n°39 - May 2011
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IMBER News
Funding and collaborative opportunities
Early career scientist opportunities
Jobs
Publications / Web resources
Meetings / Conferences / Workshops
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Welcome to Juliette Rimetz-Planchon Juliette Rimetz-Planchon joined IMBER as the acting Deputy Executive Officer on 15 April 2011. We are delighted that she has joined us and hope that she enjoys her time as part of the IMBER International Project Office in Brest, France. Juliette can be contacted at: rimetzplan@univ-brest.fr |
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8th IMBER Scientific Steering Committee The 8th IMBER Scientific Steering Committee meeting was held in Marseille, France from 11-14 April 2011. Minutes of the meeting will be available soon. | ||
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Human Dimensions Working Group The first meeting of the IMBER Human Dimensions Working Group (comprising both natural and social scientists) was held in Paris, France from 18-20 April. | ||
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ESSAS 21-26 May 2011: Seattle, Washington, USA ESSAS Open Science Meeting, Comparative Studies of Climate Effects on Polar and Sub-Polar Ecosystems, Progress in Observation and Prediction. Further info | ||
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News from IGBP The Scientific Organising Committee are currently reviewing the 350 proposals submitted for sessions at the 2012 Planet Under Pressure conference. The call for abstracts will open once the review is complete. Further info | ||
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New Chair of Scientific Committee Appointed Professor James Syvitski has been appointed as the new Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). | ||
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News from SCOR Congratulations to Lisa Beal, Will de Ruijter, Arne Biatstoch, Rainer Zahn and the SCOR/WCRP/IAPSO WG 136 for their publication in Nature 472 429-436 (2011) (doi:10.1038/nature09983) "On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate" | ||
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The European Science Foundation (ESF) invites researchers to submit proposals for high-level research conferences to take place in 2013 within the framework of its Research Conferences Scheme.
The ESF invites proposals across all scientific domains under the 2011 Call for Exploratory Workshops.The focus of the scheme is to foster meetings that aim to open up new directions in research or to explore emerging research fields with potential impact on new developments in science. | ||
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7-14 September: Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara
8-15 September 2011: Yantai, China
16-17 September 2011: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
19-30 September 2011: Lauenburg and Büsum, Germany
19-23 September 2011: LSEET, Université du Sud Toulon-Var, La Garde, France
22-29 October 2011: Colorado Springs, CO, USA |
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| Jobs | ||
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14 months postdoctoral position for biophysical modelling of common Sole larval connectivity in the North-east Atlantic, from the Bay of Biscay to the North Sea, Agrocampus, Rennes, France.
Marine Ecosystem Modellers at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Plymouth, UK.
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, USA.
University North Carolina, Wilmington, USA. |
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New Portal for Ocean Science Summer Schools set up and maintained by the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).
Final version of the Ocean Research and Ressources Advisory Panel (ORRAP) Ocean Acidification Task Force report "Summary of Work Completed and Recommandations from ORRAP to convey to the IWGOA" is now available. Krug et al. (2011) Effects of changes in carbonate chemistry speciation on Coccolithus braarudii: a discussion of coccolithophorid sensitivities, Biogeosciences 8 771-777. Moloney et al. (2011) Weaving marine food webs from end to end under global change, Journal of Marine Systems 84 106-116. |
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| Meetings / Conferences / Workshops | ||
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18-21 June: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
20-24 June: Penang, Malaysia
27-30 June 2011: Plymouth, UK / !! IMBER endorsed meeting
28 June - 1 July: Brest, France
29-30 June: Université Paris Diderot, Paris
14-19 August: Andover, NH, USA
12-15 September: Yantai, China
12-16 September: UNESCO, Paris, France
18-23 September: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
22-23 September: Plymouth, UK
26-30 September: Aberdeen, Scotland
27-29 September: Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
14-23 October: Khabarovsk, Russia
24-26 October: Toulouse, France
24-28 October: Denver, Colorado, USA
15-19 May 2012: Yeosu, Korea |