<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><B>DIALOG and DISCCRS News</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">01/27/2006</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">************************************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><B>TABLE OF CONTENTS</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">RESOURCES</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">US Office of Naval Research Planning Letters</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></FONT></A></FONT></B><O:P></O:P></DIV><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT>(see below)</A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;text-align: left; "><B>NSF Launches New Web Portal for the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.us-ipy.gov/"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.us-ipy.gov</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A> <A name="OLE_LINK1">(see below)</A></DIV></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"> </FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">SCIENCE NEWS</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Sea-Level Rise is Quickening Pace - from Nature News</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"> (see below)</A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>Green Measures Key to Earth's Future - from the Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT>(see below)</A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>2005 Warmest Year on Record, Data Indicates from MSNBC</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT>(see below)</A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B>FORUM</B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></SPAN></B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>Oceans in Peril - Washington Post, Monday, January 23, 2006; A14</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT>(see below)</A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>Is It Warm in Here? We Could Be Ignoring the Biggest Story in Our History</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT>(see below)</A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><B>Wrote your U.S. Congressperson about the Endangered Species Act From Stuart Pimm vai Tina Treude</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT>(see below)</A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"> </FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial">JOBS</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>AGU Congressional Science Fellowship Application Deadline 1 Feb 2006</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"> (see below)<O:P></O:P></A><B></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>POST DOC – Coastal and Estuarine Nutrient Dynamics, Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Breeze, FLorida</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><B><SPAN style=""></SPAN></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"> (see below)</A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>Carbon Management Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A><A name="OLE_LINK1"> (see below)</A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Assistant Professor, The University of Vermont Atmospheric Sciences</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A><A name="OLE_LINK1"> (see below)</A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Program Manager, Northwest Climate Change Resource Center. The Resource Innovation Group</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A><A name="OLE_LINK1"> (see below)<O:P></O:P></A><O:P></O:P><O:P></O:P><O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Associate Director, WCS Institute - Wildlife Conservation Society</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A><A name="OLE_LINK1"></A><A name="OLE_LINK1"> (see below)<O:P></O:P></A><O:P></O:P><O:P></O:P><O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>US EPA Post-Doctoral Position, Coastal and Freshwater Wetlands INdicator Development, Newport, Oregon</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"> (see below)<O:P></O:P></A><O:P></O:P><O:P></O:P><O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Postdoctoral Fellowship: Science Policy position with with Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"> (see below)<O:P></O:P></A><O:P></O:P><O:P></O:P><O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Tenure-Track, Brown University, Center for Environmental Studies</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"> (see below)<O:P></O:P></A><O:P></O:P><O:P></O:P><O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>New positions: Scottish Association for Marine Science</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) has recently been awarded a multi-million pounds package of funding that will see the appointment of 10 academic and 14 support staff over the coming months. For further information please see: </SPAN><A href="http://www.sams.ac.uk/"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.sams.ac.uk</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Assistant/Associate/ Program Director Biological Oceanography AD-1360-02/03/04 GEO/OCE (Closes: 03/17/2006)</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=e20060046"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=e20060046</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Resources</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><B> </B><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>NSF Launches New Web Portal for the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></A><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.us-ipy.gov/"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.us-ipy.gov</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The National Science Foundation has launched a portal website to provide the general public and members of the news media with easy access to news releases, classroom resources, listings of museum and gallery exhibits, and catalogs of video and still images and other materials produced or supported by the federal government as part of the U.S. contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The site, at </SPAN><A href="http://www.us-ipy.gov/"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.us-ipy.gov</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">, includes information on the IPY for a general audience as well as basic information for scientists interested in obtaining IPY funding from the U.S. government. New content will be continually added to the comprehensive site.