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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Note: Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, DISCCRS News will not be sent 11/23/2007. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></span></font></div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b>DISCCRS News<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><b>11/16/2007<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">************************************<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>TABLE OF CONTENTS<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b><i>RESOURCES and FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>Resources from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04016/start.htm"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04016/start.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr07096">http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr07096</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> </span> </span>(see RESOURCES 1 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Journey To Planet Earth </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">- 10-part PBS Environmental Series - Now Available for Colleges<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth">http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see RESOURCES 2 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">New American Institute for Global Change Research program to focus on policy implications of projects in the Americas</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see RESOURCES 3 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b><i>FORUM<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>Debate on global warming: is the threat dangerous now or in the future?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Recorded on WNPR Tuesday, November 13, 2007. Features Anthony <span style="color:black">Leiserowitz (DISCCRS II)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2d4gxm"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://tinyurl.com/2d4gxm</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b><i>SCIENCE NEWS<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Experts Discuss Engineering Feats to Slow Climate Change</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span> </span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/science/earth/10geo.html"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/science/earth/10geo.html</span></a><span> </span>O<span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">r: </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2gtsb3">http://tinyurl.com/2gtsb3</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see NEWS 1 below)</div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Convention Discourages Ocean Fertilization<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span> </span><span> </span></span><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071112/full/news.2007.230.html"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071112/full/news.2007.230.html</span></a><span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Or: </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2xvo8o">http://tinyurl.com/2xvo8o</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see NEWS 2 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Hydrogen Gas Made From Renewable Organic Material</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span> </span><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071113-hydrogen-fuel.html">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071113-hydrogen-fuel.html</a><span> </span>Or: </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/28dty4">http://tinyurl.com/28dty4</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see NEWS 3 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>A Melting Alaska Draws Visitors</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span> </span></span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1114/p03s02-usgn.html"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1114/p03s02-usgn.html</span></a><span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Or: </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2my5sv">http://tinyurl.com/2my5sv</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see NEWS 4 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>How to Fight a Rising Sea</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span> </span></span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1115/p13s02-wogi.html"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1115/p13s02-wogi.html</span></a><span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Or: </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ynqyy5">http://tinyurl.com/ynqyy5</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see NEWS 5 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-weight: bold; "> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b><i>SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>DISCCRS Climate Research Network for New Ph.D. Graduates</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> – DISCCRS IV Symposium - November 2-8, 2008 – Saguaro Lake Ranch, AZ (USA)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span> </span><a href="http:/disccrs.org"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">http:/disccrs.org</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see SYMPOSIUM 1 below)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>NECSI Complex Systems Winter School</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> - January 7-18, 2008 - MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://www.necsi.org/events/winter2008.html">http://www.necsi.org/events/winter2008.html</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see WORKSHOP 1 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>CLIMECO workshop - $500 Travel Award for Young Marine Scientists</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span> </span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://www.imber.info/CLIMECO_home.html">http://www.imber.info/CLIMECO_home.html</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see WORKSHOP 2 below)</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b> </b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b><i>JOBS<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b> <!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><b>Asst/Assoc Prof</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> tenure track – Energy Sustainability Science – School of Engineering - University of California, Merced CA (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/academic/position.jsf?positionId=1328"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/academic/position.jsf?positionId=1328</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none"><a href="http://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/academic/position.jsf?positionId=1329">http://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/academic/position.jsf?positionId=1329</a></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <!--EndFragment--> </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Postdoc </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">- Polar Climate Change - Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - University of California – Los Angeles CA (USA)</span></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see JOB 1 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Postdoc</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> – Modeling - Aqueous phase photochemistry leading to SOA formation - Turpin lab - Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ (USA) </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see JOB 2 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>2008-2009 AMS-UCAR Congressional Science Fellowship</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://www.ametsoc.org/CSF">www.ametsoc.org/CSF</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see JOB 3 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Research Prof</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> Tenure track - Weather/Climate Modeling – Department of Earth Sciences – State University of New York – Oswego, NU (USA)</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see JOB 4 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Post Doc</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> - Compound-specific isotopes in DOM cycling/ Microbial ecology - Ocean Sciences - University of California, Santa Cruz XA (USA)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://es.ucsc.edu/~mccarthy/MDM_HOME_page/postdoc.htm">http://es.ucsc.edu/~mccarthy/MDM_HOME_page/postdoc.htm</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see JOB 5 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Asst Prof</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> - Ecology - Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts –New York, NY (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span> </span>careers.newschool.