<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>10/26/2007</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>FORUM</I></B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Public Presentation by DISCCRS III Mentor Stephen Schneider</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://kohalacenter.yourmembership.com/?newsletter_07_10_b#crank"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://kohalacenter.yourmembership.com/?newsletter_07_10_b#crank</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Steve Schneider made a public presentation at the University of Hawaii during the recent DISCCRS III symposium, and his presentation was turned into an article and published in the newsletter of The Kohala Center. I urge you all to read it.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is an overview on the front page of the newsletter:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://kohalacenter.yourmembership.com/?newsletter_07_10"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://kohalacenter.yourmembership.com/?newsletter_07_10</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The presentation, with graphics you can enlarge by using their "click here" function is on the back page.</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>An Appreciation of Al Gore</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By: Hon. Wangari Maathai 10.22.07, 6:00 AM ET<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, is founder of the Green Belt Movement, a member of Kenya’s Parliament and the author of Unbowed: A Memoir (Anchor, 2007). </SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see FORUM 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B><I><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></I></B></SPAN></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>RESOURCES and FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES</I></B></SPAN></FONT></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></I></B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://fellowships.aaas.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://fellowships.aaas.org/</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>NSF Arctic research opportunities</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5521&org=NSF"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5521&org=NSF</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>START/PACOM 2008 Call for Proposals</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Small Research Grants For African Scientists Engaged In Global Environmental Change Research<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.start.org/Program/African_sm_grants.html">http://www.start.org/Program/African_sm_grants.html</A></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></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>SCIENCE NEWS</I></B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Climate Change Testimony Was Edited by White House</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.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/25climate.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/25climate.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/24axbe"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/24axbe</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Climate Is Too Complex for Accurate Predictions</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12833-climate-is-too-complex-for-accurate-predictions.html">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12833-climate-is-too-complex-for-accurate-predictions.html</A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/3bjbxt"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/3bjbxt</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 2 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>The Future Is Drying Up</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.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21water-t.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21water-t.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/yo8d4v"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/yo8d4v</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>Oceans Are 'Soaking Up Less CO2'</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7053903.stm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7053903.stm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/32ensb"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/32ensb</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 4 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B><I>SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES</I></B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>38th Annual International Arctic Workshop - </B><SPAN style="">5-7 March 2008 - Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research - University of Colorado - Boulder CO (USA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://instaar.colorado.edu/AW">http://instaar.colorado.edu/AW</A></SPAN></DIV> (see WORKSHOP 1 below) </DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B><I>JOBS</I></B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Postdoc -</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> Environmental Fellows Program - Harvard University – Cambridge, MA (USA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://environment.harvard.edu/program/fellows.htm">http://environment.harvard.edu/program/fellows.htm</A><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"><SPAN style=""><B>Faculty Position</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Paleoclimate/Climate Dynamics - Department of Earth Sciences - University of Southern California – Los Angles CA (USA)</SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 2 below)<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></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(FORUM 1) <B>An Appreciation of Al Gore</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By: Hon. Wangari Maathai 10.22.07, 6:00 AM ET<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Wangari Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, is founder of the Green Belt Movement, a member of Kenya’s Parliament and the author of Unbowed: A Memoir (Anchor, 2007). <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I learned this month that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their groundbreaking work to raise awareness about the threats posed by global warming, I was delighted.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In 1990, then Sen. Gore visited the Green Belt Movement in Kenya and later wrote about our work planting trees with poor, rural women in his book Earth in the Balance. A few years later, Vice President Gore invited me to join him on a trip to Haiti to view first-hand the effects of extreme deforestation on the country. Nearly every tree had been cut down, and people, desperate to feed themselves, had planted crops wherever they could, including on barren hillsides. When the rains came, the soil just washed away.