This position will focus on exploiting global models and satellite data to improve model representations of industrial aerosol emissions. NCAR's Community Atmosphere Model and new emission and optical representations from UIUC will be used along with daily and monthly MODIS<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>nd/or MISR data. This appointment is for one year, and funding may be sought for a second year. Ph.D. or equivalent in a physical science is required. The candidate should be able to think physically, apply statistical techniques, and manage large data sets. Background in one or more of the following is desired: aerosol physics and optics, modeling of atmospheric chemistry, aerosol-cloud interactions, satellite data interpretation. However, skill with data manipulation and comparison is of greatest importance. Please submit a curriculum vitae, letter of interest, and the names and contact information of three references to Tami Bond, </SPAN><A href="mailto:yark@uiuc.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">yark@uiuc.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">. A record of publications demonstrating research experience and writing ability should be included. <B>This position is available immediately, and applications will be considered until June 1, 2007.</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 3) <B>PhD Fellowship</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - NICE-Network for Ice Sheet and Climate Evolution - Marie Curie Research Training Network - Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Belgium<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?page=JobMarieCurieRTN_PhD"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?page=JobMarieCurieRTN_PhD</FONT></SPAN></A> <SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As part of the Marie Curie Research Training Network NICE - Network for Ice Sheet and Climate Evolution, the Institut d'Astronomie et de Geophysique Georges Lemaitre of the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium invites applications for a three-year PhD fellowship beginning in October 2007.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate will be expected to utilize LOVECLIM, a three-dimensional Earth system model of intermediate complexity, with water isotopes to investigate past abrupt climate changes involving the cryosphere. This work will be achieved through specific training courses and collaborative projects with different laboratories involved in the network.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants should preferably have a background in Earth sciences, more specifically in climate modeling and/or geochemistry. Applications, including a detailed curriculum vitae, letter describing relevant experience and research interests, and the name and address of one academic referee, should be sent as soon as possible to: Thierry Fichefet ( <A href="mailto:fichefet@astr.ucl.ac.be">fichefet@astr.ucl.ac.be</A> ) Universite Catholique de Louvain, Institut d'Astronomie et de Geophysique Georges Lemaitre, Chemin du Cyclotron, 2; B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Before applying, potential applicants are strongly encouraged to review the definition of Early Stage Researcher (ESR) and other eligibility requirements at: </SPAN><A href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/action/level_en.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/action/level_en.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications will be evaluated on an ongoing basis.<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>Post-Doc</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Carbon Cycling Modeling: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research Unifob AS (Norway). <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Deadline for applications is 18 May 2007.</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR; </SPAN><A href="http://www.bjerknes.uib.no/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.bjerknes.uib.no/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">) is a joint climate research venture between the University of Bergen (UoB), the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) and the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The BCCR integrates observationalists and modellers in a concerted interdisciplinary research effort. The BCCR comprises the largest climate research group in Norway and has the status of national Center of Excellence. The BCCR´s Secretariat is as unit of Unifob AS<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(</SPAN><A href="http://www.unifob.uib.no/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.unifob.uib.no/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A 2-year postdoctoral position in carbon cycle climate modelling is available at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR). The candidate will contribute to the development of the Bergen Climate Model (BCM) to an earth system model including terrestrial and marine carbon cycle components. The research activities are part of EU Integrated<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Project CARBOOCEAN (</SPAN><A href="http://www.carboocean.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.carboocean.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">), which is coordinated by the University of Bergen. The Earth system model will also be an important tool for the next IPCC scenario series. We encourage especially scientists with a strong interest in the model development aspect to apply.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Potential candidates must have a Ph.D. in physics, mathematics, oceanography, meteorology, geoecology, computer science or related disciplines. Scientific requirements for the position are an interest in interdisciplinary earth system science and relevant experience in at least one of the following fields: climate dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, carbon cycle biogeochemistry, and numerical mathematics. Technical qualifications include excellent knowledge of the programming language FORTRAN, as well as experience with the operating system UNIX, the development of complex software packages, and analysis of large data sets. Experience with climate models and coupling procedures are important. The successful candidate will work in a lively research environment, must have good team working skills, and the ability to pursue a scientific career in geosciences or computational science.