CENTER ON GLOBAL CHANGE ISSUES RFP FOR NEW
WORKING GROUP PROPOSALS
The CGC is soliciting proposals from Duke faculty for activities that
will establish new and innovative faculty collaborations and graduate
training across disciplines in the area of global change science.
Such collaborations and graduate training may be within the Duke community,
or may involve faculty and research scientists from other universities
and research institutions. Proposals can include working groups, workshops
and symposia, support for visiting scholars, support for sabbatical
faculty, or other activities. For complete RFP click here
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OCEAN CLIMATE WORKING
GROUP PUBLISHES PAPER IN NATURE
The Ocean Climate Modeling Working Group, funded by the CGC in the
Spring of 2003, examined how ocean biology and physics respond to
climate perturbation. Research ideas that began in this working group
led to the recent publication of The
effect of advection on the nutrient reservoir in the North Atlantic
subtropical gyre in the September 29, 2005 issue of NATURE.
CGC TO HOST SOUTHEASTERN CENTER OF THE NATIONAL
INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH
The Center on Global Change has been chosen to administer one of four
regional centers for the U.S. Department of Energy’s new National
Institute for Climate Change Research (NICCR). NICCR will fund research
nationwide on the effects of climate change on ecosystems and the
atmosphere. The CGC has been awarded a $1 million grant to host the
Southeastern Center, which will distribute about $10 million to universities
and other institutions in the Southeast for climate change research
during the next five years. As the Southeastern host, the CGC will
help set research priorities for the region as well as nationally,
and will be responsible for coordinating NICCR-sponsored research
studies in the region.
NICCR News
Release >
CGC AWARDED BIOCOMPLEXITY GRANT
The Center on Global Change has been awarded a $1.2 million “Biocomplexity
in the Environment” grant by NSF. This five-year project will
investigate large-scale, long-term coastal environmental change along
the U.S. Southeast and Gulf Coasts. The research team, led by Brad
Murray of Duke’s Earth and Ocean Sciences Division, will develop
a fully coupled human-natural modeling system that will incorporate
both human manipulations of the coast, especially actions to stabilize
the shoreline position, and large-scale wave-driven sediment transport.
The resulting coupled model will allow investigations of the response
of sandy coastlines to altered storm and wave patterns, accelerated
sea level rise, and potential human actions in response to such coastal
change.
CGC AWARDED DUKE ENERGY GIFT
The Center on Global Change, the Nicholas School of the Environment
and Earth Sciences, and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy
Solutions have received a $2.5 million gift from Duke Energy for a
“Carbon Solution Partnership.” This Partnership will utilize
the grantees’ joint expertise in science and environmental policy
to address key issues associated with energy and the environment.
The CGC’s share of this gift is $833,333 over three years.
Duke
News Release >
CGC AWARDED SUMMER INSTITUTE GRANT
The Center on Global Change has been awarded a $126,000 NSF grant
to hold the Second Summer Institute on Ecological Forecasting in 2006.
This highly successful two-week summer program, first held in 2004,
is designed to train a highly selective group of young graduate and
post-graduate environmental scientists in modern statistical computation
techniques that have emerged over the last decade. The principal investigator
is Jim Clark, of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment &
Earth Sciences and Biology Department. Institute instructors will
include faculty in ecology, statistics, and atmospheric science from
Duke and a number of other universities and research institutions
around the country.
CGC SYMPOSIUM: AMAZON CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGY
May 9-10, 2005
A 2-day workshop with national and international global change scientists
to discuss Amazon climate and hydrology will take place in Love Auditorium,
Levine Science Research Center, on Monday and Tuesday, May 9-10. The
symposium is sponsored by the Center on Global Change, and is free
and open to the public. Registration begins at 8am on Monday, May
9. A reception for participants will be held in the Hall of Science,
at 5pm on Monday, May 9.
Symposium agenda >
FORUM ON LANDSCAPES, GENOMICS AND TRANSGENIC
CONIFER FORESTS
The Center on Global Change is co-sponsoring an interdisciplinary,
multi-stakeholder forum on transgenic conifers to be held at Duke
University on November 17-19, 2004. The forum has four themes:
1) Emerging genomics, gene discovery and commercialization;
2) Ecological relevance of genomics;
3) Land ownership perspective; and
4) Regulatory perspective.
By convening policy specialists, research administrators, academicians,
governmental agency representatives, and leaders in the nonprofit
sector, the forum organizers hope to conduct a science-based dialogue,
synthesize innovative applications for burgeoning conifer genomics
information, and identify gaps in the current research framework.
Further information can be found here >.