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Unfortunately, little has changed. In times of extreme floods and hurricanes, which affect Haiti all too often, thousands of people lose their homes and their lives.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Back then, neither of us could imagine being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize or, indeed, that the Norwegian Nobel Committee would expand its conception of peace and security to encompass protecting the environment, ensuring the equitable and sustainable use of natural resources, and raising awareness of the linkages between ecological stress and conflict. By choosing Al Gore and the IPCC as this year's peace laureates, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has rightly reminded us that climate change is the single biggest threat to world peace.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In his speeches, writings and the excellent documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore has made clear to the industrialized world that not only is global warming real, but that human actions are at the center of solutions as well as the problem. He has focused world attention on the challenges we need to confront to avoid the worst-case scenarios laid out by IPCC's dedicated scientists. His work to make ordinary people and political leaders aware of the dangers has been an inspiration.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For me, the issue is personal--for it is in my part of the world, the continent of Africa, that the effects of global climate change are likely to be most severe. Increased drought, erratic rainfall, floods, crop failures and the consequent migration of large numbers of people will only intensify already existing tensions here and in other developing regions. This is already taking place in Darfur in western Sudan, where, as elsewhere, access to and control over natural resources (clean drinking water, land suitable for crops or grazing, oil, minerals and precious metals) underlie almost all civil conflicts and outright wars.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While climate change, if it continues, will negatively affect the economies of wealthy countries, in Africa, where people's daily lives are closely linked to their environment, the consequences will be a matter of life and death. This is why it's essential that African leaders and civil society be involved in global decision-making on how we address the climate crisis in ways that are both effective and equitable. Likewise, as major polluters, the industrialized countries have a responsibility to assist Africa and the rest of the developing world by sharing their technological know-how to reduce our vulnerability and increase our capacity to adapt to climate change.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mechanisms must be put in place to raise steady and reliable funds for the prime victims of the climate crisis, who will be poor and rural, very young and, more often than not, female.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Al Gore and others have visualized the technological possibilities, and the individual and policy choices, that can mitigate global warming. From my perspective, working at the grassroots, there's another obligation: to protect the resources we have. One vital component of a sustainable future, for instance, must be standing forests. We know that intact forests contain the biodiversity that makes life possible for numerous species as well as forest-dwelling human communities. But forests--particularly thick, healthy stands of indigenous trees--also absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, and hold vast reserves of carbon in their soils. As these forests are felled for timber, agriculture, human settlements or commercial development, the world loses a vital component needed to slow, and ultimately reverse, global warming.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both Al Gore and I know that championing long-term thinking is often difficult in a world where it's easier to sacrifice the common good of the future for today's convenience. But we're also aware how essential it is to hold on to our convictions, whether we're political leaders, heads of corporations, leaders of civil society or individuals seeking to do whatever we can for our planet.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I look forward to continue working with the new Nobel laureate to promote dialogue and concrete action on global warming in the service of peace for all those who share the Earth. Seventeen years since Al Gore came to Kenya, the podo tree he planted is flourishing--one among the many millions of trees the Green Belt Movement and others have planted to restore forests that have been lost. This tree is a symbol of how, working together, we can mobilize the awareness, vision, passion and commitment we need to save the planet and ourselves.<SPAN style=""> </SPAN></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></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(RESOURCES 1) <B>START/PACOM 2008 Call for Proposals</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Small Research Grants For African Scientists Engaged In Global Environmental Change Research<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.start.org/Program/African_sm_grants.html">http://www.start.org/Program/African_sm_grants.html</A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The International START Secretariat and the Pan African START Committee (PACOM), with funding from the United States National Science Foundation/ US Climate Change Science Program (NSF/USCCSP) requests proposals for small research grants to be awarded to scientists based at African institutions for research projects related to global environmental change that address the following themes: <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>THEME 1: climate variability & climate change<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>THEME 2: impacts/adaptations/vulnerability to climate change<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>THEME 3: land use change/ecosystems/biogeochemical change/biodiversity<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To be eligible for a grant, the proposed project must fall within the research framework of START's sponsor, the Earth Systems Science Partnership (ESSP) and its programmes, the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and DIVERSITAS.