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Further information about the position can be obtained from Christoph Heinze, Prof. in Global Carbon Cycle Modelling, Geophysical Institute, e-post: </SPAN><A href="mailto:christoph.heinze@gfi.uib.no"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">christoph.heinze@gfi.uib.no</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">, +47 975 57 119. Informal enquiries are welcome.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications must be submitted in 3 copies, each with a complete overview over education and previous practice (CV), list of publications, certified copies of certificates and diplomas, as well as names and addresses of 2 scientific references. Applications should be forwarded to the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Allégaten 55, N-5007 Bergen, Norway, by 18 May 2007. <B>Do not submit applications by e-mail</B></SPAN><SPAN style="">. The application should be marked: "07/6420".<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 5) <B>Post-Doc</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Atmospheric Modeling: Remote impacts of West African and/or South Asian monsoons. Meteo-France research institute, CNRM, and CERFACS at the Meteo-France campus in Toulouse (France). <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Application Deadline 15 June 2007</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A research post-doctoral position is offered jointly by CNRM and CERFACS at the Meteo-France campus in Toulouse (France). It is funded by the French ANR project IRCAAM (Influence Reciproque des Climats d'Afrique de l'Ouest, du sud de l'Asie et du bassin Mediterraneen) coordinated by CNRM. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Meteo-France research institute, CNRM, and CERFACS are recruiting a post-doc scientist. The task will be the design and analysis of original global atmospheric simulations devoted to the understanding of the reciprocal influence of the West African and South Asian monsoons at the intra-seasonal to seasonal timescales, and of their possible remote impacts particularly on the Mediterranean basin.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The original experiment design will be based on a regional nudging technique in which the Arpege-Climat AGCM is relaxed towards the ERA40 reanalyses (grid-point nudging of U, V and T) over a specified 3D monsoon domain. Besides control experiments with prescribed SSTs and interactive soil moisture, sensitivity experiments will be also conducted in which the AGCM is coupled to a mixed layer ocean model (addition of the SST feedback) or relaxed towards its own soil moisture climatology (suppression of the land surface feedback). Particular attention will be paid to the occurrence of extreme climate events, their potential sensitivity to the monsoon diabatic forcing, their potential predictability at the sub-seasonal to seasonal timescale, and their potential amplification through SST or soil moisture feedbacks. Besides idealized experiments with climatological SSTs, case studies will also be used to explore the relative contribution of observed SSTs and observed West African or South Asian monsoon variability to global climate anomalies, especially those found in the free monsoon domain and over the Mediterranean basin.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The first task will be the calibration of the regional nudging technique in seasonal atmospheric simulations driven by prescribed SSTs. Once the nudging domain and strength will be validated over both West Africa and South Asia, idealized experiments and case studies will be conducted to answer the following questions: - What is the reciprocal influence of, and the Mediterranean response to, the diabatic heating associated with the annual cycle of the South Asian and West African monsoon climates ? - What is the reciprocal influence of, and the Mediterranean response to, the interannual variability of the monsoon climates ? - What are the respective roles of intra-seasonal and interannual modes<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>of variability in the apparent teleconnections ?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The second step will be the coupling of Arpege-Climat with a mixed layer ocean model provided by CERFACS. The objective is to study the potential contribution of the SST feedbacks to the global atmospheric response to the monsoons' annual cycle and intra-seasonal/interannual variability. It will be conducted at CERFACS in close collaboration with CNRM.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Required qualifications:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Ph.D thesis in atmospheric sciences or equivalent, at the time of selection jury;<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- experience in atmospheric numerical modeling; - communication and team work abilities; - familiarity with Unix systems or equivalent, and Fortran language; - good English language level (written and spoken); - previous knowledge and experience on West African and/or South Asian; monsoon intra-seasonal and/or interannual variability would be an advantage.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please send CV, list of publications, letter of intent, two letters of recommendation plus any relevant document, until 15 June 2007, to: Herve Douville Meteo-France CNRM/GMGEC/UDC, 42 Avenue Coriolis 31057 Toulouse cedex 01, France, e-mail: </SPAN><A href="mailto:herve.douville@meteo.fr"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">herve.douville@meteo.fr</FONT></SPAN></A>;<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">as well as a copy to: Christophe Cassou, CNRS-CERFACS, 42 Avenue Coriolis, 31057 Toulouse, France<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>email: </SPAN><A href="mailto:christophe.cassou@cerfacs.fr"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">christophe.cassou@cerfacs.fr</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Application by e-mail is encouraged.