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Venue announced for Third Symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World

A consortium of institutions and organizations from Monterey, California has successfully bid to host the third symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO₂ World in autumn 2012. The symposium aims to attract more than 300 of the world's leading scientists to discuss the impacts of ocean acidification on marine organisms, ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles. It will also cover socio-economic consequences of ocean acidification, including policy and management implications. 

The symposium is sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, and International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), which selected the Monterey consortium from eight bids to host the meeting. The international Planning Committee is led by Prof. Dr. Ulf Riebesell of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (Germany), and the local organization is led by Dr. Jim Barry of Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and supported by a consortium of institutions. Click here for more information.

Seeking Executive Officer for IGAC

The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC; http://www.igac.noaa.gov), a core project of IGBP, is seeking to hire a new Executive Officer. This position is with the University of Washington's Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO), a cooperative research institute between UW and NOAA.  The incumbent will work at the JISAO facility on the University of Washington campus (Wallace Hall) in Seattle.

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UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change selects 62 members of the IGBP community for next report

The IPCC has published the names of coordinating lead authors, lead authors and reviewers for its Fifth Assessment Report due to be published in 2014. Sixty two experts from the IGBP community - scientific steering committees, national committees, networks - have been selected as authors or reviewers. The IGBP community will contibute to all three IPCC working groups. For a complete list of authors see the IPCC website.

Just published: special issue of Energy Policy focusing on cities

Energy Policy: Carbon Emissions and Carbon Management in Cities. Edited by Shobhakar Dhakal and Ram M. Shrestha.

Ocean acidification, IGBP's climate change index, planetary boundaries and IPCC mistakes discussed at UNFCCC meeting in Bonn.

Webcast of presentations from the international global-change programmes at the UNFCCC talks in Bonn, yesterday. IGBP director, Sybil Seitzinger, discusses ocean acidification. Rik Leemans from the Earth System Science Parntership discusses mistakes in the IPCC report, the planetary boundaries concept and the IGBP climate change index.

Major global-change conference focusing on solutions announced

The UK has successfully bid to host a major international science conference in 2012. The London conference, Planet Under Pressure: new knowledge, new solutions, aims to attract 2500 of the world's leading thinkers on global-change research.

The four-day conference is sponsored by the International Council for Science's (ICSU) global-environmental-change research programmes. It will bring together natural, physical and social scientists, together with economists. It will also involve  engineers, health specialists and many others disciplines, plus with national and international policymakers, industry representatives, technologists, NGOs and development experts.

The conference will help provide a scientific focus for the 2012 Earth Summit, Rio +20.

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