<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><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>6/15/2007</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><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">On Mentoring: Nature journal's Guide for Mentors</FONT></B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0C0C">We here at DISCCRS encourage everyone to read this article and pass it on to their advisors or Department Chairs:</FONT></B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/447791a.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/447791a.html</B></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>New Climate Group report available online - In the Black: The Growth of the Low Carbon Economy</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://theclimategroup.org/index.php/resources/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://theclimategroup.org/index.php/resources/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The report describes the upward global trends across the board in the take-up of solutions for a low carbon economy, e.g., renewables, hybrid cars, the carbon markets. It also demonstrates the value creation and jobs growth in all these areas. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Invitation to Join New Research and Media Network</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://researchandmedia.ning.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://researchandmedia.ning.com/</FONT></SPAN></A> <SPAN style="">for fast, free registration<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">The Research and Media Network is an online social network for journalists, scientists, press officers and others who communicate about research - whether on health, environment, water, biodiversity, energy, agriculture, forestry, sustainable development or communications. The aim is to create a space for people to share information, contacts, news and resources. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">resources<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>FORUM</I></B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Yale Conference on Americans and Climate Change</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://environment.yale.edu/climate/americans_and_climate_change.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://environment.yale.edu/climate/americans_and_climate_change.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see FORUM 1 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">NASA Leader Regrets Global Warming Comments</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT><A href="http://tinyurl.com/35u2aw"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/35u2aw</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> (NY Times - Registration required)</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">or</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/science/09griffin.html?_r=1&ref=environment&oref=slogin"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/science/09griffin.html?_r=1&ref=environment&oref=slogin</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see FORUM 2 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></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><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Podcast of President Bush's May 31 speech on energy policy</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT><A href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=GoeDEV8H7L8"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://youtube.com/watch?v=GoeDEV8H7L8</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Climate change brings toxic moth to England</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1387952020070613"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1387952020070613</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see NEWS 1 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Coal use rise looks bad for climate aims</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSL1281872620070612"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSL1281872620070612</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see NEWS 2 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Nitrogen pollution drives trees to soak up more CO2</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://tinyurl.com/39mhkb"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/39mhkb</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">or </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12058-nitrogen-pollution-drives-trees-to-soak-up-more-cosub2sub.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12058-nitrogen-pollution-drives-trees-to-soak-up-more-cosub2sub.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see NEWS 3 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Global warming is speeding up ocean waves</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/3eyjrz"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/3eyjrz</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> or</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19426075.400-global-warming-is-speeding-up-ocean-waves.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19426075.400-global-warming-is-speeding-up-ocean-waves.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see NEWS 4 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Senate takes up energy bill, push for increase auto fuel economy</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://climate.weather.com/articles/senate061207.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://climate.weather.com/articles/senate061207.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see NEWS 5 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Carbon storage deep down under</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.2.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.2.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see NEWS 6 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Averting disaster: at what cost?</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.3.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.3.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see NEWS 7 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Dangerous summer heat to increase as Mediterranean region warms</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">American Geophysical Union Press Release 07-13 </FONT></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>(see NEWS 8 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Many Arctic Plants Have Adjusted to Big Climate Changes, Study Finds</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/science/15arctic.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/science/15arctic.