<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="">(JOBS 6) <B>3 Post-Docs</B> - Glaciology - GLACIODYN & International Polar Year Project to study the response of Arctic tidewater outlet glaciers to climate warming - Edmonton, Vancouver, & St. Johns, - Canada<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are looking for 3 Post-doctoral Fellows and 1 Ph.D student to join a Canadian International Polar Year Project to study the response of Arctic tidewater outlet glaciers to climate warming. The project involves 6 Canadian Universities and the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, along with collaborators in the United Kingdom. For further details see: </SPAN><A href="http://web.unbc.ca/~boon/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>Details of the positions and application procedures are detailed below.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GLACIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (EDMONTON, CANADA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">POSITION: Postdoctoral Fellow<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">PROJECT: The Dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming: a Canadian contribution to IPY project GLACIODYN (IPY 30)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">SUBJECT AREA: Remote sensing of surface melt, drainage system development and iceberg production on tidewater outlet glaciers<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in Geoscience with a background in remote sensing/GIS <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">LOCATION: University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">DURATION: 2 years<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">START DATE: Fall 2007 or earlier<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">COMPENSATION: $40,000 CDN per year<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">FUNDING SOURCE: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The primary goal of the project is to use satellite remote sensing to investigate the seasonal evolution of surface melt on a large tidewater outlet glacier (Belcher Glacier, Devon Island ice cap) and it's relationship to the development of surface melt water drainage systems (including the formation and drainage of supraglacial lakes). A secondary goal is to investigate the seasonal pattern of iceberg calving and its relationship to ice flow dynamics and the formation and breakup of fjord sea ice. Primary data sources will be EnviSat and ERS SAR data and SPOT visible imagery. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with project collaborators at the Universities of Calgary, Alberta, Ottawa, and Northern British Columbia, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing who will be engaged in closely related field and modelling studies.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates should have a strong background in remote sensing and will ideally have experience of working with microwave and SAR data. For further information contact Martin Sharp (see details below). To apply, please submit a statement of research interests, curriculum vitae and names and contact information for three references to Martin Sharp.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>CONTACT INFORMATION: Martin Sharp, Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, 1-26 Earth Science Building, Edmonton, Ab T6G 2E3 Canada<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tel: 780 492 5249, 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="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://arctic.eas.ualberta.ca/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://arctic.eas.ualberta.ca</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GLACIOLOGY, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY (VANCOUVER, CANADA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">POSITION: Postdoctoral Fellow<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">PROJECT: The Dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming: a Canadian contribution to IPY project GLACIODYN (IPY 30) <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">SUBJECT AREA: Numerical modelling of ice dynamics and hydrology<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in quantitative geoscience<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">LOCATION: Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) in collaboration with the University of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">DURATION:2 years<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">START DATE: Fall 2007 or earlier<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">COMPENSATION: $40,000 CDN per year<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">FUNDING SOURCE: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The goal of this project is to develop and validate a high-resolution coupled model of mass balance, hydrology and ice dynamics to investigate the current state and future behaviour of a tidewater outlet glacier on the Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic. Project collaborators will be collecting field and remote sensing data in 2007 and 2008 to characterize and quantify the glacier geometry, mass balance, surface motion, seasonal hydrological evolution and calving rate. The postdoctoral associate will develop and integrate models of hydrology (supraglacial, englacial and subglacial) and ice dynamics, including the development of techniques for assimilation of field data collected within this study. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with project collaborators at the Universities of Calgary, Alberta, and Northern British Columbia.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates should have a strong quantitative background and will ideally have experience programming in Fortran and Matlab. For further information contact Gwenn Flowers or Shawn Marshall (see details below). <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To apply, please submit a statement of research interests, curriculum vitae and names and contact information for three references to Gwenn Flowers.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>CONTACT INFORMATION: Gwenn E. Flowers, Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Glaciology, Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tel: 604 268 6638, E-mail: </SPAN><A href="mailto:gflowers@sfu.ca"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">gflowers@sfu.ca</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.sfu.ca/earth-sciences/people/faculty/flowers.