Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:01 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, 2013 - http://goo.gl/flj1st FUNDING NSF Dear Colleague Letter: NSF/NOAA SEES Fellows - NSF 13-123 - August 21, 2013 - http://goo.gl/yblfw4 NEWS Global sea level rise temporarily dampened by 2010-11 Australia floods - NSF Press Release 13-145 - August 19, 2013 - http://goo.gl/8b6pxe Acidifying oceans will heat the planet more - New Scientist - August 25, 2013 - http://goo.gl/3q9f6a Ocean acidification: Making new discoveries through National Science Foundation research grants - NSF Press Release 13-148 - August 26, 2013 - http://goo.gl/khg8g6 New drilling technique helps reveal the "plumbing" beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet - NSF Press Release 13-144 - August 16, 2013 - http://goo.gl/yrqgme Arctic Warming May Not Be Altering Jet Stream: Study - Climate Central - August 21, 2013 - http://goo.gl/rsqn0f Beetles modify emissions of greenhouse gases from cow pats - University of Helsinki (via AAAS EurekAlert) - August 22, 2013 - http://goo.gl/uwvjmz Warming Antarctic seas likely to impact on krill habitats - British Antarctic Survey Press Release - August 21, 2013 - http://goo.gl/llkbkj Fears for seabirds as global warming affects UK coastline - The Guardian - August 22, 2013 - http://goo.gl/cez2i2 1
In Ethiopia, NGOs promote family planning to cope with climate change - Thomson Reuters Foundation - August 23 2013 - http://goo.gl/hzrywn Pakistan's Punjab builds model villages to withstand disasters - Thomson Reuters Foundation - August 22, 2013 - About "climate-compatible development" - http://goo.gl/eclf5t Bacteria and Fungi Together: A Biofuel Dream Team? - Scientific American - August 19, 2013 - http://goo.gl/vjgxkw Waste CO2 Could be Source of Renewable Power - Climate News Network (via Climate Central) - August 26, 2013 - http://goo.gl/9jwsqw FORUM John DeCicco: Why Pushing Alternate Fuels Makes for Bad Public Policy - Yale Environment 360 - August 22, 2013 - http://goo.gl/imr7kn Stuart Newstead & Howard Williams: Constant access to wireless networks has an environmental cost - The Guardian - August 20, 2013 - http://goo.gl/bqlea1 Joe Romm: It's not Easy Being Gore: Media Creates a Category 6 Tempest in a Teapot - Climate Progress blog - August 23, 2013 - http://goo.gl/5mlr6x Andrew Revkin: Could Climate Campaigners' Focus on Current Events be Counterproductive? - Dot Earth blog (New York Times) - August 20, 2013 - http://goo.gl/nx7coi Bud Ward: AGU's New Climate Change Statement Emphasizes Human Role - Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media - August 20, 2013 - http://goo.gl/c0mr63 MEETINGS AND SHORT COURSES International Antarctic Ice Rises Workshop (Webcast) - Now through August 29, 2013 - Tromsø, Norway - World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Climate and Cryosphere project (CliC) et al. - Agenda: http://goo.gl/vcpjfy - More about webcast: http://goo.gl/0nlhqz JOBS Looking for more job-hunting help? Please visit the News & Links page of the DISCCRS website (http://disccrs.org/news) for a list of climate change-related job listservs, or our Career Resources page (http://disccrs.org/career) 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, 2013 - http://mro.unimelb.edu.au/content/mckenzie-fellowships Postdoc - Applications of economics to interdisciplinary research of emerging water and coastal resource management issues - School of Economics - University of Maine (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_umaine.pdf Postdoc - Arctic cryosphere-climate interactions - University of Calgary (Canada) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_ucalgary.pdf 2
Postdoc - Biodiversity - NatureServe and Stony Brook University, Dept. of Ecology and Evolution (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_stonybrooku_natureserve.pdf Postdoc - Conservation Biology (Impacts of resource extraction on aquatic species) - University of Alberta (Canada) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_ualberta.pdf Postdoc - Ecological Importance of Iron Storage in Diatoms - Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_bigelowlab.pdf Postdoc - Economic Valuation - Conservation International (USA) - http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/ch08/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=conservation&cws=1&rid=452 Postdoc - Hydrological Modelling of the Upper Yukon River Basin - Northern Climate ExChange - Yukon Research Centre - Yukon College (Canada) - http://yukoncollege.yk.ca/about/info/hr_13.101 Postdoc - Remote Sensing of Sea Ice (ICESat-2) - ICESat-2 Project Science Office - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_nasa.pdf Postdoc - Microbial Metagenomics in Winter - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Canada) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_agricultureagrifoodcanada.pdf Postdoc - Modelling ecosystem services for regional landscapes - Centre for Forest Research (Canada) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_centreforforestresearch.pdf Postdoc - Molecular Population Genetics/Ecology - Harte Research Institute - Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_texasa&mu.pdf Postdoc - Policy Analysis - Conservation International (USA) - http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/ch08/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=conservation&cws=1&rid=451 Postdoc - Quantitative Ecology (Global change, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning) - Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources - Rutgers University (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_rutgersu.pdf