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Or: </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/ynjej6"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/ynjej6</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see NEWS 9 below)</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></FONT></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><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Reviewer - Tebtebba Foundation</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B></B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></B></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see JOB 1 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Post-doc Oceanographer -</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> Project Engineer, Scientific Planning</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Postdoctoral Oceanographer for Science Planning, Consortium for Ocean Leadership – Washington DC (USA)</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see JOB 2 below)</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Project Engineer</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> - Ocean Observatories – Consortium for Ocean Leadership – Washington DC (USA)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see JOB 3 below)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Postdoc or Senior Research Fellowship</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> - Coral Reef Biodiversity - ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies - James Cook University, Townsville (Australia)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(see JOB 4 below)</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Resources and Funding Opportunities</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(RESOURCES 1) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">On Mentoring: Nature journal's Guide for Mentors</FONT></B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0E14">We here at DISCCRS encourage everyone to read this article and pass it on to their advisors or Department Chairs:</FONT></B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></B></SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/447791a.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/447791a.html</FONT></B></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Having a good mentor early in your career can mean the difference between success and failure in any field. Adrian Lee, Carina Dennis and Philip Campbell look at what makes a good mentor.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Nature awards for creative mentoring in science were created on the premise that the mentorship of young researchers — although fully deserving of recognition — is perhaps the least remarked on of all the activities that take place in the lab. Indeed, there is no established definition of what constitutes good scientific mentoring. This article attempts to remedy that situation, drawing on the evidence from competitions for Nature's awards. These are held on a national or regional basis, with the most recent taking place last year, when the focus was on Australasia. Previous competitions have been held in the United Kingdom, and the next competition will be in South Africa (see </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/nature/mentoringawards/southafrica/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nature.com/nature/mentoringawards/southafrica/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">).</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(Continued.. with many interesting quotes such as:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"First, her door is always open, even now in her retirement she can never say 'come back later'. I now greatly admire this skill for I find myself struggling with administration and feeling guilty in making appointments to see students. M always put scientific discussion first."</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"Going to M's office with your head down, armed with a plot or calculation showing that the project seemed to be going nowhere, you will leave believing that you've solved the mysteries of the Universe."</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"Those who are good mentors get incalculably more out of it than they put into it.")</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Forum</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(FORUM 1) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Yale Conference on Americans and Climate Change</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://environment.yale.edu/climate/americans_and_climate_change.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://environment.yale.edu/climate/americans_and_climate_change.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Yale report on the Yale Conference on Americans and Climate Change is worth reading, even if you are not a U.S. citizen. Read the report if you have time. If not, at least read the following preface to the report, which quotes the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The ‘tide in the affairs of men’ does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ‘Too late. . . .’"</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">— Reverend Dr.Martin Luther King</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(FORUM 2) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">NASA Leader Regrets Global Warming Comments</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT><A href="http://tinyurl.com/35u2aw"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/35u2aw</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> (NY Times - Registration required)</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">or</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/science/09griffin.html?_r=1&ref=environment&oref=slogin"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/science/09griffin.html?_r=1&ref=environment&oref=slogin</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">NY Times (registration required) - NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin said Friday that he regretted having sparked a furor last week when, in an interview with National Public Radio, he said he was not sure climate change "is a proble m we must wrestle with." "To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate," he said during the NPR interview, stumbling into the rancorous debate over climate change. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Among his own troops, James Hansen, who manages NASA's climate research as the head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, and who has said that the Bush administration has told him to soften his comments about warming, said he was shocked by the comments. