[ECOLOG-L] Ph.D. in Population & Community Dynamics / Climate Change

2008-11-04 Thread Eric Post
Announcing an opening for a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology at Penn State University (www.bio.psu.edu) beginning Fall 2009 to study population and community dynamics of plants and vertebrate herbivores in relation to climate change. The student will have the opportunity to develop an in

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Fellowships, Invasive Species, University of Georgia

2008-11-04 Thread Rodney Mauricio
PHD STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS ECOLOGICAL GENETICS OF INVASIVE SPECIES UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Graduate Student Fellowships are available starting in Fall 2008 to study the ecological genetics of invasive species, including plant pathogens. Fellowships offer a highly competitive stipend as well as fun

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Study at UCLA

2008-11-04 Thread Dan Blumstein
The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA welcomes applications for graduate study. Our PhD support packages provide guaranteed support packages of $26,000 per year along with research seed money. Visit our website http://www.eeb.ucla.edu and learn about our department's inte

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Two simple solutions for global warming

2008-11-04 Thread James J. Roper
Stephen, For your first idea to work would require separating the oxygen from the carbon dioxide - that would require the input of a lot of energy that would then put more CO2 into the atmosphere. For your second idea to work, O2 would have to be a greenhouse gas, which it is not. While you may

[ECOLOG-L] correction to Urban Wildlife conference information

2008-11-04 Thread Paige Warren
The correct website address for the conference below is: www.people.umass.edu/sdestef/urban_conference.html Call for Abstracts Urban Wildlife Ecology and Management: An International Symposium on Urban Wildlife and the Environment University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts June 21-24, 2

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Student Position in stream and watershed biogeochemistry

2008-11-04 Thread Jay Jones
Funding is available for a either a M.S. or Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology and Wildlife at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The student will join a broader research project examining stream and watershed hydro- biogeochemistry in the boreal forest of Alaska. Discontinuous permafr

[ECOLOG-L] NSF fellowships for research on vegetation-climate interactions in the Amazon

2008-11-04 Thread amazonp...@arizona.edu
NSF fellowships for research on vegetation-climate interactions in the Amazon National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowships ($30,000 per year, for up to two years) are available starting in the 2009-2010 academic year for Amazon-PIRE (Partnership for International Research and Education)

[ECOLOG-L] 3 post-doc positions with the Marine Initiative of the Natural Capital Project

2008-11-04 Thread Anne Guerry
The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and Stanford University together seek 3 post-doctoral researchers for the Natural Capital Project. We seek an OCEANOGRAPHER, an ECONOMIST, and a HYDROLOGIST. We are developing tools to model and map the distribution of biodiversity and the flow of mu

[ECOLOG-L] Fwd: Old literature - the Biodiversity Heritage Library

2008-11-04 Thread Dmitry Musolin
www.biodiversitylibrary.org About the Biodiversity Heritage Library Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the pub

[ECOLOG-L] Desert seed suppliers

2008-11-04 Thread Taoufik Ksiksi
Dear All, I would be grateful if you please provide me with names of suppliers of desert seeds. Regards Taoufik

[ECOLOG-L] Ph.D. research: Host-parasite evol ecol, Clayton Lab, Univ. Utah

2008-11-04 Thread Dale Clayton
Ph.D. Research: Host-parasite evolutionary ecology, Clayton Lab, Dept. of Biology, University of Utah I am seeking one or two highly motivated Ph.D. students interested in the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite systems. More specific topics of study in my lab include parasite specificity, spe