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.sfu.ca/earth-sciences/people/faculty/flowers.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN GLACIOLOGY, MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND (ST. JOHN'S, CANADA) <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">POSITION: Postdoctoral Fellow<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">PROJECT: The Dynamic response of Arctic glaciers to global warming: a Canadian contribution to IPY project GLACIODYN (IPY 30)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">SUBJECT AREA: Ice calving model development and application <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in quantitative geoscience or related field<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">DURATION: 1 year<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">START DATE: Fall 2007<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">COMPENSATION: $35,000 CDN per year<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">FUNDING SOURCE: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The main goal of this project is to develop and validate a cross-scale model of ice calving (or equivalently of stability controls for marine termini) applicable to both polar and sub-polar tidewater glaciers. The resultant model will be used in conjunction with project partners to investigate the current state and future behaviour of a tidewater outlet glacier on the Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic. Project collaborators will be collecting field and remote sensing data in 2007 and 2008 to characterize and quantify the glacier geometry, mass balance, surface motion, seasonal hydrological evolution and calving rate. The postdoctoral associate will assemble ice calving data from international GLACIODYN partners and other available sources for both calibrating, testing, and validating possible models. Numerical issues such as the impact of grid-resolution will be examined and incorporated into the modelling. Sensitivity studies using a coupled ice-dynamics/hydrology/calving model will then assess future stability of the Belcher glacier marine terminus under global warming scenarios as well as identify the key factors controlling the apparent present-day stability. There may also be an opportunity for some field work at the marine terminus. The postdoctoral associate will also be involved with various other projects related to the development of the MUN/UofT glacial systems model.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates should have a strong quantitative background and will ideally have experience programming in F90 and Matlab/Octave. For further information contact Lev Tarasov (see details below). To apply, please <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>submit a statement of research interests, curriculum vitae, and names and contact information for three references to Lev Tarasov.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>CONTACT INFORMATION: Lev Tarasov, Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Glacial Dynamics Modelling, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL A1B 3X7, Tel: 519-821-3555, </SPAN><A href="mailto:lev@physics.mun.ca"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">lev@physics.mun.ca</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.mun.ca/physics/people/faculty/tarasov.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.mun.ca/physics/people/faculty/tarasov.php</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">****************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 7) <B>Post-Doc</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Climate Modeling &/or Geochemistry: Marie Curie Research Training Network & NICE – Network for ice sheet and climate evolution (Belgium)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/action/level_en.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/action/level_en.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As part of the Marie Curie Research Training Network NICE - Network for ice sheet and climate evolution, the Institut d'Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître of the Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) invites applications for one Ph.D. fellowship for 3 years, beginning in October 2007.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate is expected to include in LOVECLIM, a three-dimensional Earth system model of intermediate complexity (see </SPAN><A href="http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?page=LOVECLIM%40Description"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?page=LOVECLIM%40Description</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> for information about this model), water isotopes and to use this model to investigate past abrupt climate changes involving the cryosphere. This work will be achieved through collaborative projects with the different laboratories involved in the network and specific training courses.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants should preferably have a background in Earth sciences, and more specifically in climate modelling and/or geochemistry.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications, including a detailed curriculum vitae, a letter describing relevant experience and research interests, and the name and address of one academic referee, should be sent as soon as possible to: Professor Thierry Fichefet, Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut d'Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître, Chemin du Cyclotron, 2, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Belgium<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please check the definition of Early Stage Researcher (ESR) as well as other eligibility requirements on </SPAN><A href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/action/level_en.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/action/level_en.html</FONT></SPAN></A> <SPAN style="">before applying for the position. <B>Applications will be evaluated on an ongoing basis.