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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Training Opportunity
• Positions Available
• New Publications
• Meetings

Training Opportunity

The Leopold Leadership Program at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University invites applications for its 2008 fellowships. The program's mission is to advance environmental decision-making by providing academic environmental scientists with the skills and connections needed to be effective leaders and communicators. The deadline to apply is 16 April 2007. Through a competitive process, up to 20 Fellows will be selected to participate in an intensive training program in 2008.

The program seeks candidates with terminal degrees from a broad range of disciplines including biological, physical, and social sciences (e.g., economics, political science) and technical, medical, and engineering fields (e.g., wildlife veterinary medicine, environmental health, hazardous waste management) related to the environment. Applicants must be employed by an academic institution in Canada, Mexico, or the United States; be at mid-career as a tenured or tenure-track professor (associate professor or professor level or equivalent); and be active in teaching and research. Training dates for 2008 are 22-29 June (Connecticut) and 12-19 September (Washington, D.C.). Training is conducted in English and focused on United States-based institutions, audiences, and policy making. Full details and application documents are available at www.leopoldleadership.org. Support for the Leopold Leadership Program is provided by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Positions Available

Defenders of Wildlife seeks a Climate Change Scientist to lead the organization in understanding the impacts of climate change on wildlife and its habitat, developing adaptation strategies to mitigate the impacts over the next century, and communicating these impacts and strategies to policymakers, media, and the public. This scientist will maintain his or her credibility within the climate change science community, and will be encouraged to engage in entrepreneurial research and creative outreach in support of adaptive policy and management solutions to climate change. The candidate will shape an innovative vision for addressing climate change impacts and responses in the context of other major threats to biological diversity. Qualifications include an advanced degree in wildlife conservation, conservation planning, or a related field in the natural resource sciences; diverse experience with climate change science, preferably involving connections to important themes in conservation biology and conservation policy; demonstrated ability to work independently to initiate, implement, apply or publish scientific research and to communicate such research to both professional and lay audiences; and familiarity with some of the major climate research organizations, such as the U.S. Climate Change Science Program or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. For more information, please reference Climate Change Scientist and contact HR, Defenders of Wildlife, 1130 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-4604, USA, HR@Defenders.org.

Defenders of Wildlife seeks a Conservation Science Assistant Intern for its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The intern will conduct literature reviews and archive data on key issues related to wildlife management, habitat protection, climate change impacts, and other conservation topics. Responsibilities will include organizing and distributing literature and technical documents to organization staff; reviewing and editing listing petitions, comment letters, and other technical documents related to the U.S. Endangered Species Act; designing and preparing educational posters and presentations; and reviewing, editing, and writing fact sheets and other publications. Qualifications include strong research, writing, and organizational skills and undergraduate or graduate study in an appropriate discipline. A stipend of US$1000 per month for three to six months will be provided. Candidates must be able to commit to the position for a minimum of 12 weeks. For more information visit www.defenders.org. To apply, send a resume and cover letter by email (HR@Defenders.org), FAX (1 202 682-1331) or mail (Attn: HR, Defenders of Wildlife, 1130 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-4604, USA).

COMPASS / SeaWeb (COMmunication PArtnership for Science and Sea) seeks an Assistant Director of Science-Media Outreach. COMPASS is a partnership of SeaWeb, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Center for the Future of the Oceans (CCFO), and academic scientists at Oregon State University, Stanford University, and the University of New Hampshire. The position will act as a liaison between marine scientists and journalists, helping scientists to translate scientific research into public understanding and awareness of ocean issues. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in science journalism and an ability to accurately translate complex scientific information while showing its salience to society. An educational degree(s) in marine science, law, political science or equivalent is desirable. Applications will be accepted until a qualified candidate is found. For more information, please contact Nancy Baron, 1 805 892-2515 or 1 805 450-3158, baron@nceas.ucsb.edu.

New Publications

The Asia Section of SCB is pleased to announce the publication of Conservation Biology in Asia in November 2006. The volume is dedicated to the 24 conservationists who lost their lives in the line of duty in a helicopter crash in eastern Nepal on 23 September, 2006. The 461-page book has 29 papers edited by Jeff McNeely, Tom McCarthy, Andrew Smith, Linda Whittaker and Eric Wikramnayake. The book is indexed by subject, country, and author. Partial support for the publication was provided by SCB and Resources Himalaya Foundation. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the book, please contact Pralad Yonzon, Resources Himalaya Foundation, GPO Box 2448, Kathmandu, Nepal, +977 1 5537502, FAX +977 1 5551930, habitat@resourceshimalaya.org.

