Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts -> aesthetics, communication, environment

Andy Martin wrote: Aesthetics are a good substitute argument for some current environmentalism. As much as we may dislike it, it's doubtless you'll get more public support from a single baby pygmy hippo video (our dancing D-list celebrity) than from a million soil cores. One would prefer to us

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

I have to say that this friend, David Lawrence, speaks my mind (to use a Quaker saying). I remember a very influential person in So Cal habitat conservation reminding me years ago that science has a slim chance of preserving nature unless we win people's hearts and not just their minds. I thin

[ECOLOG-L] NCEAS Special Call for Proposals in Ecosystem-Based Management

Colleagues: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) seeks proposals for Working Groups to develop scientific knowledge about ecological, social, and economic processes that directly affect management and governance of coastal–marine ecosystems. http://www.nceas.ucsb.e

[ECOLOG-L] Seeking A Senior Ecologist / Toxicologist

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[ECOLOG-L] Postdoctoral Associate - Forest habitats, climate change & species conservation

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[ECOLOG-L] Visiting faculty position: Biology and Society

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[ECOLOG-L] Visiting faculty position: Botany and Environmental Biology

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Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

Ecologists should have a passion for what they do (I hope we do, for what our paychecks are compared to most science/tech fields). Many of us, I think, are human oddities that can get excited about a research topic dismissed as 'gross' by the general public. I prefer wetland work, and am never h

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Love of Nature

Ecologgers, How many of us got into ecology because we loved the natural world. I suggest that the answer would be 'the majority'. How many of us got into ecology because we had 'respect' for nature? I certainly moved that way because I loved the natural world from an early age. And if

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

Some of the posts on this subject seem to underestimate love (and with it perhaps awe and wonder), even when defending it. Often young children are fascinated by the so-called "ugly" members of the ecosystem before they are taught that "eeew!" is the proper response to them. This fascination, if

[ECOLOG-L] Volunteer Field Assistant Needed for Treefrog Behavior Study

Field Assistant (1) needed to help with a behavioral study of the canyon treefrog in the US southwest Date: April 1- May 31 Field sites will be in the Grand Canyon (AZ) and Zion National Park (UT) This study will look at female preference for male advertisement calls types of the canyon treef

[ECOLOG-L] REU in plant-insect interactions and plant population dynamics

Full-time summer Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) opportunity studying plant-herbivore interactions and population dynamics in an agricultural weed. Research involves a combination of greenhouse/lab and field experiments in the vicinity of Florida State University in Tallahassee. Possibl

[ECOLOG-L] Global Health and Innovation Summit - Conference Registration

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[ECOLOG-L] IUCN and Dhamra port, India/sea turtle controversy

When I posted an inquiry about this in December several people expressed interest so I thought I'd pass along a link to the article, which appears in the Jan 09 Scientific American. Fury Over Conservationists Taking Fees from Developers: A proposed megaport and a sea-turtle nesting beach collide w

[ECOLOG-L] Soil Ecology Society

Hello All, The Soil Ecology Society is an international organization of researchers, students, environmental professionals and others interested in the advancement and promotion of soil biology and ecology. The SES holds a biennial conference which addresses contemporary issues in the field of

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

I think a good word instead of love would be respect. People have a respect for nature and that is why we protect it. Another thing Hargrove said in his ESA talk was that we need to teach values as part of our public education. It is not a surprise that it is such a contentious issue, s

[ECOLOG-L] job opening-new information

Hello, We have updated information regarding this job opening, which we would appreciate it if you were to post on Ecolog. Thanks Thanks very much, Sue Post doc/Project Manager position available: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Canyonlands Research Station, Moab, UT is seeking an Ecologist

[ECOLOG-L] Field Assistants wanted for juvenile ring-tailed lemur feeding ecology in Madagascar

If interested, please contact Teague O'Mara directly at teague.om...@asu.edu -- I am searching for several independent and capable field assistants to participate in data collection for a Ph.D. project that will focus on the development fe

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

For me, and, I suspect, for many of us, our interest in biology and ecology started as a love for nature. That love made us want to learn more. As the learning went on, the love extended to the "ugly" members of ecosystems as we learned that they play key roles in ecosystem function. We nee

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoctoral Associate for large-scale coastal ecosystem flooding experiment

Postdoctoral Associate for large-scale coastal ecosystem flooding experiment The Division of Earth and Ecological Sciences at Tulane University is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate to help lead a DOE-funded Gulf Coast ecosystem sea level rise and storm surge experiment. The experiment will uti

