Trust Researchers - A declaration to the attention of the European Council of Ministers and the Parliament.

Sat, 20/03/2010 - 12:15 — stefan_reis

The Declaration of this initiative is addressing the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers in order to support the highly necessary and currently ongoing efforts towards simplification of European Research Programmes.

This initiative was announced also via Cordis:
https://cordis.europa.eu/

CEU Summer University: Ecosystem Vulnerability to Climate Change: Methods for Assessment, Observations, and Forecast, Budapest

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 07:34 — stefan_reis

CEU Summer University: Ecosystem Vulnerability to Climate Change: Methods for Assessment, Observations, and Forecast, Budapest, July 5 - 14, 2010

The deadline for applications is today, March 15

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Post Graduate Student in Natural Science Specialising Geography, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg

Thu, 11/03/2010 - 09:38 — agnieszka_eljasz

REF NO E 334 802/10 the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg.

The Faculty of Science Board.

Period of application until: 2010-04-01

Post Graduate Student wanted for taking part in the project ” Practicable tool for to estimate nitrous oxide from biomass-cropping in agriculture and forestry” funded by Swedish Energy Agency.

The BARSAC Declaration goes international

Sat, 06/02/2010 - 12:07 — stefan_reis

With the help of our partners in Hungary (thanks to Laszlo Horvath), the BARSAC declaration on a demitarian approach to reduce the impacts of meat production for food has been translated into Hungarian and published in a Hungarian Journal. See the attachement if you would like to read about Nitrogen in Hungarian for a change.If you would like to read more about the BARSAC declaration, you can find this on the ESF NinE website here.

Article "Fixing the Global Nitrogen Problem" in Scientific American, Feb 2010

Sat, 06/02/2010 - 09:24 — stefan_reis

Fixing the Global Nitrogen Problem

Humanity depends on nitrogen to fertilize croplands, but growing global use is damaging the environment and threatening human health. How can we chart a more sustainable path?

By Alan R. Townsend and Robert W. Howarth

Please see: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fixing-the-global-nitrogen-problem for the full story.

15 Positions at Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), JRC Ispra, Italy

Sat, 06/02/2010 - 07:09 — stefan_reis

Call for Interest for Grantholders at the Institute for Environment and Sustainability

THE CALL IS OPEN - Next cut-off: 28th February 2010 at 12:00 a.m. (Milan time)

Located in Ispra (Italy), the Institute for Environment and Sustainability is one of the seven institutes that constitute the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

Earth System Science 2010: Climate, Global Change and People

Mon, 25/01/2010 - 13:04 — stefan_reis

Earth System Science 2010: Climate, Global Change and People. 10-13 May 2010, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, UK.

This event is the First Open Science Conference of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme¹s project 'Analysis, Integration and Modelling of the Earth System' (AIMES), run in cooperation with QUEST, the UK Natural Environment Research Council's directed programme for Earth system science.

Gender Action Committee vote

Fri, 18/12/2009 - 08:59 — stefan_reis

Due to only a few female NEU participants voting up to now, we have reopened the poll for votes until Jan 27th.

The Gender Action Committee will meet on monday afternoon, from 16:00 - 16:30 in Solothurn to briefly discuss the outcome of the Career workshop and actions for the final year of
NitroEurope. Results of the vote and other items related to the Gender Action Committee will be reported in the GA on tuesday afternoon as well.

Nitrogen side event at COP15

Wed, 16/12/2009 - 12:42 — stefan_reis

A side event at COP15 in Copenhagen conveyed a strong message about the importance of a global assesment of the Nitrogen cycle.

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