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<div align="center"><font face="Helvetica" size="-1"><b>TABLE OF
CONTENTS</b></font></div>
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color="#0000FF"><b>RESOURCES</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2"><b>EPA Global Change Research
Program</b>
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<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2" color="#0000FF"><b>SCIENCE
NEWS</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2"><b>Extinction Tied to Global
Warming</b></font><font size="-2">
http://snipurl.com/c6qm</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2"><b>Press Release Summarizing the
Full 2003 NSF Report on Ph.D. Grads.</b>
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/newsroom/pr.cfm?ni=15300000000152</font></div
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<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2"><b>Arctic Rivers Discharge More
Freshwater Into Ocean, Reflecting Changes to Hydrologic Cycle Caused
by Warming</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2" color="#000000"><b>Is wacky
weather sign of climate change?</b></font><font face="Helvetica"
size="-2">
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=WACKYWEATHER-01-19-05<span
></span>&cat=AN</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2"><b>Nations Debate
Climate/Disaster Link</b> http://snipurl.com/c5pu</font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2"><b>Fish's Deep-Sea Deception</b>
http://snipurl.com/c5p9</font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2"
color="#0000FF"><b>FORUM</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2"><b>ASLA 05-03: Political Pundits
Offer Advice to Scientists</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2" color="#0000FF"><b>SUMMER
PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS</b></font></div>
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color="#0000FF"><b>JOBS</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-2" color="#000000"><b>University of
Nevada, Lecturer in Environmental Science</b> http://jobs.unr.edu or
www.ag.unr.edu/cabnr/Department_ERS.htm</font></div>
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<div><b>EPA Global Change Research Program</b></div>
<div>EPA Global Change Research Program has just announced a call
for<br>
proposals for research leading to the development of decision
support<br>
systems that can incorporate information about the consequences of<br>
global change for human health. We expect a total of $2.7 million to
be</div>
<div>available to support this work, and 6 awards are
anticipated.</div>
<div>Please see the announcement online at the following
address:</div>
<div>http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2005/2005_decision_support_sys.html</div
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<div>Joel D. Scheraga, Ph.D.<br>
National Program Director<br>
Global Change Research Program<br>
Office of Research and Development<br>
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</div>
<div>Phone: (202) 564-3385</div>
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color="#0000FF"><b>Science News</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Helvetica" size="-2">Check out this
section both for news tidbits, and for</font></div>
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to communicate science to a non-scientist audience</font></div>
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<div><b>Extinction Tied to Global Warming</b></div>
<div>from The Washington Post (Registration Required) via Sigma Xi
Science in the News</div>
<div> Scientists call it "the Great Dying," a
250 million-year-old catastrophe<br>
that wiped out 90 percent of ocean species and 70 percent of land
species</div>
<div>in the biggest mass extinction in Earth's geologic history.<br>
The cause of this cataclysm is a matter of great dispute
among<br>
paleontologists, but research released yesterday offers new evidence
that</div>
<div>global warming caused by massive and prolonged volcanic activity
may have been the chief culprit.<br>
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Huge amounts of carbon dioxide were released into the air from
open<br>
volcanic fissures known to geologists as the "Siberian Traps,"
researchers<br>
said, triggering a greenhouse effect that warmed the earth and
depleted<br>
oxygen from the atmosphere, causing environmental deterioration and
finally<br>
collapse.</div>
<div>http://snipurl.com/c6qm</div>
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<div>Press release summarizing the full 2003 NSF Report.</div>
<div><b>More Science and Engineering Doctoral Degrees Awarded in
2003</b></div>
<div>NSF Press Release</div>
<div>NSF PR05-009, January 9, 2005</div>
<div>http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/newsroom/pr.cfm?ni=15300000000152</div>
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<div><b>Arctic Rivers Discharge More Freshwater Into Ocean, Reflecting
Changes to Hydrologic Cycle Caused by Warming</b></div>
<div> American Geophysical Union</div>
<div> 19 January 2005</div>
<div> AGU Release No. 05-02</div>
<div> WASHINGTON -- Far northern rivers are discharging
increasing amounts of freshwater into the Arctic Ocean, due to
intensified precipitation caused by global warming, say researchers at
the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in the United
Kingdom.</div>
<div> Water exchange between the ocean, atmosphere, and
land is called the global hydrological cycle. As Earth's climate
warms, the rate of this exchange is expected to increase. As part of
this process, high-latitude recipitation and, consequently, river
