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Call for Applications - CHANS Fellowships
With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS-Net) is pleased to call for applications for 2011 CHANS Fellowships. The selected CHANS Fellows will present posters or give talks in accepted symposia at the 2011 AAAS meeting and attend the symposium "Telecoupling of Human and Natural Systems" and a number of other related symposia. They will have opportunities to interact with the speakers at the symposia who are active in CHANS research, to learn the latest developments in CHANS research, and to build professional networks with other attendees. The symposia will be held at the annual meeting of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) in Washington, D.C., from February 17-21, 2011.
Approximately 10 fellowships (up to $1,000 each) will be provided to select graduate students, postdoctoral associates, junior faculty members, and/or other junior researchers in other institutions around the world to defray expenses associated with attending the meeting. Applications will be judged on the merits of the applicants' abstracts, financial need, and professional backgrounds and goals. Members of under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Preference will be given to CHANS-Net members. To join CHANS-Net, simply visit the CHANS-Net web site (http://www.chans-net.org/) and follow the link to “Join CHANS-Net” (No membership fee).
All applications must be RECEIVED by October 25, 2010. The selection will be made by mid-December, 2010.
Interested individuals should prepare the following application materials:
- Cover letter (e.g., statement of professional goals, need for financial support)
- Resume or Curriculum Vitae
- Abstract for presentation (Abstract must also be submitted to the AAAS web site by October 25, 2010; visit AAAS Poster Abstract Submissions for instructions and send AAAS abstract submission confirmation)
- Budget (Expenses and Funding)
- Support from your department (from e.g., Departmental Chair, Postdoctoral Supervisor, Major Advisor)
Note: The online application will be available here in September.
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CHANS Events at the 2011 AAAS Annual Meeting
The main venue for CHANS-Net events in 2011 will be the AAAS Annual Meeting, to be held in Washington, DC, February 17-21. The meeting's theme, "Science Without Borders" is very apt, and we look forward to capitalizing on this opportunity to communicate CHANS science to an even broader audience of researchers in a variety of disciplines, as well as to journalists and policy makers from around the world.
Symposia
The meeting will feature a number of CHANS-related symposia, including:
- Self-organization and resource use in a small-scale tropical socio-ecological system
| Organizer: |
Jose MV Fragoso, Stanford University |
Call for Posters
CHANS research may also be presented in either the General or Student Poster Sessions at the AAAS meeting. The deadline for submitting poster abstracts is Monday, 25 October 2010. For details, visit AAAS Poster Sessions.
Call for Applications for CHANS Fellowships
CHANS-Net plans to support a group of about 10 CHANS Fellows (e.g., junior faculty, postdoctoral associates, and graduate students) to attend the AAAS meeting, present posters or give talks in accepted symposia, and learn from speakers at CHANS symposia. We also plan to organize other events to facilitate interactions among CHANS researchers at the meeting. Applications will be due on Monday, 25 October 2010. For more information, please visit CHANS-Net opportunities.
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CHANS Events at 2010 Annual Meeting of the AAG
The 2010 AAG (Association of American Geographers) Annual meeting in Washington, D.C., April 14th-16th, drew approximately 7,000 participants from all over the world. The CHANS sessions consisted of nine oral, panel and illustrated paper sessions in which approximately 50 CHANS scientists presented original and innovative research emphasizing reciprocal interactions between human and natural systems (i.e., not only human impacts on the environment, but also impacts of the environment on humans), at multiple spatial, temporal, and organizational scales (event schedule). Interest in the sessions was strong, with some drawing standing-room only audiences.
CHANS-Net supported 10 CHANS Fellows to participate in these events. The Fellows were presented with their awards at the banquet, with addresses from CHANS-Net Advisory Board member Billie Lee Turner II and NSF Senior Science Advisor Thomas Baerwald. To view comments about the Fellows' experiences, visit 2010 AAG CHANS Fellows Comments.
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CHANS Event at the National Science Foundation
A special symposium entitled "Frontiers in Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): Current Progress and Future Opportunities" was held at the National Science Foundation headquarters on the afternoon of April 15, 2010. The symposium enabled CHANS scientists to engage with representatives from multiple directorates and divisions of NSF and representatives of other federal agencies. The event began with a set of short presentations on critical CHANS contexts and on methodological and conceptual advances by PIs of a few select projects. This was followed by a lively discussion on prospects and opportunities.
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CHANS-Net Events at 2010 Annual Meeting of the US-IALE
CHANS-Net supported the participation of 10 CHANS Fellows in the 2010 Annual Meeting US-IALE (US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology) in Athens, Georgia, April 5th-9th, 2010. CHANS Fellows joined the annual roundtable banquet of the NASA-MSU Fellowship program at the meeting. Comments about their experience can be found at CHANS-Net.org.
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Other Information:
- The CHANS community lost one of its leading scholars recently with the passing of Steve Schneider of Stanford University, a co-author of the foundational CHANS works published in Ambio and Science. A touching memoir by colleague Paul Ehrlich appears in the August 13 issue of Science.
- A CHANS session will be held at the joint conference of the Global Land Project and the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project to be held at Arizona State University, October 15-19, 2010.
- A centennial tribute conference to Ester Boserup entitled "Long-term trajectories in population, gender relations, land use, and the environment" will be held on November 15-17, 2010 at the Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
- Lin Ostrom, advisory board member of CHANS-Net, who has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, will be delivering this year's Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture on December 10, 2010 at the Kellogg Center on the campus of Michigan State University, where she will also receive an Honorary Degree of Science. Her lecture will be entitled, "Institutional Robustness: How Institutional Arrangements Facilitate or Detract from Efforts to Sustain Ecological Systems". The lecture series has previously honored CHANS-Net Advisory Board members William Clark, Ruth DeFries, Simon Levin and Billie Lee Turner II.
- A group of 2009 CHANS fellowship recipients is working collaboratively on a research project to assess the professional development, career paths, personal attitudes and experiences, career satisfaction and research outcomes of individuals involved in CHANS research. They aim to investigate how CHANS researchers are trained and how their training may influence the aforementioned elements of their overall career path, which will be an important contribution to future development of CHANS research and programs and institutions supporting it.
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