The NASA funded Global WELD project has generated 30m Landsat 5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM+ monthly and annual products on the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) supercomputer. Three years of products (2009-2011) are available as HDF tiled products at http://globalweld.cr.usgs.gov/collections and as single pixel time series and user defined GeoTIFF subsets at http://globalweld.cr.usgs.gov.

The NASA funded Global WELD project has generated 30m Landsat 5 TM and Landsat 7 ETM+ monthly and annual products on the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) supercomputer. Three years of products (2009-2011) are available as HDF tiled products at http://globalweld.cr.usgs.gov/collections and as single pixel time series and user defined GeoTIFF subsets at http://globalweld.cr.usgs.gov.

The Centre for Mountain Studies, in collaboration with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) and the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA), is organising a third conference – Perth III – on ‘Mountains of Our Future Earth’. This is a contribution to the global Future Earth programme, a 10-year international research initiative that will develop the knowledge for responding effectively to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change and supporting transformation towards global sustainability in the coming decades.

Conference Aims:

Elsevier journal Environmental Research (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-research/) is going to publish a Special Issue on the topic: The Provision of Ecosystem Services in Response to Global Change (Guest-editors: Raffaele Lafortezza & Jiquan Chen).

Postdoctoral Fellowships are available at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for Researchers in:

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has joined with several U.S. Government Agencies, such as NASA, to support Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER). PEER is a competitive grants program that invites scientists in developing countries to apply for funds to support research and capacity-building activities on topics with strong potential development impacts.