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Dr. Griffin said that he regretted that the comments became a "distraction for NASA." Whatever his personal opinion about climate change, he said that it has no effect on NASA's role in providing the technical data on climate change.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(continued...)</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>Science News</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(NEWS 1)</FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> Climate change brings toxic moth to England</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1387952020070613"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1387952020070613 </FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">LONDON (Reuters) - A species of toxic moth which has been moving steadily north from the Mediterranean because of global warming has reached England, the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew said on Wednesday.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Emergency measures have been put in place to protect trees in Kew Gardens in West London, where a number of Oak Processionary Moths (Thaumetopoea processionea) have been discovered, Kew Gardens said in a statement.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"The Oak Processionary Moth's natural range is the Mediterranean regions of Europe. However, in recent years, its range has extended northwards, possibly as a result of climate change," it said.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The moth was last reported to have reached Belgium, where its presence caused areas of forest to be closed to the public.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Oak Moth lays its eggs in oak trees, and the caterpillars eat the trees' foliage. The poisonous hairs on the caterpillars' back can cause itchy rashes, breathing difficulties and severe allergic reactions in humans.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Kew said the moths found in England were believed to have entered the country as eggs laid on imported trees, so the immediate danger was limited.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(NEWS 2) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Coal use rise looks bad for climate aims</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSL1281872620070612"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSL1281872620070612 </FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) - Ambitious goals to fight climate change look less achievable as coal use continued to soar last year in China and India, data compiled by BP Plc showed on Tuesday.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The data confirmed that China was on track to overtake the United States as the world's number one carbon emitter this year, one analyst said.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"I would still say 2007, this is the year," said Gregg Marland, senior scientist at Austria's International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and the U.S. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC).</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">China's CO2 emissions in 2006 were over 5.7 billion tonnes versus nearly 5.9 billion tonnes in the United States, with China up 8.5 percent and the United States falling slightly, Marland estimated on Tuesday, using the new BP data.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Coal releases more of the planet-warming greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) than any other fossil fuel. But coal was the fastest growing fuel globally worldwide last year, BP's annual Statistical Review of World Energy showed, rising at a rate that was slightly down on last year but well above the average for the last decade.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">A U.N. panel of climate scientists last month said that global CO2 emissions should peak by 2015, to keep atmospheric concentration at levels which the European Union says will avoid the worst effects of climate change.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(NEWS 3) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Nitrogen pollution drives trees to soak up more CO2</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://tinyurl.com/39mhkb"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/39mhkb</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">or </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12058-nitrogen-pollution-drives-trees-to-soak-up-more-cosub2sub.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12058-nitrogen-pollution-drives-trees-to-soak-up-more-cosub2sub.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Nitrogen pumped into the environment by human activities such as driving cars and farming is fertilising tree growth and boosting the amount of carbon being stored in forests outside the tropics, say researchers.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Their study provides a surprising example of how one type of human pollution is helping to counter another. But the researchers caution that they do not yet know what proportion of carbon dioxide emissions are being offset by the anthropogenic release of nitrogen.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Nitrogen is an important plant nutrient, widely used as an agricultural fertiliser, and two studies in 2006 suggested that its availability in nature will ultimately limit the capacity of forests to soak up human CO2 (Nature, p 440, vol 922 and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0509038103). But until now, no one had quantified the effect that human deposits of nitrogen were having on forests.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Federico Magnani of the University of Bologna in Italy and his colleagues have now done just that for temperate and sub-Arctic (boreal) forests. They looked at 20 clusters of forests, from Alaska to Italy, and Siberia to New Zealand, to see how much carbon they are storing and what is driving the growth.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(continued...)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(NEWS 4</FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">) Global warming is speeding up ocean waves</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/3eyjrz"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/3eyjrz</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> or</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19426075.400-global-warming-is-speeding-up-ocean-waves.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19426075.400-global-warming-is-speeding-up-ocean-waves.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Gigantic ocean waves, spanning hundreds of kilometres from crest to crest, have been speeding up thanks to global warming, a new model suggests.