<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>DIALOG and DISCCRS News</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>01/13/2006</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF"><B><I>************************************</I></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>TABLE OF CONTENTS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FFF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>SCIENCE NEWS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Plants Exhale Methane, Contribute to Warming, Study Says from National Geographic News</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Scientists Say Warming Decimates Frogs in Latin America</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Plants produce methane - Nature 439, 128 (12 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439128a</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Global Warming Can Trigger Extreme Ocean, Climate Changes</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105692"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105692</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; min-height: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Arial" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>JOBS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Univ Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) - Post-Doc for "3-D Modelling of the sea-ice ocean system and biogeochemical cycles in the Southern Ocean"</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Center for Geosystem Research (Germany) - Postdoc Position (BAT2a) at the Meteorological Institute (relating to integral radar volume data descriptors).</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>University of Southern California, Center for International Studies - Postdoctoral Fellowships</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Atmospheric Modelling Postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Post-Doctoral Position, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>UNC-Chapel Hill Assistant Professor - Environmental science and policy</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Univ Blaise Pascal (France) - Atmospheric Sci. Post-doc</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> (see below)</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Tenure-Track Position, Green River Community College, Auburn, Washington</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.greenriver.edu/hr/Geology%20Instructor%202006.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.greenriver.edu/hr/Geology%20Instructor%202006.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Wellesley, Massachusetts - Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://aaanet.jobcontrolcenter.com/jobdetail.cfm?job=2261842.32"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://aaanet.jobcontrolcenter.com/jobdetail.cfm?job=2261842.32</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>3 PhD positions in Microbial Ecology, Limnology/Department of Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University, Norbyv. 20, SE-75236 Uppsala, Sweden</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.ebc.uu.se/limno/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ebc.uu.se/limno/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Flint, Michigan: Environment Program Officer - Mott Foundation Grantmaking for environmentally sustainable development</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://mott.org/e-job"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://mott.org/e-job</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Australia - Bureau of Meteorology, Research Scientist, Research Centre, Climate Forecasting Group (Ref: 10223)</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.bom.gov.au/careers/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.bom.gov.au/careers/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P> </DIV></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>***************************************************</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Science News</B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Plants Exhale Methane, Contribute to Warming, Study Says from National Geographic News</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Grasses and other green growth may produce 10 to 30 percent of Earth's annual methane output, a new study reports, making plants a surprising – and potentially significant - contributor to global warming.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Until the data were unveiled in this week's Nature, scientists had believed that plant-related methane formed only in oxygen-free environments, such as bogs.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But a team of European researchers identified a large range of plants that release methane under normal growing conditions. The gas also seeps from dead plant material.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://tinyurl.com/8z5kx"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/8z5kx</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Scientists Say Warming Decimates Frogs in Latin America</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>by Andrew Revkin</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Scientists studying a fast-dwindling genus of colorful frogs in Central and South America say that recent global warming has combined with a spreading fungus to create a killing zone, driving many species restricted to misty mountainsides to extinction.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The researchers said they had implicated widespread warming, as opposed to local variations in temperature or other conditions affecting the frogs, by finding that patterns of fungus outbreaks and species loss in widely dispersed patches of habitat were synchronized in a way that was statistically impossible to explain by chance.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climate scientists have already linked most of the recent rise in the earth's average temperature to the buildup of greenhouse emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes. Thus the new findings, according to the researchers and some independent experts on climate and amphibians, show that human-driven warming is already fostering outbreaks of disease and imperiling species with restricted habitats.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The study, led by J. Alan Pounds, the resident biologist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica, is to be published on Thursday in the journal Nature.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In an accompanying commentary, two scientists not involved in the <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">research, Andy Dobson, a Princeton University ecologist, and Andrew R. Blaustein, a zoologist at Oregon State University, said the research provided "compelling evidence" that warming caused by human activity was already disrupting ecology.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"The frogs are sending an alarm call to all concerned about the future of biodiversity and the need to protect the greatest of all open-access resources -- the atmosphere," they wrote.