Re.: In search of Min/Max daily temperatures global dataset. http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.ncep.reanalysis.surface.html
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/ > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:15 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: > ECOLOG-L Digest - 17 Aug 2008 to 18 Aug 2008 (#2008-228)> To: > [email protected]> > There are 4 messages totalling 357 lines in this > issue.> > Topics of the day:> > 1. Massachusetts state job forester> 2. In > search of Min/Max daily temperatures global dataset.> 3. Practical statistics > courses> 4. Mac or PC? Hardware issue> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------> > > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:15:36 -0400> From: "Swain, Pat (FWE)" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>> Subject: Massachusetts state job forester> > The Massachusetts > Division of Fisheries & Wildlife (MassWildlife) is> reposting a position for > a forester. It should shortly be on the state> website > https://jobs.hrd.state.ma.us/recruit/public/3111/index.do > select Dept. of > Fish and Game, when it's posted the forestry position> should show up.> > > Check out the forestry section of the MassWildlife website:> > http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/habitat/management/bdi/forest_mgt/forest_> > mgt_home.htm > > John Scanlon ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) is the supervisor for > the> position and is the contact for questions about the job. To apply,> > follow the directions of the job posting through the person listed on> the > website (when they get it posted).> > DFW Forester Position Information> > > Agency Name: Dept. of Fish and Game> Official Title: Game Biologist II> > Functional Title: Wildlife Forester> Full-Time or Part Time: Full Time> > Salary Range: $1704.13-$2,258.12 bi-weekly> Number of Vacancies: 1> > City/Town: Westborough> Facility Location: Division of Fisheries and Wildlife > Field> Headquarters> Application Deadline: 09-30-2008> > The Forester works > as a member of the Division's Wildlife Section under> the supervision of the > Forestry Project Leader. The Forester will> develop, plan, and manage > forestry activities on State Wildlife> Management Areas, provide technical > assistance to private and public> landowners and organizations, and work > cooperatively with the DFW Upland> Program and Ecological Restoration Program > Coordinators as part of the> DFW Biodiversity Initiative to achieve the > Division's forest habitat> compositional goals.> > Duties:> > 1) Identify, > evaluate, and prioritize candidate sites on DFW lands> for timber and > fuelwood sales to achieve DFW forest habitat composition> goals.> 2) Design, > coordinate, contract, map, and administer forest> resource inventories and > biological monitoring at candidate sites. > 3) Prepare detailed forest > management site plans and forest cutting> plans for candidate sites. > 4) > Design, contract, and administer invasive, exotic plant control> activities > at candidate sites. > 5) Plan, coordinate, contract, map and administer all > aspects of> commercial timber and fuelwood sales to achieve DFW forest > habitat> composition goals, including public showings of candidate sites,> > facilitation of public, competitive bid processes, and direct> supervision of > contractors working on candidate sites.> 6) Identify, secure, and obtain all > necessary federal, state, and> local permits required for management of > candidate sites, including but> not limited to permits under the MA Chapter > 131 Wetlands Protection Act,> the MA Chapter 132 Forest Cutting Practices > Act, the MA Endangered> Species Act, and the MA Historical Commission.> 7) > Maintain a GIS geodatabase of forest habitat management> activities including > but not limited to forest inventories, biological> monitoring, forest > management site plans, forest cutting plans,> candidate management sites, > areas harvested, volumes removed,> infrastructure established, and revenues > received, and invasive control> activities.> 8) Promote management of a > diversity of forest successional> habitats including both early- and > late-successional forest types> through creation and updating of educational > materials, including the> DFW Forestry Program webpage, facilitation of > partnerships with other> agencies and conservation organizations, and > presentations to and> participation in public workshops.> 9) Provide > technical assistance to other state and federal> agencies, private, > non-profit conservation organizations, town> conservation commissions, and > private landowners concerning management> of forested wildlife habitats.> 10) > Maintain current literature review and summary on aspects of> biodiversity > and forested habitats.> 11) Perform other duties as assigned.> > Minimum > Qualifications:> > 1) Bachelors degree in forestry, wildlife management, or a > closely> related field, with a minimum of one years professional experience.> > 2) Possession of or ability to obtain a Massachusetts Forester's> License.> > 3) Possession of or ability to obtain a Massachusetts driver's> license.> > > Preferred Qualifications.> > 1) Graduate degree with a major in forestry, > wildlife management,> or a closely related field with a minimum of three > years of professional> experience.> 2) Demonstrated ability to identify > trees, shrubs, and herbaceous> plants commonly associated with forest and > field habitats of southern> New England, with a demonstrated understanding of > rare plants, native> plants, and invasive, exotic plants.> 3) Demonstrated > ability to compose, bid, and administer> competitively bid contracts.> 4) > Demonstrated ability to delineate wetland resource areas.> 5) Demonstrated > ability to interpret and utilize topographic maps.> 6) Demonstrated > experience with GPS receivers, GIS mapping, and> database management.> 7) > Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in oral> expression and to > write clearly and concisely.> 8) Demonstrated ability to maintain accurate > records.> 9) Demonstrated ability to work independently, to supervise other> > workers, and to work effectively with a group.> > Pat> > ----------------------------------------------------------> Patricia Swain, > Ph.D.> Community Ecologist> Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program> > Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife> 1 Rabbit Hill Road> > Westborough, MA 01581> 508-389-6352 fax 508-389-7891> http://www.nhesp.org> > > ------------------------------> > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:07:48 -0400> > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Simon_Chamaille-Jammes?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Subject: > In search of Min/Max daily temperatures global dataset.> > Dear all > Ecolog-ers,> I'm trying to find a dataset which would provide minimum and > maximum DAILY> temperatures (precipitation would be nice bonus) at the global > scale (the> spatial resolution doesn't matter much). I don't really care if > the data> come from spatial interpolation of real station data or from a > general> circulation model. Dataset with global change predictions (and> > uncertainties) would be a plus.> I've been going through many data repository > but haven't been able to find> one providing daily data at global scale, > although I'm pretty sure there> must be several ones outhere.> Any > suggestions would be most welcomed. Have a nice week,> simon> > > ------------------------------> > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:15:24 -0600> > From: Dennis Helsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Subject: Practical statistics > courses> > Practical Stats is offering two courses in Tampa this November, > just > prior to the SETAC conference the following week. See our website > > for more information, instructor qualifications, and to register. > Pass this > along to others who might be interested.> > Nondetects And Data Analysis> > Correctly handle data below detection limits> Nov 11-12, 2008 $795> Mainsail > Suites and Conference Center, Tampa, FL> register at > http://www.practicalstats.com/new_classes/classes.html> > For most > environmental professionals, the way to deal with > "nondetects" is less than > obvious. Values below detection or > quantitation limits result from > measuring trace amounts of a variety > of organic and inorganic chemicals. > Methods such as substitution of > one-half the detection limit are still > being used and recommended > even though they produce invasive data that > result in incorrect > estimates, regression lines and hypothesis tests. This > course > presents up-to-date (maximum likelihood and survival analysis) > > methods for computing summary statistics, performing hypothesis > tests, > regression modeling and trend analysis for data with one or > more detection > limits. Example problems are worked in class, so > students can confidently > take these methods back to their office. > Routines in commercial software as > well as the free R statistical > system are highlighted. A full course > outline is available on the > Practical Stats website. This course assumes a > knowledge of basic > statistics, including familiarity with t-tests, linear > regression, > and simple nonparametric tests like the rank-sum test. > > > Untangling Multivariate Relationships> Make sense of complex > inter-relationships> Nov 13-14, 2008 $895> Mainsail Suites and Conference > Center, Tampa FL> register at > http://www.practicalstats.com/new_classes/classes.html> > Environmental > measurements often are simultaneously recorded as a > series of variables or > species. Multiple chemicals are analyzed. > Multiple measures of ecosystem > health are recorded. If statistics are > computed on each, one by one, the > interrelations among variables, > species and locations cannot be seen. > Valuable information is lost. > Multivariate methods resolve what at first > may look like noise into > recognizable patterns, providing new insight into > the field of study. > However, these methods are daunting to many scientists, > with acronyms > like PCA, CCA or CANOCO, and with unfamiliar terms like > varimax > rotation and detrended correspondence. The learning curve seems > > steep, and useful procedures go unused.> > UMR covers the multivariate > methods of primary interest to > environmental science, focusing on what each > method is designed to > do, when to use them, and when not to. Methods for > simplifying and > plotting data (ordination) are contrasted with those for > establishing > connections between and among source and response variables. > > Capabilities of various software packages are reviewed. Example data > sets > are analyzed by each student in class. Our goal is that students > leave with > a clear understanding of which method to use, and how to > use it, for their > own data.> > Regards,> Dennis Helsel> -- > > -----------------------------------------------------------> Dennis R. > Helsel, Ph.D. Sign up for our newsletter at:> Practical Stats > http://practicalstats.com/news> 9278 S. Lark Sparrow Dr. > Littleton, CO > 80126-5232 [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ------------------------------> > Date: Mon, > 18 Aug 2008 08:24:20 -0700> From: Robert Scheller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > Subject: Re: Mac or PC? Hardware issue> > Thanks for all the great > information, Scott.