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The IPY will take place exactly 50 years after the International Geophysical Year (IGY), a similar global scientific research endeavor during which scientists first spent the long Antarctic winter at the South Pole, among other accomplishments. The polar "year" will include two calendar years to permit a full 12 months of observations in regions where six months of extreme cold and darkness can hamper fieldwork.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the spring of 2007, scientists from more than 100 countries will embark on an intensive, coordinated campaign of multi-disciplinary scientific observations, research, and analysis as part of the IPY. The research is expected to dramatically expand our understanding of the Arctic and Antarctic regions--including their relationship to the global ecosystem--and to provide unprecedented insight into how societies in high northern latitudes are coping with environmental change.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the United States and in other countries, planning already is underway for extended IPY scientific field campaigns as well as for education and outreach programs for the general public.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The White House has designated NSF, which manages the U.S. Antarctic Program and chairs the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC), to be the lead federal agency for the IPY. Numerous other agencies, their scientists and grantees will also be involved in supporting IPY research, fielding research teams, and producing curricula and other materials for the general public about the IPY.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"> ********************<O:P style=""></O:P><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>US Office of Naval Research Planning Letters</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ONR Ocean Optics and Biology Program has begun planning for research investments to be made in the 2007 fiscal year (1 October 2006 through 30 September 2007). To simplify the workload, researchers seeking funding for topics of potential Navy interest in the areas of optical or biological oceanography, including observations, modeling, or sensor design, are urged to submit planning letters that briefly outline the expected scope of work, including the time frame in which the work would be conducted and estimated annual costs. Planning letters should be submitted through the Ocean Optics and Biology portion of the ONR OA&S web site: </SPAN><A href="http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/ocean/322_processes/prog_ob.asp"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/ocean/322_processes/prog_ob.asp</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Science News</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Sea-Level Rise is Quickening Pace - from Nature News</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The rate of global sea-level rise has sped up during the twentieth century, Australian researchers have confirmed.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This disturbing acceleration is predicted by climate models, but has been difficult to spot in real data; natural variations in sea level have masked long-term trends. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now researchers have managed to tease out the acceleration from tide-gauge data, by cleaning up the information using satellite measurements. <A href="http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060116/full/060116-11.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060116/full/060116-11.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>Green Measures Key to Earth's Future - from the Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By 2050, the planet's population will increase to 9 billion, with most people migrating to massive cities. Better vaccines will lessen the epidemic of HIV and offset flu pandemics. The global economy will quadruple. Demand for food, fresh water and raw materials for construction and heat will stretch natural resources to their limits, according to an analysis released Thursday.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If major changes are not made in the way humans consume natural resources, there will be widespread famine, severe shortages of clean water and huge impacts from natural disasters such as hurricanes. Cities will be beset by vast amounts of wastewater and sewage. Sea levels will rise, fisheries will collapse, emerging disease epidemics will sweep across the globe and coral reefs will die off, said authors of the new report, "The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment." Commissioned by the United Nations, the work is a four-year effort by 1,300 scientists from 95 countries.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This grim scenario, however, can be avoided through policy decisions that emphasize environmental technology, poverty reduction and investments in education and health, the report's authors said. </SPAN><A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-fg-future20jan20,0,1203827.story"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-fg-future20jan20,0,1203827.story</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"> </SPAN>********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>2005 Warmest Year on Record, Data Indicates from MSNBC</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A surprising Arctic warm spell is responsible for a 2005 that was likely the warmest year since instrument recordings began in the late 1800s, a leading researcher said Tuesday in describing a new federal analysis.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said the analysis had to estimate temperatures in the Arctic from nearby weather stations because no direct data were available.