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Other climate and amphibian experts, while saying the paper laid out a compelling case for a climate-fungus link, cautioned that there were several layers of remaining uncertainty that were not eliminated by the analysis.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Among those, it is still unclear whether the lethal fungus, which attacks amphibian skin, has long been in the affected areas and dormant or is a recent arrival.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Over 110 species of brightly colored harlequin frogs, in the genus Atelopus, once lived near streams in the American tropics, but about two-thirds of them have vanished since the 1980's.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Implicated in many of those vanishings, as well as amphibian die-offs around the world, is a chytrid fungus that grows on amphibian skin from deserts to lowland tropical forests to mountainsides.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A paradox confronting biologists studying possible links to climate change is that the fungus thrives best in cooler conditions, challenging the theory that warming is contributing to the amphibian declines.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But Dr. Pounds and his team, in studying trends in temperature and disease around the American tropics and, in particular detail, in the cloud-shrouded ridges of Costa Rica where he lives and works, found patterns that they say explain the situation.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rising cloudiness, a long-projected consequence as warming increases evaporation, tends to keep days cooler by blocking some sunlight and nights warmer by holding in some heat.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At intermediate elevations on the mountain slopes of places like Costa Rica, the warming and cloud cover have created a favorable zone for the spread of the chytrid fungus, where conditions are never too cold or too warm, but just right, Dr. Pounds said in an interview.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dr. Pounds, who has worked in the Costa Rican cloud forests for two decades, has seen several easily spotted amphibian species vanish altogether in that time.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He said that because the apparent harlequin frog extinctions have occurred in lockstep in widely dispersed field sites, they are hard to attribute to anything other than the broad warming trend linked by other scientists to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While the fungus is the bullet, he said, the broader ongoing warming and resulting shifts in clouds are the trigger.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stephen H. Schneider, a climate expert at Stanford University, who has worked with Dr. Pounds on other studies and consulted on this one, acknowledged that uncertainties remained but said that the work was "a major step forward."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"It's like anything else that's complex," he said. "When you're in the early phases of learning you look for multiple lines of argument, and when they converge with basic theory you increase your confidence in a connection."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">That is what this paper has done, he said.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B></B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> ********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Plants produce methane - Nature 439, 128 (12 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439128a</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Methane finding baffles scientists - by Quirin Schiermeier, Munich<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Plant production of greenhouse gas throws up questions for climate models. The startling discovery that terrestrial plants produce the greenhouse gas methane is sending scientists in two disciplines, not to mention a few politicians, back to the drawing board.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The newly revealed methane emissions have taken plant physiologists by surprise, because far more energy is required to create methane than, say, carbon dioxide in an oxygenated environment. Climate researchers are also amazed that they could have missed what is potentially a huge methane source ‹ up to a third of all methane produced worldwide (see 'How could we have missed this?').<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Until now, it was thought that plant matter produces methane only through microbial activity in oxygen-free environments such as swamps, flooded rice fields and ruminants' guts. But on page 187 of this issue, Frank Keppler, a geochemist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, and his colleagues report that grasses and leaves from various species release the gas under normal aerobic conditions.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The source of the methane ‹ and why plants make it ‹ is unknown. Some species make other volatile hydrocarbons such as isoprene, but that reaction involves a specific enzyme, and only seems to kick in when the plants need to dissipate excess energy. The methane emissions that Keppler found rise smoothly with temperature up to 70 °C, suggesting that no enzyme is involved.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"This seems to be a secondary chemical reaction with no specific function for plant metabolism," says Elmar Weiler, a plant physiologist at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. "It's a truly surprising finding." But beyond its implications for botany, the discovery could prove important for understanding and predicting climate change ‹ and for our attempts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere after carbon dioxide, and levels have doubled over the past 200 years, mainly as a result of increased agricultural activity.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The finding doesn't change ideas about the total amount of methane being released into the atmosphere. But scientists had thought they knew about all the significant methane sources and how much each contributed (see Global change: A green source of surprise). Now it seems that their figures were very wrong. As a rough estimate, Keppler reckons that global vegetation may be releasing between 60 million and 240 million tonnes of methane each year ‹ up to a third of the total amount that enters the atmosphere.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"The surprising thing to me is the amount of methane they found," says Martin Heimann, director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany. "It means we neglected a big driving force for the climate."