Postdoc - Quantitative Ecology - Montana State University and U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_montanastate.pdf Postdoc - Solar transmittance of seasonal Arctic sea ice - Norwegian Polar Institute (Norway) - http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=95527 Postdoc - Statistical modeling of infectious disease and climate - Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Princeton University (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_princetonu.pdf Postdoc - Sustainable Energy Policy - Faculty of Environment - University of Waterloo (Canada) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_uwaterloo.pdf Postdocs (3) - Land-Atmosphere Carbon Cycle - Global Change and Sustainability Center - University of Utah (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdocs_uutah.pdf Asst Prof - Anthropology (Sustainable Heritage) - Dept. of Anthropology - University of Maryland (USA) - 3
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs#/detail/5508442/2,false 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) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstprof_ugroningen.pdf Asst Prof - Climate Modeling - Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and Dept. of Atmosphere and Oceanic Sciences - University of Colorado Boulder (USA) - https://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/69928 Asst Prof - Coastal Physical Oceanography - Dept. of Earth and Environmental Studies - Montclair State University (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_postdoc_montclairstate.pdf Asst Prof - Computational Biology - Dept. of Biological Sciences - University of Alabama (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstprof_ualabama.pdf Asst Prof - Ecology - Dept. of Evolution and Ecology - University of California, Davis (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstprof_ucdavis.pdf Asst Prof - Environment/Science/Risk Communication - School of Communication and School of Environment & Natural Resources - Ohio State University (USA) - https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3004 Asst Prof - Environmental Health - Dept. of Geography and Regional Studies - University of Miami (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstprof_umiami.pdf Asst Prof - Environmental Science and Policy - Environmental Science and Policy Program - Smith College (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstprof_smithcollege.pdf Asst Prof - Landscape Ecology - Dept. of Geography - Indiana University Bloomington (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstprof_indianau.pdf Asst Prof - Low-Temperature Geochemistry - Dept. of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences - Iowa State University (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstprof_iowastate.pdf Asst Prof - STS and Environment - Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program and Dept. of History and Politics - Drexel University (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstprof_drexelu.pdf Asst Profs (2) - Sociology of Gender and/or Race; Criminology - Dept. of Sociology - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstprof_utennessee.pdf Asst Prof & Assoc Prof - Sociology (Comparative International Sociology) - Dept. of Sociology - University of Utah (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstprof_assocprof_uutah.pdf 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) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_tenuretrack_nanyangtechu.pdf Tenure Track (Multiple; Open Rank) - Biology - Dept. of Biology - University of Maryland, College Park (USA) - https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/20536 4
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) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_tenuretrack_tulaneu.pdf Tenure Track (Open Rank) - Sociocultural Anthropology - Dept. of Anthropology - Reed College (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_tenuretrack_reedcollege.pdf Sea Ice Modeller - British Antarctic Survey (UK) - http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/employment/vacancies/job.php?tab=1&jobid=866 Project Scientist - International Coordination Office (ICO) for Polar Prediction - Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Germany) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_projsci_alfredwegenerinstitute.pdf Research Scholars (2) - Applied Economic Modeling; Applied Economics - Ecosystems Services and Management Program - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Austria) - http://goo.gl/afo56n and http://goo.gl/f1pfhp Asst Dir for Biometeorology - Fundamental Instrument Unit - National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_asstdirfiu_neon.pdf Director - Eastern Shore Laboratory (Marine field lab) - Virginia Institute of Marine Science (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_marinefieldlabdir_vims.pdf Executive Director - Wild Rockies Field Institute (USA) - http://disccrs.org/newsletter/2013_08_27_execdir_wildrockiesfieldinstitute.pdf *************************************************** 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 e-mail message and link to any appropriate websites. To register a recent PhD dissertation and subscribe to DISCCRS News: http://disccrs.org/register To subscribe to DISCCRS News without registering PhD dissertation: http://disccrs.org/subscribe Moving? Send address changes to info@disccrs.org DISCCRS is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Collaborative Grants SES 0931402 to University of Oregon and SES 0932916 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