In December 2006, the Desert Fishes Team released the report An Analysis of Recovery Plan Implementation for Threatened and Endangered Warm Water Fishes of the Gila River Basin. The report found that federal and state agencies in the United States are failing to implement recovery plans for eight endangered and threatened fishes of the Gila River basin in Arizona and New Mexico. The analysis found that approved recovery plans for these species, which have been in place for nine to 28 years, provide sound conservation programs, but few recommended actions have been implemented. The report concluded that non-native fishes and other aquatic species are the principal barrier to recovery of warm water fishes in the Gila River basin. Desert Fishes Team is an independent group of biologists from agencies, academia, and non-governmental organizations interested in conservation of native fishes in the desert southwest. The team's reports are available at www.nativefishlab.net or by contacting Desert Fishes Team, P.O. Box 16815, Phoenix, AZ 85011-6815, USA, stefferud@cox.net.

The international Estuarine Research Federation (ERF) announces the publication of a special issue of Estuaries and Coasts, a bimonthly scientific journal that reports research about ecosystems at the land-sea interface. The December 2006 issue, focused on environmental impacts of hurricanes in coastal areas, is publicly available on ERF's Web site, www.erf.org. The special issue compiles results of research and long-term monitoring to examine large, anomalous storms in the context of long-term trends. Scientists and managers from more than 25 institutions contributed to the issue.

Meetings

The conference People and Land in a New Century: A Blueprint for Conservation That Works will be held 3-5 April 2007 in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. What conservation is today is highly debatable. What is not debatable, however, is that today's conservation is quite unlike what we have seen in the past. Focusing on topics ranging from livable cities to economic incentives, conference organizers hope to sketch a blueprint that captures the diverse and dynamic ingredients of an emerging conservation. Invited speakers are practitioners who are shaping how conservation currently is being implemented. Among the speakers will be Dan Kemmis, Jodi Hilty, Curt Meine, David Orr, Courtney White, Lora Lucero, Todd Graham, Diane Synder, Craig Groves, Jonathan Adams, Peter Forbes, William Ginn, Bob Budd, Tony Cheng, David Clesleioicz, and Rick Knight. The conference is free and open to all; registration is not necessary. For more information visit www.warnercnr.colostate.edu/plnc/

The 2007 annual meeting of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER), International Biobanking Standards, will be held 30 May - 2 June in Singapore. This will be the society's first meeting in the Asia Pacific region. The meeting will feature plenary sessions, interactive workshops, commercial workshops, contributed papers, poster sessions, and focused roundtable lunch discussions. Vendors from around the world will demonstrate the latest products, services, and technology in the field of repository and specimen collection. Topics will include animal and environmental repositories, biobanking in Asia and Australasia, plant and seed repositories, museum repositories, human specimen repositories, legal and ethical issues, repository information systems, repository technologies, cryogenics and cell preservation, and cell culture. For more information, visit www.isber.org/mtgs/2007/index.html or contact Robert Hewitt, Department of Pathology, National University Hospital, Singapore, +65 6772 4315, pathre@nus.edu.sg.

The Fourth International Partners In Flight Conference, Tundra to Tropics: Connecting Birds, Habitats and People, will be held 13-16 February 2008 in McAllen, Texas, USA. The conference theme will be shared with the 2008 International Migratory Bird Day (www.birdday.org/). The conference will focus on international connections that further bird and habitat conservation throughout the western hemisphere. Two types of concurrent paper sessions will focus on issues in bird conservation. In addition to standard sessions typical of meetings of scientific societies, sessions followed by a facilitated discussion session will aim to produce a strategic action plan to be distributed to all partners within weeks of the conference. The program also will include keynote speakers, vendors, social events, a poster session, a variety of single-day and multiple-day birding field trips, and a proceedings that will include papers developed from posters. Details will be posted on the Partners in Flight Web site (www.partnersinflight.org) and distributed through various bird conservation listservs as they develop. In the meantime, contact Terry Rich (terry_rich@fws.gov) with inquiries.

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