From cutler at bu.edu Mon Apr 3 11:33:51 2006 From: cutler at bu.edu (Cutler J. Cleveland) Date: Tue Apr 4 15:26:54 2006 Subject: [Ecophysiology] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS--Encyclopedia of Earth Message-ID: Dear Colleague 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. With best regards, Cutler J. Cleveland Editor-in-Chief Encyclopedia of Earth Professor and Director Center for Energy and Environmental Studies Boston University 675 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Encyclopedia of Earth (http://www.earthportal.net/eoe) 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. The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) will be free to the public and free of advertising. We seek all qualified editors and authors to collaboratively develop: A free, fully searchable, trusted source of articles about the Earth 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 An information resource that will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, decision-makers, as well as to the general public An authoring site that combines the authority of peer review with the power of Web-based collaboration A public reference site that is updated every 15 minutes Editors: Professor Cutler J. Cleveland of Boston University, Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier Science), is the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. A distinguished International Advisory Board provides editorial oversight (see below). Publisher: The Encyclopedia is one component of the Earth Portal (http://earthportal.net/), 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). Scope: The scope of the Encyclopedia 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 http://earthportal.net/EP/eoe/eoetopics/. Join the Effort: If you are interested and want more information, please send an email to , or visit (http://earthportal.net/EP/steward/). International Advisory Board Rita Colwell, Chairman, Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., former Director of the National Science Foundation, USA Robert W. Corell, Chair of the Steering Committee for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Robert Costanza, Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, USA Mohamed H. A. Hassan, President, African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University College, Canada Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, The University of Michigan, USA Steve Hubbell, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia, USA Simon A. Levin, Moffett Professor of Biology, Director, Center for Biocomplexity, Princeton University, USA Bonnie J. McCay, Distinguished Professor of Human Ecology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA David W. Orr, Chairman, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, India F. Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, University of California - Irvine, USA B. L. Turner, Director, School of Geography, Clark University, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/ecophys/attachments/20060403/9dfc825c/attachment.html