> > I have been considering switching from Mac to PC up > until I discovered a > significant hardware compatibility issue: the > keyboard. Our office is > mostly PC, including my primary computer. I work at > home 2 or 3 days a > week and use remote desktop to connect to the office > computer. Although > a Mac should have no problem connecting, I would lose > all of the > keyboard shortcuts that I have learned over the past 20 years: > > Shift-arrow, Shift-end, Alt-tab, and all the other little things I do to > > use the mouse less and the keyboard more. And constantly switching > between > the two keyboard styles would be difficult and inefficient. So, > if you will > be connecting to a PC frequently or for long stretches of > time, take the > keyboard and keyboard shortcuts into consideration.> > Cheers,> > Rob> > > Scott D Lapoint wrote:> > Hello all again,> > > > About a week ago I posted a > message asking for input on whether I > > should move from a PC to a Mac. I > was particularly concerned with the > > higher costs of a Mac and if one can > run Windows programs such as ArcGIS > > and some statistics packages. I > received ~200 e-mailed responses from > > Ecolog alone, not to mention the > dozens that I received from my > > additional efforts.> > > > So this is what > I?ve decided: Buy a MacbookPro (if you want a laptop), > > put at least 2GB > of in it (more memory means that ArcGIS will run more > > smoothly), and > install Windows XP on the Mac. Apparently, you can run > > Windows on a Mac > by either booting directly into Windows on your Mac via > > Bootcamp, or you > can run it simultaneously through Parallels or Fusion. > > That means, > apparently, that you can install and run any Windows-based > > programs on > your Mac (but only if you have an Intel processor on your > > Mac, which all > the new laptops seem to have).> > > > Cost- It looks like a Mac is not that > much more expensive than a > > comparably equipped PC. Mac offers substantial > discounts to students and > > it is rumored that the prices of their Macbooks > and MacbookPros will be > > dropping this fall as Apple is releasing new > versions of both systems. > > Even though most people agree that Macs are a > bit more expensive than a > > PC, they all seem to agree that they are well > worth the extra money; > > less viruses, more stable OS, less maintenance, > etc.> > > > But, if you?re scared of Vista and you?re not sure you want to > learn > > how to use a Mac (many responses mentioned the learning curve when > > > switching to a Mac), you can still buy new PCs with Windows XP on them.> > > > > So that?s the summary. In case I did a poor job, I?ve pasted a few > > > tidbits of advice that some of the responders had below:> > > > ??to a PC as > far as speed, stability, boot up time, lack of viruses, and > > openness go. > It is especially good if you are going towards open source > > software such > as Grass for GIS or R.?> > > > ?macs tend to last longer.?> > > > ?pages is > better than word and keynote is better than powerpoint.?> > > > ?Excel is > better than Mac?s equivalent, but you shouldn?t be using Excel > > for stats > when there are superior packages out there that will run on > > Macs.?> > > > > ??should also take a look at Linux -- keep the Dell just ditch Vista.?> > > > > ?I bought a new Dell and paid $99 for it to come with XP rather than > > > Vista. They call it Genuine Windows Vista Downgrade, XP Pro Installed."> > > > > ?I saw that about 1/4 to 1/3 of all laptops the ESA meeting last week > > > were Macs.?> > > > ??cost is actually quite similar, and macs have a higher > resale value.?> > > > ?I just don't really support apple as a serious > counterpart - they seem > > more bent on finding the next trend than > supplying reliable work > > solutions, especially for scientific endeavors.?> > > > > ??get the extra memory, especially for GIS if you?ll have to install XP > > > too.?> > > > Here are a bunch of links sent to me in responses for those > of us > > thinking about making the switch:> > > > > http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/desktops?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd > > > > > http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/> > > http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/> > > http://www.opensourcemac.org/> > http://www.freemacware.com/> > > http://macspecialist.org/content/articles/essential_apps/> > > http://grass.itc.it> > > http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/apple-mac-leopard-windows-vista,1985.html > > > > > > http://www.macworld.com/article/134373/2008/07/laptop_price.html?lsrc=mwweek > > > > > > http://www.pcworld.ca/news/article/9853b173c0a800060058871f78388129/pg0.htm> > > > http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2008/08/04/new-peeks-at-a-post-windows-future/ > > > > > http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/> > > > Thanks again to all that > responded. I?m sure all of your responses will > > help me and many others in > our decisions.> > > > Scott> > > > > > Scott D. LaPoint> > Graduate Student> > > SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry> > 243 Illick Hall> > > Syracuse, NY 13210> > > > -- > > Robert M. Scheller, Ph.D.> Senior Ecologist> > Conservation Biology Institute> 136 SW Washington Ave., Suite 202> Corvallis, > OR 97333> office: (541) 757-0687 (ext 3)> cell: (541) 207-6947> > > ------------------------------> > End of ECOLOG-L Digest - 17 Aug 2008 to 18 > Aug 2008 (#2008-228)> > *************************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ Explore the seven wonders of the world http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE
