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n°26 - September 2009

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 Early career scientist opportunities
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 Publications / Web resources
 Meetings / Conferences / Workshops

                                                                                                                                                                   

IMBER News 

Next IMBER Executive Committee Meeting
Following the suggestion raised at the last Scientific Steering Committee meeting that we should reduce carbon emissions where possible, the next Executive Committee meeting will take place using GoToMeeting (Online Conference System) on 7-9 October 2009.

News from the IMBER Working Groups
Carbon Working Group:
Sub-Group 1: A Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas Atlantic and Southern Oceans Regional Workshop was held in Norwich, UK, 25-26 June 2009. Read the SOCAT Meeting Report.
Sub-Group 3 !!! New: The SOLAS-IMBER Ocean Acidification Sub-Group (SIOA) has been launched. The group is chaired by Jean-Pierre Gattuso and will hold its first meeting at UNESCO in Paris from 1-3 December 2009. Further information

Data Management Committee (DMC): Alberto Piola (Argentina) has been appointed as co-chair with Raymond Pollard for the remainder of 2009 and will take over as chair from 2010 to 2012. The Data Management Policy has been officially published. Read the BENEFITS of integrated data management in all projects.

Upcoming IMBER Sponsored Meetings
23 October - 1 November 2009: Jeju, Korea
PICES Annual Meeting: 'Understanding ecosystem dynamics and pursuing ecosystem approaches to management'
Deadline for abstract submission: Closed
Further information

28-30 October 2009: Cambridge, UK
MARine Ecosystem Models Intercomparison Project (MAREMIP): Kick-off Meeting
Further information

8-11 February 2010: Paris, France
CLIOTOP mid-term Workshop 'CLIOTOP into the future. Building scenarios for oceanic ecosystems in the 21st Century'
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 October 2009
Further information

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Funding and collaborative opportunities 

Funding Opportunities
EU Call for proposals: Environment (including Climate Change) / Calls: FP7-ENV-2010
Deadline for application: 5 January 2010 at 17:00 (Brussels local time)
Further information

NSF Opportunity for the Organisation of Projects on Environmental Research in the Arctic (OPERA; solicitation 09-599).
Deadline for full proposal submission: 11 December 2009
Further information

Reminder:
CAMEO Funding Opportunity: This announcement solicits proposals for the Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO) Program which is implemented as a partnership between the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service and National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. The purpose of CAMEO is to strengthen the scientific basis for an ecosystem approach to the stewardship of our ocean and coastal living marine resources.
Deadline for application: 5 October 2009
Further information

Calls for Contributions
The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Project Office is currently seeking nominations for new Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) members. If you wish to nominate someone, please email the OCB Project Office (hbenway@whoi.edu) with the following information about your nominee: Name, Affiliation, Contact information, Expertise, Brief (few sentences) description of what/how nominee would contribute to OCB planning and implementation. Please submit nominations by October 15, 2009.
For more information on OCB and its current SSC, including a list of SSC members and their term conclusions, please visit http://www.us-ocb.org/about.html#SSC.

Reminder:
Call for proposals to host the IGBP Open Science Conference in 2012.
IGBP is seeking sponsors and a host city for its 2012 Open Science Conference, 'Planet Under Pressure: new knowledge, new solutions'. The three-day science conference will attract around 2500 world-leading environmental-change scientists. It will be followed by a day dedicated to discussing findings with policymakers, the public, and funders of environmental science.
Deadline for application: 30 October 2009
Further information

Last weeks to submit your abstracts
22-26 February 2010: Portland, Oregon
2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting: "From Observation to Prediction in the 21st Century"
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 October 2009
Further information
Sessions of Interest

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Early career scientist opportunities 

24 January - 3 February 2010: Tromsø, Norway
International PhD workshop "Marine Biodiversity under change"
Financial support ARCTOS offers travel grants for up to 15 PhD students and post doctoral fellows. The grant will cover 1) air fare, cheapest possible ticket (air fare limited to NOK 5000 for US / Canada, NOK 3000 Europe, NOK 4000 Russia) and 2) accommodation (basic housing in Tromsø), including breakfast.
Deadline for application for the PhD workshop AND travel grant: 10 October 2009
Further information

22-26 February 2010: Portland, Oregon
2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting: "From Observation to Prediction in the 21st Century"
Ocean Sciences Education and Outreach Special Session
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 October 2009
Further information about the session

December 2009 - January 2010: AUSTRAL SUMMER INSTITUTE X (ASI X) 'Multi-Scale Observations in Coastal Oceanography' (Department of Oceanography & Center for Oceanographic Research in the Eastern South-Pacific, FONDAP COPAS).
Deadline for application: 30 September 2009
Further information

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) - Solicitation 09-603
Deadlines for full proposal submission: November 2009
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) - Program solicitation NSF 09-573
Deadline for proposal submission: 14 October 2009
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Funded opportunities for at least two graduate students to participate at sea on the physical oceanography program and one other graduate student to assist with the Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) sampling and analysis program on an upcoming CLIVAR Repeat Hydrography cruise in the South Atlantic.
Further information

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Jobs

Research Associate (Postdoctoral) to work on the supply and cycling of iron in the California Current system, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) at Oregon State University (OSU), USA.
Deadline for application: 1 November 2009
Further information

Staff Associate position in the field of Physical Oceanography, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Rockland County, NY, USA.
Deadline for application: open until filled
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Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow, Marine Biological Association, UK.
Deadline for application: 15 October 2009
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Assistant Professor in Marine Biogeochemistry/Marine Organic Geochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Deadline for application: 1 December 2009
Further information

Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Associate Research Scientist or Senior Staff Associate, working in the field of Ocean Optics, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA.
Deadline for application: open until filled
Further information

Five Faculty positions, SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography, USA.
Deadline for application: 1 November 2009
Further information

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Publications / Web resources 

Papers of interest:
Birdsey, R., N. Bates, M. Behrenfeld, K. Davis, S.C. Doney, R. Feely, D. Hansell, L. Heath, E. Kasischke, H. Kheshgi, B. Law, C. Lee, A.D. McGuire, P. Raymond, and C.J. Tucker, 2009: Carbon cycle observations: gaps threaten climate mitigation policies, EOS Trans. American Geophys. Union 90(34), 292-293 - Read the article

Microbial oceanography of the dark ocean’s pelagic realm
Arístegui, Javier, Josep M. Gasol, Carlos M. Duarte, and Gerhard J. Herndl
Limnol. Oceanogr., 54(5), 2009, 1501–1529 - Read the article

Video:
The Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) film on ocean acidification, ACID TEST, is now available to view at http://www.acidtestmovie.com (or http://www.nrdc.org/oceans/acidification/aboutthefilm.asp).

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2011 Meetings / Conferences / Workshops

27-29 January: Tromsø, Norway
Arctic Frontiers 2010 Conference
Deadline for abstract submission: 19 October 2009
Further information

15-17 February: Kochi, India
International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Fisheries
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 October 2009
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22-23 February: London, UK
Greenhouse Gases in the Earth System: Setting the Agenda to 2030.
Deadline for poster submission: 22 January 2010
Further information

3-6 May: Brest, France
XII International Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay: Global Changes in the Bay of Biscay
Deadline for abstract submission: 1 December 2009
Further information

6-11 June 2010: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
ASLO Summer Meeting: 'Aquatic Sciences: Global Changes from the Center to the Edge'
Proposals for special sessions: 30 September 2009
Further information
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