1.  Twelve Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Energy at UCDavis

2.  Energyfolks get-together, November 16 at Beppo's

3.  IceBreaker II, November 29th

4.  More on the Stern Climate Report

5.  A new open-access journal:  Environmental Research Letters

6.  Energy and Environment Public Lecture Series:  "Made in China"  December 4

7.  IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program 2007

8.  Jobs:  EnerNOC, Inc. :  technology-enabled energy management solutions

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Date posted: 10/30/2006

ENERGY FOR THE FUTURE
TWELVE FACULTY POSITIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
The University of California, Davis, announces the establishment of a new initiative on Energy for the Future. This initiative strengthens and expands existing campus efforts in energy science, technology, and policy to address energy challenges of the 21 century.

UC Davis seeks highly motivated and qualified persons to fill 12 tenure-track faculty positions in the following energy areas:

Bioconversion Engineer
Biofuels Engineer
Bio-inspired Approaches to Energy Generation
Catalysis and Photovoltaic Materials
Efficient Energy Systems, Renewable Energy
Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Energy Systems
Analysis or Energy and Transportation Logistics
Experimental Condensed Matter Physicist
New Materials for Energy Applications
Plant Biologist
The Ultra-Fast Frontier in Energy Research
Transportation Economics (recruitment in 2007)

Positions are available for individual or joint appointments within the departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Chemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Economics, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Physics, and Plant Sciences.

Faculty applicants must have a Ph.D. degree or equivalent. Successful applicants will be required to develop strong research and teaching programs of relevance to the initiative. Senior faculty appointments may be considered for highly distinguished individuals for some positions.

For more information or to apply, visit the Energy for the Future initiative on-line at: http://energy.ucdavis.edu

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Our next  energy folks get-together is coming soon!  Meet/catch up with other energy-interested folks over drinks and dinner.  Please RSVP to Audrey Chang (achang@nrdc.org) so that we can make a reservation for the right number of people. Here are the details:

 

Thursday, November 16, 2006

6:30 pm - drinks in the bar area

7:15 pm - dinner

 

Buca di Beppo

855 Howard Street (between 4th and 5th)

San Francisco CA 94103

415.543.7673

 

Easy public transit options:

Powell St. BART (walk 2 blocks south of Market to Howard)

Caltrain to 4th & King (walk about 3/4 mi north on 4th to Howard)

 

I'll be there (gm), hope to see you!

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The next Fall 2006 Energy and Environment Ice Breaker is scheduled for
Wednesday, November 29, 5-7 pm.
Please join us for some refreshments, and a little visiting with students,
faculty, and locals from the community who share a common interest in energy

Where:  Stanford Faculty Club
When:   Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Time:   5-7pm
 

If you plan on attending, please RSVP to judith@maproyalty.com. 

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..the Grist always has such an entertaining way to summarize events ....

Hauntingly Familiar
Groundbreaking climate report inspires predictable political responses

World reaction to yesterday's U.K. report linking climate change with possible economic ruin has been swift -- and painfully predictable. While British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his likely successor Gordon Brown hailed the findings, Kyoto-resisters Australia and the U.S. offered more lukewarm responses. Australian Prime Minister John Howard warned his government not to be "mesmerized" by the report, and the White House primly acknowledged Stern's "contribution" to the ongoing study of global warming, while declining to endorse his results. A U.S. energy-industry spokesperson was less circumspect, calling the report "fun with numbers," and OPEC's secretary-general said it reflected "scenarios that have no foundations in either science or economics." Ouch. Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that annual U.S. government spending on energy research and development is less than half what it was 25 years ago. Well, yeah: those 1980 freewheelers didn't have to save up for the next Great Depression.

straight to the source: The New York Times, Andrew C. Revkin, 30 Oct 2006

...from the NYTimes blog on Revkin's climate article... our own Steve Schneider weighs in... 

