Announcements

• Opening for International CLIVAR Project Office Director
• The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the UK's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) invite applications for the position of Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO), located at NOCS. For more information, see the job advertisement (http://www.clivar.org/about/icpo_3011.pdf)

• Climate Process Team Announcement for FY2010

  NOAA AO:
  http://www.cpo.noaa.gov/opportunities/2010/pdf/FY10_CPT_Information_Sheet.pdf
  Deadline: September 15, 2009

  NSF AO:
  http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5753&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
  Deadline: September 24, 2009

• Climate Process Team Review paper online
• Western Boundary Current Workshop presentations available
• First announcement for Ocean Obs '09 (21-24 September) - Proposals for community whitepapers due November 15, 2008
• U.S. CLIVAR Summit Symposium presentations and Summit documents are available online
• Drought Workshop in conjunction with NOAA's 33rd Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop; 20-24 October 2008
• U.S. CLIVAR Climate Prediction Applications Postdoctoral Program (CPAPP) - 2009 Announcement of Opportunity for Hosting Institutions
• MJO - US CLIVAR Briefing/Press Release from the AGU Conference
• U.S. CLIVAR Climate Prediction Applications Postdoctoral Program (CPAPP) Fellowship Announcement - This program has been developed to encourage and build the pool of scientists qualified to transfer advances in climate science and climate prediction into climate-related decision frameworks and decision tools. Applications due 15 December 2007. Full text announcement located at : http://www.vsp.ucar.edu
• Broad Agency Announcement for NOPP: Atlantic Meriditional Overturning Circulation - The full announcement can be found at http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/BAA/docs/07-040_ONR%20NOPP%20BAA%20FY08.pdf
• U.S. CLIVAR Summit 2007 was held in Annapolis, Maryland on 23-25 July. Meeting documents and summary reports are now online.
• June 2007: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society article: Monsoon Region Climate Applications: a Binational workshop, held in Guaymas. The full citation is:
  • Ray, Andrea J., Gregg M. Garfin, Luis Brito-Castillo, Miguel
    Cortez-Vazquez, Henry F. Diaz, Jaime Garatuza-Payan, David Gochis,
    Rene Lobato-Sanchez, Robert Varady, and Chris Watts. 2007. Monsoon
    Region Climate Applications. Bulletin of the American Meteorological
    Society, 88:6:933-935
• 14 June 2007 Atlantic Decadal Variability: Combining observations and models to investigate predictability (Workshop report)
• 5 July 2007 Report from the Salinity Working Group published (pdf)
• 25 May 2007 - DRICOMP Awards Announced
• 26 January 2007 - Ocean Research Priorities Plan Released - From Greenwire "...Ocean monitoring, seafloor mapping and fisheries management will see budget increases in President Bush's fiscal 2008 budget request, administration officials said today.The administration is requesting an increase of $143 million over its fiscal 2007 budget for selected oceans projects in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation and the Interior Department."
• The public comment period is now OPEN for Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States: Research Priorities for the Next Decade, a draft document that outlines the national ocean research priorities for the United States for the next ten years.
• Workshop on "Multidecadal to Centennial Global Climate Variability" to be held at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, in Honolulu on November 15th-17th, 2006
• July 2006 - The 2006 U.S. CLIVAR Summit took place this year in Breckenridge, Colorado 26-28 July. Agendas and panel reports are online.
• The MJO Working Group presentations from their meeting 24-25 July 2006 in Breckinridge, CO are online.
• Panel Strategic Plans are now available online.
• February 2006 - U.S. CLIVAR Salinity Working Group convened an open session at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii entitled "The Role of Ocean Salinity in Climate".
• January 2006 - The January 2006 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has an article on the NAME Field Campaign of 2004 and its modeling strategy. A future special issue of the Journal of Climate will focus on NAME as well.
• The U.S. CLIVAR hosted a Town Hall Meeting at the AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, 31 January 2006. Presentations are now online.

Announcements

First Circular Announcement for WCRP Open Science Conference October 2011

7-9 June 2010 - US CLIVAR Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Annual Meeting (Miami, FL)

International CLIVAR seeks new Director - closing date 29 March 2010.

17-19 March 2010 - High Latitude Surface Flux Workshop in conjunction with SEAFLUX (Boulder, CO)

Postdocs Applying Climate Expertise(PACE) seeking Organizational Partners

PSMI Publication on Best Practices for Process Studies released and has reached #6 on AMS most viewed list. (BAMS, July 2009)

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