Welcome to the websites of ESPERE!

... and thank you for your interest in this project

To get a first idea in which way you could contribute to ESPERE, please click on one of the yellow buttons.

	I am senior scientist ... How can I support the project?
	I would like to become a member of ESPERE ... What do I have to do? What will I be asked for?
	I am non-scientist ... Can I do something, too?
	How shall ESPERE work? A scheme for future cooperation

I am senior scientist - what can I do?

The coordinators and members of ESPERE plan to establish an informative network which should have the comprehensibility of a light novel but the reliability of a scientific journal. This reliability shall be guaranteed in a way similar to the peer-review system used by scientific journals. Therefore we need your help as senior scientist and reviewers.
We will ask you for advice and material (such as graphs, pictures, data) for the development of the pages, if you would like to accompany this process for topics related to your field of research.
You could mediate and recommend other colleagues who could answer to specific questions.
And finally we ask you to forward the idea of ESPERE and to motivate PhD students, PostDocs and young scientists in your group to become active member of ESPERE to make the network grow.

If you agree to be asked now and then (it will not take too much of your time) for this purpose by the members of ESPERE, please copy the following questions to your mailbox, answer them and send the message to contact@espere.net

Supporter form SENIOR SCIENTIST I would like to support the project ESPERE. My last name: My first name: degree: affiliation (institute, organisation, etc.): town: country: e-mail: field of research: I also could give advise / offer material for the following fields:

If you have further questions, please mail our new members contact: contact@espere.net
or our current coordinator: mail@espere.net.

Thank you for your readiness to support the ESPERE project.

I would like to become member of ESPERE ...

What do I have to do?

This is very simple. Please write to mail@espere.net or - easier for us - directly to the administrator of your country (see below), tell us that you would like to become a member and ask for a SUPPORTER FORM.

Hello! That's us, Elmar and Michael, at the moment the main adminstrators of ESPERE.

Elmar Uherek born: 1970 PhD-student Max Planck Inst. Mainz Germany mail: uherek@espere.net	Michael Gauss born: 1970 PhD student University of Oslo Norway mail: gauss@espere.net

In the future, it is planned to have local administrators for different countries. About the current state please have a look on the frequently updated overview in the 'Partners' section: Administration of ESPERE

Michael ( michaelg@geofysikk.uio.no ) cares about the following countries:

Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Russia, SouthEast Asia, Australia

Elmar ( uherek@mpch-mainz.mpg.de ) cares about:

Western Europe, Africa, North- and South-America, MidAsia

If you don't receive an answer from us within 5 days we may be abroad. In this case write to the current coordinator (mail@espere.net).

Concrete work - what is awaiting me?

We try to offer work packages that should take you between one to two hours in two weeks to complete. For the members who are not directly involved in administration this will be an upper limit. "We offer work packages" does not mean that your role in ESPERE is a passive one but you should decide what you would like to do. The work package system gives only an overview where help is needed.

Depending on your personal preference ...

It is possible to find solutions
so that you do something in five 15 min breaks over two weeks during your normal work
so that you invest one time a couple of hours and than you do nothing for the next six weeks
so that you do an easy job such as internet inquiry if you are stressed and tired
so that you think about layout, design etc. if you want to be creative
so that you care about certain websites related to your research and their contents if you are mostly interested in your field
so that you care about a totally different field if you want to learn something new
so that you make new contacts and write to other people if you like the communication part

You can decide whether you would like to care about the offered workpackages or propose something yourself. Or you can ask your coordinator what would be reasonable at the moment to his/her opinion.

The only thing that is really not reasonable is to agree with the idea, to announce your support and to do nothing concrete for months. It is not reasonable and it is not fair because you also discourage the other members.

I am a non-scientist - what can I do?

Generally it is possible for everybody who is interested to contribute to the ESPERE project. Webdesign, internet inquiry and optimization of the pages have not necessarily to be done by scientists. Comprehensibility even cannot be checked by scientists. So, there are lots of things you can do as a non-scientist to contribute to this project and you are invited to do this as a reader, if you have internet access or at least an e-mail address.

School pupil are invited! It is one of the major goals of ESPERE to explain the problems that may arise from climate change and the interaction of environmental processes in general to the next generation. Therefore the ESPERE pages are also to be used as teaching material. But school pupil together with their teachers are invited not only to be on the passive side, but to participate in the development of the websites. You are invited to review the pages with respect to comprehensibility, to make suggestions, how we can improve them and also to write your own contributions for the section "schools for ESPERE".

If you, pupil - teacher - shop assistant - lawyer, are interested to support the idea of ESPERE, please write to contact@espere.net.
Please let us know, that you are interested to participate as non-scientist and tell us about your special interests and capabilities. Please keep in mind: We do not pursue political or commercial goals. Our interest is to inform about climate change and environmental processes and to offer a basis for everybody's personal decision, what to do.

How shall ESPERE work?

A scheme for future cooperation

	ADMINISTRATION should be done by scientist who are 50% paid for by ESPERE and 50% involved in science to keep in touch with the community				SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD Senior scientists of the Earth Scientists' Community offer advice, material and experience and assist to the development of pages related to their field of research
	coordination, communication			exchange of advice, material, and experience
	MEMBERS OF ESPERE PhD students, Post Docs, Earth Scientists and Former members of the scientific community contribute on a voluntary basis, develop websites and write texts.
	spreading of the information in the public		communication with school pupils and their teachers
	People read the pages as source of reliable information.	PEOPLE	The sites are used as teaching material in schools. Downloadable PDF versions shall be created so that net access is not necessary. The information will be free for everybody.

The characteristics of the ESPERE website are that

its reliability and topicality will be guaranteed by the scientific community
it will be translated into every major and lots of minor languages all over the world
it will be understandable for everyone and free of political and commercial interests

We invite you to join us, to support this effort to create ONE website on climate change and environmental processes for everybody everywhere on Earth and to enjoy the membership in our worldwide community!

The ESPERE TEAM