Very fair and balanced article on a difficult and complex topic. A few points to consider in subsequent articles. First is the problem of sequencing policies. I like to say we should "start smart": do the things with fastest paybacks and fewest losers-politically more tractable. I call one possibility the "7/11 solution": if a more efficient (less CO2 emitting) product or process has extra initial costs relative to conventional practice, but that extra cost is paid back in less than 11 years-equivalent to about a 7 percent return of investment-then, like California (the lowest CO2 emitting per capita state in the US-Texas the worst)-it should be legally mandated. Eventually we need to have a fee for dumping our wastes in the atmospheric "sewer", but that market-based policy is a strategy that could be implemented later on-say, five years after it was announced to give those affected time to adjust. Also, "equity side payments" to those hurt most by climate changes and/or mitigation policies need to be considered for political practicality. Finally, the trillions of dollars mitigation costs that opponents of climate policies like to cite to block actions, usually omit to say that these cost estimates are, in relative terms, typically well below most projected growth rates in the GDP. In short, we can have strong climate policies to drive a transition to shift to less emitting energy sources that costs trillions in 100 years, but the 10 fold increase in the size of the economy by 2100 essentially swallows those costs. Put in numbers, we'd be 500% per capita richer in 2102 with strong climate policy or 500% richer in 2100 without it-a very affordable "insurance policy" against potential dangerous climate changes being built into the business as usual scenarios described in the Revkin article. Thanks for the opportunity to comment.

posted on October 31st, 2006 at 12:12 am

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I am pleased to inform you that the first articles in the new open-access journal, Environmental Research Letters (ERL) (http://erl.iop.org), have just been published. The first content includes:

Shifts in plant dominance control carbon-cycle responses to experimental warming and widespread drought by J Harte, S Saleska and T Shih
http://herald.iop.org/erlpaper1/m67/rsm//link/456

Images of the energy future by A Mason

http://herald.iop.org/erlpaper2/m67/rsm//link/457

Can there be science-based precaution? by C Weiss
http://herald.iop.org/erlpaper3/m67/rsm//link/458

Risks of the oil transition by A E Farrell and A R Brandt
http://herald.iop.org/erlpaper4/m67/rsm//link/459

The Bodele depression: a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest by I Koren, Y J Kaufman, R Washington, M C Todd, Y Rudich, J V Martins and D Rosenfeld
http://herald.iop.org/erlpaper5/m67/rsm//link/460

Further additions will appear at http://erl.iop.org in the near future. All content is permanently free to read.

ERL's scope reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of environmental science, recognizing wide-ranging contributions to the development of methods, tools and evaluation strategies relevant to the field. Areas of interest and publication will include:
- Biodiversity
- Climate change
- Demographics and the environment
- Energy
- Environmental history and culture
- Environmental and resource economics
- Health

- Policy analysis
- Pollution
- Science and politics of environmental risk assessment
- Science and practice of sustainability

"As a free to read journal, ERL's prime purpose is to serve the entire environmental science community" said Professor Dan Kammen, the Editor-in-Chief for ERL. "I am delighted by the quality of these first contributions and eagerly anticipate the continued growth of this exciting new journal, which for the first time will truly provide a meeting place for the entire environmental community. ERL will be an essential resource for environmental professionals, public officials, academics, and non-governmental groups."

The ERL Editorial Board (http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=board/1748-9326/1) would like to invite article submissions from all researchers working at the forefront of environmental science. Full details regarding the article submission process and editorial criteria may be accessed at http://erl.iop.org.
 
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any queries or comments you may have about ERL. As some advance notice, IOP Publishing will have a stand at the forthcoming Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. If you are also attending, I invite you to pass by booth #728 to meet a member of the ERL team.

With best regards,

Keith De Blanger

Dr Keith De Blanger
Publishing Editor, Environmental Research Letters
E-mail: erl@iop.org
WWW: http://erl.iop.org
Tel: +44 (0)117 930 1143

Fax: +44 (0) 117 920 0787

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Sponsored by the Stanford School of Earth Sciences and the Woods Institute for the Environment

MADE IN CHINA

Ted C. Fishman, author of China, Inc.
December 4, 2006
Memorial Auditorium
7:00 pm

The rate and magnitude of China's emergence as a world power is unprecedented, and its rapid growth has global implications. Please join us for this keynote lecture by Ted C. Fishman, author of China, Inc., who will talk about how China is changing, and how China is changing the world.

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please call (650) 725-4395. After 4:00 pm parking at metered spaces is free, and 'A' and 'C' lots are open to the public. Directions to campus and a searchable campus map can be found at http://www.stanford.edu/search/maps/.

