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GLP SSC Open Call
- February 03, 2010
Call for SSC nominations
GLP activities are overseen by an international Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). The SSC represents a broad spectrum of disciplines and nationalities, and includes both mid-level and senior scientists. The continuing success of GLP relies on the input of these people. SSC tasks include such things as:
- Overall responsibility for the GLP project.
- Developing and promoting GLP’s scientific agenda.
- Hosting GLP workshops, acting as a liaison to GLP workshop organizers.
- Editing special newsletter or journal issues.
- Representing GLP at meetings, coordinating national GLP activities.
- Communicating with the GLP IPO and the Nodal Offices.
- Being available for at least one yearly 3 day SSC meeting (funded through the project).
Scientists who serve on the SSC normally do so for a period of 3 years, with the potential for renewal for one additional term. Nominations to the SSC can be made by individuals or the SSC itself, and are considered by the SSC at their annual meeting. Selected candidates are then recommended to IGBP and IHDP for final approval. In seeking nominations, we are not only looking for scientific excellence and a high level of commitment to GLP goals, but are also aiming to achieve a disciplinary, nationality, gender and age balance.
To nominate a SSC candidate, please send the filled-in GLP SSC Application Form including a short CV (max. 5 pages) by email to the GLP IPO (Tobias Langanke or Lars Jorgensen).
Current round of nominations for new SSC members starting in January 2011: Application deadline 1st April 2010
Applications received after 1st April 2010 will be considered for SSC replacements starting in January 2012.
For application form, please see: Application Form
Job opportunities
- May 4, 2010
Postdoc Global Land Use Modelling at Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam
Postdoc Global Land Use Modelling for the period of 2 years. The researcher will build a new global scale land use model and parameterize this model based on a global level land use systems classification. An international workshop needs to be organized to discuss the set-up of the model and link the approach with regional scale land use models. The results will be published in peer-reviewed journals.
More information at: Postdoc Global Land Use Modelling
Or contact Peter Verburg at E-mail: peter.verburg(at)ivm.vu.nl
- February 25, 2010
UC Davis Post-Doctoral Position in Agricultural Decision-Making and Environmental Management
The post-doctoral position will be for two years residence with possible third year renewal, starting Summer 2010 or earlier. The post-doctoral fellow will support a USDA funded project analyzing local rangeland restoration programs and individual factors that encourage ranchers to adopt prescribed grazing practices in California.
More information about the rangeland management project can be found here : Rangeland Restoration Proposal
Please notify Dr. Mark Lubell asap if you intend to apply; E-mail: mnlubell(at)ucdavis.edu
- February 04, 2010
Postdoc position in Land Use, Climate Change, Bioenergy
Post-doc position open at Institute for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics, Universitaet Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany.
For details, please see: Postdoc, Universitaet Hohenheim
- January 29, 2010
Research assistant professor at West Virginia University
The Regional Research Institute at West Virginia University is seeking a promising scholar with a strong commitment to interdisciplinary social science research to complement its research capacity in the area of regional analysis. A Ph.D. in applied economics, geography, urban and regional planning, policy analysis, or related discipline should be obtained by the time of appointment. The ideal candidate will have an extensive background and skills in quantitative regional analysis. Application review will begin immediately and continue until the position has been filled.
Additional information may be obtained at: RRI, West Virginia University
- January 29, 2010
Postdoc opportunity at EPA lab in Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Forest Carbon Offsets and Ecosystem Services in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon.
Applicants should be able to effectively work in a multidisciplinary team environment and should have strong modeling and computational skills, and background in several of the following areas: forest ecology; forest management; forest economics; C cycling; GIS; and modeling of forest dynamics, hydrology (water quantity and quality), wildlife-habitat relationships, or other areas related to ecosystem services provided by forests. The application deadline to NRC is February 1, 2010. Applications after this date may be considered in the next review cycle (applications deadline May 1, 2010) if an award is not made during the earlier cycle.
