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    Newsletter September
11 September 2014
Table of contents
SENSE News
Veni grants for three young SENSE researchers ››
Special issue out on the topic of Innovations in Climate Policy ››
Blog on cruise tourism on the North pole by SENSE researcher Linde van Bets ››
Halving EU meat and dairy consumption yields lower pollution and land use, and better health ››
Upcoming PhD Graduations
Overview of PhD graduations September 2014 ››
Upcoming Courses
SENSE Writing Week, 3-7 November 2014 ››
Overview of PhD / postdoc courses September and October ››
Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses after October ››
Upcoming Events
Dutch games & colorful dinner for SENSE PhD students, 20 September, Wageningen ››
SENSE Summer Academy 2014, 1 October, Delft ››
Overview of upcoming events ››
Tips
Dance Your PhD Contest 2014 ››
4th Think Forward Film Festival : Climate change and renewable energy - International contest ››
Think Green Hack Green: hackathon season at UtrechtInc ››
Finishing your PhD thesis: 15 top tips from those in the know ››
The Transferrable Postdoc ››
PLOS: Ten Simple Rules of Live Tweeting at Scientific Conferences ››
Vacancies
Vacancy for two PhD candidates in Theoretical ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam ››
Vacancy Assistant or Associate professor Environmental Sociology, Cornell University ››
SENSE headlines
Veni grants for three young SENSE researchers
Dutch games & colorful dinner for SENSE PhD students, 20 September, Wageningen
SENSE Summer Academy 2014, 1 October, Delft
SENSE Writing Week, 3-7 November
SENSE News
Veni grants for three young SENSE researchers
Three young SENSE researchers have been awarded a Veni scholarship by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). We congratulate Ana María Ballesteros-Gómez (IVM-VU), Annemiek ter Heijne (ETE-WU), and Michelle van Vliet (ESS-WU).
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Special issue out on the topic of Innovations in Climate Policy
Andrew Jordan (UEA) and SENSE member Dave Huitema (IVM-VU and Open University) have a special issue out on the topic of Innovations in Climate Policy, in the journal Environmental Politics. They argue that the state as an agent of innovation deserves more attention in the debate on climate governance.
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Blog on cruise tourism on the North pole by SENSE researcher Linde van Bets
Researchers on expedition to the North pole report their findings in a blog. Linde van Bets, SENSE PhD researcher at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University, is at Spitsbergen to investigate how expedition cruise tourism adapts to ecosystem changes.
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Halving EU meat and dairy consumption yields lower pollution and land use, and better health
Halving meat and dairy consumption in Europe could reduce agricultural greenhouse-gas emissions by up to 42% and nitrogen pollution by 40%, new research suggests. The amount of land needed to grow food for each EU citizen would fall from 0.23 to 0.17 hectares and the reduced intake of saturated fats and red meat could have substantial health benefits, the researchers conclude.
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Upcoming PhD Graduations
Overview of PhD graduations September 2014
  • Ligia Azevedo
    Development and application of stressor – response relationships of nutrients
    12 September 2014, 10.30 hrs, Nijmegen
      
  • Cláudia Maria Carvalho dos Santos
    Analysing hydrological services provided by forests to support spatial planning and land management
    19 September 2014, Porto, Portugal

     
  • Mieke van Eerten-Jansen
    Bioelectrochemical methane production from CO2
    19 September 2014, 16.00 hrs, Wageningen
More upcoming graduations ››
Upcoming Courses
SENSE Writing Week, 3-7 November 2014
Would you like to develop your writing skills and improve your current piece of work for a publication? Or do you want to start one without the daily distractions? Well… this is your opportunity!!

During this week you can fully concentrate on writing an article without the distraction of every day practice. The writing week will take place in a comfortable environment where you can spend the night. The presence of other PhD students will provide motivation, support and social contacts. Additionally, an English writing coach will guide us through the writing process with tips&tricks, feedback sessions and individual advice. Each participant will receive information on how to prepare.
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Overview of PhD / postdoc courses September and October
Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses after October
More upcoming courses ››
Upcoming Events
Dutch games & colorful dinner for SENSE PhD students, 20 September, Wageningen

Relive your youth or immerse into the Dutch culture by joining the
Old Dutch Games and international dinner
for all PhD candidates from SENSE!

This is your chance to play the amazing old Dutch games and introduce your favourite dish to your fellow SENSE members. Bring some typical food or drinks form your home country, and be surprised by the different tastes of food from all over the world! Sign up before the 12th of September by sending an email to games.dinner@gmail.com.

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SENSE Summer Academy 2014, 1 October, Delft
The Research School for the Environment SENSE proudly presents its third SENSE Summer Academy, 1 October 2014, at UNESCO-IHE in Delft.

The morning program focuses on "Sustainable cities: Clever techniques, clever people" PhD candidates present pitches on Sustainable City Infrastructure and Sustainable City Governance, followed by comments from senior staff and discussions. In the afternoon, several workshops invite PhD candidates, SENSE Alumni and SENSE researchers alike. Moreover, you are cordially invited to join the SENSE party and dinner in Delft.
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Overview of upcoming events
Some recently announced events:
More upcoming events ››
Tips
Dance Your PhD Contest 2014

The dreaded question. "So, what’s your Ph.D. research about?" You take a deep breath and launch into the explanation. People’s eyes begin to glaze over …

At times like these, don’t you wish you could just turn to the nearest computer and show people a video of your Ph.D. thesis interpreted in dance form?

Now you can! And while you’re at it, you can win $1000 and a free trip to California, achieve immortal geek fame on the Internet, and be recognized by Science for your effort.

Submission deadline: 29 September 2014

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4th Think Forward Film Festival : Climate change and renewable energy
International contest

The international contest involves short films that are focused on the topic of climate change and renewable energy. There are no restrictions as for genre, nationality and format. Eligible works last 20mins at a maximum and were ended after January 1st 2014. The deadline for application is the 1st of October 2014. Click here to find out about the regulation and to download the entry form.

The best works will be presented at the Think Forward Film Festival - 4th edition that will take place in Venice on December 12th-13th, 2014. The festival deals with climate change and renewable energy issues thanks to a series of showings, meetings and debates.

This event is organised with the support of eni and of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change.

For more information: Chiara Zanandrea (contest@thinkforwardfestival.it+39 (0)41 2700443).

Think Green Hack Green: hackathon season at UtrechtInc

Are you capable of developing smart IT-solutions, tools or apps that will contribute to a more sustainable economy and environment? Compete in one of our hackathons in October or November at UtrechtInc, we’re awarding €13.000 in total! In the two hackathons we are bringing together hardware hackers, UX en UI specialists, entrepreneursdevelopers, designers, open-data experts and everyone with a passion for energy and sustainability. You and your team will work on building new products, using open data, while contributing to a greener society. For these innovation events UtrechtInc is working together with Climate KIC, Economic Board Utrecht, Enexis, Liander and other partners.

10-12 October: The Green Hackfest: building new products for Green Urban Living

  • Hackathon focus: sustainable cities, a green environment, impact on our daily life, efficient mobility, recycling, etc.
  • Opening by Jacqueline Cramer
  • Prize money: More than €5000 in total
  • Main partners: UtrechtInc, Climate-Kic, Economic Board Utrecht

7-9 November: Apps for Energy: building new products for energy savings and sustainable energy

  • Hackathon focus: apps, tools, games and all other solutions in the context of energy savings and sustainable energy
  • Prize money: €3000, €2000 and €1000
  • Main partners: UtrechtInc, Enexis, Liander

Get your tickets here

Sign up here for the Apps for Energy hackathon or The Green Hackfest (or both!). For both hackathons there’s a maximum of 60 contestants. The hackathons will take place at business incubator UtrechtInc (also offering excellent meals, snacks and drinks during the entire weekend!).

Finishing your PhD thesis: 15 top tips from those in the know

Trying to complete a PhD thesis in time for the October deadline? We share some advice on getting over that final hurdle.

Read the whole article in the Guardian ››
The Transferrable Postdoc

Now more than ever, experts say, postdoctoral fellows need to cultivate a broad base of beyond-the-bench skills and capitalize on transferring them to the next stage of their career to be as competitive as possible. In today’s competitive job market, it is vitally important for postdocs to accumulate skill sets on their CVs right alongside their publications—whether their next career move is research-based or not. Postdocs who repurpose their lab leadership and project management skills into star candidate qualities have an advantage when looking to step into their next position.

Read the whole article in Science ››
PLOS: Ten Simple Rules of Live Tweeting at Scientific Conferences

The power of mobile communications has increased dramatically in recent years such that these devices (smartphone or tablet computer) can be used productively to do science. The software applications installed on them do not necessarily have to be specialized to be useful for science, e.g., Evernote can be used as an electronic lab notebook. Twitter is a popular microblogging platform famously limited to messages of up to 140 characters and represents a simple way to express what’s on your mind to a global audience of followers. Twitter has useful real-world scientific applications, such as in disease surveillance enabling the tracking of disease pandemics, as well as the capacity to be used for the communication of science itself. Like other professionals, scientists are increasingly tweeting about their own research and the work of colleagues and sharing links to scholarly publications, laboratory results, and related scientific content such as molecular structures. Twitter can additionally serve as a catalyst in the development of scientific tools, with at least one mobile app for science coming directly out of a tweet at a scientific conference.

Read the whole editorial on PLOS Computational Biology ››
Vacancies
Two PhD candidates in Theoretical ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam
Deadline: 30 September 2014

Two vacancies for PhD positions are available in the Theoretical Ecology group within the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) at the University of Amsterdam. Theoretical Ecology, led by Prof. André de Roos, is a vibrant and expanding research group, currently comprising 2 professors, 3 assistant professors, 2 postdoctoral researhers, and 6 PhD candidates, and hosts two ERC Advanced Grants and an NWO Vidi grant. It has active research programs in structured population modeling, resource-consumer interactions, epidemiology, demography, and evolutionary and eco-evolutionary theory.
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Assistant or Associate professor Environmental Sociology, Cornell University
Deadline: 1 October 2014

The Department of Development Sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University is seeking applicants for a tenure track position in environmental sociology and spatial analysis.
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