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51070</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see JOB 6 below)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Post-doc Research Scientist</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> - Florida International University / South Florida and Caribbean Inventory and Monitoring Network (SFCN) – Florida (USA)</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(see JOB 7 below)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Asst. Prof</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">. - Plant Physiology - Connecticut College -<span> </span>New London CT (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><a href="http://www.conncoll.edu"> www.conncoll.edu</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span> <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: blue; "><b><span> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span> </span>(see JOB 8 below) </span></span></span></div></div></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:blue">***************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b>Resources and Funding Opportunities<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">(RESOURCES 1)<b> Resources from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04016/start.htm"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04016/start.htm</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica">. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr07096"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr07096</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The following two resources were used at the recent DISCCRS III Symposium. They will soon be posted in the resource section of the DISCCRS webpage, <a href="http://www.disccrs.org/career.html">http://www.disccrs.org/career.html</a>. While the publications are specific to the U.S. NSF, the elements of a good proposal described in the first document are quite universal. The second includes valuable information about NSF proposal success rates and how these have changed over time.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They are available on the NSF website at the following locations: <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">A Guide for Proposal Writing<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04016/start.htm"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04016/start.htm</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica">. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Survey on the Impact of Proposal and Award Management Mechanisms<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><a href="http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr07096"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr07096</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">******************** <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(RESOURCES 2) <b>Journey To Planet Earth </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">- 10-part PBS Environmental Series - Now Available for Colleges<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>WASHINGTON, DC: Today's news headlines tell of a world that faces increased hunger, water shortages, massive floods, and species extinction because of climate change and sea level rise.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Funded by the National Science Foundation, JOURNEY TO PLANET EARTH is the only DVD series that helps teachers explain to college students the science behind these headlines.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To receive a 30-day free preview of the entire 10-episode series or individual episodes simply reply to this e-mail -- </span><a href="mailto:screenscope@screenscope.com"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">screenscope@screenscope.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> -- with your name, institutional mailing address and phone number. Or visit our website for more information about the series:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Find out why publications like the The School Library Journal, Booklist, The Journal Of Academic Librarianship and the California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse hail the JOURNEY TO PLANET EARTH series as the most comprehensive environmental video series ever produced!<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Here's a quick description of each 56-minute episode:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>STATE OF THE OCEAN’S ANIMALS takes a hard look at why nearly half the world's marine animals may face extinction over the next twenty-five years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Locations: Pacific Northwest (whales, salmon and sea otters), Florida (sea level rise and its effect on loggerhead turtles), the Antarctic (threats to Emperor Penguins), and Africa (coastal fisheries).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Narrated by Matt Damon.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>STATE OF THE PLANET’S WILDLIFE -- Explores what scientists are calling the “sixth great extinction” of our world’s plants and animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Locations: the Arctic, Montana, China, Kenya, Brazil, Singapore, and the Everglades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Narrated by Matt Damon.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>STATE OF THE PLANET -- Looks at how population, climate change, and economic pressures affect the world’s resources such as food and water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Locations: Kenya, India, Israel, Bangladesh, the Amazon, Mexico, China, and the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Narrated by Matt Damon.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>FUTURE CONDITIONAL -- Looks at the spread of air pollution from disparate locations such as the Arctic, Uzbekistan, Mexico, and California, and how contamination in one area can affect people thousands of miles away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Narrated by Matt Damon.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>ON THE BRINK -- Investigates a growing national security threat throughout the world: how environmental pressures can lead to terrorism and regional conflict.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Locations: Haiti, South Africa, Bangladesh, India, Peru and along the United States/Mexico border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Narrated by Matt Damon.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>SEAS OF GRASS -- Examines the devastating environmental, political and economic effects of the degradation of the world's grasslands, which make up 30 percent of Earth's land surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Locations: Argentina, Inner Mongolia, Kenya, South Africa, and North America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Narrated by Matt Damon.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>HOT ZONES -- Explores how recent trends in globalization and the altering of ecosystems have led to dramatic increases in the spread of infectious diseases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Locations: Kenya, Peru, Bangladesh, New York City, and Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Narrated by Matt Damon.