</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information, contact Professor Thierry Fichefet (phone: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>+32-10-473295; e-mail: </SPAN><A href="mailto:fichefet@astr.ucl.ac.be"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">fichefet@astr.ucl.ac.be</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">; website: </SPAN><A href="http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">).<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">****************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOBS 8) <B>2 Asst Prof - tenure-track</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Physical Geography (Atmosheric/Climate Scientist & GIS) – National University of Singapore (Singapore) <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Application Review begins 1 June 2007 </B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> Applications from atmospheric/climate scientists are encouraged<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications are invited for two tenure-track appointments in physical geography at the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore. Appointment will be made at either the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level. Candidates should strengthen and complement research and teaching in the Tropical Environmental Change research cluster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>* For the first position, candidates should have expertise in environmental change dynamics and impacts on biogeochemical cycles.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Related experience in applications of remote sensing, GIS or modeling is an advantage.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>* For the second position, candidates should have expertise in GIS development and applications to environmental problems. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates should have a doctoral degree in geography, environmental science or a related discipline. Field research in tropical areas, especially Southeast Asia, is an advantage as is previous post-doctoral or faculty experience. Applicants are expected to have an established record in international refereed journals.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Successful candidates should be prepared to teach relevant courses at undergraduate and graduate levels in the fields of physical geography, geographical methods and GIS. To apply, please submit your full CV, including names and contacts of three referees, any past teaching evaluations and a statement indicating your research agenda and teaching interests to:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Associate Professor David Higgitt, Chair Search Committee for Physical Geography Positions, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Kent Ridge, Singapore 177570. Tel +65-6516 6638;<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fax +65-6777 3091; Email </SPAN><A href="mailto:geowlw@nus.edu.sg"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">geowlw@nus.edu.sg</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> (Ms Wong Lai Wa). Envelopes should be clearly marked "Faculty Position in Physical Geography" and indicate which position is being applied for. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Application review will begin on 1 June 2007 and will continue until suitable candidates are recruited. Applicants must be willing to start work preferably in January 2008 or latest by July 2008.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">****************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 9) <B>Post-doc Research Associate</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - History of Science/Science Studies - Joint Appointment between University of California, San Diego, and Princeton University Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (USA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The use of scientific assessment as a formalized process for evaluating knowledge for the specific purpose of informing government decision-making has expanded since the mid-1970s, but how well have these assessments worked? As part of the initial stage of a multi-year collaborative project between University of California, San Diego and The Woodrow Wilson School's Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at Princeton University, we seek a post-doctoral fellow to examine the history of scientific assessments of the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its role in sea level rise caused by global warming.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ideal fellow will have a Ph.D. in history of science or a closely related field, and sufficient scientific background to understand the technical issues at stake in the scientific evaluations. The fellow will work under the joint supervision of Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego, and Michael Oppenheimer, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The initial appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal. The successful candidate will be based primarily at the University of California, San Diego campus but must be flexible enough to travel to the Princeton to conduct research there as needed. Research could begin anytime after July 1, 2007. <B>Review of applications begins immediately </B></SPAN><SPAN style="">and will continue until the position is filled.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants should send a CV and a cover letter describing their areas of expertise and interest via email to Charles Crosby at </SPAN><A href="mailto:ccrosby@princeton.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">ccrosby@princeton.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <</SPAN><A href="mailto:ccrosby@princeton.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">mailto:ccrosby@princeton.edu</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 applying to Princeton please link to: </SPAN><A href="http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/ApplicantsInfo.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/ApplicantsInfo.htm</FONT></SPAN></A> <SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates may choose to complete the "Invitation to Self-Identify" form </SPAN><A href="http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/forms/PSoftSelfID.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/forms/PSoftSelfID.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">. 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