For details, please contact: Don Phillips (phillips.donald(at)epa.gov) or Peter Beedlow (beedlow.peter(at)epa.gov)
- January 08, 2010
Three faculty positions at Geography, University of Maryland
The University of Maryland (at College Park) Department of Geography invites applications for three tenured or tenure-track faculty, Candidates are sought who will complement the Department’s existing strengths in the physical and human systems dimensions of global change.
For details, please see: Geography, University of Maryland
- November 30, 2009
Science Office vacancy at ESSP Paris office in Paris
The Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) invites applications for the post of Science Officer. The post will be available in April 2010 for an initial period of two-years, with the possibility of an extension subject to funding. Applications should be submitted (in English) before 7 December 2009 to Martin Rice, ESSP Executive Officer, with a CV (resume) and contact information of three referees. Please note that ESSP only accept electronic applications.
For more information please see: ESSP Science Officer
- November 16, 2009
Assistant/Associate Professor of Social-Ecological Systems Modeling
The School of Economics (SOE) and the Senator George J. Mitchell Center at the University of Maine invite applications from social scientists for a tenure-track faculty position in SOE at the assistant or associate professor level. The successful candidate will join a new Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) funded by a 5-year, $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant. The position is one of four new hires supported by SSI, an innovative program in sustainability science. The successful candidate will participate in interdisciplinary research to develop and implement models of coupled natural-human systems.
Review of applications will begin December 15, 2009.
For more information please see: Social-Ecological Systems Modeling
- October 22, 2009
Land Use Change Modeller
A Land Use Change Modeller is required for an interdisciplinary team working in a new EU Framework 7 project aimed at evaluating bottom-up approaches to reduce net global greenhouse gas emissions through avoided deforestation in the tropics. The post will focus on evaluating mechanisms for ensuring national-level benefits are distributed equitably, effectively and sustainably to stakeholders at a range of levels. You will possess a PhD in a relevant subject, together with experience in modelling the social and economic processes of land use change and its impact on associated biophysical processes.
Completed application forms must be returned by 5 November 2009.
Further information and application forms can be obtained from:
Human Resources, The Macaulay Institute, e-mail: hr(at)macaulay.ac.uk
Or at: Land Use Change Modeller
- October 19, 2009
Postdoctoral position on remote sensing of forest cover changes
Professor Eric Lambin seeks applications for a full-time postdoctoral research position to work on a new research project on the use of time series of high/medium spatial resolution satellite data to analyse forest transitions in mountain environments. The research will focus on interactions between forest-cover changes, land use, and the provision of ecosystem services. The successful candidate will be based at the Department of Geography of the University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Expected starting date is late 2009 to early 2010.
For more information, please contact:
Professor Eric Lambin, email: eric.lambin(at)uclouvain.be
- September 22, 2009
Assistant Professor in Social Metabolism
The Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, part of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies at Alps-Adria University, invites applications for the position as an Assistant Professor in Social Metabolism (tenure track).
Letters of application can be sent until October 14, 2009.
For more information, please see: here
- September 18, 2009
Two year Postdoctoral Research Assisant, Edinburgh University
As a Research Associate in the Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability (CECS) you will plan and undertake research on the development of Agent-Based models (ABM) of land use change in urban and rural environments. You will contribute to the conceptual design and implementation of new models that seek to integrate bio-
physical and human processes of environmental change.
Closing date for applications is September 30, 2009.
For more information, please see: here
- June 24, 2009
President and CEO for IISD, Canada
IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development) is looking for a full-time innovative and energetic President & CEO to lead the continued growth and expansion of the Institute as a global leader through the implementation of its new five-year strategic plan. He/she will lead and inspire a global network of over 110 staff and associates, with an annual budget exceeding CAD $15 million. IISD is headquartered in Canada, and has offices in Winnipeg, Ottawa, New York and Geneva.
Closing date for applications is 17:00 Pacific, September 30, 2009.
