Date

Position Announcement:
Director, CLIMATE and CRYOSPHERE (CliC) International Project Office (CIPO)

Extended Application Deadline: Monday, 28 February 2005

For more information and full announcement go to:
http://cipo.npolar.no/vacancy/director.php


The World Climate Research Programme CLIMATE and CRYOSPHERE (CliC)
Project is seeking a qualified person to head the CliC International
Project Office and lead the CliC project implementation. The office is
located at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø, Norway.

CliC is a core project of the WCRP sponsored by the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO), the International Council for Science (ICSU), and
the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The
WCRP goals are to determine the extent to which climate can be predicted
and the extent of human influence on climate. The WCRP established CliC
in 2000. Since 2004, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
(SCAR) of ICSU has cosponsored CliC.

More information on the project including its Science and Coordination
plan is available at the website http://clic.npolar.no. The CIPO website
is located at http://cipo.npolar.no.

Extended Application Deadline: Monday, 28 February 2005

For more information and full announcement go to:
http://cipo.npolar.no/vacancy/director.php

or contact:

Dr Vladimir Ryabinin
Joint Planning Staff for WCRP
World Climate Research Programme
c/o World Meteorological Organization
7bis, Avenue de la Paix
Case Postale No. 2300
CH-1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland
Fax: + 41 (0) 22 730 8036
Tel.: + 41 (0) 22 730 8486
E-mail: vryabinin [at] wmo.int