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Geophysicists predict that as the ocean surface warms, these so-called planetary waves should speed up. To test this idea, John Fyfe and Oleg Saenko at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, modelled the changes to ocean wave patterns over the 20th and 21st centuries.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"We were really surprised at how quickly the ocean responded to temperature change," Fyfe says. According to the model, global warming has already increased the speed of the waves, but no one noticed because satellites have not been monitoring their speeds for long enough, he says. The model also shows that by the end of the 21st century, the waves will be a further 20 to 40 per cent faster compared with pre-industrial speeds (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 34, p L10706).</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"We knew we'd see an effect, but we didn't think it would be significant for at least another two centuries," Fyfe says. The faster planetary waves will have an effect on global weather, he adds.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">From issue 2607 of New Scientist magazine, 12 June 2007, page 23</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(NEWS 5) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Senate takes up energy bill, push for increase auto fuel economy</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://climate.weather.com/articles/senate061207.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://climate.weather.com/articles/senate061207.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">WASHINGTON (AP) — As motorists face near record gasoline prices, the Senate took up an energy bill Tuesday that would raise auto fuel economy standards for the first time in nearly 20 years and make oil industry price gouging a federal crime.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Democratic leaders in both the Senate and House said they want broad energy legislation passed before the Fourth of July congressional recess, hoping to dampen growing voter anger over paying well above $3 a gallon at gasoline pumps across the country.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Senate bill urges automakers to boost their fuel economy to a fleet average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, about a 40 percent increase over what new cars and the less fuel efficient SUVs and pickup trucks are required to attain today. The auto standard of 27.5 mpg was last increased 18 years ago. SUVS and small trucks must achieve a fleet average of 22.2 mpg.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Tuesday the bill would help reduce the country's reliance on oil — an addiction that consumes more than 21 million barrels a day, nearly two-thirds of it imported.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The White House issued a statement opposing many of the bill's most critical parts, including the mandatory increase in automobile fuel economy. It also said President Bush would be urged to veto the legislation if it contained the price gouging language.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">******************** </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(NEWS 6) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Carbon storage deep down under</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.2.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.2.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">As the world's largest trial carbon storage project gets underway, some are questioning its necessity. Hannah Hoag reports from Australia. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Perched on the southern edge of Australia, the Otway Basin spreads offshore from Cape Jaffa in South Australia, through Victoria, to the northwest coast of Tasmania. For nearly 100 years, gas wells have been drilled into the onshore portion of the basin that was formed when Antarctica broke free of Australia. Now researchers are probing the basin for its capacity to store carbon dioxide generated from Australia's coal-burning power plants. But some are asking if the world needs another demonstration project.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Otway Basin Pilot Project, Australia's first carbon sequestration demonstration project — and perhaps the most intensely monitored — kicked off in February when the drilling of a 2,100-metre well began near the small town of Warrnambool, about 250 kilometres from Melbourne. Peter Cook, head of the Canberra-based Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) that runs the project, says they plan to begin injecting gas into the new well in July. By the end of the year, up to 100,000 tonnes of supercritical carbon dioxide will have been injected into the natural reservoir.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(continued...)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(NEWS 7) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Averting disaster: at what cost?</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.3.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.3.html </FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Avoiding dangerous climate change will require considerable global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A daunting challenge, but one that is practically and economically achievable, argues Jeffrey D. Sachs. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The basic economics of climate change have been explained clearly in the Stern Review1. The global business-as-usual (BAU) path, in which fossil fuel use continues unabated without reducing carbon emissions or capturing and sequestering them, will raise atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases during the coming decades to dangerous levels. The higher the greenhouse gas concentrations the greater the societal costs will be, in terms of more frequent and extreme droughts and storms, loss of biodiversity, declining crop yields, rising sea levels and much more</FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.3.html#B2"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">2</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">. Emissions can be averted, and thereby greenhouse gas concentrations can be reduced below the BAU path, at an extra cost to society. As long as the resulting social benefits exceed this abatement cost, then it should be adopted. The optimum pace and intensity of emissions reduction are found by balancing the additional costs of aggressive greenhouse gas stabilization against the incremental benefits of reduced climate change.