runoffs are also expected to increase. This could change the
distribution of water on Earth's surface, with important social and
economic consequences.</div>
<div> It could also alter the balance of the climate
system itself, such as the Atlantic thermohaline circulation, a kind
of conveyor belt. Cold water flows southward in the Atlantic at great
depths to the tropics, where it warms, rises, and returns northward
near the surface. This flow helps keep northern Europe at a temperate
climate, whereas the same latitudes in North America are sparsely
settled tundra or taiga.</div>
<div> Researchers Peili Wu, Richard Wood, and Peter Stott
of the Hadley Centre compared observational data reported in Science
in 2002 by Peterson and others with model simulations, produced
by Hadley, part of the United Kingdom's Met Office. Writing in the
journal Geophysical Research Letters (21 January), they note that
increased human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are expected to
intensify the Arctic hydrologic cycle, that is, the cycle of water as
it rains onto land and sea, runs off into rivers, and evaporates to
continue the cycle. The increased Arctic precipitation is balanced by
decreased precipitation in the tropics, they say.</div>
<div> Wu and his colleagues tested the model with four
simulations that took into account both human inputs and natural
factors, including solar variability and volcanic eruptions. The
results showed a steady increase in Arctic river discharges,
especially since the 1960s. The annual rate of increase since 1965 was
8.73 cubic kilometers [2.31 million gallons] per year, far greater
than the long term trend.</div>
<div> Seeking to determine the source of the upward trend
of recent decades, the researchers asked first whether it could be the
early part of the predicted increase in the global hydrological cycle,
caused by global warming. Their simulations excluded human impacts in
one instance and natural impacts in another, and included all factors
in a third. They concluded that had there been no human inputs, the
hydrological cycle would have shown no trend at all in the 20th
century.</div>
<div> Had there been only human inputs and no natural
ones, Wu and colleagues say, the long term trend would be 50 percent
higher than when all factors were considered. They conclude that over
the past four decades, human activity played the major role in
increased river flows into the Arctic. The observed data conform well
to the predictions of the Hadley climate model, they say, regarding
human inputs. They say it is likely that the upward trend in
river</div>
<div>flow changes is part of the early stages of an intensified
hydrologic cycle.</div>
<div> The research was funded by the United Kingdom
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under the Climate
Prediction Program.</div>
<div> Authors: Peili Wu, Richard Wood, Peter Stott, Hadley
Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Exeter, United
Kingdom.</div>
<div> Citation: Wu, P., R. Wood, and P. Stott (2005),
Human influences on increasing Arctic river discharges, Geophys. Res.
Lett., 32, L02703, doi:10.1029/2004GL 021570.</div>
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<div><b>Is wacky weather sign of climate change?</b></div>
<div>Scripps Howard News Service - USA
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=WACKYWEATHER-01-19-05<span
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<div><b>Nations Debate Climate/Disaster Link</b></div>
<div>from Associated Press vi Sigma Xi Science in the News</div>
<div> KOBE, Japan -- The U.S. delegation to a global
conference on disasters wants to purge a U.N. action plan of its
references to climate change as a potential cause of future natural
calamities.</div>
<div> The U.S. stand reflects the opposition of U.S.
President George W. Bush's administration to treating global warming
as a priority problem.</div>
<div> "It's well known that there's
controversy" about climate change, Mark Lagon, deputy delegation
head, told reporters Wednesday at the World Conference on Disaster
Reduction. "It's our desire that this controversy not distract
this conference."</div>
<div> The chief U.N. official here had a different
view. http://snipurl.com/c5pu</div>
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<div><b>Fish's Deep-Sea Deception</b></div>
<div>from Newsday via Sigma Xi Science in the News</div>
<div> In the animal world, permanently pretending to
be something you're not can really pay off. But to the surprise
of researchers, two marine mimics can go incognito seemingly at will
to earn a mate or a meal.</div>
<div> With its ruse, a cross-dressing giant
Australian cuttlefish can gain access to a closely guarded female,
while the color-changing bluestriped fangblenny of Indonesia can win a
free meal, according to two studies today in the journal Nature.</div>
<div> Male cuttlefish need all the help they can
get. Males outnumber females by four to one during the mating season,
leading to some keen competition. http://snipurl.com/c5p9</div>
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<div><b>ASLA 05-03: Political Pundits Offer Advice to
Scientists</b></div>
<div>Author: Gene Bierly, AGU</div>
<div>Sources: AIP's FYI</div>
<div> At a December 2004 seminar sponsored by the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, former
Congressman John Porter (R-IL) offered advice on how to talk to
Congress about supporting scientific research. Porter, who
chaired the Appropriations Subcommittee that funds the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), is now a partner in a Washington law firm
and is the chair-elect of Research!America, a lobbying group for
medical research.</div>
<div> Quoting from Porter's speech: ". .
. if you look at this White House and you look at this Congress,
and you want to reach people, yes, you can talk . . . about the human
impact of scientific advancement. But if you want to talk about the
bottom line, talk about the economy, talk about the contribution that
science and technology makes to the country and its economic growth
(italics added), that is an argument that they will listen to.
And it seems to me that all of the science groups ought to get on the
same page, work off the same data, and have the same message and it
ought to be in the forefront of reaching out to Congress with a
message of the value of science to the American people and to this
economy, to our future. I think it's a message that resonates. It's
true. It's backed up by evidence. It's strong. And we need to make it
our lead argument with this Congress and this Administration,
because...that's when we're going to get them to listen."</div>
<div> "You can change the image of
things to come. But, you can't do it wringing your hands and you can't
do it sitting on your fingers. You've got to get out and get involved
and defend science as you never have defended it before. Science
can, in my judgment, be sold to this Administration and this
Congress. I suggest that the best way to do that is to recount
to them, over and over again, . . . that the economic destiny of
America lies in science and in technology, in science and
research."</div>
<div> Joining Porter at the seminar was Bob
Palmer, former Minority Staff Director for the House Science
Committee, who noted that on Capitol Hill science has "...always
been sort of a medium-level priority." He added that his
Republican counterpart on the Science Committee, David Goldston, finds
it miraculous that "...science gets the funding it does, because
it is politically inactive, it doesn't register on most people's
consciousness, it doesn't reward candidates or punish candidates.
And it does well because at some level, Members and people in the
Administration understand the importance of science for the economy
and other important aspects of our lives."</div>
<div> Porter issued a call to action to the
science community: "Will the Administration reach out to science?
We certainly hope so. . . . Science and technology should not wait on
the Administration to come to us. This Administration is going to be
in office for the next four years. There is a great deal on the table,
including research funding... Science needs to reach out to the
Administration, to Congress, and try to build some bridges, and bring
the relationship where it should be."</div>
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color="#0000FF"><b>Jobs for PhDs</b></font></div>
<div align="center">http://www.higheredjobs.com/about/</div>
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<div><b>University of Nevada, Lecturer in Environmental
Science</b></div>
<div>Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science,
College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources,
University of Nevada, Reno</div>
<div> The University of Nevada, Reno, is seeking
candidates for a full-time (nine-month appointment) lecturer in the
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, in the
College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources. This
non-tenure faculty member will be responsible for teaching 9-12 units
of course work per semester, including at least two sections of ENV
100, our general environmental science course for non-majors. Minimum
qualifications include a Masterís degree in a science discipline
and/or an environmentally related discipline. Applicants who
demonstrate a passion for teaching, and have previous teaching
experience at the college level are preferred. For complete
position announcement and requirements, contact Heidi McConnell,
Search Coordinator, hmc@cabnr.unr.edu , 775-784-4020 or view at<font
color="#0000EE"> http://jobs.unr.edu</font> or<font color="#0000EE">
www.ag.unr.edu/cabnr/Department_ERS.htm</font>.</div>
<div> Applications submitted by January 31, 2005 will
receive full consideration</div>
<div> Position start date: July 01, 2005</div>
<div> EEO/AA Women and under-represented groups are
encouraged to apply.</div>
<div> Lecturer Search Committee</div>
<div> Attn: Heidi McConnell</div>
<div> Natural Resources & Environmental Science</div>
<div> University of Nevada, Reno MS 186</div>
<div> 1000 Valley Road</div>
<div> Reno, NV 89512</div>
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<div><font size="-1">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></div>
<div><font size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> Please
submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to
phd@whitman.edu. </b></font><font size="-1"> Send a short message
in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate
websites. Do not send attachments.</font></div>
<div><font size="-1"> <font
color="#0000FF"><b> Moving?</b></font> Send address changes to
dialog@whitman.edu or disccrs@whitman.edu</font></div>
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<div>C. Susan Weiler,
Ph.D. <br>
Office of Earth System Studies Tel:
509-527-5948 <br
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Whitman
College <span
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Walla Walla, WA 99362<br>
weiler@whitman.edu <br>
Programs for Recent
PhDs <span
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http://aslo.org/phd.html<br>
DIALOG poster
http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf</div>
<div> DISCCRS poster
http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf</div>
<div>DIALOG VII Symposium Application Deadline May 1, 2005</div>
<div>DISCCRS II Symposium Applicaton Deadline October 2,
2005
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