[Grad-postdoc-assn] Fwd: ASP
Maura Hagan
hagan at ucar.edu
Tue Feb 23 08:00:31 MST 2010
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
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