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

I had to splash Silvert's rationality with a jigger of cold, hard reality, but the scientific community needs to realize at some point that if those worms in the bottom of the North Sea are going to survive, the community needs to build public support for policies that promote conservation. T

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

One of my favorite quotes is from Paul and Anne Ehrlich's 1981 book, "Extinction": "Many organisms have what might be called conventional beauty. Birds, butterflies, flowers, and others are widely recognized as esthetic resources...There is also a second kind of beauty, a beauty of inter

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

Ed Abbey usually has a quote for every occasion. "Any good poet, in our age at least, must begin with the scientific view of the world; and any scientist worth listening to must be something of a poet, must possess the ability to communicate to the rest of us his sense of love and wonder at what h

[ECOLOG-L] CALL FOR APPLICANTS for the Eco-Informatics Summer Institute (EISI)

We are announcing a CALL FOR APPLICANTS for the Eco-Informatics Summer Institute (EISI) (http://eco-informatics.engr.oregonstate.edu/) from June 15- August 21, 2009, at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest (http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/) in the beautiful Oregon Cascade mountains. Please v

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

On nature walks with kids I will frequently pick up a native banana slug. Their first reaction is inevitably a back-away "eeew!" But I then ask them take a closer look as the slug starts to extend its eyestalks and feeler stalks, waving them around to get a sense of the new world around it on my f

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

In the abstract cited, the author (Hargrove) states that the Endangered Species Act is supposed to promote "aesthetic, ecological, educational, historical, recreational, and scientific value" in order to inhibit "economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and Conservation."

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Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

Besides, passion is endemic to any attentive pursuit of knowledge. (See, as merely one example, Evelyn Fox Keller's A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock.) Cheers, - Ashwani Vasishthvasis...@csun.edu (818) 677-6137 ht

[ECOLOG-L] Data needed for diversity-stability meta-analysis

We are currently conducting a meta-analysis of diversity-stability relations, specifically focusing on the how diversity-stability relations differ depending on experimental venue/ecological realism. If you have any published (or unpublished, i.e. thesis) data that could be re-analyzed to determine

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

Agreed, completely. I would say that conservation of species is primarily about emotion and aesthetics, although there are exceptions. Other aspects of environmentalism, however, including conservation of many types of landscapes, are primarily about life support or "ecosystem services". I tend to

[ECOLOG-L] M.Sc. Graduate Research Assistantship in Invasive Plant Ecology and Biofuels

A graduate research assistantship at the M.Sc. level is available in the Invasive Plant Ecology Laboratory of Dr. Catherine Tarasoff at the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University. The successful applicant will lead a project studying the legacy e

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Research Assistantship (MSU Forestry)

A graduate research assistant position at either the MS or Ph.D. level is available starting May 2009 with Dr. Sophan Chhin (www.msu.edu/~chhin) in the Department of Forestry (www.for.msu.edu) at Michigan State University (MSU). Research will involve examining the effect of silvicultural manage

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

At the last Ecology conference, I saw a talk by a prominent philosopher who suggested that aesthetics is the only rational basis of environmentalism. Excuse me if I am misquoting him, but if I understand his argument, it seems very rational to me if not scientific. http://eco.confex.com/eco

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

These are all great points. But balance would argue that care for the environment should stem both from an appreciation of its utility as well as from moral sensibilities. Indeed, there has been a long- standing debate in philosophy on the utilitarianism vs. intrinsic rights as a basis for

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

I don't know about parasitologists, but the mycologists I know are more enthused about their subjects than any other group of biologists I've met! "Loving" something in nature has, for many scientists, nothing to do with conventional beauty. (Luckily for most of us, something similar applies to hum

Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

Just an observation - nowhere in the review did I see mention of the world 'beauty', or the suggestion that love of nature stems from a love of beauty. As to whether it is wrong, or somehow detrimental, for scientists to be emotionally connected to nature, I suspect that as in most things,

[ECOLOG-L] 5 week Northern Rockies Environmental Science Field Course

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[ECOLOG-L] Stanford Journal of Law, Science, and Policy: Call for Papers

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Re: [ECOLOG-L] New Book for Nature Enthusiasts

Although this sounds like a lovely book, I am not terribly comfortable with the concept, at least not in connetion with an ecology mailing list. Part of our work as scientists is promoting a rational, rather than romantic, concern for our environment, and while some of us (like Ehrlich) may have

[ECOLOG-L] e-print edition of the science jobs newsletter

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