<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is too early to say exactly how the revelation might influence predictions for future climate change, but it's unlikely to be good news. The fact that plant methane emissions rise with temperature, and that plants are likely to grow faster in a warmer climate anyway, could lead to a big rise in methane emissions from natural sources, says Johannes Lelieveld, an atmospheric researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The finding also restricts our options for reducing methane emissions, he points out, because measures such as growing rice in drier fields are likely to prove less effective than had been thought. "If natural greenhouse-gas sources are greater than we thought, the scope for climate politics becomes narrower," he says. "You wouldn't cut down forests just because trees release methane."</DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B></B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>***************************************************</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Jobs</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to: </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> Or, visit </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FE">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> and click on 'Join this group'</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Univ Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) - Post-Doc for "3-D Modelling of the sea-ice ocean system and biogeochemical cycles in the Southern Ocean"</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Institut d'Astronomie et de Geophysique G. Lemaitre of the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in "3-D Modelling of the sea-ice ocean system and biogeochemical cycles in<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">the Southern Ocean"<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate will be in charge of the physical component of the model but will also take part in the coupling between the physical and biogeochemical modules as well as in the analyses of the results of the coupled model.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The research will be made in collaboration with the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Musee Royal d'Afrique Centrale and the Universite de Liege in the framework of a new project funded by Belgian Science Policiy.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The postdoctoral fellowship is for 12 months. Suitable candidates will posses a Ph.D. in physical oceanography, atmospheric science, applied mathematics, or a related discipline.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications should include detailed curriculum vitae, a letter describing relevant experience and research interests, and 2 letters of recommendation. Review of applications will begin March 1, 2006 and will continue until a candidate is selected.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Application materials and questions should be sent to:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>H. Goosse, Institut d'Astronomie et de Geophysique G. Lemaitre (Unite ASTR)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2, chemin du Cyclotron, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Phone: +32-10-473295, fax: +32-10-474722, e-mail: <A href="mailto:goosse@astr.ucl.ac.be"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">goosse@astr.ucl.ac.be</FONT></SPAN></A>,<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Web : <A href="http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?page=hgs%23HomePage"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?page=hgs%23HomePage</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>ASTR's web site: <A href="http://www.climate.be/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.climate.be</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Center for Geosystem Research (Germany) - Postdoc Position (BAT2a) at the Meteorological Institute (relating to integral radar volume data descriptors). </B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Center for Geosystem Research (ZEGEF, Zentrum für Geosystemforschung, see <A href="http://www.earth-systems.de/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.earth-systems.de</FONT></SPAN></A>) of the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn offers a Postdoc Position (BAT2a) at the Meteorological Institute.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The position is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in the framework of the AQUARadar cluster proposal (for more information see <A href="http://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/projects/aquaradar">www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/projects/aquaradar</A>). AQUARadar has the goal to improve quantitative precipitation estimates (QPE) from ground-based precipitation radars. AQUARadar involves partner projects from the universities Bonn, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Mainz and Munich, the German Institute for Air and Space Transport (DLR, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt) Oberpfaffenhofen and the German Weather Service (DWD, Deutscher Wetterdienst).<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The position is offered for an initial period of two years. An extension of the AQUARadar is intended.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful applicant will work together with a partner project in applied mathematics at the University Bonn on the development of integral radar volume data descriptors and their relation to surface precipitation. He/She will also contribute to the overall coordination of the project cluster.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We expect from the applicants an outstandig PhD in meteorology, oceanography, physics, or geophysics.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Handicapped persons with comparable qualifications will be favoured. The University Bonn explicitly urges women to apply for the position.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please send us a complete curriculum vitae, certificates of degrees, and a cover letter detailing why you are interested in this project. Applications can be send, also electronically, until the end of January 2006 to<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Prof. Dr. Clemens Simmer, Meteorologisches Institut<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Auf dem Hügel 20, 53121 Bonn<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:csimmer@uni-bonn.de"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">csimmer@uni-bonn.de</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/staff/CSimmer/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/staff/CSimmer/</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B></B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> ********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>University of Southern California, Center for International Studies - Postdoctoral Fellowships</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Center for International Studies here at USC offers two Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2006-07. The competition is open to junior scholars: those who received a Ph.D. within the last 3 years or who will have completed/defended a dissertation by August 2006. The post-doc is especially useful for a candidate needing time to turn that PhD dissertation into a publishable book or set of journal articles, free of teaching or other responsibilities.