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>RIVERS OF DESTINY -- Investigates problems associated with the tampering of the natural environment of rivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Locations: Mississippi, Amazon, Jordan, and Mekong Rivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Narrated by Kelly McGillis.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>THE URBAN EXPLOSION -- Explores ways to sustain burgeoning urban populations without destroying the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Locations: Mexico City, Istanbul, Shanghai, and New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Narrated by Kelly McGillis.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>LAND OF PLENTY, LAND OF WANT -- Examines how farmers can feed Earth’s growing population without impoverishing the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Locations: Zimbabwe, France, China, and the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Narrated by Kelly McGillis.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Series Price: $1099 (set of ten) $599 (any five) or $149 per episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Includes Teachers Guide.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">********************</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(RESOURCES 3) <b>New American Institute for Global Change Research program to focus on policy implications of projects in the Americas</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Six multinational research projects are being implemented as part of a new Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) program that will investigate the human dimensions and policy implications of Collaborative Research Network (CRN) projects in the Americas.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Each project funded under the Small Grants for the Human Dimensions Program (SGP-HD) has been awarded a total of up to $160 thousand US dollars and will, over the next two years, study the interactions of global change, climate variability, land use and human beings. In collaboration with CRN projects, researchers will look at how human health, welfare and activities depend on the productivity, diversity and functioning of ecosystems. Both CRN and SGP-HD Programs receive funding from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“The SGP-HD program will not only integrate a broad range of human science with the natural sciences of the CRN projects but will also build on the network synergies to further enhance the linkages between individual projects and provide the human dimensions research teams with a rich field of study and interdisciplinary interaction”, said Holm Tiessen, IAI Director.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CRN is a major international global change research effort designed to support research while encouraging multinational and multidisciplinary collaboration among scientists investigating global change problems of importance to the continent. Its unique focus on scientific excellence, multinational collaboration and capacity building is invaluable as we prepare to deal with current and future environmental challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“One finding of the research on climate risk is that climate stress does not cause human vulnerabilities but only unveils them. Close cooperation between natural and human sciences is required to establish full causal chains between natural events and human conditions. This interdisciplinarity has been one of the most difficult tasks of the research networks”, stressed Tiessen.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The first round of CRNs (CRN I) supported 14 large-scale projects, with a program budget of about US$10 million from 1999 to 2006. This budget was doubled by national funding agencies which supported proposals derived from CRN I activities. CRN I and several associated smaller projects were led by over 400 scientists in the Americas and created a stronger and more cohesive science community in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The IAI, in collaboration with the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), has recently published the book /Communicating Global Change Science to Society, /which presents both a collection of experiences from CRN I and an analysis of the policy interface that has developed in these networks.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In 2006, the IAI started a second round of its successful CRN Program (CRN II). CRN II includes 12 international research consortia involving more than 40 institutions across 18 countries in the Americas.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For more information on the IAI and its programs, please visit: <a href="http://www.iai.int">http://www.iai.int</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>or contact: Ione Anderson, Program Manager at: <a href="mailto:ianderson@dir.iai.int">ianderson@dir.iai.int</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:blue">***************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b>Science News<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">(NEWS 1) <b>Experts Discuss Engineering Feats to Slow Climate Change</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/science/earth/10geo.html"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/science/earth/10geo.html</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>O<span style="font-family: Helvetica">r: </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2gtsb3"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://tinyurl.com/2gtsb3</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>New York Times (Registration Required) - CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 9 - There is now "no doubt" that some of the effects of human-induced climate change could be offset with engineering fixes, according to David Keith, an expert on climate and energy at the University of Calgary.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But what action should be taken, based on this knowledge? That was one of the knotty questions he and other experts wrestled with at a two-day conference that ended here on Friday. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Dr. Keith, an organizer of the conference, said that at one time he thought scientists should not talk in public about "geoengineering" remedies for global warming ... Like many other researchers, he explained, he worried that the potential for a climate fix, even an imperfect one, would only encourage people to continue the profligate burning of fossil fuels that got the planet into trouble in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p>********************</o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(NEWS 2) <b>Convention Discourages Ocean Fertilization<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071112/full/news.2007.230.html"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071112/full/news.2007.230.html</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Or: </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2xvo8o"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://tinyurl.com/2xvo8o</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nature News - The parties to the London Convention, an international treaty that governs ocean pollution, have agreed that large-scale ocean 'fertilization' isn't yet justified, given gaps in scientific knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The convention, which regulates activities such as the dumping of garbage at sea, had not previously taken a stand on the notion of throwing nutrients into the ocean with the intention of promoting plankton growth. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Such projects have been proposed to help increase ocean productivity and thereby boost the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, combating climate change. But critics warn that little is known about the ecological effect of dumping large quantities of nutrients into the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p>********************</o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(NEWS 3)<b> Hydrogen Gas Made From Renewable Organic Material</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071113-hydrogen-fuel.html">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071113-hydrogen-fuel.html</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Or: </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/28dty4"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://tinyurl.com/28dty4</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>National Geographic News - Hydrogen may be getting a step closer to becoming a mainstream, renewable fuel. Researchers have invented a way to harvest protons and electrons from bacteria in a reactor and create small quantities of hydrogen gas.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The process can use any biodegradable organic material, potentially freeing the production of clean-burning hydrogen fuel from its current dependence on nonrenewable energy sources such as natural gas.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Hydrogen is an excellent transportation fuel, but you've got to make it in a sustainable way," said study author Bruce Logan of Pennsylvania State University. "We think this is the key method to do that."<o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">********************<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">(NEWS 4) <b>A Melting Alaska Draws Visitors</b></span></div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1114/p03s02-usgn.html"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1114/p03s02-usgn.html</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Or: </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/2my5sv"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://tinyurl.com/2my5sv</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Christian Science Monitor - Portage Glacier, Alaska - Tourists still flock to Alaska to see Mount McKinley and ice caves, but a small and steady stream of visitors now head to the last frontier to see thawing tundra, crumbling glaciers, and ailing forests.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Take Shishmaref, an Inupiat Eskimo village on the state's remote northwest coast. ... When a team of scientists and religious leaders arrived in August, a highlight of the tour was viewing a house that had tumbled over the edge of the beach bluff; A storm had cut 20 feet from the shoreline previously held fast by frozen permafrost and sea-ice buildup.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"To many of us, Alaska is the distant early-warming system for the future of climate change," says Eric Chivian, of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School ...<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p>********************</o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(NEWS 5) <b>How to Fight a Rising Sea</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1115/p13s02-wogi.html"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1115/p13s02-wogi.html</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Or: </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ynqyy5"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://tinyurl.com/ynqyy5</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Christian Science Monitor - Dordrecht, Netherlands - The Dutch enjoy a hard-earned reputation for building river dikes and sea barriers. Over centuries, they have transformed a flood-prone river delta into a wealthy nation roughly twice the size of New Jersey.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If scientific projections for global warming are right, however, that success will be sorely tested. Globally, sea levels may rise up to a foot during the early part of this century, and up to nearly three feet by century's end.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This would bring higher tidal surges from the more-intense coastal storms that scientists also project, along with the risk of more frequent and more severe river floods from intense rainfall inland. Nowhere does this aquatic vise squeeze more tightly than on the world's densely populated river deltas.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:blue">***************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b>Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(SYMPOSIUM 1) <b>DISCCRS Climate Research Network for New Ph.D. Graduates</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> – DISCCRS IV Symposium - November 2-8, 2008 – Saguaro Lake Ranch, AZ (USA)</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http:/disccrs.org"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http:/disccrs.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Did you recently get your Ph.D.?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Are you interested in climate change and its impacts?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If yes, then read on...<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>DISCCRS (pronounced "discourse ") is an interdisciplinary initiative for recent Ph.D. graduates conducting research related to climate change and its impacts. The goal is to broaden research interests and establish a collegial peer network extending across the spectrum of natural and social sciences, humanities, mathematics, engineering and other disciplines related to climate change and its impacts. The initiative includes a public webpage, weekly electronic newsletter, and annual symposia funded through 2008. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b>Symposium Application Deadline April 30, 2008<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Symposium Participant Expenses: Airfare and on-site expenses are provided through NSF grant EAR-0435728 to Whitman College. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Eligibility: Ph.D. requirements completed April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2008 in any discipline related to climate change and impacts. Although the focus is on the U.S., recent Ph.D. graduates from all countries are invited to join the DISCCRS network and apply to be a DISCCRS symposium scholar. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thirty-six applicants will be selected by an interdisciplinary committee of research scientists. During the week, participants will provide oral and poster presentations in plenary format, hone interdisciplinary communication and team skills, and discuss emerging research, societal and professional issues with each other and with established researchers invited to serve as mentors. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Sponsors: DISCCRS is jointly sponsored by the following societies: AAG, AGU, AMS, ASLO, ESA, ESS-ISA, STEP/APSA and USSEE. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Funding: DISCCRS is supported through U.S. National Science Foundation Collaborative Grants EAR-0435728 to Whitman College, C.S. Weiler PI, and EAR-0435719 to University of Oregon, R.B. Mitchell PI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Contact : </span><a href="mailto:disccrs@whitman.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">disccrs@whitman.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">********************<o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(WORKSHOP 1)<b> NECSI Complex Systems Winter School</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> - January 7-18, 2008 - MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://www.necsi.org/events/winter2008.html"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.necsi.org/events/winter2008.html</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Week One - Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Week Two - Modeling, Networks and Evolution of Complex Systems<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Each program is the equivalent of a one semester course in a one week format. They may be taken independently or consecutively. If desired, arrangements for credit at a home institution should be made in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>WEEK ONE - January 7-11, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">CX201: Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This course offers an introduction to the essential concepts of complex systems and related mathematical methods and simulation strategies with application to physical, biological and social systems. The course will particularly focus on the use of multiscale representations as a unifying approach to complex systems concepts, methods and applications.