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 IMBER News
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Climate driving of marine ecosystem changes (CLIMECO) – training for marine scientists: IMBER, CLIVAR, GLOBEC and EUR-
OCEANS are pleased to announce that the workshop “Climate driving of marine ecosystems changes: Training for young marine scientists” will be held on 21-24 April 2008 at the European Institute for Marine Studies (IUEM) in Brest, France. This workshop is a combination of science presentations around defined themes followed by discussions and "hands-on" sessions where young scientists with a marine biogeochemistry/ecosystems background learn how to use climate data. This includes finding relevant data, scrutinising their quality and knowing how to make use of them. For further details about the preliminary programme, themes and hands-on session, please visit the workshop website: http://www.imber.info/CLIMECO_home.html.
CLIMECO workshop - $500 Travel Award for Young Marine Scientists !!!
There are only 30 places, and candidates will be chosen based on motivation and expertise. Candidates will be given partial financial support by the organisers. An additional travel award of $500 is made available by EUROCEANS' Model Shopping Tool (MoST), databank for ocean ecosystem model equations (http://www.eur-oceans.eu/models). The award has no restrictions and will be granted based on candidate motivation and expertise as well as contribution to MoST (see application for full details at: http://www.imber.info/CLIMECO_Application.html).
IMBER project will be holding its annual Scientific Steering Committee Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa (5-6 May 2008) in cunjunction with the 4th IGBP Congress. Further information at: http://igbp2008.co.za/index.php?id=55.
10-13 November 2008: 1st IMBER IMBIZO* “Biogeochemical and ecosystems interactions in a changing ocean” (Miami, USA). This event will take the form of a set of three concurrent workshops. The topics of the three workshops will be: 1) Mesopelagic (co-chaired by Debbie Steinberg and Hiroaki Saito), 2) Bathypelagic (co-chaired by Dennis Hansell and Gerhard Herndl), and 3) End-to-end Food Webs (co-chaired by Coleen Moloney and Mike Roman). The web site of the conference is under construction.
*IMBIZO (Zulu word for meeting or gathering)
Next IMBER sponsored Meeting:
3-7 December 2007: La Paz, Mexico
1st CLIOTOP Symposium: Climate impacts on oceanic top predators.
https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=722
IMBER related Sessions:
2-7 March 2008: Orlando, USA
Ocean Sciences Meeting : From the Watershed to the Global Ocean (O
Further Information at: http://www.aslo.org/orlando2008/
Session 182: Variability and Trends in Oceanic Oxygen: From a Tracer of Biological Production to a Bellwether of Climate Change
Conveners: Nicolas Gruber, Arne Köertzinger, Steven Riser
IMBER will hold a Town Hall Meeting in Orlando during the 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting.
Conveners: Dennis Hansell and Mike Roman
13-18 April 2008: General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, the EGU 2008
Further information at: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/
Session OS9: IMBER/SOLAS Special Session
Conveners: Temel Oguz and Christiane Lancelot
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Funding and Collaborative opportunities
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Call for Abstracts: The Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans 2008 International Symposium
19-23 of May 2008 - Gijon, Spain.
Deadline for abstract submission: January 15, 2008
http://www.pices.int/meetings/international_symposia/2008_symposia/Climate_change/climate_background_3.aspx
NSF Call for contribution: Emerging Topics in Biogeochemical Cycles (ETBC)
NSF seeks to foster transformational advances in quantitative or mechanistic understanding of biogeochemical cycles that integrate physical-chemical-biological processes over the range of temporal and/or spatial scales in Earth’s environments. NSF encourages submission of proposals that address emerging topics in biogeochemical cycles, the water cycle or their coupling, across the interfaces of atmosphere, land, and oceans.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07049/nsf07049.jsp
Call for Contribution: Primary Production model intercomparison – An invitation to take part
Do you estimate marine photosynthesis using a model? Would you like to quantify the performance of the model you use? Would you like to know how your model compares with other models? This is your chance!
