Call for Participant Applications Scaling Up: Population and Community Ecology A Workshop for Early Career Scientists Organized by the Ecological Society of America (ESA) http://www.esa.org/scalingup/
June 4 June 7, 2013 The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute Linthicum Heights, MD (near Baltimore) http://www.ccmit.org/ Eligibility: Early career scientists, no more than eight years post-PhD (at time of workshop) who are working in population and community ecology Selection: Up to 30 participants will be selected; participants will receive awards of travel, lodging, and subsistence support to attend the workshop Application deadline: Friday, February 8th, 2013; 5:00pm Eastern ESAs Office of Science Programs announces the Workshop, Scaling Up: Population and Community Ecology, A Workshop for Early Career Scientists to be held June 4 to June 7, 2013 in Linthicum Heights, MD (near Baltimore). This workshop at the Maritime Institutes Conference Center will include three and a half days of presentations, discussions, working group sessions, and joint meetings with a concurrent student workshop on the Future of Environmental Decisions. The workshop will bring together early career scientists in ecology and biology to: 1) identify key questions in population and community ecology that can or should be addressed at continental scales, 2) assess the status of existing analytical, physical, and software tools needed to address key continental-scale questions, and 3) identify needs and capabilities for developing new tools to address these questions. The workshop aims to encourage early career scientists to develop continental-scale research programs, and will create opportunities for scientists to get feedback on the broader impacts of their research from students attending the concurrent workshop. The Workshop Committee is soliciting applications from eligible early career researchers who are working in population and community ecology, computational biology, remote sensing, biogeography, informatics, phylogeography, or related disciplines. The Committee especially encourages applications from members of traditionally underrepresented communities. Applicants must submit a short list of recent publications and three brief statements on: 1) their research interests (300 words), 2) why they wish to attend and what they can contribute to the workshop (300 words), and 3) what they perceive as a critical gap (in knowledge, data, tools, or resources) that needs to be addressed for scientists working with continental-scale data (500 words). The workshop committee will select participants based on their scientific vision and creativity, experience and potential to work in collaborative teams, and to ensure an appropriate mix of disciplines and backgrounds. Applications will be reviewed in February and participants will be notified of their acceptance status by March 11, 2013. How to submit an application: We are now accepting applications for a February 8 deadline. Visit http://www.esa.org/scalingup/ for more information on the workshop and to access the online application form. If you have any questions, please contact Jill Parsons, ESA Science Programs Manager, at [email protected].
