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RESOURCES NOTED IN EMAIL POSTINGS:
Of General Interest
- Seminar held June 6, 2008 "Climate Change and Ecological Resources in California" co-hosted by DFG
and the CA Energy Commission, Public Interest Research (PIER)
group is now available online via WebEx.
- Climatic Change (Volume 87, Supplement 1 / March, 2008) recent
issue focuses on climate change in California: California at a
Crossroads: Climate Change Science Informing Policy. It includes
20 articles,including topics on policy implications, sea level
rise, water management, agriculture, forestry, ecosystem management/vegetation
and fire management. Table
of Contents and Abstracts
- Hotter
and Drier: The West's Changing Climate From The Rocky Mountain
Climate Organization and Natural Resources Defense Council, March
2008
- Specter, Michael. Big Foot. The New Yorker February 25, 2008.
Article about carbon footprint.
Link to article on New Yorker site
- Sustaining
Rocky Mountain Landscapes Book coming out in April 2007
- National
Phenology Network Office Opens at University of Arizona
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National Phenology Network Update, July 2006
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EOS CONCORD meeting report
- NPR story about dust-on-snow events in Rocky Mtns, CO
Link to NPR site
- Mountain Research Initiative's newsletter no.6. Link
to download
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Book Reviews. Environmental Conservation. 2005
- Kolbert, Elizabeth.
The Climate of Man III. The New Yorker May 9, 2005. 12MB
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Annual Report of the Western Mountain Initiative. August 2005
-
Mountain Forum Bulletin article about CIRMOUNT (pages 18-19).
For entire bulletin go to http://www.mountainforum.org/
Job Announcements
- University of Colorado-Boulder Tenure-track
Position in Hydrology/Surface Processes Screening begins October
2008
- The Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona
University invites applications for Professor and Director of
the Center, starting in August 2009. See http://www.nau.edu/hr
and the attached announcement.
Inquiries to Scott Anderson, Chair, Director of Search Committee,
Center for Sustainable Environments, Box 5694, Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5694 or scott.anderson@nau.edu.
- The Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University-Bozeman
is advertising for an Assistant Professor position with research
and teaching interests in climatology, snow science, and mountain
systems science to begin August 16, 2009. The job announcement
is posted at http://www.montana.edu/cgi-bin/msuinfo/fpview/f/8641-2/.
WORK GROUP POSTINGS:
Mountain Climate Network
Lundquist, J. D., and D. R. Cayan (2007),
Surface temperature patterns in complex terrain: Daily variations and long-term
change in the central Sierra Nevada, California J. Geophys. Res., 112, D11124,doi:10.1029/2006JD007561.
CNN
piece on Storm Peak Lab, Colorado. 1/29/07. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01/29/stormpeaklab/index.html
Hydrological Observatories
Currently no postings
GLORIA
Upcoming GLORIA workshop: May 21, 2007 in White Mtns, California.
San Francisco Chronicle article about GLORIA in the White Mtns August 2, 2006
Rocky Mountain News article about GLORIA installation in Colorado July 2006
GLORIA Manual Appendix - Temperature Loggers.
Ecosystem Responses
Stephenson, N., et al. 2006.
Response of Western Mountain Ecosystems to Climatic Variablitity and Change.
The Western Mountain Initiative. Parks Science 24:1.
Pederson, GT, et al. 2006.
Long-duration drought variability and impacts on ecosystem services: a case study
from Glacier National Park, Montana. Earth Interactions Vol.10.
Walker, MD, et al. 2006.
Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome.
PNAS 103 (5): 1342-1346.
Nakawatase, JM and Peterson, DL. 2006.
Spatial variabilty in forest growth-climate relationships in the Olympic Mountains,
Washington. Can Jour For Res 36: 77-91.
Holman, ML and Peterson, DL. 2006.
Spatial and temporal variabilty in forest growth in the Olympic Mountains, Washington:
sensitivity to climatic variablity. Can Jour For Res 36: 92-104.
Pounds, JA, et al. 2006.
Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming.
Nature 439: 161-167.
Burkett, VR, et al. 2005.
Non-linear dynamics in ecosystem response to climate change: Case studies and
policy implications. Ecological Complexity 2: 357-394.
Breshears, DD, et al. 2005.
Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-style drought. PNAS
102 (42): 15144-15148.
International Relations
Currently no postings
Paleoclimate Archive
NBII proposal.
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