2012 CHANS Fellowship Applications now being accepted

Jan. 21, 2012

With support from the National Science Foundation, CHANS-Net offers CHANS Fellowships each year. The CHANS Fellows present posters or give talks at a significant national meeting and have opportunities to interact with prominent CHANS scientists to learn the latest research developments and build their professional networks.

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Science Magazine wants young scholars’ input

Jan. 13, 2012

Science Magazine wants to hear from the next generation of scientists on the practice and future of science. Each month the Voices of the Next Generation (NextGen VOICES) feature asks a question that young scientists are encouraged to answer.

In the Jan. 6 issue, NextGen VOICES asked: How will the practice of science change in your lifetime? Responses are now available.

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CHANS-Net events at 2012 AGU Fall Meeting

Jan. 13, 2012

CHANS-Net is organizing a series of events at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco, Dec. 6-10, 2012. The events will draw investigators funded by the National Science Foundation’s program in Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH), but other scholars are also welcome to participate.

In addition to presentations and a workshop within the AGU meeting, there will be other opportunities for interactions, which are expected to result in multi-author publications.

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New paper and new post-docs

Jan. 10, 2012

Besides authoring “Large-scale Environmental Monitoring by Indigenous Peoples” in BioScience with Jeffrey Luzar, Kirsten Silvius, Han Overman, Sean Giery and Jane Read (Luzar and Read are also CHANS-Net members), member Jose Fragoso has taken on two new post-doctoral students to work on his CHANS project.

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Man under a microscope: using biology to study society

Nov. 10, 2011

Human societies have a lot in common with ant, wolf, dolphin and chimp societies, so adding some biological tools and techniques to the traditional methods used to study can help show these similarities, as well as differences, a group of researchers assert.

Studying human societies using biological tools can expose certain patterns – consistent relationships between economic growth and energy use, and energy use and fertility, for example -- that traditional sociological and anthropological tools may miss.

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Sustainability science fellowships at Harvard available

Oct. 31, 2011

Scholars are invited to apply for resident fellowships in sustainability science for the academic year beginning in September 2012 through the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University.

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