[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc position in ecological-economic modelling, Germany

2013-01-21 Thread Kerstin Wiegand
The Ecosystem Modelling group at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany is offering a Postdoctoral position within the Biodiversity Exploratories (www.biodiversity-exploratories.de) on: IMPACT OF LAND-USE AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY ON DIVERSITY AND STABILITY OF GRASSLAND COMMUNITIES

[ECOLOG-L] Employment Opportunity: Assist/Assoc. Professor of Human Ecology

2013-01-21 Thread Erika Latty
Assistant/Associate Professor of Human Ecology Position summary: Unity College invites applications for an academic-year (9-month) position, to be filled at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Unity College is a four-year liberal arts College that emphasizes sustainability and

[ECOLOG-L] Bird count data

2013-01-21 Thread ling huang
Hi I go to the wetland area at the Yolo Causeway near Davis (in between Davis and Sacramento) - large wetland area with my children. Yesterday I saw a lot of pelicans there and bird watchers who seem to be making a count. I was wondering if there is a data bank somewhere with all of these

[ECOLOG-L] Temporary Employment Opportunity: Wyoming

2013-01-21 Thread Kurt T. Smith
We are looking for 6 field technicians to assist with 2 PhD research projects. The first project focuses on identifying greater sage-grouse response to sagebrush habitat treatments in west-central, Wyoming. The second project will collect data to evaluate aspects of bentonite mining in

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Bird count data

2013-01-21 Thread Jeff Davis
Many birders now enter such count data into eBird, a powerful, citizen science, online database sponsored by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon. Check it out at www.ebird.org. Jeff Davis Fresno, CA On Jan 21, 2013, at 10:52 AM, ling huang ling.hu...@prodigy.net wrote: Hi I go to

[ECOLOG-L] Collated new messages about tree hazards and their management

2013-01-21 Thread David Inouye
I've collated several messages below related to the thread about tree hazards and their management. David Inouye originally submitted by gwpatt...@yahoo.com, Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:51:04 -0500 Ecolog: First off, I wish to say that I am sorry for Wayne's loss of his friend and for the others

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Bird count data

2013-01-21 Thread David L. McNeely
Jeff Davis jnda...@ucsc.edu wrote: Many birders now enter such count data into eBird, a powerful, citizen science, online database sponsored by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon. Check it out at www.ebird.org. Also, given the time of year, the birders may have been involved

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Bird count data

2013-01-21 Thread Joseph Carlo
Other public bird data is available, such as Breeding Bird Surveys (USGS) and most states have a Breeding Bird Atlas - check your state wildlife websides for BBA. On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Jeff Davis jnda...@ucsc.edu wrote: Many birders now enter such count data into eBird, a powerful,

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Bird count data

2013-01-21 Thread catboxcleaner
Does anyone know how the industrial wind turbines (nearly 500 ft tall) are affecting bird populations?  Have there been studies? There are over 3,500 of these turbines either build and/ or planned in Southern Ontario alone.  Most are near the Great Lakes along migration routes and near

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Bird count data

2013-01-21 Thread Don McKenzie
Type birds wind turbines into a google search bar to start. The Wikipedia page has some useful info and citations. On 21-Jan-13, at 12:41 PM, catboxcleaner wrote: Does anyone know how the industrial wind turbines (nearly 500 ft tall) are affecting bird populations? Have there been

[ECOLOG-L] Fire Science/Ecology graduate student

2013-01-21 Thread Soung Ryu
I am looking for an independent, enthusiastic, self-motivated PhD student with interest in fire science and fire ecology. The proposed study aims to understand the spatially heterogeneous fuel structure in managed forests and evaluate the effects of fuel heterogeneity on fire behavior. The

[ECOLOG-L] Outreach Specialist/Research Analyst position, Ocean Health Index

2013-01-21 Thread Ben Halpern
Outreach Specialist/Research Analyst position, Ocean Health Index Ocean Health Index project, UC Santa Barbara The Ocean Health Index is an ongoing project to develop, refine and communicate a new tool and approach to assessing overall ocean health. The first global assessment was recently

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Tree hazards and their management Re: [ECOLOG-L] Tree stump removal in sensitive area

2013-01-21 Thread Wayne Tyson
This is really interesting information about which I had not thought. However, it does not appear to be directly relevant to tree damage out of the tree care context. If I interpret Roth correctly, It would be nice if he could provide us a link to the Best Management practices for Tree Risk

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Tree stump removal in sensitive area

2013-01-21 Thread Earl Reaves
Hazardous trees are a difficult subject to explain when talking to people. Trees that are diseased or structurally sound can be very dangerous to life and property, in fact that what make them hazardous; having a 'target' of property or any area frequented by people. And as has been