Further information on this position and IISD can be found: here
- June 24, 2009
PhD fellowship in Ecosystem Sciences and Functional Ecology, France
A three years PhD fellowship (2009-2012) in Ecosystem Sciences and Functional Ecology is available at LECA (Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine) at Grenoble University, France. The successful applicant will work in the international EU-Biodiversa funded project VITAL which aims to produce a conceptual model of relationships among plant and microbial functional diversity in grasslands, and multiple ecosystem service delivery. Specifically the PhD student will focus on the linkages between the diversity of grasslands plant traits, the diversity of soil microbial communities and components of the nitrogen cycle both at the field and the mesocosm scales.
For details please contact supervisors:
Sandra Lavorel, Sandra.Lavorel(at)ujf-grenoble.fr
Jean-Christophe Clement, Jean-Christophe.Clement(at)ujf-grenoble.fr
- June 24, 2009
Graduate student research positions at Department of Geography, University of Iowa, USA
The Department of Geography at the University of Iowa is accepting applications for graduate student research positions. These positions are available as early as the beginning of Fall 2009 and offer a unique opportunity to participate in large interdisciplinary NSF funded projects focused on the application of agent-based models to land use decision-making. Skills in geographic information science and computer programming are required.
For more information please contact: David Bennett, david-bennett(at)uiowa.edu
- May 20, 2009
Post-doctoral position at Michigan State University
Modeling complex freshwater landscapes.
A two-year post-doctoral position is available to work with the Landscape Limnology Research Group and partners (funded by the Center for Water Sciences at Michigan State University; please see: http://cws.msu.edu/). The successful applicant will work with an interdisciplinary team that includes the landscape limnology research group, and collaborators in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and the Department of Geography. The successful applicant will build upon on-going research to integrate landscape limnology, economics, human behavior, and policy into a framework that develops a richer understanding of lakes and their landscapes as coupled human and natural systems (lakes and their watersheds).
Last Date to apply: June 15, 2009 or when position is filled.
For more information please contact: Dr. Kendra S. Cheruvelil, ksc(at)msu.edu
- May 07, 2009
PhD Programme in Science and Management of Climate Change, Italy
Call for Applications 2009/2010.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC), launched a 3-year PhD Programme in Science and Management of Climate Change, organised in two Streams: Dynamic Climatology at CMCC in Bologna; and Climate change impact and management, at the Department of Economics of the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. The Call for Applications 2009/2010 will be opened around the 15th of May 2009 and the deadline will be set at mid June 2009.
For further information please visit: Ph.D. Climate Change
News from projects
- June 4, 2010
Fourth edition of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) Newsletter! 45 pages of global change science from mountain regions around the world, news from MRI's regional networks, meeting reports, and more. Fourth edition can be downloaded here: MRI News
- December 16, 2009
New International Network on Tropical Secondary Forest Regeneration!
The new international network on secondary forest regeneration and restoration, which will be named the neoSelvas Network. The global focus of the neoSelvas network will complement goals of existing tropical forest networks, such as the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS network) of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution, the Tropi-Dry network, and the Mexican Long Term Ecological Research Network (Mex-LTER).
For more information, please see: neoSelvas
- December 09, 2009
IGBP Climate Change Index!
The IGBP Climate-Change Index brings together key indicators of global change: carbon dioxide, temperature, sea level and sea ice. The index gives an annual snapshot of how the planet’s complex systems - the ice, the oceans, the land surface and the atmosphere - are responding to the changing climate. The index rises steadily from 1980 - the earliest date the index has been calculated. The change is unequivocal, it is global, and, significantly, it is in one direction. The reason for concern becomes clear: in just 30 years we are witnessing major planetary-scale changes. The index has been developed with input from a large number of scientists involved in global-change research. IGBP scientists are discussing developing other indices relating to global change such as an index including land-use, fisheries exploitation, population, fire and extreme events, as well as backdating the new index. The index will be updated annually.
For index, please see: Climate Change Index
For more information, please see: IGBP
- December 03, 2009
New Global Carbon Budget!
