[Grad-postdoc-assn] Fwd: ASP

[Maura Hagan]

NCAR Fellows-
   Thanks again for your participation in the retreat yesterday. I  
thought that we had a
lot of good discussion. Appended please find a forward from Natalie  
Mahowald
(Cornell). Please contact her directly for additional info.
--Maura

Begin forwarded message:
>
> Managing Transitions to Sustainable Communities and Regions
>
> June 14-18, Ithaca, NY
>
> Global change offers new challenges and new opportunities for  
> communities around the world. While climate change and carbon  
> dioxide emission limits are being discussed at the global level,  
> implementation of policies seeking to mitigate or adapt to global  
> change will be conducted at the local level.
>
> A workshop is being organized for early career scholars and  
> professionals on all aspects of managing transitions to sustainable  
> communities and regions--systems engineering, project management,  
> simulation modeling, forecasting, computation and visualization, and  
> political mobilization. Currently, in many parts of the world,  
> planning expertise to mitigate and adapt to climate change and  
> promote sustainable lifestyles is lacking at local and regional  
> scales, where important decisions determining future climate  
> pathways are being made. In addition, global integrated assessment  
> models do not account for changes in infrastructure, which will be  
> made at the regional level, or technologies exploiting new  
> infrastructure in their estimates of future emissions and economic  
> impacts. We plan a cross-disciplinary workshop to present and  
> promote research that will facilitate transitions to interdependent  
> systems that will support sustainable communities and regions. We  
> will accept ~20 participants, and provide travel, and local support.
>
> This will be a working workshop, where participants will be expected  
> to spend some time prior to the workshop, during the workshop and  
> after the workshop contributing to group whitepapers. Participants  
> will have a chance to present their own work, develop new  
> collaborations and learn from other participants and senior experts  
> from an international diversity of disciplines and approaches.
>
> For the purposes of this workshop, we define "young scholars" as  
> within 10 years of a PhD, or graduate students or if working, within  
> 10 years of starting your career. We are interested in scholars and  
> professionals in a wide variety of fields from city and regional  
> planning to global biogeochemistry, from history of cities to  
> economics to engineering.
>
> Please send a CV, letter of recommendation, statement of interest  
> (<1 page) to apply by March 1, 2010 to CCSF-SummerInst at cornell.edu.  
> This workshop is sponsored by the Cornell Center for a Sustainable  
> Future (http://www.sustainablefuture.cornell.edu/index.php) and  
> AIMES Young Scholars Network (http://www.aimes.ucar.edu/ysn/ ). We  
> plan to fund all participants travel and local expenses.
> -- 
>
> Natalie Mahowald, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
> Cornell University, Snee 2140, Ithaca, NY 14853,
> phone: 607-255-5166, fax:607-254-4780, email: nmm63 at cornell.edu
> http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/PeoplePlaces/Faculty/mahowald/
>
> Spring, 2010: Tuesdays and Thursdays office Bradfield 1104
> phone: 303-931-8708