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Summer Fellowship in Austria for Graduate Students in Natural and Social

Sciences, Math, Policy, and Engineering
Each summer, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
(IIASA) near Vienna, Austria, hosts a selected group of graduate
students, primarily doctoral, from around the world in its Young
Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). These students work closely with
IIASA's senior scientists on projects within the Institute's 3 theme
areas of Natural Resources & Environment, Population & Society, and
Energy & Technology.  The U.S. Committee for IIASA provides airfare and
a modest living allowance for the applicants from American institutions

who are selected to participate.
APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: 15 JAN 2007
PROGRAM DATES: 4 JUNE-31 AUGUST 2007
WHAT IS IIASA AND WHAT ARE ITS PROGRAM AREAS?
IIASA is an international institution, supported by the U.S. and sixteen
other governments, that engages in scientific research aimed at
providing policy insight on issues of regional and global importance.
Its suite of programs and initiatives in 2007 will include the
following:
Energy and Technology
*   Energy
* New Technologies
*       Dynamic Systems
*        Integrated Modeling
     Natural Resources and Environment
*      Land Use and Agriculture
*       Forestry
*       Evolution and Ecology
*  Atmospheric Pollution
*  Greenhouse Gas Initiative

       Population and Society
* World Population
*       Risk and Vulnerability
* International Negotiation
*      Population and Climate Change
*  Health and Global Change Initiative
     Detailed information about each program is available on the
IIASA Website:  http://www.iiasa.ac.at/
      SHOULD YOU APPLY?
       You should consider applying if:
*       You are an advanced graduate student at a U.S. University;
*     Your field is compatible with ongoing research at IIASA;
*       Your research and career would profit from interactions with
scientists from all over the world;
*        You would like to investigate the policy implications of your
work.
HOW DO YOU APPLY?
Each applicant must submit the on-line application form, including 2
references and descriptions of research interests.  The form begins at
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/YSP/register/index.html?sb=10
Questions? contact: Margaret Goud Collins, Program Director for the U.S.
Committee for IIASA

National Academy of Sciences, W1010 500 5th St.NW  Washington, D.C.
20001
Phone: (508)548-2502 Fax: (202) 334-2231 Email: mcollins@nas.edu

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Marketing Project Manager

Sales/Business Development Manager

Energy Engineer

Corporate Development

 

Take a look at our jobs page for more complete job descriptions:

 

The quick overview of the company is as follows:

EnerNOC, Inc. is the leading provider of technology-enabled total energy management solutions, including full-service demand response, to the commercial, institutional, and industrial markets in the United States. We enable energy users, energy suppliers, system operators, and utilities to manage and deploy distributed energy resources more cost effectively, helping to create a more reliable and efficient electricity grid.

EnerNOC currently manages over 1,000 MWs of electrical demand, including our Negawatt NetworkTM of nearly 400 MWs of dedicated demand response capacity. EnerNOC serves multiple industries: food sales and storage, light industrial, commercial real estate, telecommunications and data, government, education, healthcare, and more. EnerNOC's management team brings together over 100 years of combined experience in all aspects of energy management and embedded systems technology. EnerNOC is a Registered Demand Response Provider and Certified Internet Based Communication Systems Provider in New England, a Responsible Interface Party and Meter Data Service Provider in New York, a Certified Demand Reserves Partnership Provider, Certified Technical Assistance Partner, and Preferred Technical Assistance Provider in California, and a Curtailment Services Provider in PJM territory.

EnerNOC has a four-year track record of consistent growth. The company employs over 80 people in its Boston, New York City, Rochester, and Palo Alto offices. EnerNOC is backed by leading venture capital firms including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Foundation Capital, and Braemar Energy Ventures. EnerNOC won Energy Venture Fair's Most Promising Company award, which came on the heels of being named a Top Investment Choice at the Cleantech Venture Forum in CA, and an award in Red Herring as a 2005 Top 10 Cleantech Company to Watch.

 

 

Scott McGaraghan - Director of CA Corporate Development                                             

EnerNOC, Inc. | 2100 Geng Road, Suite 102 | Palo Alto, CA 94303
o: 650.288.8316 f: 650.251.9833                              
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