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>Applications must arrive at the International START Secretariat no later than midnight (24:00) - US Eastern Time - on Wednesday 19 December 2007</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For more information, contact: </SPAN><A href="mailto:cskauffman@agu.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">cskauffman@agu.org</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 START and PACOM<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>START, the global change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training, co-sponsored by the Earth Systems Science Partnership , seeks to enhance the scientific capacity of developing regions to conduct global change research. START promotes regional collaborative research networks, which conduct research on regional aspects of environmental change, assess impacts and vulnerabilities to such changes, and provide information to policy-makers. START mobilizes resources to support infrastructure and research programs on environmental change within developing regions and provides a variety of capacity building opportunities aimed at young scientists who are pursuing global change research within these regions. Through its various activities, START enhances the scientific capacity of developing countries to address the complex processes of environmental change and degradation , as well as policy implications and measures for adaptation.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PACOM, the Pan-African Committee for START, serves as a regional coordination body for START's activities in Africa. PACOM is comprised of scientists and policy-makers who are actively engaged in activities addressing issues related to global change and its relation to sustainable development. The Pan-African START Secretariat, based in Tanzania at the University of Dar es Salaam, serves as the coordinating office for START's activities in Africa.</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="">(NEWS 1) <B>Climate Change Testimony Was Edited by White House</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.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/25climate.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/25climate.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/24axbe"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/24axbe</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) - The White House made deep cuts in written testimony given to a Senate committee this week by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on health risks posed by global warming, but the director agreed [Wednesday] with administration officials who said the cuts were part of a normal review process and not aimed at minimizing the issue.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, the agency's director, said in a telephone interview that news reports and comments about the changes had made "a mountain out of a molehill."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"I said everything I needed to say," she said. Dr. Gerberding, who addressed the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Tuesday, said she had freely spoken for more than a year about the implications for public health should warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases proceed as scientists project.<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>Climate Is Too Complex for Accurate Predictions</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12833-climate-is-too-complex-for-accurate-predictions.html">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12833-climate-is-too-complex-for-accurate-predictions.html</A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/3bjbxt"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/3bjbxt</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New Scientist - Climate change models, no matter how powerful, can never give a precise prediction of how greenhouse gases will warm the Earth, according to a new study. The result will provide ammunition to those who argue not enough is known about global warming to warrant taking action.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The analysis focuses on the temperature increase that would occur if levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubled from pre-Industrial Revolution levels. The current best guess for this number - which is a useful way to gauge how sensitive the climate is to rising carbon levels - is that it lies between 2.0 C and 4.5 C. And there is a small chance that the temperature rise could be up to 8C or higher.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To the frustration of policy makers, it is an estimate that has not become much more precise over the last 20 years. During that period, scientists have established that the world is warming and human activity is very likely to blame, but are no closer to putting a figure on exactly how much temperatures are likely to rise. It now appears that the estimates will never get much better.</SPAN> <DIV>********************<O:P></O:P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 3) <B>The Future Is Drying Up</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.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21water-t.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21water-t.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/yo8d4v"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/yo8d4v</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) - Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country's fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great coastal cities.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By comparison, the steady decrease in mountain snowpack - the loss of the deep accumulation of high-altitude winter snow that melts each spring to provide the American West with most of its water - seems to be a more modest worry. But not all researchers agree with this ranking of dangers.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Last May, for instance, Steven Chu, a Nobel laureate and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ... remarked that diminished supplies of fresh water might prove a far more serious problem than slowly rising seas. When I met with Chu last summer in Berkeley, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which provides most of the water for Northern California, was at its lowest level in 20 years.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 4) <B>Oceans Are 'Soaking Up Less CO2'</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://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7053903.stm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7053903.stm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/32ensb"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/32ensb</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 amount of carbon dioxide being absorbed by the world's oceans has reduced, scientists have said. University of East Anglia researchers gauged CO2 absorption through more than 90,000 measurements from merchant ships equipped with automatic instruments.