ISPE Bulletin 7/7/08

In this Issue

Announcements:

1. Yale Report: Environmental Challenges Require Values Shift
2. Cultivating Grantmaker Relationships
3. Hydrogen from Renewables
4. New funding opportunities
5. This week's seminars
6. Congratulations to the Faculty Exploratory Research Grant recipients
7. 2008 Monsoon Weather Discussion
8. About this listserv

1. Yale Report: Environmental Challenges Require Values Shift

The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies convened a group of leaders representing the natural sciences, social sciences, philosophy, communications, education, religion, ethics, public policy, business, philanthropy, history, the creative arts, and the humanities, to examine the role of cultural values and worldviews in environmentally destructive behavior in modern, affluent societies. A report, "Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities," synthesizes the insights and recommendations from the conference.

The report is available at http://environment.yale.edu/newconsciousness.

2. Cultivating Grantmaker Relationships

The course, Cultivating Grantmaker Relationships, teaches participants how to make the initial contact, help funders feel connected to the mission, cultivate grantmaker relationships throughout the grant process, and secure long-term stability for projects. The course will be offered on July 11 at the Foundation Center in Washington. Registration costs $195 per person.

For more information, visit http://foundationcenter.org/marketplace/catalog/product_training.jhtml?id=prod1920021.

3. Hydrogen from Renewables

The 2008 Hydrogen From Renewables Fall Forum will present everything one needs to know about renewable energy and its essential link to the clean production of hydrogen. The forum will be held September 22-24 in Golden, Colorado.

For more information, visit http://www.hydrogenforums.org.

4. New funding opportunities

ISPE maintains a database of funding opportunities for environmental research. For more details and a complete list, visit:
http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/resources/funding/database.asp

There were no new funding opportunities added last week.

5. This week's seminars

For more details and a list of UA environmental seminars, visit the ISPE seminars page:
http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/events/seminars.asp

There are no seminars scheduled this week.

6. Congratulations to the Faculty Exploratory Research Grant recipients

ISPE would like to congratulate the following recipients of the 2008-09 Faculty Exploratory Research Grants:

Lisa Graumlich, Professor and Director, School of Natural Resources, for Climate Change, Wildlife Corridors and Connectivity in the Western U.S.: Developing UA’s Capacity for Assessment and Adaptation at Regional Scales

Julia Cole, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, for Spatial Patterns of Sedimentation on East African Reefs

Kathleen Lohse, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources, for Influence of Climate and Increased Variability of Precipitation on Coupled Water, Nutrient and Carbon Dynamics and Losses

To read more about ISPE Faculty Exploratory Research Grants, visit http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/resources/funding/faculty_grants.html.

7. 2008 Monsoon Weather Discussion

Beginning on Monday, June 23, the Department of Atmospheric Sciences will hold briefings about the 2008 monsoon. The discussion will take place at 11:30 AM on Mondays and Wednesdays until the monsoon proper arrives, and will meet daily at the same time once it does arrive.

For more information, visit http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/news/articles/general/monsoonbrief.html.

8. About this listserv

[ISPE_ANNOUNCE] is a listserv for faculty, staff, students, and others associated with the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. The purpose of this list is to provide the UA community and our partners with timely information about ISPE-related events, funding opportunities, publications, research, and other items of interest. Submissions: email information for our weekly bulletin by Friday at noon to Teresa Carochi, teresac@email.arizona.edu.

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