-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Summer scholarships on global change issues Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:39:17 -0600 From: umbagava@cc.umanitoba.ca To: godardbd@cc.umanitoba.ca

Hi Bev, Please forward this to all graduate students in plant science.

Thank you! Muthu

From: Julia Olmstead jeo@iastate.edu Date: 3 nov. 2006 15:12 Subject: [nsa-fellows] Fwd: For Graduate Students interested in Global Change - IIASA To: NSA-Fellows@lists.landinstitute.org

To: IIASA Government Liaisons

Dear Colleague,

I am writing to ask for your help in publicizing an excellent summer opportunity for graduate students interested in relating their work to global change issues. The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located just outside Vienna, Austria, each year sponsors a fellowship program for graduate students who are studying in fields relevant to IIASA's work on global change issues. About 50-60 graduate students from around the world spend the summer working closely with IIASA senior researchers, on projects relevant to each student's thesis topic. They end the summer with an international network of colleagues interested in various aspects of global change issues, and often have produced a paper that can be published.

The application deadline for the 2007 YSSP Program is January 15, 2007 and we want to spread the word about this great opportunity as widely as possible. Please help by forwarding the announcement to as many appropriate colleagues, graduate students, graduate department secretaries, career service departments, and listservers as possible, and post the flyer anywhere you think a potential applicant might see it.

The YSSP program is unlike any other in offering graduate students in a broad range of natural and social science, mathematical, and engineering fields an opportunity to work in an international setting on projects that allow them to explore the policy implications of their work. IIASA's projects all look at one or another aspect of global change. However, they range from very technical systems modeling work in the Dynamic Systems program and mathematical ecology in Evolution and Ecology, to integration of policy, economics, and demography in the Population Program and the Risk and Vulnerability Program -- in addition to natural science-based projects like Forestry and Land Use. Moreover, there are energy and technology modeling programs, and the Atmospheric Pollution Program, whose models have been used in air pollution treaty negotiations in Europe and Asia. So -- interested students might come from earth and atmospheric sciences, policy and technology programs, economics and management programs, political science, biology, geography, physics, civil engineering, applied math, demography, fisheries, international relations, energy and environmental studies, and probably others that I'm not thinking of.

The attached brochure (in Word) is suitable for posting; the text of the Word file is appended below the signature, so you can just cut and paste it into email messages. In addition, I'm attaching a page from the January 2004 Nature Magazine "Naturejobs" section that features a short article on a 2004 YSSP participant. And an October 13, 2006 Science profile of IIASA researcher Brian O'Neill can be accessed from the NMO website, http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-iiasa/index.html.

We would very much appreciate anything you can do to help get the word out. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Very truly yours,

Maggie Goud Collins

Margaret R. Goud Collins, PhD Program Director, US NMO Committee for IIASA The National Academies Board on International Scientific Organizations Policy and Global Affairs The National Academies 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001

phone: (508)548-2502 email: mcollins@nas.edu IIASA website: www.iiasa.ac.at US IIASA NMO website: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-iiasa/index.html mailing address: 29 Loop Rd. Falmouth, MA 02540

Senior Program Associate: Elizabeth Briggs PGA/BISO WS1010 500 5th St. NW Washington, DC 20001 Email: Ebriggs@nas.edu phone: (202)334-1933

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