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Concepts to be discussed include: emergence, complexity, networks, self-organization, pattern formation, evolution, adaptation, fractals, chaos, cooperation, competition, attractors, interdependence, scaling, dynamic response, information, and function.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Methods to be discussed include: statistical methods, cellular automata, agent-based modeling, pattern recognition, system representation and informatics.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>WEEK TWO - January 14-18, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">CX202: Modeling, Networks & Evolution of Complex Systems<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This course offers a systematic study of three key complex systems areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Modeling:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"how to" build models of complex systems (physical, biological, social and engineering).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Networks:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>network models of complex systems: nodes and links, connectivity; topologies: small worlds, scale free, modular; dynamics of networks.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Evolution:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>evolution in biology, social and engineered systems, altruism and selfishness, speciation, diversity, and spatial models.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>TARGET AUDIENCE: These courses are intended for faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and others who would like to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of complex systems, and develop methodological tools for conducting research in their respective fields.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">********************<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(WORKSHOP 2) <b>CLIMECO workshop - $500 Travel Award for Young Marine Scientists</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> </span><a href="http://www.imber.info/CLIMECO_home.html"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.imber.info/CLIMECO_home.html</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A new award is made available for PhD students and young post-docs to attend the CLIMECO training workshop 'climate driving of marine ecosystem changes'. The workshop is targetted at young marine scientist and aims to increase the interactions between physical climate science and marine biogeochemistry/ecosystems communities with focus on impacts of climate variability on the marine environment, as well as take stock of IPCC 4AR results, ocean/atmosphere reanalysis data, observational data where relevant for impacts on the marine environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There are only 30 places, and candidates will be chosen based on motivation and expertise. Candidates will be given partial financial support buy the organisers. An additional travel award of $500 is made available by EUROCEANS' Model Shopping Tool (MoST), databank for ocean ecosystem model equations (</span><a href="http://www.eur-oceans.eu/models"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.eur-oceans.eu/models</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica">). The award has no restrictions and will be granted based on candidate motivation and expertise as well as contribution to MoST (see application for full details).
CLIMECO is supported by CLIVAR, IMBER, GLOBEC, EUROCEANS, WCRP, IUEM, UBO, Region Bretagne.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b>Deadline for applying to CLIMECO - 15 Jan 2008<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:blue">***************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:blue"><b>Jobs<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><a href="mailto:planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Or, visit <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/</span></a> and click on 'Join this group'<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal">********************</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(JOB 1)<b> Postdoc </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">- Polar Climate Change - Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - University of California – Los Angeles CA (USA)</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b>Application Deadline: Wednesday, 5 December 2007<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences seeks a postdoctoral scholar in Polar Climate Change. The postdoctoral scholar will be supervised by Professor Alex Hall and will focus on constraining simulations of climate change in high latitudes with observations. Depending on the scholar's research interests, the project may also involve analyses of simulated and observed climate variability in both the Arctic and Antarctic.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Applicants should have a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences or a related field, and should be able to exhibit strong oral and written communication, analytical, and programming skills.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To apply, please submit a brief statement of research interests and goals, with a complete CV, and contact information for three references to:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Alex Hall, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Box 951565, Los Angeles, CA 90095<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:alexhall@atmos.ucla.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">alexhall@atmos.ucla.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Applications may also be submitted electronically to:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Alex Hall<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:alexhall@atmos.ucla.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">alexhall@atmos.ucla.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For further information about Professor Hall's research, please visit his website at: </span><a href="http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/csrl/"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/csrl/</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">********************<o:p></o:p></div> <!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(JOB 2) <b>Postdoc</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> – Modeling - Aqueous phase photochemistry leading to SOA formation - Turpin lab - Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ (USA) </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Drs. Turpin and Seitzinger at Rutgers University are seeking a Post-doctoral Associate to conduct modeling and participate in laboratory experiments investigating aqueous phase photochemistry leading to SOA formation. This EPA funded research builds on our previous investigations:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Altieri et al. Atmos. Environ. in press; Carlton et al 2007 Atmos.;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Environ. doi: 10/1016/j.atmosenv. 2007.05034;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Altieri et al. 2006 EST;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>40:4956-4960; Carlton et al. 2006 GRL 33:L06822; Lim et al. 2005 EST;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>39:4441; Blando et al 2000 Atmos. Environ. 34:1623-1632.