<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The email and attachment are directed at all PhD students. If interested, please follow up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yours,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Robert</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Michael Beckmann <<a href="mailto:michael.beckmann@ufz.de" class="">michael.beckmann@ufz.de</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Call for participants: ESCALATE Synthesis Project on agricultural subsidization and conservation goals worldwide</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">17 December 2018 at 15:12:23 CET<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:escalate-docs@ufz.de" class="">escalate-docs@ufz.de</a>, Mailingliste doks-all <<a href="mailto:doks-all@ufz.de" class="">doks-all@ufz.de</a>>, <a href="mailto:ydiv@idiv.de" class="">ydiv@idiv.de</a>, "Mailingliste <a href="mailto:wiss-all@ufz.de" class="">wiss-all@ufz.de</a>" <<a href="mailto:wiss-all@ufz.de" class="">wiss-all@ufz.de</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Dear supervisors and dear PhD students,<br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> </div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I am pleased to announce an upcoming ESCALATE Synthesis Project on </span><i class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">An area of conflict: the effects of agricultural subsidization on conservation goals worldwide</span></i><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">The project is jointly developed and organized by </span><b style="font-size:12.8px" class="">ESCALATE</b><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">, the </span><b style="font-size:12.8px" class="">University of Leeds</b><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> and the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (</span><b style="font-size:12.8px" class="">SESYNC</b><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">) at the University of Maryland. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">The international synthesis project is organized around a series of three workshops</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> that will be facilitated at the University of Leeds <b class="">(</b></span><b style="font-size:12.8px" class="">April 2019)</b><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">, the UFZ <b class="">(</b></span><b style="font-size:12.8px" class="">October 2019)</b><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> and at SESYNC <b class="">(</b></span><b style="font-size:12.8px" class="">March 2020)</b><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">The goal of the project is to conduct a scientific synthesis project from start to finish, and have a paper submitted to an international peer-reviewed journal, with all </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">participants</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> listed as co-authors. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">With this call we invite </span><b style="font-size:12.8px" class="">4 PhD students</b><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> who are enrolled either at the Helmholtz Research School ESCALATE or its partnering graduate organizations (HIGRADE, yDiv, InGra, Research Academy Leipzig). We hope to bring together students from various disciplinary backgrounds, both from the natural and social sciences. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">The team will consist of 12 PhD students (four coming from each institution) and a number of academic staff </span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">participating</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""> in the collaborative research lasting approximately 12 months. Expenses will be covered by ESCALATE or SESYNC. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Please see the attached Announcement for full details of the program, planned activities, <b class="">registration form and deadline for submitting the form</b>. Please get in touch with me should you have any questions regarding the program.<br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">On behalf of the Synthesis Project Team,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Michael Beckmann</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class=""><div class="">Dr. Michael Beckmann</div><div class="">Coordinator of the Helmholtz Research School for Ecosystem Services under Changing Land-use and Climate (ESCALATE)</div><div class="">Department Computational Landscape Ecology</div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><div class="">Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ<span style="white-space:pre" class=""> </span></div><div class="">Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany</div></div><div class="">Tel. +49 341 235 1946 / mobile:+49 176 24787905</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:michael.beckmann@ufz.de" target="_blank" class="">michael.beckmann@ufz.de</a> / <a href="http://www.ufz.de/escalate" target="_blank" class="">www.ufz.de/escalate</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Registered Office: Leipzig</div><div class="">Registration Office: Amtsgericht Leipzig</div><div class="">Trade Register Nr.: B 4703</div><div class="">Chairman of the Supervisory Board: MinDirig Wilfried Kraus</div><div class="">Scientific Managing Director: <span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Georg Teutsch</span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.982px" class="">Administrative Managing Director: </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.982px" class="">Prof. Dr. Heike Graßmann (komm./interim)</span></div></div><div class="">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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