IMBER News

Funding and collaborative opportunities

The NSF invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals for projects that will contribute to the further development of the Arctic Observing Network (AON) and enable the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH).
Full proposal deadline: Sept 30, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08579/nsf08579.htm?govDel=USNSF_25

EUR-OCEANS Final Conference (Rome, November 2008): Registration open and Call for oral communications
http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=768

Call for Nominations: NOAA Ecosystem Sciences and Management Working Group
The NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB) is currently soliciting nominations for its Ecosystem Sciences and Management Working Group. This working group will provide scientific advice and broad direction on NOAA’s ecosystem related programs in the context of both national and international activities. The SAB seeks people in the following disciplines: social science, oceanography, living marine resources, sampling and remote sensing, and modeling. Only scientists external to NOAA are eligible to be nominated. Please see the Federal Register Notice for more details.
Nominations are due no later than July 21, 2008.
The Federal Register Notice can be found here: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-11415.pdf
For more information about NOAA's SAB or the Working Group please visit the website: http://www.sab.noaa.gov/, or contact Cynthia Decker at 301–734–1156 or Cynthia.Decker@noaa.gov

SCAR's AGCS team was asked to take the lead in the preparation of a report on Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE), to consider the past and possible future changes in the physical environment of the Antarctic and the impact on the biota. Many individuals have contributed to the report and we now have a draft available that we would like to have discussed as widely as possible. SCAR welcomes comment and feedback on the full draft text of the report, which is about 500 pages in length and is available as a single 15 MB PDF file. It can be downloaded from the following FTP site by clicking the link below: ftp://ftp.nerc-bas.ac.uk/pub/jtu/ACCE/. The file is called ACCE_Draft_9June.pdf
Contact: comments and suggestions to John Turner (jtu@bas.ac.uk) by September 1st.

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Early career scientist opportunities

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR TECHNICAL TRAINING in IMAGE ANALYSIS OF ZOOPLANKTON
Deadline for application: July 15, 2008
http://integration.eur-oceans.eu/training-in-zooscan.php

3-23 August 2008: CICESE, Ensenada B. C., Mexico
SATELLITE OCEANOGRAPHY 2008 for PhD students and early career scientists
Deadline for Application: 30 March, 2008
http://oceanografia.cicese.mx/oceansat/cursat2008/SatelliteOceanography2008.pdf

17-27 September 2008: Island of Rhodes, Greece.
SUMMER SCHOOL First MedCLIVAR-ESF: "Climate variability over the Mediterranean area:atmospheric and oceanic components"
Deadline for Application: 15 June, 2008
http://www.medclivar.eu/summerschool1.html

5-10 October, 2008: East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
DISCO XXI: Dissertations Symposium on Chemical Oceanography
http://www.discosymposium.org/

2-9 November 2008: Saguaro Lake Ranch, AZ, USA
Interdisciplinary Climate Research Symposium
DISCCRS IV Symposium
http://www.disccrs.org/index.html

More opportunities at: http://www.imber.info/Education_and_Training.html

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Jobs

Publications / Web Resources

New Book: "REALTIME COASTAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS FOR MARINE ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS AND HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS: THEORY, INSTRUMENTATION AND MODELLING". This book resulted from a meeting cosponsored by the SCOR/IOC GEOHAB program.
Edited by Marcel Babin, Collin S. Roesler and John J. Cullen Oceanographic Methodology series 2008, Hardback, 860 p. ISBN 978-92-3-104042-9. http://publishing.unesco.org/details.aspx?Code_Livre=4616

2 useful links about the Marine Carbon Cycle:
1) The Ocean's carbon balance by Holli Riebeek http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OceanCarbon/page1.html
2) Southern Ocean carbon cycle http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18076

Article to read: An Earth-system perspective of the global nitrogen cycle by Nicolas Gruber & James N. Galloway Nature 451, 293-296 (17 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature06592; Published online 16 January 2008
With humans having an increasing impact on the planet, the interactions between the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle and climate are expected to become an increasingly important determinant of the Earth system.
Read the article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7176/full/nature06592.html

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2008-2009 Meetings / Conferences / Workshops

4-6 November 2008: Tokyo, Japan
"First International Symposium on Arctic Research - Drastic Change Under Global Warming"
Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2008
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/iorgc/sympo/isar1/index.html

3-5 November 2008: Napoly, Italy
Constrain, understand and model biocomplexity in plankton communities
http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=737

11-15 November 2008: Valencia, Spain
World Conference on Marine Biodiversity
Deadline for abstracts: February 1, 2008
http://www.marbef.org/worldconference/

12-15 November 2008: Nice, France
Final GODAE Symposium 2008: “The revolution in global ocean forecasting GODAE: 10 years of achievement”
Deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2008
http://www.ostst-godae-2008.com/frontoffice/index.php?id_lang=2&id_rub=91

17-20 November 2008: St Petersburg, FL, USA
Coastal Cities Summit 2008: Values & Vulnerabilities
Deadline for abstracts: May 15, 2008
http://www.coastalcities.org/

17-21 November 2008: Noumea, New Caledonia
SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium
Deadline for abstracts: June 2, 2008
http://spie.org/asia-pacific-remote-sensing.xml

25-27 November 2008: Rome, Italia
EUR-OCEANS Final Meeting
http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=651

2-6 December 2008: Guangzhou, China
PORSEC 2008: Oceanic manifestation of global changes: The 9th Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference
Deadline for abstract submission: 15th July 2008
http://ledweb.scsio.ac.cn/porsec2008

15-19 December 2008: San Francisco, California
2008 AGU Fall Meeting
Deadline for session proposals: 13 June 2008
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/

25-31 January 2009: Nice, France
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting
http://www.aslo.org/forms/nice2009.htm

9-13 February 2009 : Melbourne, Australia
9th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (9ICSHMO)
http://www.bom.gov.au/events/9icshmo/

2-6 March 2009: Tahiti, French Polynesia
The 11th Pacific Science Intercongress
http://www.pacificscience.org/congress2009.html