dear all,The University of Pisa (Italy) and the European projects SHARInG-MeD and SUS-SOIL are organising the:Summer School on Agriculture, Forest and Environmental Geodata Statistical Analysis, Modelling and Machine Learning [SAFEST] (second edition)Venue and dates: Pisa, Italy, on campus, in Pisa, at Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, viale delle Piagge, 2.from 9th - 13th June 2025 (5 days, 30 hours) [...]

Dear DSSAT community,I am sharing an excellent 4-year PhD opportunity fully funded by theEuropean Union in our lab at the Public University of Navarre (Pamplona,Spain).The main topic is the study of grassland ecology in its relationshipwith cattle management and woody plant encroachment in the Pyreneesmountains in the border between Spain and France. Opportunities fordesigning and applying conceptual models on grassland sustainablemanagement would arise. More information in the attached file. Forfurther information please contact *Dr. Rosa M. Canals(rmcanals@unavarra.es),* the researcher in charge of the research line. [...]

Dear Colleagues,Attached is an ad for a postdoctoral position at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Please forward to relevant individuals as you see fit.Best,JohnJohn Lindquist, PhDProfessor of AgronomyDepartment of Agronomy and HorticultureUniversity of Nebraska - Lincoln105C KCRLincoln NE 68583-0817jlindquist1@unl.edu

Dear DSSAT community,I am sharing an excellent PhD opportunity fully funded by the EuropeanUnion in our lab at the Public University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain).the main topic is structure and functioning of mixed Scots pine Europeanbeech forests in the Pyrenees mountains, including both field work andecological modelling with the FORECAST-Climate model. [...]

Dear colleagues,We are offering a PhD opportunity with highly competitive employment conditions on the Development of Plant Protein Production in the Mediterranean (https://www.iberusinterdoc.com/researcher/udl-dp/) in the framework of the PhD program Iberus INTERDOC (MSCA) (https://www.iberusinterdoc.com).The PhD student will be supervised by Dr Daniel Plaza-Bonilla (University of Lleida, ES) and Dr. Marloes van Loon (Wageningen University & Research, NL) and co-supervised by an industry partner, Mr. Santi Aliaga (Zyrcular Foods, ES). [...]

Dear all,Warm greetings from SRM College of Agricultural Sciences, SRM Institute ofScience and Technology!We are delighted to announce that the Department of Basic Sciences isorganizing a "National Workshop on DSSAT Software Applications inAgriculture" on 07th February 2025.We cordially invite you to participate in this event. The prominent expertsin this field from nationally renowned Institutions have agreed to deliverthe most insightful talks (Brochure attached). [...]

Dear DSSAT Community,The Columbia Climate School's Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR)invites applications for an Associate Research Scientist position todevelop advanced gridded crop modeling frameworks for connection to remotesensing and climate products.More details visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/161561Dr. Alex Ruane is leading the search committee for this position. You maydirect your queries to: alexander.c.ruane@nasa.gov [...]

[image: AgMIP10 logo.png]Dear DSSAT Community,We have received many requests for a bit more time to submit abstracts forthe 10th AgMIP Global Workshop (AgMIP10), which will be held March 31-April4, 2025 at CIMMYT Headquarters in El Batán, Mexico.*In response to these requests, we are extending the abstract submissionuntil next Friday, January 24! *To submit an abstract to be considered forpresentation at AgMIP10, click the link below: [...]

The Institute on the Environment (IonE), University of Minnesota isaccepting applications for its third round of a cohort-based PostdoctoralFellowship Program<https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione-postdoctoral-fellowship>. EachFellow will receive a postdoctoral fellowship salary commensurate withexperience between $60,000-$68,500; additionally, they will receiveresearch and professional expenses, moving expenses, as well as benefits<https://policy.umn.edu/hr/postdocappoint-appa>, including health carecoverage and paid leave. [...]

Dear DSSAT & AgMIP colleagues,As part of the DSSAT Sprint in Gainesville, we have finalized a series ofupdates to the ICASA Data Dictionary (IDD).The most important changes focused on simplifying the IDD by removingcolumns for things like length of variable names and use with specificsoftware. By reducing the number of columns, the IDD should be much easierto work with either manually or with software such as R's openxlsx2. Thedecision was also made to make the IDD sheet 'Crop_codes' the referencesource for crop identifiers in DSSAT. A detailed description of the changesis [...]