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  1. Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent - Northern Hemisphere
    National Snow and Ice Data Center and U.S. National Ice Center

  2. Electronic Resources Available
    Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate
    Change Research

  3. Website Available
    Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance

  4. New Northern Native Website Available
    Yaoun Yakh - The Iugan Khanty Community Association

  1. Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent - Northern Hemisphere
    National Snow and Ice Data Center and U.S. National Ice Center

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the U.S. National Ice
Center (NIC) are pleased to announce a new daily sea ice analysis
product entitled "The Multisensor Analyzed Sea Ice Extent - Northern
Hemisphere" (MASIE-NH). The product is available online, at:
http://nsidc.org/data/g02186.html.

NIC analysts produce an arctic-wide sea ice and snow extent map drawing
on a multitude of data sources. The gridded 4km product locates the ice
edge with much greater accuracy than daily products based on
single-source satellite data. Working with NIC, NSIDC developed MASIE-NH
to meet a need for a more accurate daily product that is easy to use
like the Sea Ice Index (http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/).

The Sea Ice Index has both a monthly and a daily product. NSIDC
recommends using the monthly product when a long time series and
consistent processing are important, as they would be for climatological
studies. However, if it is important to know where the ice is recently,
on a daily time scale, using the MASIE product is recommended.

MASIE lets you view and download:

- Northern Hemisphere-wide sea ice coverage for latest day and the
last four weeks;
- Sea ice coverage by region; and
- A file of sea ice extent in square kilometers for the entire
Northern Hemisphere and by region for the last four weeks, updated
daily.

The MASIE-NH products are distributed in a number of formats including
ASCII text, GeoTIFF, PNG, shapefiles, and Google Earth files and are
available for the previous four weeks (28 days). MASIE was developed
with support from NIC and the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office.
Distribution by NOAA@NSIDC is made possible by support from the NOAA
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC).

For more information on this new product and to download data, see the
MAISE-NH website: http://nsidc.org/data/masie/index.html.

For questions, please contact NSIDC User Services:
Email: nsidc [at] nsidc.org

  1. Electronic Resources Available
    Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate
    Change Research

The Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change
Research (DISCCRS, pronounced discourse) provides online tools for
catalyzing interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration. Their
services include the following:

Online PhD Dissertation Registry:

Join over 2,500 climate change researchers by registering your PhD
dissertation and adding your abstract to the DISCCRS fully searchable
database. To register your dissertation, please go to:
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what other climate change researchers have been doing recently, at:
http://disccrs.org/search.

Electronic Newsletter:

The DISCCRS weekly e-newsletter includes climate change job listings,
news stories, funding opportunities. The newsletter is automatically
provided to anyone who registers his or her PhD. Subscriptions are also
available by request; send an email to: info [at] disccrs.org.

Career Resources:

In addition to the registry, the DISCCRS website includes resources and
information on finding a job, developing your professional skills,
locating funding opportunities, and crafting grant proposals.

For further information, please go to:
http://disccrs.org.

For questions, please email:
info [at] disccrs.org

  1. Website Available
    Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance

The Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA) website is now available,
at: http://www.gheahome.org/.

GHEA is an organization of social scientists, natural scientists,
historians, educators, students, policy makers, and others interested in
promoting cutting-edge research, education, and application of the
socioecological dynamics of coupled human and natural systems across
scales of space and time. The website is intended to serve as a virtual
gathering point to advertise collaborative projects, find collaborators
with complementary experience and interests, report results of interest
to the community, gain exposure to each other's GHE work, and learn
about workshops, funding opportunities, and similar resources relevant
to GHE issues.

GHEA membership is free and open for participation to anyone who
registers. If you are not already involved in GHEA and would like to
join, please go to the website and review the rules for participation
(http://www.gheahome.org/rules.html), then follow the instructions for
registering (http://www.gheahome.org/cgi_bin/ghea_register1.pl).

For further information on GHEA, please go to:
http://www.gheahome.org/.

  1. New Northern Native Website Available
    Yaoun Yakh - The Iugan Khanty Community Association

Yaoun Yakh, the native community association of the indigenous Khanty
people living along the B. Iugan River in western Siberia, is pleased to
announce the opening of its new bilingual Russian-English website:
http://www.yaounyakh.ru.

The website describes the Khanty community, land, resources, and
culture. Each page features a color photo gallery and video clips. The
community invites viewers, questions, and comments.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.yaounyakh.ru.