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                class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span
                style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue,
                Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Future Ocean Alumni:
                G. Braker/N. Smith" &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:research-alumni@futureocean.org" class="">research-alumni@futureocean.org</a>&gt;<br
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                class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span
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                  Excellence 'The Future Ocean', Kiel - Postdoc Project
                  Proposal Call 2017</b><br class="">
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                class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span
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                10:37:10 AM EDT<br class="">
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                  href="mailto:gbraker@futureocean.org" class="">gbraker@futureocean.org</a>,
                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:nsmith@futureocean.org" class="">nsmith@futureocean.org</a><br
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                    class="" lang="EN-US">Dear Members and Friends of
                    the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Future Ocean’, Dear
                    Alumni, and other interested parties,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
                    class="" lang="EN-US">Last week ’The Future Ocean’
                    issued the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"
                      class=""> Postdoc Project Proposal Call 2017</i>.
                    <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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                    class="" lang="EN-US">The <i
                      style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal" class="">Postdoc
                      Project Proposal Call 2017</i> will be announced
                    internationally and is addressed to postdoctoral
                    researchers interested in conducting a research
                    project in Kiel, Germany, at one of the partner
                    institutions of the Cluster. All relevant
                    information is available in the attached pdf. <o:p
                      class=""></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                    style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
                    class="" lang="EN-US">We would be grateful if you
                    could please forward the information about the call
                    to your networks in order to distribute it to the
                    global community of early career researchers at the
                    postdoc level interested in working in marine
                    research in Kiel. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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                    class="" lang="EN-US">The call seeks project ideas
                    in the thematic areas and integrative themes the
                    Cluster has identified for the next funding phase
                    for the proposed Cluster ‘Future Ocean
                    Sustainability’ within the German Excellence
                    Strategy. Hence, the research proposed in the <i
                      style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal" class="">Postdoc
                      Project Proposal Call 2017</i> shall target the
                    three grand challenge areas <i
                      style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal" class="">Ocean
                      Pressures</i>, <i
                      style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal" class="">Ocean
                      Resilience</i> and <i
                      style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal" class="">Ocean
                      Prosperity</i>, and the integrative themes <i
                      style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal" class="">Digital
                      Ocean</i> and <i
                      style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal" class="">Ocean
                      Education &amp; Lifelong Learning</i>.<o:p
                      class=""></o:p></span></p>
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                    class="" lang="EN-US">For further information please
                    see<span style="color:#49BAE7" class=""> </span></span><a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.futureocean.org/postdoc-proposal-call-2017"
                    target="_blank" class=""><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:#49BAE7;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
                      class="" lang="EN-US">http://www.futureocean.org/postdoc-proposal-call-2017</span></a><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;
                    mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="" lang="EN-US"> or
                    contact Gesche Braker at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
                      href="mailto:gbraker@futureocean.org">gbraker@futureocean.org</a>.<o:p
                      class=""></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
                    class="" lang="EN-US">We are looking forward to many
                    inspiring project proposals and appreciate your
                    support. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
                    class="" lang="EN-US"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p>
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font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
                    class="" lang="EN-US">Yours, <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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                  font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
                  class="" lang="EN-US">Martin Visbeck and Ralph
                  Schneider<br class="">
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