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1 Sent: Tuesday, August 27, :01 PM Subject: DISCCRS News - August 27, 2013 RESOURCES DISCCRS News August 27, 2013 ************************************ How Americans Communicate About Global Warming - April 2013 (Report) - Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication - August 20, FUNDING NSF Dear Colleague Letter: NSF/NOAA SEES Fellows - NSF August 21, NEWS Global sea level rise temporarily dampened by Australia floods - NSF Press Release August 19, Acidifying oceans will heat the planet more - New Scientist - August 25, Ocean acidification: Making new discoveries through National Science Foundation research grants - NSF Press Release August 26, New drilling technique helps reveal the "plumbing" beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet - NSF Press Release August 16, Arctic Warming May Not Be Altering Jet Stream: Study - Climate Central - August 21, Beetles modify emissions of greenhouse gases from cow pats - University of Helsinki (via AAAS EurekAlert) - August 22, Warming Antarctic seas likely to impact on krill habitats - British Antarctic Survey Press Release - August 21, Fears for seabirds as global warming affects UK coastline - The Guardian - August 22,

2 In Ethiopia, NGOs promote family planning to cope with climate change - Thomson Reuters Foundation - August Pakistan's Punjab builds model villages to withstand disasters - Thomson Reuters Foundation - August 22, About "climate-compatible development" - Bacteria and Fungi Together: A Biofuel Dream Team? - Scientific American - August 19, Waste CO2 Could be Source of Renewable Power - Climate News Network (via Climate Central) - August 26, FORUM John DeCicco: Why Pushing Alternate Fuels Makes for Bad Public Policy - Yale Environment August 22, Stuart Newstead & Howard Williams: Constant access to wireless networks has an environmental cost - The Guardian - August 20, Joe Romm: It's not Easy Being Gore: Media Creates a Category 6 Tempest in a Teapot - Climate Progress blog - August 23, Andrew Revkin: Could Climate Campaigners' Focus on Current Events be Counterproductive? - Dot Earth blog (New York Times) - August 20, Bud Ward: AGU's New Climate Change Statement Emphasizes Human Role - Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media - August 20, MEETINGS AND SHORT COURSES International Antarctic Ice Rises Workshop (Webcast) - Now through August 29, Tromsø, Norway - World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Climate and Cryosphere project (CliC) et al. - Agenda: - More about webcast: JOBS Looking for more job-hunting help? Please visit the News & Links page of the DISCCRS website ( for a list of climate change-related job listservs, or our Career Resources page ( for a great collection of resources for developing professional skills, locating funding opportunities, crafting grant proposals, and more. Postdoc - McKenzie Fellowships - University of Melbourne (Australia) - Application deadline: September 9, Postdoc - Applications of economics to interdisciplinary research of emerging water and coastal resource management issues - School of Economics - University of Maine (USA) - Postdoc - Arctic cryosphere-climate interactions - University of Calgary (Canada) - 2

3 Postdoc - Biodiversity - NatureServe and Stony Brook University, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution (USA) - Postdoc - Conservation Biology (Impacts of resource extraction on aquatic species) - University of Alberta (Canada) - Postdoc - Ecological Importance of Iron Storage in Diatoms - Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (USA) - Postdoc - Economic Valuation - Conservation International (USA) - Postdoc - Hydrological Modelling of the Upper Yukon River Basin - Northern Climate ExChange - Yukon Research Centre - Yukon College (Canada) - Postdoc - Remote Sensing of Sea Ice (ICESat-2) - ICESat-2 Project Science Office - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (USA) - Postdoc - Microbial Metagenomics in Winter - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Canada) - Postdoc - Modelling ecosystem services for regional landscapes - Centre for Forest Research (Canada) - Postdoc - Molecular Population Genetics/Ecology - Harte Research Institute - Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (USA) - Postdoc - Policy Analysis - Conservation International (USA) - Postdoc - Quantitative Ecology (Global change, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning) - Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources - Rutgers University (USA) - Postdoc - Quantitative Ecology - Montana State University and U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station (USA) - Postdoc - Solar transmittance of seasonal Arctic sea ice - Norwegian Polar Institute (Norway) - Postdoc - Statistical modeling of infectious disease and climate - Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Princeton University (USA) - Postdoc - Sustainable Energy Policy - Faculty of Environment - University of Waterloo (Canada) - Postdocs (3) - Land-Atmosphere Carbon Cycle - Global Change and Sustainability Center - University of Utah (USA) - Asst Prof - Anthropology (Sustainable Heritage) - Dept. of Anthropology - University of Maryland (USA) - 3

