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November 2005
Welcome members of the OSU community interested in the Subsurface
Biosphere Education and Research Initiative (SBI)! You have expressed
interest in the SBI and we wanted to alert you to the initiative's newly
lauched website and e-mail lists and introduce you to some of the
features of each:
SBI Website
The website is located at: http://sbi.oregonstate.edu/
. Its goal is to inform the OSU community about the initiative,
as well providing a means of conveying information about events and topics
of interest. Some of the site's features include:
- A faculty list -- We have taken the liberty
of including faculty who have expressed interest in the SBI on this
list. Please pass this message along if you see faculty who are
missing and would like to be added.
- A calendar -- We will update this regularly and you
will find, for example, announcements of seminars on campus related
to topics on the subsurface biosphere. Faculty and student are
invited to e-mail us with news and events of interest (send announcements
to sbi@oregonstate.edu).
- A section on education -- We have listed “Degree
Programs” that have a component related to the subsurface biosphere,
as well as specific OSU courses. It would be great to get feedback
on this list so that we can refine it.
- Finally, we plan to have periodic web feature stories that highlight
OSU research related to the subsurface biosphere. We are currently
asking faculty for ideas for future articles. If you have a publication that
will soon come out, please let us know and we can time a feature story
to coincide with the publication's release.<
SBI E-mail List
If you received this message, you have been added to an SBI e-mail
distribution list. We hope these e-mail lists will become
a forum for faculty and students to communicate about events, meetings,
new courses, and job openings related to the subsurface biosphere. There
are separate lists for students and faculty so that messages can be
directed to the right community. For example, job announcements may
only be appropriate for the student list while seminar announcements
may be appropriate for both students and faculty. Instructions
for sending an e-mail to the lists as well as information on how to
sign up is on the website at: http://sbi.oregonstate.edu/news/listserv.htm .
Please forward this message to others who might like to join.
We hope that this website and e-mail list will be of use to SBI faculty
and students and provide a means of communication. We look forward to
input on how we can improve the website and to productive years towards
building a Center of Excellence and Subsurface Biosphere Education and
Research.
Regards,
Lew Semprini, Chair of the SBI Executive Committee
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