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Scott Doney, Nominee for Chief Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate Scott Doney as Chief Scientist at NOAA. Doney is a senior scientist in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). His research focuses on marine ecosystem dynamics and the role of the ocean in the global carbon cycle. He returned to WHOI in 2002 following 11 years in the Advanced Study Program and Climate and Global Dynamics Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Doney is an AGU Fellow and Macelwane medalist.
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Call for Nominations — 2011 Alan T. Waterman Award
The National Science Foundation is pleased to accept nominations for the 2011 Alan T. Waterman Award. Each year, the Foundation bestows the Waterman Award to recognize the talent, creativity, and influence of a singular young researcher. Nominees are accepted from any field of science or engineering that NSF supports. Details about the Waterman award's history, the nomination procedure and the selection criteria can be found on NSF's Web site.
Climate scientist vilified by sceptics 'relieved, vindicated' and back at CRU
Climate scientist Phil Jones to lead research at CRU after third independent report clears his name and backs his science
Scientists and government officials in L'Aquila, Italy, are being investigated on charges of manslaughter for saying it was “improbable, although not impossible” that a severe earthquake would strike the city, just days before a Mw 6.3 earthquake killed 308 people in the city.
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02 September Deadlines:
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Geo-Congressional Visits Day
21–22 September, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Earth and space scientists will come to Capitol Hill to support federally funded research through agencies such as the NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, and DOE.
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In June 2007, a gleaming, 30-feet-tall tower was erected on the AGU building's roof, intended to enhance geoscience and national security. A team of researchers installed the tower and outfitted it with weather instruments to be used in a new scientific data-gathering network, known as UrbaNet.
The Washington, D.C.-area network is the first of its kind in the United States. The goal of the network's developers is to refine atmospheric models so that they can predict, neighborhood by neighborhood, where a plume of toxic or radioactive contaminants will go. Such a plume might be released from an accident or terrorist attack.
UrbaNet is a program of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The research will also serve the Department of Homeland Security.
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