post-doc announcement
FYI..Stefanie --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Please accept our apology for cross-postings. POST-DOC IN MARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY Marine Conservation Biology Institute is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow starting Fall 1997 or shortly thereafter. This will be a one- year position with possible renewal and will be based at MCBI's Headquarters in Redmond WA USA. Salary: high 20s-low 30s. MCBI is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to advancing the science of marine conservation biology. The person who is chosen will work closely with MCBI's staff--President Elliott Norse (Headquarters), Program Director Amy Mathews-Amos (DC Office) and Program Assistant Aaron Tinker (Headquarters)--to: 1) develop emerging issues in marine conservation biology. This involves using library research, networking with colleagues, and organizing and running scientific workshops. The goal is to find scientific information relevant to under-appreciated threats to marine biodiversity or ways to protect, restore or sustainably use it, then to synthesize this information into a coherent "issue" for decision makers and the public to catalyze action; 2) help build a compelling case for establishing a federal funding mechanism for marine conservation biology research in the USA; 3) publish on marine conservation biology issues in the peer- reviewed scientific literature and in popular media; 4) serve as a spokesperson on one or more issues relevant to MCBI's mission at scientific meetings, to the news media, to government agencies or to Congress, as needed; and 5) help MCBI raise funds by writing proposals to continue this work. The successful candidate will be a very broadly trained Ph.D. or equivalent in a marine biological field such as marine ecology, biological oceanography, invertebrate zoology, seabird biology, fisheries biology, biogeography, population genetics or epidemiology. Individuals with demonstrable expertise in a broad range of disciplines, regions, taxa, tools and issues will be favored. This position requires not only strong knowledge of the marine realm and interest in conservation, but also a multidisciplinary approach, outstanding writing skills, excellent people skills and exceptional ability to work towards a shared goal as part of a close- knit team. We especially encourage inquiries by people in groups that have been under-represented in the sciences. To apply, please send a 2-page resume (NOT an exhaustive CV) and a cover letter of no more than two pages that includes names and complete contact information for 3-5 referees, or its equivalent as an e-mail message (not an encoded attachment) or fax. For those who will be attending the first Symposium on Marine Conservation Biology at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology at the University of Victoria, Victoria BC, you are welcome to bring these materials and talk with MCBI staff. The Symposium runs from the evening of June 6 to the evening of June 9, 1997, but Elliott, Amy and Aaron plan to be at UVic starting on June 5, and will be happy to meet with candidates before the Symposium starts or, thereafter, as time allows. For information about the Symposium and to register for the SCB Annual Meeting, please visit: http://geography.geog.uvic.ca/dept/announce/scb_page.html on the World Wide Web. For information about MCBI, please visit: http://www.mcbi.org Stefanie S. Rixecker Department of Resource Management Lincoln University, Canterbury Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NETSOURCES: PCAH Report on the H-Net web site
Hello All: Since environmental education can take on many forms, I thought this report might be of interest to some US-based members of ECOFEM. Cheers, Stefanie --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Subject: NETSOURCES: PCAH Report on the H-Net web site The President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities report, "Creative America: A Report to the President" is now available on the H-Net website at http://h-net2.msu.edu/arts.html. The PCAH is a presidential advisory committee intended to "stimulate private sector support and public-private partnerships for the arts and the humanities and to raise public awareness of the benefits of culture to society." "Creative America" details PCAH's findings concerning strengthening support for the arts and humanities from private sector funding and from the federal government. The Report is in Portable Document Format(PDF). PDF is a cross-platform electronic publishing medium. When downloaded to your home or office computer and opened using Adobe's Acrobat Reader, "Creative America" will display as an on-screen publication. To view and print "Creative America", you first need to download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. A download link is available on this web page. The software is available for Macintosh, Windows 3.1, Windows95, HP-UX, SunOS, and Solaris(R). Stefanie S. Rixecker Department of Resource Management Lincoln University, Canterbury Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Review of Joan Scott, _Only Paradoxes To Offer_