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Qualifications: Ph.D. with experience modeling chemical kinetics is preferred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>An understanding of chemical transport modeling, aerosol science, organic chemistry, and (or) aqueous chemistry are highly desirable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Excellent communication skills are valued. Three years of funding is available; annual reappointment is based on performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Position is available January 1 and will remain open until filled. <b>Applications will be reviewed as received</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Send your application by mail or email (with subject line: SOA Post-doc).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Include a letter describing interest in and qualifications for the position, CV, selected reprints, and names and contact information for 3 references to:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Dr. Barbara Turpin<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Environmental Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">14 College Farm Rd<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">New Brunswick, NJ, USA 08901<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Tel: 1-732-932-9800 x6219<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Email: </span><a href="mailto:turpin@envsci.rutgers.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">turpin@envsci.rutgers.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">********************<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(JOB 3) <b>2008-2009 AMS-UCAR Congressional Science Fellowship</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://www.ametsoc.org/CSF"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">www.ametsoc.org/CSF</span></a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) seek candidates with backgrounds in the Earth sciences for the 2007-2008 AMS-UCAR Congressional Science Fellowship. Fellows participate in the legislative process by joining a Congressional office of their choosing in the United States Senate or House of Representatives. Typical duties include developing legislation, negotiating legislative compromises, writing speeches and briefing memos, meeting with constituents, and conducting background research. The AMS-UCAR Congressional Science Fellow joins more than 100 other fellows through the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Fellows must be US citizens and complete all requirements for their Ph.D. prior to the start of the fellowship year, which runs from September 1, 2007 through August 31, 2008. Support includes a $50,000 stipend, and up to $10,000 for moving, travel, health care, and other expenses.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b>Applications must be submitted by 1 February 2008</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For additional information contact Paul Higgins (</span><a href="mailto:phiggins@ametsoc.org"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">phiggins@ametsoc.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica">).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">********************<o:p></o:p></div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(JOB 4) <b>Research Prof</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> Tenure track - Weather/Climate Modeling – Department of Earth Sciences – State University of New York – Oswego, NU (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>SUNY-Oswego has reopened its search for a tenure track Research Professor in Weather/Climate Modeling who has at least the equivalent of several years post-doc experience in modeling and also has grant writing experience. We are especially interested in someone with research interests in the great lakes. If you know of anyone who might be interested, have them contact me at </span><a href="mailto:stamm@oswego.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">stamm@oswego.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> or give them the attachment above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I would also appreciate your posting the attachment. Thanks for passing the word.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Alfred Stamm, Chair, Department of Earth Sciences, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><a href="mailto:stamm@oswego.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">stamm@oswego.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">********************<o:p></o:p></div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(JOB 5) <b>Post Doc</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> - Compound-specific isotopes in DOM cycling/ Microbial ecology - Ocean Sciences - University of California, Santa Cruz XA (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://es.ucsc.edu/~mccarthy/MDM_HOME_page/postdoc.htm"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://es.ucsc.edu/~mccarthy/MDM_HOME_page/postdoc.htm</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Ocean Sciences Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz , Dr. Matthew McCarthy and Dr. Raphael Kudela seek a post-doc to conduct research in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>marine organic geochemistry/biological oceanography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The appointee will be expected to conduct original research as part of a NSF-funded collaborative project between the McCarthy and Kudela labs into compound-specific amino acid stable isotope patterns as metabolic signatures for microorganisms, and tracers for organic nitrogen source and transformation in the sea. The successful candidate will be expected to design and conduct algal and microbial growth and degradation experiments, and protocols for isolation, purification, and isotopic measurements of organic compounds of interest. The candidate may alsobe expected to participate in field work. Because this position bridges biological oceanography and organic/stable isotope chemistry, experience in both is highly desirable, however experience in one area and interest in the other is acceptable; i.e., experience in either 1) organic isolation methods, extractions, chromatography, stable isotope chemistry or 2) algal and/or microbial laboratory and field methods are required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In particular, expertise in compound-specific isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS) methods is highly desirable, as is experience in hydrolysis, purification and derivatization of amino acids, carbohydrates or other biopolymers for quantitative analysis. This appointment will initially be for one year, with possible extension contingent on performance and availability of funding.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>RANK: Postdoctoral Scholar-- Employee<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>SALARY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Commensurate with qualifications and experience (proportionate<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to time worked if part time)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants are expected to have a Ph.D. or equivalent in Oceanography, Chemistry or Biochemistry, Biology, or a related field involving the appropriate analytical and research experience, in hand at the time of appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>POSITION AVAILABLE: As soon as possible following initial screening date.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>TO APPLY:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Electronic submissions are preferred. Applicants should send<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>1) Curriculum Vitae, 2) a summary of research, and 3) three letters of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>recommendation (all letters will be treated as confidential documents*)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><a href="mailto:mccarthy@pmc.ucsc.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">mccarthy@pmc.ucsc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> Please refer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to position #T08-16 in your reply, and verify that your electronic<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>submission has been received.