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a result, he said, "we couldn’t say with 100 percent certainty that it’s the warmest year, but I’m reasonably confident that it was." <A href="http://tinyurl.com/7d5q8"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/7d5q8</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P style=""></O:P></FONT><DIV class="MsoNormal" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Forum</B></FONT></DIV></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>Oceans in Peril - Washington Post, Monday, January 23, 2006; A14</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>THE BUSH administration remains in denial about climate change and sometimes treats environmental protection as an inconvenience. Yet there was reason to hope, when the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy issued its report more than a year ago, that President Bush would seize the issue of the dire threat to this country's coastal waters. The commission was the second major task force in recent years to detail the rapidly deteriorating ecology of America's oceans. All serious looks at the issue have reached similar conclusions: that current human use of oceans is unsustainable and that without dramatic changes in the ways the waters are exploited and enjoyed, the seas will die out. The magnitude of the crisis offers an opportunity for the president to lead on a preeminent environmental issue.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So far, it is an opportunity Mr. Bush has largely passed up. To be sure, there have been some constructive changes. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is pushing legislation to improve fisheries management. Regional fisheries managers have acted to protect deep sea corals. And, explains James L. Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Policy, the president has moved to improve coordination on ocean-related policy by the many agencies of government that have jurisdiction over aspects of the problem, a key commission concern. The administration is developing a long-term research plan and is planning to protect a large area around some Hawaiian islands as a marine sanctuary. All of this is promising -- though a big test will come when the administration has to propose funding for oceans research in its coming budget.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Still, there is little sense of urgency about a problem the oceans commission described in stark terms: Americans, the report warns, are "starting to love our oceans to death." If that is to be averted, "reform needs to start now, while it is still possible to reverse distressing declines." Mr. Connaughton says Mr. Bush is deeply committed to the problem. Yet the president himself does not talk about it.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tackling this meaningfully is going to require regulatory initiatives across a range of areas: pollution, runoff, development, environmentally harmful farming practices and others, requiring substantial sums. None of this is possible without sustained and vocal presidential leadership. Ecosystems are at a tipping point, verging on a collapse from which they won't recover. The stakes are as immense as the oceans, which will not wait for the White House to gear up to save them.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""> </SPAN>********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>Is It Warm in Here? We Could Be Ignoring the Biggest Story in Our History</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By David Ignatius
Wednesday, January 18, 2006; A17<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of the puzzles if you're in the news business is figuring out what's "news." The fate of your local football team certainly fits the definition. So does a plane crash or a brutal murder. But how about changes in the migratory patterns of butterflies?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Scientists believe that new habitats for butterflies are early effects of global climate change -- but that isn't news, by most people's measure. Neither is declining rainfall in the Amazon, or thinner ice in the Arctic. We can't see these changes in our personal lives, and in that sense, they are abstractions. So they don't grab us the way a plane crash would -- even though they may be harbingers of a catastrophe that could, quite literally, alter the fundamentals of life on the planet. And because they're not "news," the environmental changes don't prompt action, at least not in the United States.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What got me thinking about the recondite life rhythms of the planet, and not the 24-hour news cycle, was a recent conversation with a scientist named Thomas E. Lovejoy, who heads the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. When I first met Lovejoy nearly 20 years ago, he was trying to get journalists like me to pay attention to the changes in the climate and biological diversity of the Amazon. He is still trying, but he's beginning to wonder if it's too late.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lovejoy fears that changes in the Amazon's ecosystem may be irreversible. Scientists reported last month that there is an Amazonian drought apparently caused by new patterns in Atlantic currents that, in turn, are similar to projected climate change. With less rainfall, the tropical forests are beginning to dry out. They burn more easily, and, in the continuous feedback loops of their ecosystem, these drier forests return less moisture to the atmosphere, which means even less rain. When the forest trees are deprived of rain, their mortality can increase by a factor of six, and similar devastation affects other species, too.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"When do you wreck it as a system?" Lovejoy wonders. "It's like going up to the edge of a cliff, not really knowing where it is. Common sense says you shouldn't discover where the edge is by passing over it, but that's what we're doing with deforestation and climate change."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lovejoy first went to the Amazon 40 years ago as a young scientist of 23. It was a boundless wilderness, the size of the continental United States, but at that time it had just 2 million people and one main road. He has returned more than a hundred times, assembling over the years a mental time-lapse photograph of how this forest primeval has been affected by man. The population has increased tenfold, and the wilderness is now laced with roads, new settlements and economic progress. The forest itself, impossibly rich and lush when Lovejoy first saw it, is changing.