The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that can help reduce the potential impact of climate change on estuaries, forests, wetlands, coral reefs, and other sensitive ecosystems. The report, entitled Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources, identifies strategies to protect the environment as these changes occur.
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On July 18, 2008, the U.S. National Committee for Soil Science (USNC/SS) of the National Academy of Sciences will be hosting a symposium, “Soil:Sustaining Life on Planet Earth.” The symposium is co-sponsored by the Soil Science Society of America and the International Union of Soil Sciences.
The symposium will be held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
Speakers include David Montgomery, Daniel Richter, Diana Wall, and Rattan Lal. For more information and to RSVP, see http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-ss/Soil_Sustains.html.
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The Pollinator Partnership is coordinating the 2nd Annual National Pollinator Week, scheduled for June 22-28, 2008, to raise awareness about the importance of pollinators. Events are scheduled throughout the United States and Canada including lectures, workshops, festivals and fairs, art displays, organized hikes, family fun and field days, and open houses.
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The scientific and academic communities for several years have been concerned that many technologies currently included on the federal Commerce Control List (CCL) are too broad and out of date. The CCL is the list used by the U.S. government in deemed export decisions.
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EPA invites you to join EPA’s National Dialogue on Access to Environmental Information. Today, June 9, begins a week of on-line dialogue with our environmental information partners to hear your ideas about how we can enhance information access.
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Brian Greene, a professor of physics at Columbia, writes in the Sunday New York Times (June 1, 2008), “. . . Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective…..To be able to think through and grasp explanations — for everything from why the sky is blue to how life formed on earth — not because they are declared dogma but rather because they reveal patterns confirmed by experiment and observation, is one of the most precious of human experiences.”
If you do science, if you do teach science, if you care about science, I commend the full essay to you. It’s at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01greene.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=put%20a%20little%20science%20in%20your%20life&st=cse&oref=slogin
Contributed by Cliff Duke, Ecological Society of America
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On behalf of the NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB), we would like you to know that the SAB is currently soliciting nominations for its Ecosystem Sciences and Management Working Group.
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