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<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS--Encyclopedia of Earth</title></head><body> <div><font face="Times New Roman">Dear</font> Colleague</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman">Would you be kind enough to consider placing the following announcement in your listserv?  I think it will be of great interest to the ecophysiology community.  Please let me know if you need more information from me.</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">With best regards,</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Cutler J. Cleveland</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Editor-in-Chief</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Encyclopedia of Earth</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Professor and Director<br> Center for Energy and Environmental Studies<br> Boston University<br> 675 Commonwealth Avenue</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Boston, MA 02215</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000">CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS</font><br> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2" color="#000000"><i><b>Encyclopedia of Earth</b></i></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">(http://www.earthportal.net/eoe)</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><i><b><br></b></i></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The world's experts on the environment of Earth, and the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the Earth, are forming to produce a single comprehensive and definitive electronic encyclopedia about the Earth.</font><font face="Times New Roman"> The<font color="#000000"><i> Encyclopedia of Earth</i></font> (EoE)<font color="#000000"> will be free to the public and free of advertising.</font></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">We seek all qualified editors and authors to collaboratively develop:</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <ul> <li><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">A free, fully searchable, trusted source of articles about the Earth <li>A to Z coverage of topics describing the environment of Earth that span the natural, physical, and social sciences, the arts and humanities, and the professional disciplines <li>An information resource that will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, decision-makers, as well as to the general public <li>An authoring site that combines the authority of peer review with the power of Web-based collaboration <li>A public reference site that is updated every 15 minutes</font></ul> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Editors: </b> Professor Cutler J. Cleveland of Boston University, Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning<i> Encyclopedia of Energy</i> (Elsevier Science), is the Editor-in-Chief of the<i> Encyclopedia of Earth.</i>  A distinguished International Advisory Board  provides editorial oversight (see below).</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Publisher</b>:  The<i> Encyclopedia</i> is one component of the<i> Earth Portal (http://earthportal.net/)</i>, the world's first comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the Earth and environmental change.  It is published by the Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment (http://www.ncseonline.org).</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Scope: </b> The scope of the<i> Encyclopedia</i> is the environment of the Earth broadly defined, with particular emphasis on the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the Earth.  See the taxonomy and topic areas at</font><font face="Times New Roman"> http://earthportal.net/EP/eoe/eoetopics/.</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Join the Effort:</b>  If you are interested and want more information, please send an email to <eoe@earthportal.net>, or visit <font color="#000000"> (http://earthportal.net/EP/steward/).</font></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>International Advisory Board</b></font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><i><b><br> </b></i><b>Rita Colwell,</b> Chairman, Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., former Director of the National Science Foundation, USA<br> R<b>obert W. Corell</b>, Chair of the Steering Committee for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment<br> <b>Robert Costanza</b>, Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, USA<br> <b>Mohamed H. A. Hassan,</b> President, African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya<br> <b>Thomas Homer-Dixon,</b> Director, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University College, Canada<br> <b>Andrew J. Hoffman,</b> Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, The University of Michigan, USA<br> <b>Steve Hubbell,</b> Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia, USA<br> <b>Simon A. Levin,</b> Moffett Professor of Biology, Director, Center for Biocomplexity, Princeton University, USA<br> <b>Bonnie J. McCay,</b> Distinguished Professor of Human Ecology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA<br> <b>David W. Orr,</b> Chairman, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA<br> <b>Rajendra K. Pachauri</b>, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, India<br> <b>F. Sherwood Rowland,</b> Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, University of California - Irvine, USA<br> <b>B. L. Turner,</b> Director, School of Geography, Clark University, USA</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div> </body> </html>

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