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For Lovejoy, who co-edited a pioneering 1992 book, "Global Warming and Biological Diversity," there is a deep sense of frustration. A crisis he and other scientists first sensed more than two decades ago is drifting toward us in what seems like slow motion, but fast enough that it may be impossible to mitigate the damage.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The best reporting of the non-news of climate change has come from Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker. Her three-part series last spring lucidly explained the harbingers of potential disaster: a shrinking of Arctic sea ice by 250 million acres since 1979; a thawing of the permafrost for what appears to be the first time in 120,000 years; a steady warming of Earth's surface temperature; changes in rainfall patterns that could presage severe droughts of the sort that destroyed ancient civilizations. This month she published a new piece, "Butterfly Lessons," that looked at how these delicate creatures are moving into new habitats as the planet warms. Her real point was that all life, from microorganisms to human beings, will have to adapt, and in ways that could be dangerous and destabilizing.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So many of the things that pass for news don't matter in any ultimate sense. But if people such as Lovejoy and Kolbert are right, we are all but ignoring the biggest story in the history of humankind. Kolbert concluded her series last year with this shattering thought: "It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing." She's right. The failure of the United States to get serious about climate change is unforgivable, a human folly beyond imagining. </SPAN><A href="mailto:davidignatius@washpost.com"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">davidignatius@washpost.com</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><B>Wrote your U.S. Congressperson about the Endangered Species Act From Stuart Pimm vai Tina Treude</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Two weeks ago, you heard from the Union of Concerned Scientists regarding legislation that is making its way through Congress that would fundamentally and negatively alter the way science informs critical Endangered Species Act (ESA) decisions. The House has already passed a bill that strips the scientific underpinnings of the ESA; it is now time for the Senate to decide if and how it wants to act. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In response to this situation, I have joined with Jane Lubchenco, Gordon Orions, and Peter Raven in signing an open letter to the U.S. Senate addressing the appropriate use of science in the ESA. To date, more than 3500 of your colleagues have signed on - and today, I urge you to do the same. Please read and sign the statement by Tuesday, January 31: <A href="http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/restoring/biologists-letter-on.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/restoring/biologists-letter-on.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ESA has provided protection for our most threatened and endangered animals and their habitats for over thirty years. A strong, unified statement from biological experts will help protect the science behind the ESA - legislation that serves as a cornerstone of environmental protection in the United States. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The statement is open to anyone with or working toward an advanced degree in biological sciences. Please act today to read and sign the letter: <A href="http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/restoring/biologists-letter-on.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/restoring/biologists-letter-on.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Leaders in this effort include David Bain, Ron Carroll, Paul Ehrlich, Melissa Grigione, Lynn Maquire, Jane Lubchenco, Dennis Murphy, Gordon Orians, Barry Noon, Peter Raven, and John Terborgh. For full background information about this issue, including links to detailed analyses of the legislative threat, visit: <A href="http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/restoring/science-in-the-endangered.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/restoring/science-in-the-endangered.html</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your support of independent science.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Regards, Stuart Pimm<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nicholas School for the Environment<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Duke University<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><B>Jobs</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Or, visit </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> and click on 'Join this group'</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>AGU Congressional Science Fellowship Application Deadline 1 Feb 2006</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>AGU is accepting applications until 1 February 2006 for the 2006-2007 Congressional Science Fellowship. The Fellowship provides an opportunity for a scientist to play an active part in the U.S. policy process by spending a year (September through August) on the staff of a congressional committee or in the personal office of a House or Senate member, advising on a wide range of scientific issues.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applicants should have a broad background in science and have an aptitude for working with and communicating technical information clearly to people from diverse professional backgrounds. Prior experience in public policy is not necessary, although such experience and/or demonstrable interest in applying science to the solution of public policy problems is desired.