Dear All: H-Net has an excellent system of book reviews, and this is one of the examples. I forward it here because I think the book and the review have relevance to ECOFEM. Best wishes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Forwarded Message Follows --- --- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 09:27:46 -0400 Sender: H-Net Review Project Distribution List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: H-Net Review Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Schalk on Scott, _Only Paradoxes To Offer_ H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (January, 1997) Joan Wallach Scott, _Only Paradoxes To Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man_. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. xiii + 229 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-63930-8. Reviewed for H-France by David L. Schalk, Vassar College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Those of us who have read and re-read, often assigned, and long admired Joan Scott's prize-winning first book, _The Glassworkers of Carmaux_ (Harvard University Press, 1974), may have been surprised to see her carve out a reputation as a leading feminist historian. One might have expected her to have become an eminent social historian, probably focusing on the development of the modern industrial labor force. I went back and checked the index of _Glassworkers_, and there is only one woman listed, the early socialist organizer, Paule Minck. Minck is cited strictly for her political role in introducing socialism to Carmaux in 1882. Indeed, the word "feminism" does not appear in the index of _Glassworkers_. Social history's loss is feminist history's gain, and Joan Scott has given us a book of extraordinary brilliance and lucidity. It is carefully structured, with a theoretical introduction, four substantive case studies that move effortlessly back and forth between theory and praxis, and an illuminating conclusion discussing the condition of Frenchwomen and of French feminism since women began to vote and to hold office in 1945 (though, and this is part of the paradox, their parliamentary representation has always been very small, even minuscule). This work is a model of theoretically informed scholarship, setting up its arguments with clarity and concision. Scott has acquired an amazing command of the most abstruse theory, a command that a professional philosopher might well envy--and ought to imitate--in that she makes complex theoretical points with such precision and elegant simplicity that the layperson can follow her arguments without difficulty. On several occasions after reading a particularly succinct and luminously clear theoretical formulation, I went to her footnotes to see what philosopher she was relying on at that point in her argument, and found a reference to the notoriously indecipherable Jacques Derrida! Joan Scott lays out the central paradox she is determined to examine (but not resolve, since technically a paradox is unresolvable) so concisely that I quote it here: Feminism was a protest against women's political exclusion; its goal was to eliminate 'sexual difference' in politics, but it had to make its claims on behalf of 'woman' (who were discursively produced through 'sexual difference'). To the extent that it acted for 'women,' feminism produced the 'sexual difference' it sought to eliminate. This paradox-the need both to accept and to refuse 'sexual difference'--was the constitutive condition of feminism as a political movement throughout its long history (pp. 3-4). On one level Scott's book is a history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French feminism, an always interesting, often moving account of the efforts of a series of brilliant, energetic, determined French women to acquire political rights. None of her principal characters lived to see their primordial goal of suffrage realized. Scott's most recent subject, Madeleine Pelletier, died in 1939, five years before the Committee of National Liberation, then based in Algiers, issued an ordinance enfranchising women. Hence one of the key questions Scott addresses in her work (subsumed under the generic or all-encompassing paradox discussed above), is to explain the "repetitious quality of their Ythe feminists" actions" (p. 3). Joan Scott began her project with a study of Olympe de Gouges, who in a statement of 1788--describing herself as a "woman who has only paradoxes to offer and not problems easy to resolve"--provided Scott with her marvelous title. As is well known, the elusive and imaginative but obviously in the end deadly serious de Gouges paid with her life in 1793 for her early feminist writing and political action. Scott's discussion of de Gouges is subtly combined with a concise articulation of the beginnings of feminism in France. After completing her study of de Gouges, Scott decided to continue the "deconstruction of the 'equality versus difference' opposition," and "began to
ECO-INFORMA'97/FWD-LONG
FYI...Stefanie --- Forwarded Message Follows --- ECO-INFORMA'97 GSF - Research Center for Environment and Health Neuherberg (near Munich), Germany October 6-9, 1997 http://geowww.geo.tcu.edu/ensc/ecoinforma97/eco97.html MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH ISSUES In Conjunction with ECO-INFORMA'97: ecomed'97 - UMWELT und MEDIZIN German Language Conference October 9-10, 1997 GSF - Research Center for Environment and Health Neuherberg, (near Munich), Germany Chairmen: - Otto Hutzinger, University of Bayreuth, Germany Helmut Greim, GSF, Neuherberg, Germany Hartmut Frank, University of Bayreuth, Germany Organizing Committee: - Josef Brandt, Technical University of Munich, Germany Peter Fabian, Technical University of Munich, Germany Heidelore Fiedler, BIfA GmbH, Augsburg, Germany Ulrich Deffner, GSF, Neuherberg, Germany Almut Heinrich, ecomed publishers, Landsberg, Germany Matthias Hilpert, University of Bayreuth, Germany Antonius Kettrup, GSF, Neuherberg, Germany Ulla Schroedel, GSF, Neuherberg, Germany Kristina Voigt, GSF, Neuherberg, Germany H.-Erich Wichmann, GSF, Neuherberg, Germany Eco-Informa USA: Ken Morgan, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA Leo Newland, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA International Scientific Advisory Committee: Ernst-Guenter Afting, GSF, Neuherberg, Germany Sergio Facchetti, European Commission, Ispra, Italy Ned Fleming, NASA, Houston, USA William C. Harris, Biosphere 2 Center, Oracle, USA Werner Hauthal, University of Leipzig, Germany Jamshid Hosseinpour, Oekometric, Bayreuth, Germany Herwig Hulpke, Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany Georg Karlaganis, BUWAL, Bern, Switzerland Walter Kloepffer, CAU, Dreieich, Germany Don Mackay, Trent University, Canada Michael Matthies, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Canice Nolan, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Gerald Schimak, Research Centre, Seibersdorf, Austria Gerrit Schueuermann, UFZ, Leipzig-Halle, Germany Alarich Riss, Environmental Agency, Vienna, Austria Henry Robitaille, EPCOT, Lake Buena Vista, USA Robert Rogers, ERIM, Ann Arbor, USA Alvin Young, USDA, Washington, USA List of Sponsors: - GSF-Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA ecomed publishers, Landsberg, Germany EPCOT, Lake Buena Vista, USA Environmental Agency, Vienna, Austria ERIM, Ann Arbor, USA European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy NASA, Houston, USA U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, USA Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA Invited Lectures Michael Matthies, University of Osnabrueck, Germany: "Combination of Regional Exposure Models with GIS Information" Don Mackay, Trent University, Canada: "Mass Balance Models for Regulatory and Monitoring Programs" Kristina Voigt, GSF, Neuherberg, Germany: "From Online Databases to Internet Resources" Leo Newland, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA: "Environmental Resources on the Internet" Gerald Vollmer, European Commission, Ispra, Italy: "EUSES - a Practical Tool for Risk Assessment" Gerrit Schueuermann, UFZ, Leipzig-Halle, Germany: "QSAR in Environmental Toxicology" Peter Wiedemann, Research Center, Juelich, Germany: "Risk Communication and Responsible Care" Margaret MacDonell, Argonne National Lab., Chicago, USA: "Environmental Risk Assessment" Ken Morgan, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA: "GIS and Remote Sensing for Environmental Applications" Walter Kloepffer, CAU, Dreieich, Germany: "Life Cycle Assessment" Paul Brunner, Technical University Vienna, Austria: "Materials Flow Analysis, a Tool to Improve Decision Making in Resource and Waste Management" Heidelore Fiedler, BIfA GmbH, Augsburg, Germany: "Assessment of Waste Management Methods" Jamshid Hosseinpour, Oekometric, Bayreuth, Germany: "Environmental Labelling" Henry Robitaille, EPCOT, Lake Buena Vista, USA "Sustainable Agriculture" Werner Geiger, Research Center, Karlsruhe, Germany: "Expert Information on Contaminated Soil via Internet/Intranet, CD-ROM and Print Media" Gerald Schimak, Research Centre, Seibersdorf, Austria: "Environmental Monitoring on the Internet" Rainer Brueggemann, Institute for Hydrology, Berlin, Germany: "A Generalized Order Concept - a Helpful Tool for Decision Support in Environmental Sciences" Johann Gasteiger, University of Erlangen, Germany: "Computer-Aided Methods for Prediction
