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Current Funding Opportunities

Listed by Closing Date

September 30
Department of Energy, Office of Science Financial Assistance Program

October 2
NASA, Terrestrial Ecology (Proposals)

October 30
NASA, Earth Science for Decision Making: Gulf of Mexico Region

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Current Employment Opportunities

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September 30
International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project, Director

December 1
University of South Carolina, Assistant Professor in Marine Organic Geochemistry

Closing Date Not Listed / Until Filled
University of Montana, Postdoctoral Position in Chemical Sensor Development and Ocean Carbon Cycle Studies

University of Washington, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Organic Geochemistry / Paleoceanography

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Current Fellowship Opportunities

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No current opportunities

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Upcoming Events

October 20-23, 2008

AGU Chapman Conference on Organic Matter Fluorescence
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

October 27-29, 2008

CIEM 2008: Anthropogenic impacts on the marine environment
Algiers, Algeria

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Latest News

Global carbon budget for 2007 released

The Global Carbon Project released the new global carbon budget for 2007 on September 26th. Major findings include:

• The atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2007 was 383 parts per million
• The growth rate of emissions continued to increase, with 10 billion tonnes of carbon released from fossil fuel emissions and land use change in 2007
• Land and ocean sinks for CO2 continue to grow in size but are becoming less efficient

The full report is available at www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbontrends/index_new.htm. (September 29, 2008)

CarboSchools launches new website

The new www.carboschools.org website is now open. This multilingual webpage highlights collaboration between European research institutes and schools, offers access to the booklet "What we know, what we don't know and how we try to better understand global change," and provides a library of resources for school projects on global change. This new contribution to climate change education is the result of five years of continuous support from CarboEurope and CARBOOCEAN, now continuing through EPOCA (Euroepan project on ocean acidification) - and of many more years of pionneering teacher-scientist partnerships in various European countries. It is the first output of a new phase of CarboSchools currently funded by the Science in Society programme of the EU until 2010. (September 29, 2008)

PowerPoint and video available from OCB summer workshop

PowerPoint and video files from the July 2008 Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry summer workshop are now available online. The workshop focused on three interdisciplinary themes: climate sensitivity of ecosystem structure and associated impacts on biogeochemical cycles, carbon uptake and storage, and temporal trends in ecosystem variability. (September 15, 2008)

Recent Publications of Interest

Lueger, H., R. Wanninkhof, A. Olsen, J. Trinanes, T. Johannessen, D. Wallace, and A. Koertzinger, 2008. The CO2 air-sea flux in the North Atlantic estimated from satellite data and ARGO profiling float data. NOAA Technical Memorandum, OAR AOML-96, 28 pp. [PDF] (September 29, 2008)

Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) Project. 2008. SOCAT-2 Meeting Report, Paris, France (June 16-17, 2008). IOCCP Report No. 9. 39 pp. [PDF]

Schuur, E.A.G. et al. 2008. Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change: implications for the global carbon cycle. Bioscience 58(8):701-714. [Abstract and paper are available from Bioscience] (September 15, 2008)

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