Complexity Digest 2005.50 - 01

05/12/15

Third Notice: If you did not reply to the survey on the first round and might have a few moments to help this time, please do the survey. Important planning will flow from your input.

Thanks to all....Dean and Gottfried

TO OUR READERS: WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK:

Complexity Digest was founded in 1999 to promote networking of the complexity community by using the Internet to link to electronic publications related to Complexity. And we may have contributed to its present status where complexity, multi-disciplinary, dynamic studies are accepted parts of any academic field and are used to solve problems....although often with a different lexicon.

Are we serving our market...you, the readers? In bringing webcasts to you of meetings we cannot all attend, does that help you? Are we pointing out literature that you want to explore more thoroughly?

And most important to those of us who work each week to bring ComDig to you, what should we be doing now to strengthen the Complexity network?

You can help by participating in this short survey......thanks.

www.surveymonkey.com/Users/48763454/Surveys/666681488644/82D2B4E1

Deanand Gottfried

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Excerpts: Life on Earth may owe its existence to tiny microorganisms living in the oceans, but the effect of human-induced change on the vital services these microbes perform for the planet remains largely unstudied, says a report (...). "Since life most likely began in the oceans, marine microorganisms are the closest living descendants of the original forms of life, (...) They are also major pillars of the biosphere; their unique metabolisms allow marine microbes to carry out many steps of the biogeochemical cycles that other organisms are unable to complete. The smooth functioning of these cycles is necessary for life to continue on earth." (...)