Further information at: http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/PPAR.pdf
Please write Marjy Friedrichs (E-mail: marjy@vims.edu) if you are interested in participating in this comparison or if you have further questions about the PPARR project.
New NSF Program: Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2).
Next full Proposal Deadline Date: February 4, 2008
Further information at: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5750
REX Marine Genomics provides 8 Fellowships for outstanding women scientists
Deadline for application: 10 December 2007
Further Information at: http://www.marine-genomics-europe.org/index2.php?rub=b&pid=49&aid=22
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Early Career Scientist Opportunities
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5-26 April 2008: Napoli, Italy
Advanced Phytoplankton Course Taxonomy and Systematics
Deadline for application: December 1, 2007
Further Information
at: http://www.szn.it/apc9/
21-24 April 2008: Brest, France
Climate driving of marine ecosystem changes – training for marine scientists
Deadline for application: January 15, 2008
Further information at: http://www.imber.info/CLIMECO_home.html
31 August-5 September 2008: Monte Verità, Ticino, Switzerland
7th International NCCR Climate Summer School "Key challenges in climate variability and change"
Deadline for application: December 20, 2007
Further Information at: http://www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch/summer_school/2008/index_en.html
5-10 October 2008: East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
DISCO XXI: Dissertations Symposium on Chemical Oceanography
Deadline for application: June 13, 2008
Further Information at: http://www.discosymposium.org/
2-8 November, 2008: Saguaro Lake Ranch, AZ, USA
DISCCRS IV Symposium
Deadline for application: April 30, 2008
DISCCRS is an interdisciplinary initiative for recent Ph.D. graduates conducting research related to climate change and its impacts. The goal is to broaden research interests and establish a collegial peer network extending across the spectrum of natural and social sciences, humanities, mathematics, engineering and other disciplines related to climate change and its impacts.
Further Information at: http://www.disccrs.org/index.html
More opportunities at: http://www.imber.info/Education_and_Training.html
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Jobs
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Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow – Ocean modelling, ANU College of Science, Australia.
Deadline for application: January 31, 2008
Further information at: http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/Jobs/Academic_Positions/_RSES4379.asp
Postdocs - Investigating Responses of Pacific Salmon to Climate Change, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Deadline for application: until positions are filled
Further information at: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/files/news/salmon%20postdoc%20ad_final-1.pdf
Post Doc - Compound-specific isotopes in DOM cycling/ Microbial ecology - Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz XA, USA.
Deadline for application: December 10, 2007
Further information at: http://es.ucsc.edu/~mccarthy/MDM_HOME_page/postdoc.htm
PhD position in Chemical Oceanography: "Tracers in the Tropical Atlantic", Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany.
Deadline for application: January 15, 2008
Further information at: http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/PhD-position%20tropical%20tracers.pdf?id=1272&L=1
Research Associate (Postdoctoral): Coastal ocean modeling and data assimilation, Oregon State University, College of Oceanic and Atmopsheric Sciences, USA.
Deadline for application: December 15, 2007
Further information at: http://www.imber.info/jobs-announcements/OSU_postdoc.pdf?id=1272&L=1
PostDocs and PhDs: data assimilation/parameter optimization in coupled ocean circulation and geobiochemichal models in "Excellence Cluster Future Ocean", Kiel, Germany.
Deadline for application: until positions are filled
Further information at: http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/co2/stellenangebotejob-positions/
Post-doctoral position: Numerical coupling between Eco3M and MARS-3D / Application to the Gulf of Lion, Marseille, France.
Deadline for application: December 31, 2007
Further information at: http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=630
Two-year post doc position (with possibility of extension) on benthic fauna and benthic exchange processes in Arctic fjord systems and shelf areas around Greenland, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland.
Deadline for application: December 20, 2007
Further information at: http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=630
More jobs at: http://www.imber.info/jobs.html
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Publications / Web Resources
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The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) announces the launch of its new website, which has been developed in cooperation with the Arctic Portal (http://www.arcticportal.org/).
