This is mostly for German speakers. PYRN was featured prominently this week on the German weekly show on science: WISSKOMM.

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This blog is directly taken from the same blog released on the http://www.ipy.org website. Enjoy!

A team of young investigators have started an international project to measure permafrost temperatures — with bore holes in Svalbard, northern Sweden, Norway and Finland.

Dear PYRN members, the spring has brought us a new permafrost super hero: Tunnel Man !!!!!
You can have a look at the teaser on http://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/permafrost/tmmovie.htm

This amazing piece of work is due to the outreach program permafrost team at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. You can find more info on TUNNEL MAN and the rest of the program at: http://www.uaf.edu/permafrost/
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I came across these three songs this morning while browsing on deezer. you might have to pause two of them to listen to the other one. Enjoy!

Travel Funding Announcement

New Research Generation (NRG)

Arctic Ocean Sciences Board

Application Deadline: Wednesday, 30 April 2008

For further information, please visit:

http://www.aosb.org

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The Arctic Ocean Sciences Board (AOSB) is pleased to announce the

creation of funding to support participation of early career scientists

in international arctic marine planning meetings. This new initiative,

To all PYRN members, I recently got an email requesting help in providing interviews for Science Careers. If you are interested, send an email to Elisabeth Pain (elisabethpain@yahoo.co.uk). The original message follows:

Hugues

"I am writing an article for ScienceCareers that looks into the characteristics of Generation Y (which roughly includes current undergrads, Ph.D. candidates, and first postdocs) and how these may affect the careers prospects and expectations of today's young scientists.

500! That’s the number of young permafrost researchers roaming the surface of the Earth and registered with the Permafrost Young Researchers Network on the 18th of March, 2008. 500 members who progressively enriched a network that started from nothing in November 2005. Back then, we were dreaming of a web-based mailing list devoted to permafrost were 40 or 50 young scientists and engineers could discuss permafrost issues and exchange the most recent news fon their research.

The following is an editorial first published in Frozen Ground in December 2002 by Hugh French. Because the use of melt is now so widespread and not necessarily adequately used, we thought we would publish it again here.

The lyrics of the chorus are probably not what one would recommend for a pedagogic song on permafrost, but I though I should share this with you: