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Newsletter November
03 November 2014 |
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Call for PhD pitches at the SENSE symposium Carbon-Climate Interaction: from Science to Policy ›› |
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NWO VENI grant for Kees Klein Goldewijk ›› |
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Martine van der Ploeg wins Soil Physics Early Career Award ›› |
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Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene, a new book by Frank Biermann ›› |
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Overview of PhD graduations November 2014 ›› |
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Advanced Short Course on "Where there is little data: how to estimate design variables in poorly gauged basins", 17-28 November 2014 ›› |
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SENSE course Grasping Sustainability, 10-13 March 2015 ›› |
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Overview of PhD / postdoc courses November ›› |
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Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses ›› |
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Ecology Theory & Application Discussion Group meeting, 17 November, Wageningen ›› |
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MilieuChemTox symposium: MCT goes UNDERGROUND + MCT PhD thesis award, 7 November 2014 ›› |
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8th Annual International Symposium on "C / H2O / Energy balance and climate over boreal and arctic regions with special emphasis on eastern Eurasia", 10-12 November 2014 ›› |
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Overview of upcoming events ›› |
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NWO Talent Scheme Information meeting (Veni, Vidi, Vici), 6 November 2014 ›› |
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Harry Otten Prize for Innovation in Meteorology ›› |
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PROVIA Online Consultation on Climate Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation issues ›› |
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Be careful with offers to publish your dissertation ›› |
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Faculty Positions in Nanoscience, Structural Biology and Environmental Sciences at the Advanced Science Research Center of the City University of New York ›› |
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| Call for PhD pitches at the SENSE symposium Carbon-Climate Interaction: from Science to Policy |
On 12 January 2015 there will be a SENSE Symposium on Carbon-Climate Interactions, presenting the current knowledge about carbon cycle and climate change, and how it affects policies in the making.
There will be three key-note speakers and PhD pitches on current research.
Deadline for registration as a pitcher: 1 December 2014 |
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| NWO VENI grant for Kees Klein Goldewijk |
| Kees Klein Goldewijk obtained a VENI grant for his research proposal: Looking back to the future: improving historical land use reconstructions for better understanding of the global carbon cycle. |
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| Martine van der Ploeg wins Soil Physics Early Career Award |
| Dr. Martine van der Ploeg was recently awarded the SSSA Soil Physics Division Early Career Award. This award recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions in soil physics within six years of completing their Ph.D. degree. |
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| Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene, a new book by Frank Biermann |
| Humans are no longer spectators who need to adapt to their natural environment. Our impact on the earth has caused changes that are outside the range of natural variability and are equivalent to such major geological disruptions as ice ages. Some scientists argue that we have entered a new epoch in planetary history: the Anthropocene. In such an era of planet-wide transformation, we need a new model for planet-wide environmental politics. In this book, Frank Biermann proposes “earth system” governance as just such a new paradigm. |
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| Upcoming PhD Graduations |
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| Overview of PhD graduations November 2014 |
- Barbara Schlomann
Design of effective energy efficiency policies: An analysis in the frame of target setting, monitoring and evaluation
5 November 2014, 12.45 hrs, Utrecht University
- Inge Regelink
Natural Nanoparticles in Soils and their role in organic-mineral interactions an colloid-facilitated transport
7 November 2014, 16.00 hrs, Wageningen University
- Roos den Uyl
Navigating toward Sustainable Development: Conceptual maps of modes of governance vs. practical experiences in the Dutch fen landscape
12 November 2014, 12.45 hrs, Utrecht University
- Laura Verbrugge
Going Global: Perceiving, assessing and managing biological invasions
24 November 2014, 14.30 hrs, Radboud University
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| Upcoming Courses |
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| Advanced Short Course on "Where there is little data: how to estimate design variables in poorly gauged basins", 17-28 November 2014 |
The aim of the course is to provide an advanced theoretical understanding and hands-on practical methods to cope with the estimate of hydrological variables in poorly gauged basins.
There are still some places available for this course, so you can register now! |
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| SENSE course Grasping Sustainability, 10-13 March 2015 |
A SENSE course to explore and understand sustainability, its history, the different concepts, objectives and methodologies for analysis and quantification.
To date, many different scientific concepts and approaches of environmental sustainability exist. What are the differences? What do they entail? How can you use them in your own research?