4 Asst Prof - Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Studies - Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen - Centre for Isotope Research - Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - University of Groningen (Netherlands) - Asst Prof - Climate Modeling - Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and Dept. of Atmosphere and Oceanic Sciences - University of Colorado Boulder (USA) - Asst Prof - Coastal Physical Oceanography - Dept. of Earth and Environmental Studies - Montclair State University (USA) - Asst Prof - Computational Biology - Dept. of Biological Sciences - University of Alabama (USA) - Asst Prof - Ecology - Dept. of Evolution and Ecology - University of California, Davis (USA) - Asst Prof - Environment/Science/Risk Communication - School of Communication and School of Environment & Natural Resources - Ohio State University (USA) - Asst Prof - Environmental Health - Dept. of Geography and Regional Studies - University of Miami (USA) - Asst Prof - Environmental Science and Policy - Environmental Science and Policy Program - Smith College (USA) - Asst Prof - Landscape Ecology - Dept. of Geography - Indiana University Bloomington (USA) - Asst Prof - Low-Temperature Geochemistry - Dept. of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences - Iowa State University (USA) - Asst Prof - STS and Environment - Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program and Dept. of History and Politics - Drexel University (USA) - Asst Profs (2) - Sociology of Gender and/or Race; Criminology - Dept. of Sociology - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA) - Asst Prof & Assoc Prof - Sociology (Comparative International Sociology) - Dept. of Sociology - University of Utah (USA) - Tenure Track - Earth Surface Processes/Geomorphology (geomorphic response to climate and/or anthropogenic change) - Division of Earth Sciences and Earth Observatory of Singapore - Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) - Tenure Track (Multiple; Open Rank) - Biology - Dept. of Biology - University of Maryland, College Park (USA) - 4

5 Tenure Track (Multiple; Open Rank) - Interdisciplinary Riverine or Coastal Environmental Research - Dept. of Global Environmental Health Sciences - School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine - Tulane University (USA) - Tenure Track (Open Rank) - Sociocultural Anthropology - Dept. of Anthropology - Reed College (USA) - Sea Ice Modeller - British Antarctic Survey (UK) - Project Scientist - International Coordination Office (ICO) for Polar Prediction - Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Germany) - Research Scholars (2) - Applied Economic Modeling; Applied Economics - Ecosystems Services and Management Program - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Austria) - and Asst Dir for Biometeorology - Fundamental Instrument Unit - National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) (USA) - Director - Eastern Shore Laboratory (Marine field lab) - Virginia Institute of Marine Science (USA) - Executive Director - Wild Rockies Field Institute (USA) - *************************************************** DISCCRS NEWS Editor: C. Susan Weiler, Whitman College Contributing News Editor: Nancy Novitski, University of Oregon Submissions: Please submit job and other announcements of interest to recent Ph.D.s to info@disccrs.org. Send a short message in the body of an message and link to any appropriate websites. To register a recent PhD dissertation and subscribe to DISCCRS News: To subscribe to DISCCRS News without registering PhD dissertation: Moving? Send address changes to info@disccrs.org DISCCRS is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Collaborative Grants SES to University of Oregon and SES to Whitman College and NASA Grant NNX10AJ53G to Whitman College. The purpose of DISCCRS News is to distribute information of potential interest to U.S. recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary climate-change research and is generally sent weekly on Mondays. It also provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues to foster a global sense of community among recent grads. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. The editors reserve the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Many of the articles in the News section are taken from daily updates posted by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society's Science in the News. 5

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