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>CLOSING DATE:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b>Position is open until filled, with initial screenings<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>extended to DEC 10, 2007.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Inquiries can be sent to </span><a href="mailto:mccarthy@pmc.ucsc.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">mccarthy@pmc.ucsc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>further information:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>UCSC Institute of Marine Sciences: </span><a href="http://ims.ucsc.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://ims.ucsc.edu</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>UCSC Department of Ocean Sciences: </span><a href="http://oceansci.ucsc.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://oceansci.ucsc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Kudela Lab: </span><a href="http://people.ucsc.edu/~kudela"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://people.ucsc.edu/~kudela</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>McCarthy Lab: </span><a href="http://es.ucsc.edu/~mccarthy/index.htm"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://es.ucsc.edu/~mccarthy/index.htm</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">********************<o:p></o:p></div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(JOB 6) <b>Asst Prof</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> - Ecology - Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts –New York, NY (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>careers.newschool.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51070<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">The New School (</span><a href="http://www.newschool.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">www.newschool.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica">) has launched an innovative, cross-disciplinary environmental studies program that will be housed in a new center, The Tishman Center for Environment and Design, offering majors in environmental studies and sustainable design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We are searching for an Ecologist to help build this new program and teach courses in ecology and environmental issues, with a focus on urban ecosystems.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>While this tenure track position will be based in the Science, Technology & Society program of Eugene Lang College (</span><a href="http://www.lang.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">www.lang.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica">), the liberal arts college of The New School, the successful candidate will be involved in teaching and research with colleagues from across the university and will be an associate faculty member of the Tishman Center for Environment and Design.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Successful applicants will have a strong research background and interest in urban ecosystems, ecological issues pertaining to the urban environment, and the interaction between human and natural resources, and a record of teaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The successful candidate must be able to teach introductory and advanced level courses in Ecology, as well as courses that serve as an introduction to Environmental Studies, and have the interest, experience or ability to teach, work and research with both liberal arts and design students. A Ph.D. in Ecology or closely related field is required, postdoctoral research experience and some teaching experience preferred.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Eugene Lang College is located in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City and promotes active learning through small, innovative seminar discussion classes. The college and university are interested in candidates who are committed to the development of a campus climate that supports racial, ethnic and cultural diversity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b>Although the position will remain open until filled, applicants who submit materials before December 15 will receive fullest consideration.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">********************</div></div> <!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(JOB 7) <b>Post-doc Research Scientist</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> - Florida International University / South Florida and Caribbean Inventory and Monitoring Network (SFCN) – Florida (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We are seeking a post-doctoral research scientist to assist the South Florida and Caribbean Inventory and Monitoring Network (SFCN) in development of long term monitoring of vital sign indicators to evaluate park ecosystem health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The postdoctoral scientist will develop and field test quantitative assessment methods for evaluating long term changes in indicator species and ecological processes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>These methods can include: assessing existing monitoring for efficiency, power, and practicality; designing and piloting monitoring protocols and sampling design; and developing analytical methods for data analysis and reporting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The research scientist will be a visiting research scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University but will be housed at SFCN.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The term of appointment is 2 years with a starting salary of $42,000 plus fringe benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Position description and required qualifications--Candidates must have a Ph.D. and experience in field sampling; vegetation monitoring experience is preferred. As duties will include assessing extant monitoring programs, candidates should be able to interact with groups of scientists and resource managers; to critically evaluate projects and programs, analyzing them for monitoring gaps and needs; and to develop and test new protocols to fill those gaps. To apply, submit a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, and contact information for two references.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In addition, please answer the four questions on knowledge, skills and abilities that can be found at </span><a href="http://bio.fiu.edu/richards/SFCN/KSA_questions.pdf"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://bio.fiu.edu/richards/SFCN/KSA_questions.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Application materials should be e-mailed to Dr. Jennifer Richards (Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL 33199) at </span><a href="mailto:richards@fiu.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">richards@fiu.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b>To assure consideration, applications should be received by Dec. 3, 2007.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Department of Biological Sciences of FIU has 39 faculty members, 900 undergraduate majors, and 100 graduate students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Tropical biology and conservation, especially of wetlands, are major research themes in the department. The Florida Coastal Everglades LTER, funded by the National Science Foundation, is based at FIU, providing further opportunities for collaboration. Additional information about the University can be found at </span><a href="http://www.fiu.edu"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.fiu.