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Catching up on emails, I found this thread very interesting. My
apologies for a late response. In glancing through responses, I did not
notice anyone mention the importance of attending regional meetings.
While large meetings such as ESA are important and vital outlets,
regional meetings offer
PhD opportunity at the University of Virginia with Deborah Lawrence
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The College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education at New Mexico
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These positions are at the Assistant Professor
Interesting. I just read about bednets with permethrin included in the
fabric being very effective in malaria prevention. Unlike nets that are
simply soaked in insecticide, or DDT sprayed in homes, these nets last
several years without needing recharging or replacement.
I realize that malaria
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Organized Session GC24: Environmental Monitoring: Luxury or Necessity?
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
December 10-14, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Contributed abstracts for the AGU Fall meeting are due September 6.
Abstract below:
Environmental monitoring has
Check out the Chronicle of Higher Education, seems like they published an
artilce about this at some point.
On Tue, August 21, 2007 11:03 am, O'Mara, Maureen wrote:
Greetings list,
I am wondering if any of you can direct me to research or a survey that
has been done that would tell me the
There is a nice paper that discusses the responsibility of authorship.
Hope it helps.
Weltzin, J.F., R.T. Belote, L.T. Williams, J.K. Keller, and E.C. Engel.
2006. Authorship in ecology: attribution, accountability, and
responsibility. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4:435-441.
Jordan
He has a hard time understanding how Christians can
reconcile their beliefs with teaching science,
specifically evolution. Yes, I believe he is a
Creationist.
This has never been a conflict for me. As I do not claim to know more
than God, I do not deny him any tools He wishes to
Hi Alicere,
I believe that the issue is more complex than this. Most times writing a
paper represents most of the intellectual work, and involves revising the
literature and proposing the main interpretations of data, or at least have an
important part in these activities.
If your
The Chronicle ran a story in March '06 based on this study by UCLA:
http://spirituality.ucla.edu/reports/spirit_professoriate.pdf
It addresses spirituality rather than religion, but the water is pretty
muddy regarding the differences between the two concepts.
Here's how the report defines
Hi,
I would think it unethical - politically unwise or not - to base =20
collaboration and authorship on whether the person is tenured or not.
Whether or not it is ethical to be an author on such a paper would =20
depend on whether your friend is simply providing an english service =20
(in which
Although for Biomedical Journals, these guidelines may help in determining
authorship (from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors):
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
http://www.icmje.org/
Cheryl Kassed, PhD
Science Writer,
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has had a se=
ries of lectures and discussions on the topic of science and religion. The=
site may have some information on this. =0A=0S Dialogue on Science, Et=
hics, and
Although there are rules of authorship, the ultimate rule is that the
person in control of the paper can include anyone who they think was
vital. That is the point of these rules. We often use a code where if
someone participated in a given number of components of the article are
given
The first question I want to ask is how did this person become a professor
with no writing abilities? Publications and grants are at the heart of
most tenure decisions at universities so how did this person acquire enough
of either one to deserve tenure?
Bryan
A bigger question than how many scientists are christians is how many
christians believe in science. If I was putting together a study I'ld
try that question! A study comparing the acceptance of science to the
average christian (and denominations), jew, buddist, hindu, muslim, etc.
would be very
This can hapen quite easily. Since retiring I remain active on a consulting
basis, and in one case the PI for whom I was working disagreed with my
conclusions and changed them to suit her views. She pointed out that I was
hired to do the work and her institute owned my results. I asked to have
This reminds me of a study I read many years ago to test the theory that
students lean to the left because they are brain-washed by their
left-leaning professors. The conclusion was that almost all students become
more liberal, even at ultra right-wing schools like Bob Jones University.
My own
Hi Maureen,
This recent article may interest you:
Graffin, G.W., and W.B. Provine. 2007. Evolution, religion, and free will.
American Scientist, vol. 95 (July-August issue), p. 294-297.
Sincerely, Anita
Anita Morzillo, Ph.D.
Biologist
US EPA
200 SW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
Not to start yet another holy war here, but I'd say that although the evidence
is overwhelming in support of evolution as the mechanism responsible for the
diversity of life we see today, there is NO evidence that the hand of any
deity or supernatural power had anything to do with it (...not
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Project # EPA-NCEA-RTP 2007-02
Assessment of Environmental Effects from
Exposure to Criteria Air Pollutants
A postdoctoral research project is currently available at
Job Title: Research Technician/Field Supervisor
Start Date: December 1, 2007, with some flexibility for the right
candidate
The Nantucket Conservation Foundation (NCF) Department of Science and
Stewardship is seeking an experienced Research Technician/Field Supervisor
to work full-time on a
This week in ESA News and Views, the ESA blog, Lauren McGee, a SEEDS
alumna now in graduate school at Ohio State, looks back on her
experience in the SEEDS program and starts planning for involvement in
the 2008 meeting in Milwaukee.=20
=20
Providing another perspective, Carolyn Kurle, a graduate
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Invertebrate Zoologist, Department of
Biological Sciences, Murray State University. Full-time, tenure
track position to begin January or August 2008. The Department of
Biological Sciences has a faculty of 20 with graduate program
concentrations in molecular
That sure puts theorists in their place. Our job is to see things in the
data that no one else has seen. We only discuss the analysis and think of
better ways to examine the data.
Bill Silvert
- Original Message -
From: Malcolm McCallum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Have you tried the National Center for Science Education (http://
www.natcenscied.org/)? I don't remember off the top of my head if
they've done such a study or published in their Reports, but I'd
suggest asking someone there about this.
Madhu
~
Madhusudan
I was chatting with a colleague of mine who was having a bit of trouble
getting jobs because rather than having a lot of minor publications, he has
a few HEAVILY cited papers -- I was wondering if any of you either put a
Cited X times next to each article in your CV's publication section, or
have
A few years ago when looking for graduate programs, I found one
researcher's website who had, in my opinion, a good idea regarding
coauthorship. I have been unable to relocate who the professor was or
where his/her website is located. If anyone recognizes his/her suggested
guidelines and has seen
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