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Results of their 10-year study in the North Atlantic show CO2 uptake halved between the mid-90s and 2000 to 2005. Scientists believe global warming might get worse if the oceans soak up less of the greenhouse gas. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Researchers said the findings, published in a paper for the Journal of Geophysical Research, were surprising and worrying because there were grounds for believing that, in time, the ocean might become saturated with our emissions.</SPAN> <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>Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(WORKSHOP 1) <B>38th Annual International Arctic Workshop - </B></SPAN><SPAN style="">5-7 March 2008 - Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research - University of Colorado - Boulder CO (USA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://instaar.colorado.edu/AW">http://instaar.colorado.edu/AW</A> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Early Registration and Abstract Submission Deadline: 13 February 2008<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The 38th Annual International Arctic Workshop will be held 5-7 March 2008, at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado at Boulder. The meeting is open to all interested in the Arctic and will consist of a series of talks and poster sessions covering all aspects of high-latitude environments, past and present. Previous Arctic Workshops have included presentations on arctic and Antarctic climate, archeology, environmental geochemistry, geomorphology, hydrology, glaciology, soils, ecology, oceanography, and Quaternary history.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This workshop has grown out of a series of informal annual meetings sponsored by INSTAAR and other academic institutions worldwide. In keeping with this tradition, there are no formalized topics and the workshop is organized around themes developed from the abstracts submitted for presentation. Organizers can accommodate specific themes and arrange small group meetings, however. Attendees are requested to identify any special topics or needs by contacting workshop organizers at: </SPAN><A href="mailto:ArcticWS@colorado.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">ArcticWS@colorado.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Student participation is a vital component of the workshop. With support from the National Science Foundation, a limited number of students giving a talk or poster will receive financial assistance, including registration and hotel support.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Inquiries may be directed to: </SPAN><A href="mailto:ArcticWS@colorado.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">ArcticWS@colorado.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">.<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>Jobs</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Or, visit <A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/</FONT></SPAN></A> and click on 'Join this group' </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 1) <B>Postdoc -</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> Environmental Fellows Program - Harvard University – Cambridge, MA (USA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://environment.harvard.edu/program/fellows.htm">http://environment.harvard.edu/program/fellows.htm</A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Purpose: The Harvard University Center for the Environment created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard's extraordinary resources to tackle complex<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department to create new knowledge while also strengthening connections across the University's<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>academic disciplines. Environmental Fellows may include people with degrees in the sciences, social sciences, law, government, public policy, public health, medicine, design, and the full array of humanities. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The award: The fellowship will provide an annual stipend of $52,000 plus health insurance, a $5,000 allowance for travel and professional expenses, and other employee benefits. Environmental Fellows will begin work in<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>September 2008.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Schedule: Applications and all letters of reference must be received by the Center for the Environment by 5 pm Eastern Standard Time, <B>Tuesday, January 15, 2008</B></SPAN><SPAN style="">. The Center will announce the awards in April 2008. <O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 2) <B>Faculty Position</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> - Paleoclimate/Climate Dynamics - Department of Earth Sciences - University of Southern California – Los Angles CA (USA)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California seeks to appoint an assistant professor in paleoclimate/climate dynamics whose research focuses on modeling/dynamics of global climate/environmental changes on a variety of time scales. This person would join an active group of existing faculty with interests in climate/environment variability, which extend from the Archean to the present day.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Review of applications will begin in January 2008 </B></SPAN><SPAN style="">and continue until the position is filled. The appointment could begin as early as August 16, 2008. Applications should include a curriculum vita, statement of research interests, statement of teaching experience and interests, and the names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of at least three referees. Electronic applications are encouraged. All applicants<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">should have their PhD degrees completed before the review process begins.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications should be submitted to Steve P. Lund (</SPAN><A href="mailto:slund@usc.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">slund@usc.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">), Chair, Climate Search Committee, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0740.</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">**************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler to distribute information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate-change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. 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