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica">/; additional information about the Department can be found at </span><a href="http://www.fiu.edu/~biology/"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://www.fiu.edu/~biology/</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The South Florida/Caribbean Inventory and Monitoring Network (SFCN) of the National Park Service is charged with providing long-term inventory and monitoring of South Florida and Caribbean parks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The SFCN network consists of seven parks: Big Cypress National Preserve, Biscayne National Park, Buck Island Reef National Monument, Dry Tortugas National Park, Everglades National Park, Salt River National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve, and Virgin Islands National Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The network has nearly 2.5 million acres with dominant communities that include coral reefs, seagrass beds, dry tropical forests, mangrove forests, swamps and wetlands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The international significance of these natural resources is recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) through its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program, which designated Dry Tortugas National Park, Everglades National Park, and Virgin Islands National Park as biosphere reserves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Additionally, Everglades National Park is a RAMSAR wetland of international importance and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ground-breaking natural resource management activities are being developed at a number of the parks within the network.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Three of the parks (Big Cypress National Preserve, Biscayne National Park, and Everglades National Park) are affected by Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) efforts to restore portions of the larger Everglades ecosystem over the next century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For more information on the SFCN long-term monitoring plan, please see vital signs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For more information on the SFCN see </span><a href="http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/sfcn/"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/sfcn/</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">********************</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">(JOB 8) <b>Asst. Prof</b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica">. - Plant Physiology - Connecticut College -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>New London CT (USA)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.conncoll.edu"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"> www.conncoll.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Connecticut College invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Botany with expertise in plant physiology. Ph.D. and evidence of teaching and research excellence required. Expertise in the physiology of higher plants in marine systems preferred.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The successful candidate will participate, by a rotating cycle, in the introductory organisms course, a cornerstone of the Botany, Biological Sciences, and Environmental Studies majors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Additional teaching expectations, some offered alternate years, include comparative physiology (using examples of plants and animals), plant structure and function, and coastal marine biology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The normal teaching load is five courses per year (3/2) with lab sections counting as a full course. Physiological ecologists are welcome to apply.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The College believes strongly that research participation is a critical component of undergraduate science education, and the successful candidate will be expected to develop a research program that actively involves students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Tenure-track faculty receive a research stipend for their first two summers and a semester's leave at full salary after their third year if they are reappointed for the full probationary period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Tenure review is in the sixth year of service<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Connecticut College Arboretum surrounds the campus and represents an important academic resource for a scientist exploring the physiological aspects of plant biology, with a wide diversity of habitats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Arboretum includes over 450 acres of plant collections, natural and experimental areas, a five-acre tidal salt marsh, and access to the Thames estuary and Long Island Sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There are many possibilities for the development of new research programs in the Arboretum, and for a plant physiologist to collaborate on existing research projects on topics such as controlled burning, herbicide treatments, and invasive species.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The department has a strong tradition of interdisciplinary teaching and research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies provides an opportunity for faculty from a wide range of disciplines to collaborate on environmental education and scholarship.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Connecticut College is a private, highly selective undergraduate college with a strong commitment to the liberal arts tradition and an emphasis on broad interdisciplinary teaching and research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The College is a member of the Academic Career Network, a resource for dual-career couples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Salary is competitive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Developing and sustaining a diverse faculty and staff further the College's educational mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Applications should include a cover letter; curriculum vitae; copies of transcripts; statements about teaching philosophy and research interests; and three letters of reference sent directly to: Plant Physiology Search Chair, P.O. Box 5213, Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT 06320.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b>Review of applications will begin December 3, 2007.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:blue">**************************************************<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. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to </font><a href="mailto:phd@whitman.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration: none;text-underline:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">phd@whitman.edu</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. Do not send attachments.</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></font></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> Moving? Send address changes to </font><a href="mailto:dialog@whitman.edu"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">dialog@whitman.edu</font></span></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> or </font><a href="mailto:disccrs@whitman.edu"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">disccrs@whitman.edu</font></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">**********<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Office for Earth System Studies Tel: 509-527-5948 <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Walla Walla, WA 99362<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="mailto:weiler@whitman.edu"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">weiler@whitman.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> Programs for Recent PhDs </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://aslo.org/phd.html"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://disccrs.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> DISCCRS poster </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://aslo.org/phd.html"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://disccrs.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> Workshop Report, Meeting the Needs of <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Graduates in a <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> Changing Global Environment<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline: none">http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <!--EndFragment--> </body></html>