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The bargaining game:</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">So far, so good. But the translation of these ideas into practice is extremely challenging, both conceptually and practically. The costs of reducing emissions are unknown, because their control will depend on a myriad of technologies that are potentially effective but not yet proved. The societal costs of climate change are known with even less precision. Moreover, both societal and abatement costs will vary widely across geographical space and across generations. At a conceptual level, there is an enormous bargaining game, marked by potential winners and losers, high uncertainty, potential side payments, tendencies towards free riding, and future generations who are not even at the bargaining table. The current generation plays its own hand, as well as that of future generations. Some might say the game is rigged. (continued...)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(NEWS 8) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Dangerous summer heat to increase as Mediterranean region warms</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">American Geophysical Union Press Release 07-13</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">WASHINGTON - The number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean region could increase by 200 percent to 500 percent in this century, if current rates of greenhouse gas emissions continue, a new analysis finds. Of nations covered by the study, France would undergo the greatest upswing in high-temperature extremes. Mitigating these grim projections, reductions of greenhouse gas emissions may lessen the intensification of dangerously hot days by as much as 50 percent, the study shows.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">In France in 2003, 15,000 people died in an extraordinary heat wave. In Italy, the high temperatures resulted in almost 3,000 deaths. The researchers find that global warming causes summer temperatures to dramatically exceed the range that correlated with the increased number of deaths. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"Rare events today, like the 2003 heat wave in Europe, become much more common as greenhouse gas concentrations increase," says Noah S. Diffenbaugh, of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., who led the study. Indeed, they "become the norm and the extreme events of the future are unprecedented in their severity," he says. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The analysis indicates that daily temperatures currently found in the hottest two weeks of the summer instead will be found in the coldest two weeks of the summer. In Paris, for example, temperatures that occurred there during the heat wave in 2003 are exceeded a couple dozen times every year in the simulated future.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Fueling the new projections is an intensified impact of global warming at the high end of the Mediterranean's summer temperature range. The researchers find that warming and reduced precipitation in the region contribute to preferential warming of the hottest days. The most scorching summer days "warm more than the typical summer days warm," Diffenbaugh explains.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"One might expect that an average warming of four degrees would equate to each day warming by four degrees, but in fact the hottest days warm quite a bit more," he says.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">This is due, in large part, to a surface moisture feedback, the scientists propose. The surface gets dryer as it gets hotter and the dry soil leads to less moisture in the area and less evaporative cooling. The locations of intensified warming on hottest days of the year match the locations where surface drying occurs, Diffenbaugh says.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">In addition to threatening people's lives, soaring temperatures could harm the Mediterranean region's economy, notes study co-author Jeremy S. Pal of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif. The region extends into 21 European, African, and Asian countries that border the Mediterranean Sea. Its metropolitan areas include Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Algiers, Cairo, Istanbul, and Tel Aviv. Negative consequences in the area could affect human health, water resources, agriculture, and energy demand, Pal adds.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The ultimate severity of the damage depends on what steps are taken today. "Technological and behavioral changes that are made now will have a big influence on what actually happens in the future," says Diffenbaugh. "Decreases in greenhouse gas emissions greatly reduce the impact."</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Still, "we see negative effects even with reduced emissions," he notes.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">In the new work, Diffenbaugh, Pal, and colleagues in Italy and China, analyze climate simulations covering two time periods: 1961 to 1989 and 2071 to 2099. They report their results in the June 15 Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The simulations assume emissions scenarios as proposed in 2000 by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a leading scientific organization that evaluates climate-change-related science. One scenario anticipates that greenhouse gas emissions will continue to increase exponentially. The other, reduced-emissions scenario incorporates diminished population growth and greater environmental concern.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Although newer emissions scenarios have been generated since 2000, a recent assessment by IPCC found that those scenarios differ little in their emissions ranges from the older ones, Diffenbaugh says. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Mediterranean region study also uses the National Weather Service Heat Index in the analysis of the heat stress response to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The areas most likely to face substantial increases in dangerous heat index are concentrated largely in coastal areas, the researchers find. The team can discern such localized effects because the climate model used in the study has a resolution of 20 kilometers (12 miles) -- perhaps the highest spatial resolution available for the Mediterranean region. Much as increased resolution in a photograph makes a clearer picture and allows one to zoom in without blurring the image, the powerful resolution of the climate model allows researchers to gather detailed information about particular areas. The researchers used a supercomputer in the National Climate Center in Beijing to run the climate model.