This course will enable you to grasp sustainability and to apply concepts and approaches for analysis and quantification to your own research. |
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| Overview of PhD / postdoc courses November/December |
- WASS and SENSE master class: Conceptual foundations of modern environmental governance
10-11 November 2014, Wageningen
- PCDI course Employability Outside Academia
11 November and 16 December 2014, and 20 January 2015, Utrecht
- WASS and SENSE master class: Negotiating environmental limits
13-14 November 2014, Wageningen
- Postgraduate Course ‘Bio-energy Production from Crop Plants and Algae’
17-19 November 2014, Wageningen
- Advanced Short Course on "Where there is little data: how to estimate design variables in poorly gauged basins"
17-28 November 2014, Delft
- Environmental Risk Perception and Communication (3 ECTS)
25-27 November 2014, Finland
- Spatial sampling for mapping
1-3 December 2014, Wageningen
- Basic Statistics
8-16 December 2014, Wageningen
- Uncertainty propagation in spatial and environmental modelling
8-12 December 2014, Wageningen
- Zero Inflated Models & GLMM with R - Frequentist and Bayesian approaches -
15-19 December 2014, Wageningen
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| Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses |
- CCES Winter School: Science Meets Practice
12-15 January and 9-12 February 2015, Switzerland
- Integral Projection Models: Construction, Analysis and Interpretation
26-31 January 2015, Germany
- Data Analysis Tools in Ecology
2-6 February 2014, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- MICMoR Technical Short Course: Putting People on the Land. Introducing the interactions between terrestrial ecosystems, climate and society
3-6 March, 2015, Germany
- IIASA Young Scientists Summer Programme
1 June - 31 August 2015, Laxenburg, Austria
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| Discussion Group Meeting |
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| Ecology Theory & Application Discussion Group meeting, 17 November, Wageningen |
Ecological Theory & Application is a discussion group of the PE&RC research school (Wageningen University, University of Utrecht, Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology). SENSE PhD candidates may also get ITSP credits for participation in this discussion group.
They organise two-monthly meetings for PhD students with a broad interest in ecology. Each meeting is organised around a central ecological theme, such as distribution patterns, climate change, ecophysiology, trophic interactions, etc.
This month's meeting will be aworkshop about scientific and non-scientific publications, with guest speakers: Wouter Gerritsma (Information specialist, WUR) and Jente Ottenburgs (PhD student REG, WUR & freelance author for Scientias)
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| MilieuChemTox symposium: MCT goes UNDERGROUND + MCT PhD thesis award, 7 November 2014 |
With Keynotes on groundwater contamination, shale gas, protection of groundwater organisms, presentations by 6 PhD thesis award nominees, and drinks!
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| 8th Annual International Symposium on "C / H2O / Energy balance and climate over boreal and arctic regions with special emphasis on eastern Eurasia", 10-12 November 2014 |
Global warming will likely transform Siberian environments. Early evidence indicates that carbon and hydrologic cycles are undergoing rapid change. These changes in the C/H2O/Engergy balance and climate over the vast permafrost regions of Siberia, potentially have grave impacts on the global climate system as well on Siberian flora and fauna. Since 1998, intensive field observations on C/H2O/Engergy cycles have been carried out in the permafrost regions of East-Siberia by Russian, Japanese and European researchers. Much of the research is done at the Spasskaya Pad Taiga Research Station near Yakutsk and the Chokurdakh Scientific Tundra Station which contribute to the EU-INTERACT network and EU-PAGE21 project.
This 8th symposium aims to discuss further research cooperation. Although the emphasis is on field observations, contributions from remote sensing and modeling approaches are also welcome.
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| NWO Talent Scheme Information meeting (Veni, Vidi, Vici), 6 November 2014 |
| On Thursday, 6 November 2014, NWO is organising an information meeting for researchers who want to apply for a Veni, Vidi of Vici grant. Practical information will be given and selection committee members, NWO coordinators and researchers who have already acquired a Veni, Vidi or Vici will share their experiences during a question and answer session. |
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| Harry Otten Prize for Innovation in Meteorology |
A substantial part of the national gross product in many countries is weather dependent. National weather services and the private sector have been innovative for more than a century to make better use of our meteorological knowledge. However, large gains are still to be made and the prize encourages individuals and groups to propose ideas how meteorology in a practical way can further move society forward. Meteorology can make society safer, can deliver costs savings, and improve the lives of large groups of people.
The next prize round begins in 2014 and will be awarded from 2015 onwards every two years. The winner of the competition will receive €25,000 in cash and it is also foreseen to grant a lower amount to the second and third prize. Winners will retain full rights to their ideas. |
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| PROVIA Online Consultation on Climate Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation issues |
| The UNEP “Global Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation” (PROVIA) has launched an Online Consultation to gather public opinion on the most important issues and challenges in climate change. We would like to invite you to participate! |
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| Be careful with offers to publish your dissertation |
| Authors of a PhD thesis may be approached by publishers who offer to publish their thesis for free. The Wageningen University library usually advise against this because these publishers require you to transfer your copyrights. |
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| Vacancies |
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| Faculty Positions in Nanoscience, Structural Biology and Environmental Sciences at the Advanced Science Research Center of the City University of New York |
The CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) is devoted to some of global science’s most dynamic p 1 disciplines – Nanoscience, Photonics, Structural Biology, Neuroscience, and Environmental Sciences – in a highly collaborative research environment. The ASRC operates as a nucleus of a University-wide science enterprise, fostering the development of an integrated research network that brings together faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and students from CUNY’s colleges. This state-of-the-art $350 million center positions CUNY, which is the nation’s largest urban public university, at the vanguard of 21st Century scientific exploration and education.
The ASRC seeks to appoint a number of outstanding, ambitious, and highly innovative scientists with demonstrated world-class research accomplishments to serve as faculty in the areas of Nanoscience, Structural Biology, and Environmental Sciences. Faculty are expected to make key contributions in establishing the ASRC as an internationally leading research center, through innovative and collaborative research for societal and economic benefit, and by inspiring new generations of scientists. |
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