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Fellowship carries a stipend of up to $49,000, health insurance, plus travel allowance. For further details and application instructions, visit the AGU Web site: <A href="http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/congress_fellows.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/congress_fellows.html</FONT></SPAN></A> or contact Catherine O'Riordan at +1-202-777-7509 or e-mail <A href="mailto:coriordan@agu.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">coriordan@agu.org</FONT></SPAN></A>.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>AGU's 2004-2005 Congressional Science Fellow, Jana Davis, spent her fellowship in the office of Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). "I believe that the legislative process, and therefore the quality of our laws, greatly benefits from direct access of policy-makers to scientific information. It is imperative that policy-makers take advantage of this information as it becomes available in order to best manage our nation's resources," she reported after her experience on Capitol Hill.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>AGU members are also eligible to apply for Congressional Science Fellowships sponsored by the American Geological Institute <A href="http://www.agiweb.org/gap/csf/index.html)and"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.agiweb.org/gap/csf/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A> andthe American Institute of Physics ( <A href="http://www.aip.org/gov/cf.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.aip.org/gov/cf.html</FONT></SPAN></A> ). The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) also sponsors Fellows, and AAAS serves as the umbrella support network for all of the Congressional Science Fellows.<O:P></O:P> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>US EPA Post-Doctoral Position, Coastal and Freshwater Wetlands INdicator Development, Newport, Oregon</B><B><O:P style=""></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Gulf Ecology Division in Gulf Breeze, Florida, is seeking a highly motivated individual with expertise in estuarine and coastal ecosystem processes to join our research team. The successful applicant is expected to augment our ongoing research project in the northern Gulf of Mexico investigating relationships between nutrients and hypoxia in nearshore coastal waters. The goal of this project is to develop predictive models of large scale ecosystem responses to changes in nutrient loading from the Mississippi/Atchafalaya river complex. Examples of appropriate research areas include the following:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">1) Ecosystem modeling, including development or application of planktonic and benthic process models, hydrodynamic models, and coupled physical-biological-chemical models<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">2) Sediment biogeochemistry and diagenetic modeling<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">3) Remote sensing applications and modeling, especially in spectrally resolving phytoplankton, suspended sediments and colored dissolved organic matter.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Investigations may include field data collection, field and laboratory experiments, data synthesis, statistical analysis, and ecological modeling. Opportunities exist to participate in ongoing field research in the Gulf hypoxia zone. Successful applicants should be interested in integrating their work within a collaborative, multidisciplinary research environment to address environmental management-driven research objectives.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Full details may be found at </SPAN><A href="http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/postdocs/"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/postdocs/</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"> (Position # GED-01-03-06-146). Open application period: January 3, 2006 to February 28, 2006.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The U.S. EPA is an equal opportunity employer.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><A name="OLE_LINK1"><B>Carbon Management Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Job Type: Full Time<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This position will support the Laboratory's research in the area of geologic carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS; also known as carbon sequestration) and will offer the candidate the opportunity to collaborate with world-class researchers, to contribute to an impressive publication record that is helping move this field of research forward, and to contribute to analyses provided to public and private sector decision makers who are actively studying carbon management issues and options.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Research conducted in this area will focus on the deployment of CCS systems in the industrial and electric power generation sectors, both within the US and internationally, and this position will require integration across a variety of technical disciplines including geology, geophysics, petroleum engineering, electric power generation, industrial processes, and economic analysis.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Duties will include synthesis and analysis of complex datasets, methodology development, documentation, and publication of original research.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">Job Qualifications:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>*The successful candidate will have a broad educational background, including college-level coursework in chemistry, physics and geology.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>*Proficiency and strong analytical experience utilizing geographic information systems (GIS) software, particularly ESRI ArcView 9.x, is required. This experience can be demonstrated through the use of GIS software in thesis or project work, and/or through undergraduate- or graduate-level coursework.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>*Experience working with complex datasets and databases is also preferred, along with a high level of proficiency in Excel.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>*Experience with statistical software packages (e.g., Maple) and/or Monte Carlo simulation (e.g., CrystalBall) is desirable, as is experience with VB or VBA programming languages.