DISCCRS III Symposium, September 10 - 17, 2007, Hawaii Island

DISCCRS III Symposium, September 10 - 17, 2007, Hawaii Island   

DISCCRS : Interdisciplinary initiative for recent Ph.D. graduates dealing with Climate Change and its Impacts

http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf
                                    
DISCCRS III Symposium
September 10 - 17, 2007
Hawaii Island

Eligibility:
Ph.D. requirements completed April 1, 2004 - March 31, 2007 in any discipline related to climate change and impacts.  

Application Deadline:
April 30, 2007

Participant Costs:
Symposium airfare, housing and meals are supported for selected applicants.

Overview:
      DISCCRS (pronounced "discourse") targets recent Ph.D. graduates to catalyze international, interdisciplinary understanding and collaborations across the natural and social sciences, humanities. mathematics, engineering and other disciplines related to climate change and its impacts.
      Funding from NSF supports symposium participant costs, the http://disccrs.org website and an electronic newsletter. Symposia are currently funded for 2007 and 2008.
      Recent Ph.D. graduates from all disciplines and countries are invited to join the DISCCRS network and apply to be a DISCCRS symposium scholar.

DISCCRS III Symposium:
      Thirty-six recent Ph.D. graduates will be competitively selected to present their research in both oral and poster format and participate in the week-long symposium. Four scholars will be invited to serve as mentors for the group, and Stanford Professor Stephen H. Schneider has recently assented to serving as one of the mentors. A representative from the U.S. National Science Foundation will be invited to describe programs and funding opportunities. Strategies for collaborating across disciplines will be introduced and practiced in the context of developing an interdisciplinary research proposal. Techniques for communicating with non-specialist audiences will also be addressed.
                    
Contact: Susan Weiler, weiler@whitman.edu

Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, NSF, through grants to Whitman College (EAR-0105201, C.S. Weiler PI) and University of Oregon (EAR-0435719. R.B. Mitchell PI).
Jointly sponsored by the following societies: AAG, AERE, AGU, AMS, ASLO, ESA, ESS-ISA.