Re: [ECOLOG-L] Looking for graduate programs in Entomology/Integrated Pest Management

Molly Entomological Society of America lists the colleges with graduate programs in entomology in North America - http://www.entsoc.org/resources/education/colleges. Many of those associated with land grant universities will have ag focused programs with IPM components. Also, I was thinking

[ECOLOG-L] Fire Resources/Vegetation Management Field Tech

Description: Working cooperatively with the BLM Winnemucca District Office, GBI is recruiting a Field Technician to work cooperatively with BLM’s vegetation management Field Lead. The Technician will work on emergency stabilization and rehabilitation (ESR), fuels, and weed projects. Duties

[ECOLOG-L] English for ecologists

As a non-native English speaker I use to have problems when writing for journals: my ideas flow very well, still the style and spelling are broaken. Spanish is my mother language, I'm post-doc ecologist. Is any English native speaker interested in improving his(her) written Spanish in exchange?

[ECOLOG-L] transect resources for an amateur?

I am a social scientist with aspirations to evaluate the Dear Ecolog, I am a social scientist with aspirations to evaluate the diversity of flowering plants, pollinators, and trees on a plot of land.  I am competent enough in botany/dendrology to do some basic counts, but it would be wonderful

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoctoral Fellow University of Notre Dame

Scientists led by Gary Belovsky at the University of Notre Dame's Environmental Change Initiative (http://environmentalchange.nd.edu/) are designing a large project to examine how climate change may alter grasshopper population dynamics on U.S. rangelands. This long-term project will examine

[ECOLOG-L] Free Course on Eco-Evolutionary Modeling (in Sweden)

http://bioguid.info/services/evoldir/get.php?id=7fd58dec38110320528d1ac8d75e7220 -- Clara B. Jones [Still playing the game with entropy...] Blog: http://vertebratesocialbehavior.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/cbjones1943 Cell Phone: 828-279-4429

[ECOLOG-L] 15 day Deadline for Early Registration: ASBPA Coastal Conference: New Orleans

ASBPA's 2011 National Coastal Conference: TIME TO REGISTER! Let Me Count the Ways… By Kate and Ken Gooderham, Executive Director How do you value a conference? By the strength of the plenary? We’ll meet Mark Mazzanti who replaced Gary Loew as the Director of Civic Works Program

[ECOLOG-L] Volunteers needed for small mammal project in South Africa

2 volunteers needed from November / December 2011 onwards 2 volunteers needed from January 2012 onwards as field assistants for the project: Evolution and Socio-Ecology of small Mammals in the Succulent Karoo of South Africa Opportunity: This is a great opportunity for anybody who wants to

[ECOLOG-L] Combining Confidence Intervals for Population Estimates

ECOLOGers, Hi all. I am in need of some statistical advice. I am currently trying to find a way to combine two confidence intervals for a population estimate of a butterfly population. I'll give some basic background. The butterfly population was surveyed several times across the flight

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Fear and Intimidation

Thank you Wayne, and thank you David, This site has been very useful and actually quite entertaining to read at times. I believe a lot of the intimidation in oneself comes from a preconceived notion of how a particular person may react. For instance, if I pounded it in my head that if I was

[ECOLOG-L] Sustainable Development Internship in the Rainforest of Ecuador

A few years ago, a few of us – ecology, economics, and business graduates – founded a nonprofit organization called Third Millennium Alliance. We raised some money and bought a lot of land in a critically-endangered rainforest and established an ecological reserve. There was a small patch of