n°11 - March 2008
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| Michael Roman (USA), Coleen Moloney (South Africa) and Jing Zhang (China) have all three accepted to serve as IMBER SSC Vice-Chairs and now form, with Julie Hall as the Chair, the new IMBER Executive Committee. New pages on IMBER Web site: IMBER national contacts and activities are compiled under http://www.imber.info/national_activities.html IMBER/GLOBEC Transition Task Team (TTT): It has been agreed to host the first meeting of this group from 30 July to 1 August 2008 (3 days), at the University of Reading, UK. The GLOBEC IPO is assisting John Field, Chair of the group, in the organisation of the first meeting. The IMBER IPO will lead the organisation of the second meeting.
Call for Session: The biennial ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, an international gathering of more than 2000 aquatic scientists, will be held at the Acropolis in Nice, France, 25-31 January 2009. IMBER SSC member JP Gattuso is co-organiser.
13-18 April 2008: Vienna, Austria
21-24 April 2008: Brest, France 5-6 May 2008: IMBER project will be holding its annual Scientific Steering Committee Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa in cunjunction with the 4th IGBP Congress. http://igbp2008.co.za/index.php?id=55
11-16 August 2008: Ankara, Turkey
9-13 November 2008: Miami, USA
First SIBER Newsletter to report on ongoing SIBER activities. One aim of this newsletter is to provide a forum for informing each other of SIBER-relevant research and to hopefully help establish collaborative connections. So please feel free to communicate on any activities of interest to the SIBER community.
New endorsed project Next IMBER sponsored Meetings (reminder):
16-18 April 2008: Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA
19-23 May: Gijon, Spain
2-6 June 2008: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
8-11 July 2008: FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy |
Funding and collaborative opportunities |
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Opening for participation in a EUR-OCEANS Integration Project Mesocosm Experiment in Bergen, Norway 14 April- 5 May 2008
Call for new EUROCORES programme themes 2008 is now open
Call for funding for ESF exploratory workshops to be held in 2009
Call for workshop proposals - Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry
Call for Sources for Proposed Study Chukchi Sea Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA): Chemical and Benthos.
Call for Working Group Proposals for 2008 SCOR General Meeting - Deadline: May 31, 2008 Survey Request: Earth Observation Data Integration and Analysis Product "JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)" is developing the technologies for the practical application of the Earth observation data under "DIAS (Data Integration and Analysis System, http://www.diasjp.org/ (in Japanese))" which is a part of Japanese national science project. The online survey and the sample data are found at: http://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/medid/dias/index.html |
Early career scientist opportunities |
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Special POGO-SCOR Fellowship for On-board Training on an Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Cruise
Invitation to use colombian oceanographic ship: The Colombian Navy and the Maritime Directorate have opened a call inviting researchers, students and institutions to participate with their own project activities to an oceanographic cruise in the Pacific Ocean.
SCAR is announcing the launch of its 2008-9 Fellowship Programme for postgraduate and/or post- doctoral researchers.
Travel Funding Announcement - New Research Generation (NRG) Arctic Ocean Sciences Board - Deadline: Wednesday, 30 April 2008
30 June-10 July, 2008: Dunban, Scotland
3-23 August, 2008: CICESE, Ensenada B. C., Mexico
1-5 September, 2008: Vilanova, Nr. Barcelona, Spain
15-19 September, 2008: IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany.
11-16 October, 2008: University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA |
Jobs |
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Two Postdoc Positions in ocean THC / carbon cycle modeling UNSW, Sydney Australia.
Associate Scientist in Ocean Acidification Research, University of Miami, FL, USA.
Marine System Modeller, Permanent appointment, Plymouth, UK.
Postdoctoral Investigator - Geobiology Description, WHOI, USA.
Post-Doctoral Scholar - Biological Oceanography, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), USA.
PostDoc "Short/medium term effects of Climate Change on Atlantic Salmon", INRA, France.
Post-doc: Coupling of the biogeochemical Eco3M model with a 3-D hydrodynamical model (MARS-3D) of the Golfe du Lion in the North-western Mediterranean, Marseille, France.
Post-doc: Biogeochemical modeling of marine sediments, Brussels, Belgium. |
Publications / Web Resources |
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"An Earth-system perspective of the global nitrogen cycle" by Nicolas Gruber & James N. Galloway Nature 451, 293-296 (17 January 2008) nature06592; Published online 16 January 2008 New article: Research Opportunities and Challenges in the Indian Ocean in EOS, vol. 89, n°13, March 2008 by Raleigh Hood.
New Report: IPY March 2008 Report
A joint statement regarding Deliberate Nutrient Additions to the Ocean has been released by SCOR and GESAMP
An Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System (Arctic ROOS) has been established by a group of fourteen institutions from nine European countries working actively with ocean observation and modeling systems for the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas. Arctic ROOS will promote, develop and maintain operational monitoring and forecasting of ocean circulation, water masses, ocean surface conditions, sea ice and biological/chemical constituents.
Report from the Oden Southern Ocean Workshop Lejondals Slott, Sweden / February 10-13, 2008.
The EUR-OCEANS Educational Pack is now available in 4 languages (English, French, Spanish and Italian)
Alex Kozyr at CDIAC has launched a new data and information web-site for coastal carbon data, including data from VOS, moorings, and hydrography (bottle measurements from coastal cruises). A new international peer reviewed journal for operational oceanography JOO- http://www.imarest.org/proceedings/joo/ |
2008 Meetings / Conferences / Workshops |
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21-22 April: Certosa di Pontignano, Toscana, Italy
12-14 May: Plymouth, UK
8-13 June: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
10-12 June: Seattle, Washington, USA
23-26 June: Plymouth, UK
6-11 July: Lisbon, Portugal
8-11 July: St. Petersburg, Russia
21-24 July: Woods Hole, MA, USA
1-4 September: Brest, France
2-5 September: Maine, USA
8-11 September: Menai Bridge/Bangor, Wales
22-26 September: Halifax, Canada
29 September -3 October: Bahía Blanca, Argentina |