NitroEurope - or NEU for short - is a project for integrated European research into the nitrogen cycle. NitroEurope is part of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, and will run for 5 years from February 2006 until 2011.
Winter - Vall d'Alinyá (elevation 1765 m), Level 1 site Spain.
NitroEurope News
NitroEurope 5th General Assembly and Open Science Conference
Submitted by stefan_reis on Wed, 18/03/2009 - 13:15.We would like to thank all participants for a very fruitful and productive meeting, for all the hard work done in the past week and especially Albrecht Neftel and ART for the excellent support and Ivo & Juerg for a flawless and very supportive running of the event.
In the next weeks, we will contact all who presented their work during the Open Science Conference to ask for permission to publish their presentations (as PDFs) on the conference website at http://nitrogen.ceh.ac.uk/solothurn/
5th ALTER-Net Summer School "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services", Peyresque, France
Submitted by stefan_reis on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 11:00.05/09/2010 - 00:00
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More information: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/alter-net/
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15 Positions at Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), JRC Ispra, Italy
Submitted by stefan_reis on Sat, 06/02/2010 - 07:09.Call for Interest for Grantholders at the Institute for Environment and Sustainability
THE CALL IS OPEN - Next cut-off: 28th February 2010 at 12:00 a.m. (Milan time)
Located in Ispra (Italy), the Institute for Environment and Sustainability is one of the seven institutes that constitute the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
Article "Fixing the Global Nitrogen Problem" in Scientific American, Feb 2010
Submitted by stefan_reis on Sat, 06/02/2010 - 09:24.Fixing the Global Nitrogen Problem
Humanity depends on nitrogen to fertilize croplands, but growing global use is damaging the environment and threatening human health. How can we chart a more sustainable path?
By Alan R. Townsend and Robert W. Howarth
seee http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fixing-the-global-nitrogen-problem for the full story.
The BARSAC Declaration goes international
Submitted by stefan_reis on Sat, 06/02/2010 - 12:07.With the help of our partners in Hungary (thanks to Laszlo Horvath), the BARSAC declaration on a demitarian approach to reduce the impacts of meat production for food has been translated into Hungarian and published in a Hungarian Journal. See the attachement if you would like to read about Nitrogen in Hungarian for a change.If you would like to read more about the BARSAC declaration, you can find this on the ESF NinE website here.
Earth System Science 2010: Climate, Global Change and People
Submitted by stefan_reis on Mon, 25/01/2010 - 13:04.10/05/2010 - 00:00
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Earth System Science 2010: Climate, Global Change and
People. 10-13 May 2010, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh,
UK.
This event is the First Open Science Conference of the
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme¹s project 'Analysis, Integration
and Modelling of the Earth System' (AIMES), run in cooperation with QUEST, the
UK Natural Environment Research Council's directed programme for Earth system
science.
The conference will showcase recent advances in the
understanding of Earth system dynamics and highlight new directions for the
analysis of the interactions between humans and our environment.