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"This is the first time this amplification signal over coastal areas could be seen and quantified," says co-author Filippo Giorgi of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. "Coastal regions are particularly vulnerable because they will likely be affected by other important climate change related stresses, such as a rising sea level." Many large cities in the Mediterranean region are on the coast, Giorgi notes. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The study was funded by the Italy-USA collaborative agreement on climate change research and the National Science Foundation.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Publication-quality images of temperature projections are available from the Purdue University website at: </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/images/+2007/diffenbaugh-heat2.jpg"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/images/+2007/diffenbaugh-heat2.jpg</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS//images/+2007/diffenbaugh-heat.jpg"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS//images/+2007/diffenbaugh-heat.jpg</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(NEWS 9) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Many Arctic Plants Have Adjusted to Big Climate Changes, Study Finds</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/science/15arctic.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/science/15arctic.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Or: </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/ynjej6"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/ynjej6</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">New York Times (Registration Required) Many Arctic plant species have readily adjusted to big climate changes, repeatedly recolonizing the rugged islands of the remote Svalbard archipelago off Norway's coast through 20,000 years of warm and cool spells since the frigid peak of the last ice age, researchers report in today's issue of the journal Science.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Their finding implies that, in the Arctic at least, plants may be able to shift long distances to follow the climate conditions for which they are best adapted as those conditions move under the influence of human-caused global warming, the researchers and some independent experts said.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Some experts on climate and biology who were not involved with the study, which was led by scientists from the University of Oslo, said it provided a glimmer of optimism in the face of generally bleak scientific assessments of the vulnerability of ecosystems to the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases.</FONT></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=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Or, visit </FONT><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><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> and click on 'Join this group' </FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(JOB 1)</FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> Reviewer - Tebtebba Foundation</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Tebtebba Foundation - a well known indigenous peoples-run research and policy organization based in the Philippines (for more information see: </FONT><A href="http://www.tebtebba.org"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.tebtebba.org</FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> ) - is launching an initiative that intends to use positive developments within the global system and other opportunities available to operationalise the human rights based approach in order to strengthen the protection and enhancement of biological and cultural diversity of indigenous peoples</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Amongst the various activities to be carried out under this initiative, it is envisaged to commission review papers on indigenous ecological management practices, including the adaptive ones in the face of globalisation and similar global trends, such as climate change, economic integration, instantaneous communication, urbanisation and others.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">In this regard, Tebtebba Founation is looking for a couple of young people, preferably doc and post doc students, preferably but not necessarily indigenous, who have worked on the topic, both in the South and the North, and are very knowledgeable about the existing literature, willing to prepare review papers on the topic. Could you suggest a few names as well as their contacts?</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">If you have any suggestions, please send them to Vanda Altarelli - </FONT></SPAN><A href="mailto:v_altarelli@yahoo.co.uk"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">v_altarelli@yahoo.co.uk</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> -</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">who is assisting Tebtebba in her personal capacity.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(JOB 2) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Post-doc Oceanographer -</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> Project Engineer, Scientific Planning</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Postdoctoral Oceanographer for Science Planning, Consortium for Ocean Leadership – Washington DC (USA)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Consortium for Ocean Leadership, a new corporation resulting from the merger of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. (JOI) and the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE), has an immediate opening in its Washington, D.C. office for a postdoctoral oceanographer to assist with science planning for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The OOI, which will be funded by the National Science Foundation, will construct an integrated observatory network to provide ocean, earth, and atmospheric scientists and educators with continuous, interactive access to the ocean. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The postdoctoral oceanographer will analyze science requirements, provide liaison with the scientific community and the NSF, coordinate discussions with community experts and the project’s implementing organizations, develop presentations for design reviews, review, edit, and write documents, represent the corporation at scientific meetings and workshops, monitor progress against milestones, and perform related activities that require domain expertise in oceanography and basic understanding of current research areas. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in physical, chemical, or biological oceanography with experience and/or knowledge in the acquisition of in situ oceanographic data. Experience with experimental ocean observation platforms is advantageous. Demonstrated planning, decision-making, and problem-solving capabilities, demonstrated initiative to work independently to prioritize work and complete projects with general direction, and excellent communication and editorial skills are also required. This position will be for 12 months, extendable to 24 months, at a postdoctoral salary of $55,000 per year. The Consortium for Ocean Leadership provides an excellent benefit and retirement package. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. For consideration, please forward your letter of interest, complete resume/CV, the names of four references, and a representative writing sample to </FONT></SPAN><A href="mailto:orion@joiscience.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">orion@joiscience.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(JOB 3)</FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> Project Engineer</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> - Ocean Observatories – Consortium for Ocean Leadership – Washington DC (USA)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Consortium for Ocean Leadership, a new corporation resulting from the merger of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. (JOI) and the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE), has an immediate opening in its Washington D.C. office for an experienced project engineer for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The project engineer will lead development and technical management efforts required for planning for the purchase, installation and maintenance of a high reliability, long term science-driven ocean observatory network. This position will focus on the development of the Coastal and Global scale network subsystems with both buoyed and cabled ocean-observing components. Initial project tasks will include completion of user requirements, development of system requirements, architectural and engineering design of the system, preliminary cost estimates, development of a project execution plan and execution of formal requirements and design reviews in collaboration with research scientists and engineers. Funding for the Ocean Observatories Initiative is provided by the National Science Foundation. The ability to work constructively with research scientists and engineers to define a system that will meet the unique science and research needs of the academic ocean research community will be a key trait of the successful applicant.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The successful candidate will possess excellent leadership and interpersonal skills critical for successful collaboration, a degree in engineering, a minimum of 5 years experience as a project engineer involved in large projects, and demonstrated success in the development of complex multi-sensor systems. A familiarity with scientific ocean observing activities or other complex submarine system development is desirable.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Consortium for Ocean Leadership provides an excellent benefit and retirement package. Review of applications for this position will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. For consideration, please forward your letter of interest, complete resume/CV, and the names of four references to </FONT></SPAN><A href="mailto:orion@joiscience.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">orion@joiscience.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">********************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">(JOB 4) </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Postdoc or Senior Research Fellowship</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> - Coral Reef Biodiversity - ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies - James Cook University, Townsville (Australia)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies seeks a postdoctoral or senior research fellow to work in any area of coral reef biodiversity (e.g., biogeography, phylogeography, paleobiology, evolution, mathematical modelling, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem function). Based at James Cook University in Townsville (Australia), the appointee will contribute to improving understanding of mechanisms and processes that maintain local and global biodiversity of coral reefs. The successful applicant will have substantial freedom to forge a research program that suits her or his interests and abilities. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Selection criteria include: 1) PhD in a relevant discipline (PhD candidates who will complete their degrees before late 2007 are also encouraged to apply).</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">2) An excellent publication record for stage of career.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">3) Capacity to bring fresh approaches to the study of coral reef biodiversity (either conceptual or technical, preferably both) that will complement and enhance, rather than duplicate, existing areas of strength in the Centre.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">4) Prior knowledge of coral reefs is desirable, but not essential.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The position is available immediately; </FONT><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">. Appointment will be through June 2010, subject to a probationary period.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, administered by James Cook University, is one of the world’s largest providers of the knowledge that underpins our capacity to understand and manage coral reefs. It includes 30 Chief Investigators and research fellows, distributed across multiple universities in Australia. For further information about the Centre, visit </FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.coralcoe.org.au/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.coralcoe.org.au</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Enquiries to: Associate Professor Sean Connolly,</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Phone: +61 7 4782 4242</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><A href="mailto:Sean.Connolly@jcu.edu.au"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Sean.Connolly@jcu.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">To apply, please forward a CV, email addresses of 3 potential referees, and a 1-2 page description of research interests addressing Selection Criterion #3, above, to Sean Connolly at </FONT></SPAN><A href="mailto:Sean.Connolly@jcu.edu.au"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Sean.Connolly@jcu.edu.au</FONT></SPAN></A></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"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">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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