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The fellowship pays a competitive stipend, plus moving and other expenses. It offers an office in the center, access to all university resources, and participation in the intellectual life of the School of International Relations, the Center for International Studies, and other centers and departments on campus.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Further information is available on the CIS website at <A href="http://www.usc.edu/cis">www.usc.edu/cis</A>. Please encourage your most promising finishing PhD students to apply.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> ********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Atmospheric Modelling Postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences of McGill University, Montreal, Canada, invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on the theme: "Three-dimensional modelling of past and future trends in the stratosphere"<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate will work with a new, fast three-dimensional chemistry-climate model to simulate the past and future trends in the stratosphere using an ensemble simulation approach.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate must have a PhD in atmospheric sciences or in a related discipline awarded within the three years preceding the start date of this postdoctoral fellowship. Experience with numerical modelling and/or stratospheric processes is an advantage.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The postdoctoral fellowship is for two years, starting in July 2006 or at a later date upon agreement.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Review of applications will begin February 1, 2006 and will continue until the position is filled.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The interested candidate should send a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a short research interest statement, and must arrange two recommendation letters to be sent separately to:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dr. M. Bourqui<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>McGill University<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Burnside Hall, Office 815<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>805, Sherbrooke Street W.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>H3A 2K6 Montreal<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Phone: (514) 398 5450<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fax: (514) 398 6115<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Email: <A href="mailto:michel.bourqui@mcgill.ca"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">michel.bourqui@mcgill.ca</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.meteo.mcgill.ca/bourqui"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.meteo.mcgill.ca/bourqui</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Further information on the project can be found at <A href="http://www.meteo.mcgill.ca/bourqui/postdocposition2006.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.meteo.mcgill.ca/bourqui/postdocposition2006.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A> Information on postdoctoral regulations at McGill University is provided at <A href="http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdoc/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdoc/</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>McGill University is an international English-speaking university. It is located in Montreal, one of the most cosmopolitan cities of North America. Information about McGill and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences is available at <A href="http://www.mcgill.ca/meteo"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.mcgill.ca/meteo</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> ********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Post-Doctoral Position, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A postdoctoral position is available to work on the interactions between climatic change and terrestrial ecosystems. Topics include the potential effects of warming, changes in precipitation, increased CO2 concentrations, and/or increased concentrations of O3 in the lower atmosphere on the structure and functioning of ecosystems. We are seeking an innovative individual who will become a catalyst for interactions among ecologists and climate scientists. The scientist will have considerable freedom to develop their own research projects within the broader context of the research programs of the Northeastern Regional Center of the Department of Energy's National Institutes for Climatic Change Research.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The successful candidate should have a strong background in terrestrial ecology, atmospheric sciences, or a closely related field.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Strong quantitative skills, particularly the ability to work with complex databases and numerical models, are required.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Experience with terrestrial ecology, statistics, geospatial analyses, and inverse methods in the earth sciences is especially desirable. Strong collaborative skills will be necessary.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The initial appointment is for one year, with good potential for continued support.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The position is available immediately.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications received by 20 January, 2006 will receive full consideration.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The salary will be competitive, commensurate with experience, and will comply with Pennsylvania State University guidelines.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please send a curriculum vitae including list of publications (a sample publication is welcome but not required), the names and addresses of three references, and a short (one to two page) statement of research interests and long-term goals to:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Linda Decker, Administrative Assistant<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Northeastern Regional Center of the DOE <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>National Institute for Climatic Change Research<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2217 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Pennsylvania State University<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>University Park, PA<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>16802<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Email:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:ldecker@psu.