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>*This position requires strong skills communicating technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>*An interdisciplinary background that includes formal policy/economic and scientific/engineering training or experience is desired.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">Minimum Job Requirements:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Carbon Management Scientist - Level I: A minimum of a BS or MS in geoscience, engineering, policy or economics, and 0-1 years of related experience.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Carbon Management Scientist - Level II: A minimum of a BS in geoscience, engineering, policy or economics, and 2-3 years of related experience; or a MS degree and 0-2 years of related experience; or a PhD degree.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To Apply:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please visit our website at </SPAN><A href="http://www.jobs.pnl.gov/"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.jobs.pnl.gov</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">, reference requisition #110660, or contact Kristi Ross at </SPAN><A href="mailto:kristi.ross@pnl.gov"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">kristi.ross@pnl.gov</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you apply for this position,<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please say you saw this job on Green Dream Jobs!!<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Contact Information:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Kristi Ross<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="mailto:kristi.ross@pnl.gov"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">kristi.ross@pnl.gov</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.jobs.pnl.gov/"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.jobs.pnl.gov</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Assistant Professor, The University of Vermont Atmospheric Sciences</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources (RSENR) at the University of Vermont (UVM) seeks applicants for a tenure-track, academic year position in atmospheric sciences beginning fall semester, 2006. We seek an energetic, creative individual to focus on the relationship between atmospheric processes, air quality, and ecosystems, with an emphasis on regional issues (e.g. transport, deposition and impact of air-borne pollutants; biogeochemical cycling; and the impacts of climate change on northeastern ecosystems).<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The candidate will develop an undergraduate course in atmospheric sciences and air quality within the Environmental Sciences (ENSC) major and a graduate course related to climate change and participate in two additional ENSC courses: Pollution Ecology and Fate and Transport of Pollutants. Additional duties include advising ENSC undergraduates and graduate students in their discipline and outreach to the state on air quality and climate change issues.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates should have their doctoral degree in atmospheric sciences or a related field, be enthused about cross-disciplinary research with RSENR ecologists, modelers, and social scientists, and be committed to UVM's pursuit of ethnic and gender diversity and equity.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Application screening begins 15 March 2006. Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae and contact information for three references to <A href="http://www.uvm.jobs.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.uvm.jobs.com</FONT></SPAN></A>. UVM is an AA/EO employer. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> ********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Program Manager, Northwest Climate Change Resource Center. The Resource Innovation Group</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Resource Innovation Group, a non-profit affiliated with the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at the University of Oregon, seeks a program manager for its new Northwest Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC). The CCRC will assist state and local governments and private companies to understand the socio-economic consequences of climate change, quantify greenhouse gas emissions, and develop climate protection plans.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Primary Duties: Work with the director and associate director of Resource Innovations to manage all aspects of the CCRC including marketing, client services, research, report preparation, technical assistance, and fundraising. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Specific Responsibilities<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Organize and present educational briefings and seminars to business and civic leaders on the scientific and socio-economic aspects of global warming. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Establish and manage a website with scientific and socio-economic information on climate change.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Coordinate the development, implementation, and monitoring of climate protection action plans, including socio-economic impact assessments, greenhouse gas quantifications, and mitigation and adaptation policy development. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Supervise and provide service-learning opportunities for University of Oregon graduate student to complete much of the research described above.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Manage fundraising for the program including marketing, contracts and grants from local governments and private companies as well as other sources of funds. This is a grant-funded program. Continued employment after a two-year start-up period will depend on the ability of the manager to raise funds. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Qualifications: Background in economics, science, or policy fields associated with global warming, demonstrated exemplary research and report writing skills, excellent verbal skills and ability to work cooperatively with diverse people, ability and desire to work with university students. Graduate degree preferred. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Location: The position will be located in Eugene, Oregon. Travel throughout the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere required.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Salary: $40,000-$50,000 depending on experience, plus excellent benefits.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Closing Date: January 27, 2006<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apply To: Administrative Director, Resource Innovation Group, P.O. Box 51182, Eugene, Oregon 97405<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Associate Director, WCS Institute - Wildlife Conservation Society</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The WCS Institute helps the Wildlife Conservation Society save wildlife and wild lands by synthesizing and disseminating lessons learned from the field and from our living collections, strengthening existing conservation efforts, and applying WCS's experience and values to advance the action agenda for conservation. The Institute seeks to fill the position of Associate Director.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The primary responsibilities of the position are to provide support for preparation of the biennial publication State of the Wild; coordinate annual meetings on topics of importance to WCS; work to document and publicize 'lessons learned' from across WCS; help develop broad initiatives of interest to the Institution; and engage in general administration of the Institute, including developing funding proposals. Applicants must have: an earned doctorate or equivalent experience in a field related to the conservation of biological diversity; a strong background (5-10 years) in cross-disciplinary work experience in one or more of the social sciences preferred; demonstrated experience in analysis, writing and editing with emphasis on work addressing synthetic, interdisciplinary treatments; and excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The position reports to the Director of the Institute and is based at WCS headquarters in the Bronx Zoo in New York City. Salary level is commensurate with experience. To apply, please send cover letter and C.V. to: Dr. Kent Redford, WCS Institute, Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460, USA. Email: <A href="mailto:kredford@wcs.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">kredford@wcs.org</FONT></SPAN></A>. Closing date: March 31, 2006.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>US EPA POST-DOCTORAL POSITION, Coastal and Freshwater Wetlands INdicator Development, Newport, Oregon</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For application and general information go to URL: <A href="http://cfpub.epa.gov/nheerl/index.cfm?fuseaction=postdocs.main"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://cfpub.epa.gov/nheerl/index.cfm?fuseaction=postdocs.main</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Division: Western Ecology Division (WED)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Branch: Pacific Coastal Ecology Branch (PCEB)<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Location: Newport Oregon<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Project: Coastal and Freshwater Wetlands Indicator Development<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Description of Research Project:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The position will support movement of research programs in both the coastal and freshwater components of the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) at WED into a new resource type, coastal (tidal) and freshwater wetlands. Coastal wetlands are broadly defined to include salt marshes, shallow vegetated and unvegetated tidal habitats, tidal freshwater wetlands, and restored or altered systems among these habitats. The position would support the development and validation of a range of wetland condition indicators involving measurements at multiple spatial scales. Potential indicators range from marsh sediment nutrient concentrations (N, P) measured at core scale, to plant (native and nonindigenous) diversity at transect or plot scale, to patch scale measures of habitat continuity and patch connectivity, to landscape scale measures of upland development and land use. Indicators that have application for both freshwater and coastal wetland types would have highest priority. The research will be expected to utilize existing data sets where possible, such as EMAP data, the extensive aerial photography data set compiled at PCEB, and on the indicator development work done at the west coast EAGLe center at UC Davis.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Appointment: 3 years<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Educational requirements: Ph.D. in ecology, environmental science, biology or a closely related field.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Specialized training and/or experience preferred: Experience with tidal wetlands systems is preferred. The candidate should have experience in wetland ecosystem ecology, plant community ecology, or other disciplinary areas with emphasis on the biological function, sustainability, or restoration of coastal wetlands.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Contact*: Walt Nelson email: <A href="mailto:nelson.walt@epa.gov"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">nelson.walt@epa.gov</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>* This person may be contacted for additional scientific information about this project. This person is not authorized to accept applications, make job offers, set salaries, establish start dates or discuss benefits. See general announcement for details on how to apply.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cheryl A. Brown, Ph.D., Oceanographer<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>U.S. EPA, Pacific Coastal Ecology Branch<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2111 SE Marine Science Center Drive<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Newport, OR 97365<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tel: 541-867-4042<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fax: 541-867-4049<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Email: <A href="mailto:brown.cheryl@epa.gov"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">brown.cheryl@epa.gov</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/staff/brown.