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Mediterranean opportunities and Support Actions


Grants for Phd positions Ifremer 2009-2010.
http://www.ifremer.fr/ds/animation_scientifique/bourses/doctorales/appel/index.html
Deadline for application: 15 July 2009

New: Fellowship Opportunity for Developing States - Applications for 2010 Session at the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) for the United Nations and The Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship Programme.
http://www.un.org/depts/los/nippon
Deadline for application: 15 August 2009

New: The EU-FP7 ASSEMBLE project launches its first call for access to marine research infrastructures:  general and climate controlled laboratories, state-of-the-art experimental facilities, technological platforms, research vessels, and a wide variety of marine organisms (either on-site or by shipment). Open to EU Members States and Asssociated countries (Switzerland, Israel, Turkey, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro...)
http://www.assemblemarine.org
For access from December 2009 to May 2010, deadline for application: 15 September 2009

Otto Kinne Foundation (OKF) Fellowships - Call for nominations for OKF Fellows. Nominations are invited from research ecologists worldwide.
http://www.int-res.com/ecology-institute/call-for-nominations/
Deadline for nominations: September 30, 2009

COST Action ES0801 'The oceanic chemistry of bioactive trace  elements and paleoclimate proxies' offers funding for 8 scientists to visit and  collaborate with other researchers for periods of 1 week to 3 months
http://costaction.earth.ox.ac.uk/wg4_training
Deadlines for application: 1 November 2009

SMAP- Short and Medium-Term Priority Environmental Action Programme - launches e-learning course on Environmental Economics
The SMAP programme for the Environment and Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean Region is inviting anyone interested to sign up for its on-line learning course on Environmental Economics, available in English and Arabic
Register and start learning at  http://elearning.smap.eu/

COST Action 735 offers financial support for students and post-docs in Europe for short-term scientific missions (STSMs) to qualifying European institutions for the purpose of training, development of collaborations and new techniques.
http://www.cost-735.org/index.html
Eligible countries: http://www.cost-735.org/aboutus/involved.html

Job opportunities


ESSAC (ECORD Science Support & Advisory Committee) invites applications for the ESSAC Science Coordinator position, Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany
http://www.awi.de/en/news
Deadline for applications: 14 July, 2009

 Marie Curie PhD Position: Electrochemical methods for autonomous chemical (phosphate) monitoring in marine environments, LEGOS, LGC and LAAS, Toulouse, France.
 http://www.cees.uio.no/news/2009/external-position-phd-toulouse.html
Deadline for application: 1 September 2009

PostDoctoral fellowship ' Bioinformatics and statistical analyses of worldwide protistan diversity' within the framework of the POSEIDON porject at the Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS, France.
http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/Phyto/
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Postdoctoral position on 'Ecology, physiology and evolution of saxitoxin producing dinoflagellate algae', Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
http://www.eebweb.arizona.edu/Faculty/Hackett/Home.htm
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PhD position: Phytoplankton biodiversity at the Department of Biology, University of Oslo, Norway
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Post Doctoral Fellowship in Functional and Comparative Genomics and Physiology of Marine Diatoms and Post Doctoral Fellowship in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, The J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, USA
www.jcvi.org

P ostdoctoral Associate in Algal Biofuels Research, Biotechnology Research Center, Department of Biological Sciences
Michigan Technological University, USA
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International conferences

World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing, Montreal , Quebec, July 19-22, 2009
http://www.bio.org/worldcongress/Index.asp

Gordon Research Conference / Chemical Oceanography: Process, Dynamics, And Change In The Anthropocene Ocean 2-7 August 2009: Tilton, NH, USA
 http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=chemocean
Deadline for application : 12 July 2009

AGU Chapman Conference on the Biological Carbon Pump  of the Oceans, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, UK, 1-4 September 2009
http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman/2009/dcall/

IMOG - 24th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Bremen, Germany, 6–11 September 2009
http://www.marum.de/imog2009/
Deadline for early registration: 12 July 2009

Workshop on Ocean Biology Observatories (SCOR) , Mestre, Italy, 16-18 September
http://www.us-ocb.org/archives/email3jan.html
Deadline for early regsitration: 1 July 2009

OceanObs'09: Ocean Information for Society: Sustaining the Benefits, Realizing the Potential,   Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009
http://www.oceanobs09.net/
Deadline for abstract submission extended to 1 July 2009

New: International Symposium on Biotechnology Developments and Trends, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 27-30 September 2009.
http://www.btec.metu.edu.tr

Premier colloque Arabo-arabe et Arabo-Européens des sciences de la mer-  pour la sauvegarde des eaux marines contre la pollution-
et 8ème congrès maghrébin des sciences de la mer, Nouakchott, République Islamique de Mauritanie, 6 -7 Octobre 2009
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EMBO Workshop `Evo Devo meets marine ecology`, New Frontiers in ocean Science through Integrative Biology, Sant`Angelo d`Ischia, Naples, Italy, 9-11 October 2009
Flyer
http://cwp.embo.org/w09-31/
Deadline for registration and abstract submission: July 15th , 2009

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and Eutrophication: GEOHAB Second Open Science Meeting, Beijing, China, 17-21 October 2009
http://www.geohab-osm-bj.ac.cn/
Deadline for abstract submission: 1st August 2009

The Ninth International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment MEDCOAST 09, Sochi, Russia,  10-14 November 2009
http://www.medcoast.org.tr/

SOLAS Open Science Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 16-19 November 2009
http://solas2009.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1573
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 July 2009

World Conference on Biological Invasions and Ecosystem Functioning (BIOLIEF), Porto, Portugal, 27-30 November 2009
http://www.ciimar.up.pt/biolief/

The 1st Mediterranean Coastal and Maritime Conference "Best Environmental Practices in Coastal and Maritime Engineering" , Hammamet, Tunisia, 2- 4 December 2009.
 http://www.paralia.fr/hammamet___tunisie_2009_831.htm

4th international congress Geotunis “Survey of the hydraulic resources and of desertification by using the geographic information systems, remote detection and numeric designing “, Tunis, Tunisia, 16-20 December 2009.
http://www.geotunis.org/
Geo tehnology exhibition http://www.geotunis.org/index_en.php?id=5

2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting: From Observation to Prediction in the 21st Century, Portland, Oregon, USA, 22-26 February 2010. Members of the Ocean Sciences community are invited to propose a session
http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/

10th Cyanobacterial Workshop ,UCLA Conference Center at Lake Arrowhead, California, USA, 11-15 June, 2010
http://ed-structgen.jgi-psf.org/cyanowkshop/

 

International training courses

Marine Phytoplankton Taxonomy Workshop Plymouth 6-17 July 2009,
www.mba.ac.uk/phytoplanktonworkshop