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 [...]

Dear Colleague,First of all, I would like to wish you a wonderful year 2025, full of personal and professional success.I am writing to inform you about a new Erasmus Mundus Joint Master that is being coordinated by the Public University of Navarra and that may be of interest to students that you may know. [...]

[image: AgMIP10 logo.png]Dear DSSAT Community,Happy New Year! We hope 2025 is off to a great start for everyone!The 10th AgMIP Global Workshop is fast approaching! AgMIP10 will be heldMarch 31-April 4, 2025 at CIMMYT Headquarters in El Batán, Mexico.*Visit the AgMIP10 Website <https://agmip.org/agmip10/> for more details*Registration is open and early-bird rates are available through January 15.Register soon to guarantee your spot! [...]

To improve access and maintenance of the ICASA Data Dictionary, we havemigrated the Dictionary from Google Drive (http://www.tinyurl.com/icasa-mvl)to the DSSAT Github (https://github.com/DSSAT/ICASA-Dictionary). This willallow better documentation of updates and provide users with ageneric mechanism for suggesting improvements or commenting on proposedchanges.The initial migration is completed, and we are now in the process ofcleaning up minor inconsistencies and removing variables that webelieve are not being used.We want to ask DSSAT and AgMIP users whether there are any AgMIP-relatedvariables that their current software requires. This includes:- A block of AgMIP-specific metadata [...]

PhD scholarship: Carbon Myopia, the urgent need for integrated economic, environmental and social action in the agricultural sectorWorking as a team player within the Carbon Storage Partnership (https://www.utas.edu.au/tia/research/research-projects/project/livestock-production/carbon-storage-partnership), the candidate will examine the nexus between climate change adaptation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation. This will include co-development of practices, technologies and skills to elicit co-benefits and trade-offs associated with carbon dioxide removal (CDR), GHG mitigation and adaptation of the livestock and broadacre cropping sectors to the changing climate. Analyses may include, for example, costs associated with transitioning to net-zero emissions, temporal simulation of spatially-explicit carbon in vegetation and [...]

Dear ColleaguesGB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India, thefirst and foremost Agriculture University of India and National Academy ofAgricultural Science are jointly organizing a three days Congress on"Frontier Sciences and Technologies in Agriculture" during 20-22 February2025 at Pantnagar, India. It is expected that more than 4000 delegates fromall across world will join this mega event. There are many themes whichwould be of your interest such as: i) Next Frontiers for Climate ChangeScience, ii) Digital Agriculture, iii) Precision Horticulture Farming,iv) Frontier Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Soil and WaterManagement. [...]

Dear colleagues,I hope this email finds you well.Would it be possible for you to share the following job opportunity within the DSSAT network? We are currently offering a permanent research fellow position in the PSH Research Unit (Plants and Cropping Systems in Horticulture) at INRAE, France's National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, located in Avignon, France. The position focuses on resource sharing (light, water, nutrients) in heterogeneous horticultural canopies with strong spatial structuring.This heterogeneity can arise from various factors implemented in agroecological production systems, such as species or variety mixtures, companion plants, or market gardening. [...]