The Global Carbon Project has published the new global carbon budget and carbon trend analyses including 2008. Please find the highlights, ppt, data sources, policy brief, and media materials in the following link: Global Carbon Budget
- November 11, 2009
Third edition of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) Newsletter! 54 pages of global change science from mountain regions around the world, news from MRI's regional networks, meeting reports, interview and book review. The MRI News appears twice a year and the next edition is planned for April 2010 (deadline February 1). Third edition can be downloaded here: MRI News
- June 24, 2009
Globcover-derived national land cover databases for Africa
GLCN (FAO's Global Land Cover Network) has promoted the re-processing of the Globcover archive at national extent for the entire African continent. The resulted data sets are vector based (.shp), coded using LCCS classes, and topologically corrected to be used in the GLCN's Advanced Database Gateway software, which allows the data set to be further analysed, for example breaking down the LCCS classes in their classifiers for user-defined aggregations. The re-processing is completed for 53 countries. Please see: GLCN Globcover
- April 24, 2009
Second edition of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) Newsletter! 56 pages of global change science from mountain regions around the world, news from MRI's regional networks, meeting reports, interview and book review. The MRI News will appear twice a year and the next edition is planned for October 2009 (deadline August 4). Second edition can be downloaded here: MRI News
- September 30, 2008
First edition of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) Newsletter! Content includes articles on research in mountain regions, introduction of some of MRI's Principal Investigators, news from MRI's regional networks, and meeting reports. The MRI News will appear twice a year and the next edition is planned for spring 2009 (deadline February 1st). First edition can be downloaded here: MRI News
- November 14, 2007
The Global Carbon Project has just published a new analysis of the state of the carbon cycle and its immediate drivers of perturbation (economic growth, carbon intensity of the global economy, and natural CO2 sinks on land and oceans). The paper and a ppt file with: (i) additional carbon trends, and (ii) the global carbon budget to 2006 can be downloaded from: Link
- The TERACC website now has updated information on 144 global change experiments in 29 countries! Please check here under "Global Change Sites"
Publications
- December 19, 2008
New IAI publication: Applying Ecological Knowledge to Landuse Decisions.
The IAI has just concluded a synthesis of several of its collaborative research networks on terrestrial ecosystems, forests, grasslands, agriculture and river margins that explored how environmental science may be used to guide landuse decisions. The networks' investigators contributed results and toughtful analysis that go beyond scientific papers to provide a transdisciplinary vision of the issues and opportunities in planning landuse for the future. PDF available on the IAI website at: Link
- November 10, 2008
O. Mertz, C. Mbow, A. Reenberg and A. Diouf: Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptation Strategies in Rural Sahel.
Environmental Management. Springer New York. Springer link date Tuesday, September 23, 2008. Link
- November 07, 2008
A. Reenberg, T. Birch-Thomsen, O. Mertz, B. Fog and S. Christiansen: Adaptation of Human Coping Strategies in a Small Island Society in the SW Pacific—50 Years of Change in the Coupled Human–Environment System on Bellona, Solomon Islands.
Human Ecology. Springer Netherlands. Springer link date Saturday, November 01, 2008. Link
- July 15, 2008
O. Mertz, A. Reenberg, T. B. Bruun and T. Birch-Thomsen: Land use decisions in smallholder rural communities in developing countries.
CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2008, 3, No. 043, 11 pp. June 2008. Link
- April 30, 2008
Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb and Fridolin Krausmann: Global human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP).
Earth Portal - encyclopedia of Earth. Link
- January 22, 2008
B. L. Turner II, Eric F. Lambin and Anette Reenberg: The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability.
PNAS 104 (52): 20666-20671. Link
- December 04, 2007
Helmut Haberl (2007). Measuring the Global Human Impact on Terrestrial Ecosystems – the HANPP Approach. brigdes. Link
- October 08, 2007
Ademola K. Braimoh and Paul L.G. Vlek (Eds.): Land Use and Soil Resources. Forthcoming in November 2007. Springer.
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6777-8
- September 04, 2007
Helmut Haberl, K. Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, Veronika Gaube, Alberte Bondeau, Christoph Plutzar, Simone Gingrich, Wolfgang Lucht and Marina Fischer-Kowalski: Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems.
PNAS 104 (31): 12942. Link