Re: Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock

2007-11-01 Thread Ashwani Vasishth
For the past few years, I have set aside about two hours a day to scanning and processing environmental news. It seems to me, on that basis, that there is an increasing attention being paid to global change issues. Whether because they think it good PR, or because they are actually beginning

Re: polar bears

2007-11-01 Thread Malcolm McCallum
Buck, E.H. 2007. Congressional Research Service Report. Poloar Bears: Listing under the endangers species act. Congressional Research Service, Order Code RS2252. Jan 25. Many of us reviewed that document for congress. It is a down-and-dirty review of the situation, however, not the peer

Re: [EESS] CBC radio interview on economic growth and global warming

2007-11-01 Thread William_Gates
I agree with Phil. Take the tobacco execs that Brian mentions. How long did they lie about nicotine being addictive? They did so many times under oath before Congress with no repercussions to them personally. So, what prevents those that lie about this issue for monetary gain from continuing to do

FW: Sustainability Hires

2007-11-01 Thread David Flaspohler
** We at Michigan Tech are very excited about our new Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative (SFHI); we will hire 10 new faculty each year, in addition to our replacement positions, in order to enrich opportunities for

GEO4 and MEA

2007-11-01 Thread Luis Gutierrez
Hello, I am looking for good reviews of two UN publications: General Environmental Outlook 4 (GEO4), UNEP, October 2007 http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4/media/index.asp Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, UNEP, 2005 http://www.maweb.org/en/index.aspx Can anyone let me know where to find them?

Update: Global Warming Petition Project

2007-11-01 Thread Geoffrey Poole
Please excuse this posting if the topic has already been covered, but I decided to Google some of the signers of this petition. I chose rather unique names, to minimize the chance of finding the wrong person. All names started with the letter O because that's the page I found myself on when

Tenure-track Position in Environmental Geology/Earth Science/Global Change

2007-11-01 Thread Ting, Tih-Fen
Environmental Studies, an interdisciplinary department in the College of Public Affairs and Administration, seeks applications at the tenure-track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR level with expertise in environmental geology, earth science, and global change beginning on August 15, 2008. Applicants must have

Re: Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock

2007-11-01 Thread Michael Armstrong
Allow me to respectfully disagree with Ashwani's statement that: I think Lovelock is saying, 'if we proceed as we are, we should expect about 6 billion people to die, by the end of this century.' My interpretation of the article is that Lovelock is saying that yes indeed, 6 billion people are

Faculty Positions in Environmental Stud ies –Florida International University

2007-11-01 Thread Michael S Ross
Faculty Positions Vacancies in Environmental Studies –Florida International University The Department of Environmental Studies at Florida International University invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the level of Assistant Professor to begin August 2008. 1) Assistant

Sign-on Letter: Support for Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act S. 1581 (Deadline Monday Nov 5, 5:00 PM)

2007-11-01 Thread Steven Lutz
Dear Ecolog-Listerv, I am looking for non-government organizations to sign-on to a letter = regarding support for Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act = (S. 1581). We are asking for co-sponsors (in the Senate) to the bill, = which 1) establishes an interagency committee on ocean

Global Warming Petition Project: the people behind it

2007-11-01 Thread Anita Stone
A friend showed me this web site, which has info on the wackos behind the petition: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_Institute_of_Science_and_Medicine Geoffrey Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please excuse this posting if the topic has already been covered, but I decided

Re: GEO4 and MEA

2007-11-01 Thread Arturo Restrepo
Dear Luis, You can access to FGDC metadata and dataset information by typing Millennium Ecosystem Assessment at http://mercury.ornl.gov/nbii/ or globalchange.nasa.gov 1 World's biomes and realms rates of land cover change (source: HYDE Database of global land use 1950-1990) 2 Monthly

Junior Specialist Position at Bodega Marine Lab

2007-11-01 Thread Vani
POSITION AVAILABLE: Jr. Specialist position, full time, located at the Bodega Marine Lab (BML), Bodega Bay, CA (2 hours west of the UC Davis campus). Step 1 salary $2,639.00 per month, dependent on qualifications experience. A Bachelor’s degree is required. NATURE AND PURPOSE: The successful

GIS position available

2007-11-01 Thread Anne Hopkins Pfaff
POSITION AVAILABLE Biologist/Physical Scientist/Cartographer/Geographer This position will be available for application between 11/1 and 11/19/07. LOCATION:USGS Biological Resources Division Western Ecological Research Center

Junior Specialist Position - Bodega Marine Lab

2007-11-01 Thread Emily Jones
Announcement is also available at: http://bml.ucdavis.edu/geninfo/ 07_JrSpecialist.pdf University of California, Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory http://www.bml.ucdavis.edu/ POSITION AVAILABLE: Jr. Specialist position, full time, located at the Bodega Marine Lab (BML),

Research Position at the University of Denver (DU)

2007-11-01 Thread Robert L. Sanford
Please post on Ecolog. RESEARCH POSITION in an area of energy or environment/context of sustainability. Denver Research Institute, University of Denver, Denver, CO The University of Denver Research Institute (DRI) seeks applications for a specialist.DRI is a research organization within

2 PhD student positions available

2007-11-01 Thread Anna Jolles
Dear colleagues, I have two PhD student positions available in disease ecology at Oregon State University. I am looking for one student interested in ecological theory and modeling, and one field ecologist - see details below. Both need to be highly motivated independent workers, excellent

Reminder: Fuller Fellowship deadline November 15

2007-11-01 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Keya_Chatterjee?=
World Wildlife Fund's Fuller Fellowship application deadline is coming up on November 15, 2007. Fellowships will be awarded for a two year period to early-career, post-doctoral candidates with outstanding research proposals that are of fundamental and immediate importance to global biodiversity

Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Positions in Disease Ecology

2007-11-01 Thread Vanessa Ezenwa
Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Positions in Disease Ecology Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT Postdoctoral associate: A postdoctoral research position is available on a new NSF-funded project at the interface of disease ecology, community ecology and

Global Warming Petition Project: the people behind it

2007-11-01 Thread Geoffrey Poole
A friend showed me this web site, which has info on the wackos behind the petition: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_Institute_of_Science_and_Medicine Anita: Thanks for the informative link on the climate change petition. I didn't know the petition had been