The meeting will bring together the project and working group members of the three GEWEX Panels [GEWEX Radiation Panel (GRP), GEWEX Modelling and Prediction Panel (GMPP), Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observations Project (CEOP)] to develop and discuss a plan for GEWEX science post 2013.

The Woods Hole Research Center seeks a postdoctoral researcher to participate in a tropical forest research project related to mapping forest cover changes and estimating carbon stock changes. The successful candidate will work closely with the principle investigator and collaborators on applying remote sensing image analysis techniques. This position offers research and training opportunities in an advanced remote sensing and GIS environment, with related travel to tropical forest countries for fieldwork and remote sensing capacity building.

Moran, both an IU Bloomington Distinguished Professor and the James H. Rudy Professor of Anthropology, is an internationally recognized ecological and environmental anthropologist whose research has focused on aspects of the human dimensions of environmental change. Congratulations Emilio Moran!

All oral or poster presenters are encouraged to submit a full paper for the workshop proceedings. Deadline for submission of full papers (6-12 pages): 10 th September, 2010

Bridging the data gap for adaptation to climate change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region.

Focusing on wetlands and emphasizing the social science component of A.4 Land-Cover and Land-Use Change.

Amendment 5: Focusing on wetlands and emphasizing the social science component of A.4 Land-Cover and Land-Use Change.

For paper presentation: Submission of abstract 30 Jun 2010 Notification of acceptance 15 Jul 2010 Registration (for presenters) 30 Jul 2010, Submission of print ready version 24 Sept 2010, For poster presentation, submission of abstract 30 Jul 2010, notification of acceptance 15 Aug 2010 registration (for presenters) 30 Aug 2010 last date for registration (for all participants) 31 Aug 2010 Symposium dates 4-6 Oct 2010

Deforestation could hasten global warming, experts say. Scientists have discovered that Russia's ancient forests, the stuff of fairy tales, are also magnificent carbon containers, and that the elimination of this natural habitat could bring about catastrophic climate change.

The United States lost more than 46,000 square miles of forest in those years, a size roughly equivalent to the state of Pennsylvania. That's about 6% of the nation's forested land. That's the most of the seven countries that have over 1 million square kilometers of forest, says study lead author Matthew Hansen of South Dakota State University.