Ocean Carbon in the Southern Ocean Observing System
Download the Strategy for Ocean Carbon in the Southern Ocean Observing System from the IOCCP web-site (pdf 256 kb) or visit the SOOS workshop web-site with background documents
http://www.clivar.org/organization/southern/expertgroup/SOOS_workshop.htm#background
Report of the EUR-OCEANS System 7 workshop on the Canary Upwelling System.
http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=622
The Global Carbon Project has just published a new analysis of the state of the carbon cycle and its immediate drivers of perturbation (economic growth, carbon intensity of the global economy, and natural CO2 sinks on land and oceans). You can download the paper and a ppt file with i) additional carbon trends, and ii) the global carbon budget to 2006 from: http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/activities/AcceleratingAtmosphericCO2.htm
Inter-Research is pleased to inform you that the first print issue of Aquatic Biology has gone to press. The second issue is already filled and will be printed before the end of the year. Hopefully, indexing by ISI will begin in 2008.
Further information at: http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/ab/v1/n1/
SPACC (Small Pelagics and Climate Change): A synthesis book of the SPACC programme entitled “Climate change and small pelagic fish” and edited by Dave Checkley, Juergen Alheit, Claude Roy and Yoshioki Oozeki is due to be published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press. The book includes 16 chapters and has been authored by 88 SPACC scientists. If you are interested in purchasing a copy at reduced cost please contact the GLOBEC IPO (globec@pml.ac.uk).
Convention discourages ocean fertilisation
Parties to the London Convention and London Protocol, one of the first global conventions to protect the marine environment from human activities, have released a statement of concern about the practice of ocean fertilisation to soak up atmospheric CO2.
Read the article at: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071112/full/news.2007.230.html
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Meetings / Conferences / Workshops
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2-7 March 2008: Orlando, Florida, USA
The 14th Ocean Sciences Meeting (Joint with ASLO, ERF, TOS and AGU): From the Watershed to the Global Ocean.
Further Information at: http://www.aslo.org/orlando2008/
11-13 March 2008: London, UK
Oceanology International 2008 Conference: Technology, Sustainability and the Oceans
Further Information at: http://www.amemr.info/default.asp?page=2008Symposium
3 April 2008: Plymouth, UK
Marine Plankton: From Cells to Ecosystems
A celebration of the Scientific career of Professor Patrick M. Holligan
Further Information at: http://www.holligan-fest.org/
13-18 April 2008: Vienna, Austria
General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, the EGU 2008
Further Information at: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/
5-9 May 2008: Cape Town, South Africa
4th IGBP Congress: Sustainable Livelihood in a Changing Earth System
Further Information at: http://igbp2008.co.za/
5-10 May 2008: Liège, Belgium
NATO-Russian Advanced Research Workshop on the "Influence of Climatic Change on Arctic and Subarctic Changing Conditions" in connection with the 40th International Liège Colloquium on Oceanic Dynamics and Advanced Research Workshop
Deadline for Abstracts: 31 December 2007
Further Information at: http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/backup/colloquium/NATO-RussiaARW/2008.html
14-16 May 2008: Göteborg, Sweden
Workshop: Iron biogeochemistry across marine systems at changing times
Further Information at: http://www.eur-oceans.eu/document/index.php?num_information=620
19-23 May 2008: Gijon, Spain
ICES/PICES/IOC Symposium: Effects of climate change on the world's oceans
Further Information at: http://www.pices.int/meetings/international_symposia/2008_symposia/Climate_change/climate_background_3.aspx
!!! Abstract submission deadline is January 15th, 2008
2-6 June 2008: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems: integrative and comparative approaches / IMBER sponsored Meeting!
Further information at: http://www.upwelling-symposium.org/
8-13 June 2008: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
2008 ASLO Summer Meeting: Interactions on the Edge
Deadline for suggestions for symposia and session topics: 30th September
Further information at: http://www.aslo.org/forms/stjohns2008.html
23-23 June 2008: Plymouth, UK / IMBER sponsored Meeting!
Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling Research Symposium
Further information at: http://www.amemr.info/default.asp?page=2008Symposium
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