[ECOLOG-L] Jobs: invertebrate field technicians (with spines)

INVERTEBRATE FIELD TECHNICIANS (2) needed 18 April through 24 June for research on abundance and diversity of infaunal food resources for shorebirds along New Jersey's Delaware Bay shore. Duties include soft-sediment core sampling (often from a small inflatable boat), sediment and fecal-samp

[ECOLOG-L] collections of algae and mobile-epifauna ECOLOG-POST

I will be collecting subtidally various species of red algae and their epifauna (gastropods, crustaceans etc) and am wondering what the best method to do so is. So far my collections have been small in size and number so plastic bags have worked great but when I increase the number of collections p

[ECOLOG-L] Job Announcement - Environmental Education on Catalina Island

Camp Emerald Bay is accepting resumes for a year-round, full-time position located on Catalina Island, California. The Ecology and Conservation Director is responsible for managing the development, implementation and revision of teachable environmental issues curricula for Camp Emerald Bay’s Bo

[ECOLOG-L] Summer Positions in Tiller, Oregon

Biological Technician (Plants)Positions GS-0404-4 Tiller Ranger District, Umpqua National Forest ABOUT THE POSITION? Tiller Ranger District is biologically diverse, located at the juncture of the Southern Oregon Cascades and the Klamath/Siskiyou Mountains. The district is dominated by conifer fo

[ECOLOG-L] Using game cameras to estimate population densities of small mammals

Hello Dear Friends, I've been conducting some studies regarding post-dispersal seed predation in agricultural systems. I've used game cameras set up at my experimental seed feeding arenas to capture images of the animals that visit these arenas. So far, my interest has mainly been in documenting w

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Histological stain for woody tissue

Hi Kirsten, I have a few experience with that ;-) To cut it's better, as Malcon said, a sliding microtome. I use this one that it isn't too expensive: http://www.wsl.ch/staff/holger.gaertner/GSL1_Microtome_web.pdf and to stain you can use alcian blue, instead of astra blue, and safranin. The concen

[ECOLOG-L] How to write a data management plan for an NSF proposal

Thanks to James Brunt for agreeing to share this. I'm sure that as the reviewer and PI communities gain experience with this component of proposals that expectations will develop. David Inouye How to Write a Data Management Plan for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Proposal LTER Cybersecurit

[ECOLOG-L] JOB: Conservation Scientist/ Rapid Inventories Manager--The Field Museum

Conservation Scientist/ Rapid Inventories Manager, The Field Museum The Rapid Inventories (RI) Manager oversees the rapid inventory program, helps recruit and train Rapid Inventory scientists and the long-term director, and helps orchestrate the link between rapid inventories and follow-up con

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Accumulating degree days with oodles of data.

Greetings - Some inquisitive human beings asked that I post responses to this thread back to the list. A asterisks-delimited quadruplex of such follows. ;) Smiles =B Brian * One approach - which I found to be pleasantly succinct, straightforward and easy to implement - is a

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc opportunity in macroecology, quantitative ecology and ecoinformatics

Postdoc opportunity in macroecology, quantitative ecology and ecoinformatics: Ethan White's lab at Utah State University (http://whitelab.weecology.org) is looking for a postdoc to collaborate on research studying approaches for unifying macroecological patterns (e.g., species abundance distributi

[ECOLOG-L] UCL Numerical Analyses of Biological and Environmental Data Short Course

Apologies for Cross Posting Dear List, We have a few remaining places on our two-week course "Numerical Analyses of Biological and Environmental Data Short Course", which this year runs 9th - 20th May at UCL. Details of the course content can be found on our website: http://www.ecrc.ucl.ac.uk/in

[ECOLOG-L] Post-Doctoral Position in Forest Ecology at Purdue University

Post-Doctoral Position in Forest Ecology at Purdue University The Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University in cooperation with the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to participate in a study of old- growth forests i

[ECOLOG-L] 10th international pollination symposium, Mexico, June 2011

http://www.uoguelph.ca/icpbr/Mexico.html We are pleased to announce the 10th ICPBR International Symposium which will be held in the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (http://www.udlap.mx/), Cholula, Mexico Monday 27 June to Wednesday 29 June 2011. The conference will

[ECOLOG-L] MSc and PhD opportunities in Pretoria, South Africa

Two positions available at the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), in association with the Department of Zoology and Entomology, at the University of Pretoria. FABI is a world-class, internationally recognized institute dedicated to understanding and promoting health in nativ