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">ldecker@psu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Phone: 814-863-9563<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fax:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>814-865-3191<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.<O:P></O:P> </DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>UNC-Chapel Hill Assistant Professor - Environmental science and policy</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Assistant Professor - Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering School of Public Health - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Applications are invited for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the department's environmental policy and management area, with a focus on applications of scientific and/or engineering analysis in management and policy decisions. The successful candidate will have at least one degree in science or engineering and a PhD in environmental engineering, science, health, policy or closely related field. She or he will play a major role in the teaching and research mission of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and be committed to the education and professional development of students with career interests at the intersection of policy analysis, science, engineering and/or health. The area of environmental policy specialization is open, with the successful candidate having opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration with other units in the School of Public Health, the School of Medicine, the Carolina Environmental Program, the School of Business, the College of Arts and Sciences, and other academic programs. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Women and minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Academic appointments at the University of North Carolina typically begin on July 1. For consideration, send application with cover letter:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">CV and names of two references to:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dr. Douglas Crawford-Brown, Search Committee Chair<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>c/o Ann Goodwin<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Environmental Sciences and Engineering<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>School of Public Health<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>106 Rosenau Hall, CB#7431<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7431<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>E-mail: <A href="mailto:ese@unc.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">ese@unc.edu</FONT></SPAN></A> or <A href="mailto:douglas_crawford-brown@unc.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">douglas_crawford-brown@unc.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.sph.unc.edu/envr"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.sph.unc.edu/envr</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Univ Blaise Pascal (France) - Atmospheric Sci. Post-doc</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Post-Doctoral Research Position at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, University Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, France.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>GPS Atmospheric Applications Upgrades, With the European GALILEO System<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Water vapour is an important parameter in numerous physical and dynamical processes of the atmosphere (radiative transfer, cloud formation, convection, precipitations, etc.). However, it is extremely variable both in space and time, and is still one of the least easily or routinely measured parameter. Beyond its geophysical positioning function, GPS allows to estimate atmospheric water vapour. Indeed, knowing pressure and temperature, it is possible to convert the electromagnetic wave propagation delay due to the atmosphere into integrated water vapour. Thus, GPS can be viewed as a very valuable instrument to study atmospheric water vapour as it provides continuous, high time resolution measurements in all weather conditions. GPS estimates of water vapour compare well with other instruments measurements.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For research purposes, GPS provides adequate documentation of the time evolution of the water vapour field, enables the restitution of the 3-D water vapour field through tomography when a dense network of GPS stations is available, and should allow the determination of humidity profiles when combined with another instrument, in particular with a wind profiler.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With the advent of the European GPS system GALILEO and its additional frequencies, opportunities for improved atmospheric characterization and parameter estimation can arise: ionospheric contribution, water vapor signature at low elevation angles, etc.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thus, the proposed post-doctoral position is dedicated to assess the possible upgrades to tropospheric parameter retrieval with the Galileo GPS system.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This position is a one year contract at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, University Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, France.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://wwwobs.univ-bpclermont.fr/atmos/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://wwwobs.univ-bpclermont.fr/atmos/</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Desired starting date is summer 2006. It offers an academic environment within a small dedicated research laboratory and a competitive salary. Clermont-Ferrand is located in the Auvergne region in central France at the doors of the pristine Massif Central natural area.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Interested candidates with a PhD in physical meteorology or remote sensing must provide their Curriculum Vitae, a statement of interest including their qualifications, expectations and availabilities for the job, as well as three references to:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dr. Joël Van Baelen, LaMP/OPGC, 24 avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubière <A href="mailto:Joel.Vanbaelen@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Joel.Vanbaelen@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All candidacy received before March 31, 2006, will be reviewed with all due attention.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B></B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>**************************************************</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B> Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to </B></SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:phd@whitman.edu"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002EFF"><B>phd@whitman.edu</B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0030FF" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><B>. </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. 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