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/staff/brown.htm</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Postdoctoral Fellowship: Science Policy position with with Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sigma Xi seeks a fellow who will work with the office of an independent oversight and policy Board of an independent federal agency in the Washington, DC area. This office funds a significant portion of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. The successful candidate will be supporting international science and engineering partnerships and a proposed Commission for 21st Century Education in Science, Mathematics and Technology (the Commission). If you are interested in learning more, please visit: <A href="http://www.sigmaxi.org/fellow.shtml"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.sigmaxi.org/fellow.shtml</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is an 18-month appointment beginning immediately upon hire. The application deadline is Monday, February 6, 2006. To be considered, please submit a cover letter and résumé to:<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yolanda Thorpe-Harris, Director of Human Resources<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PO Box 13975<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3975<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:hrdept@sigmaxi.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">hrdept@sigmaxi.org</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><SPAN style=""></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">********************<O:P style=""></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Tenure-Track, Brown University, Center for Environmental Studies</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sharpe Endowed Chair in Environmental Studies The Center for Environmental Studies (CES) at Brown University seeks a faculty member for an endowed chair at the ASSISTANT PROFESSOR level with broad interests in environmental sciences as well as public policies related to environmental issues. This appointment will be tenure track and entail a joint appointment between CES and one of the following academic units: Community Health, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Division of Engineering, Geological Sciences, Political Science, or Sociology, depending on the background and research record of the candidate. We seek candidates who can integrate basic and applied environmental sciences and work at different scales from local to regional and global. Requirements include a PhD in an environmentally-related discipline, a strong record of research and outreach, commitment to excellence in graduate and undergraduate teaching, and potential for interdisciplinary collaboration. The mission of the Center for Environmental Studies is to carry out interdisciplinary education, research, and outreach on a variety of topics related to the environment. CES interests encompass the natural sciences, social sciences, and public health. For more information about the CES visit <<A href="http://envstudies.brown.edu/env/index.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://envstudies.brown.edu/env/index.php</FONT></SPAN></A>><A href="http://envstudies.brown.edu/env/index.php"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://envstudies.brown.edu/env/index.php</FONT></SPAN></A>. To apply, please send a letter describing research, teaching, and outreach interests and the fit of the candidate with the CES, a current CV, and 3 letters of reference to: Professor Osvaldo Sala, Director, Center for Environmental Studies, Box 1943, 135 Angell Street, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. For further inquiries, please contact <A href="mailto:Osvaldo_Sala@Brown.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Osvaldo_Sala@Brown.edu</FONT></SPAN></A>. Applications will be reviewed starting on February 28, 2006 and accepted until the position is filled. Brown University is an EEO/AA employer.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Phil Brown, Ph.D., <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies Brown University Box 1916 Providence RI 02912. office phone 401-863-2633 department phone 401-863-2367 fax 401-863-3213 email: <A href="mailto:phil_brown@brown.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">phil_brown@brown.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Sociology website <A href="http://www.brown.edu/sociology"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.brown.edu/sociology</FONT></SPAN></A> Environmental Studies<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">website <A href="http://envstudies.brown.edu/Dept/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://envstudies.brown.edu/Dept/</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">**************************************************</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">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><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:phd@whitman.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">phd@whitman.edu</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. 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Send address changes to </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:dialog@whitman.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">dialog@whitman.edu</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> or </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:disccrs@whitman.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">disccrs@whitman.edu</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">**********</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Office for Earth System Studies Tel: 509-527-5948 </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Walla Walla, WA 99362</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:weiler@whitman.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; 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