Re: [ECOLOG-L] Growth and Laissez-faire

All hands on deck! Even if we halved the global population today we would still need to deal with many of the same basic issues regarding population, resource, and environment. Growth is inherent in our economic systems. If no growth, depressed economy. That's just how the gears of capitalism

[ECOLOG-L] Grad Position in Forest Nutrient Cycling, January 2013

Ruth Yanai is recruiting a graduate student, MS or PhD, to participate in a large, multi-investigator project on nutrient limitation of young and old northern hardwood stands at Hubbard Brook, Jeffers Brook, and Bartlett Experimental Forest in New Hampshire, USA. Thirteen stands have additions

[ECOLOG-L] MS or PhD Research Assistantship - University of Washington

MS or PhD Research Assistantship in Desert Stream Ecology School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences University of Washington --- Responsibilities: The Freshwater Ecology and Conservation Lab at the University of Washington is looking for a highly motivated MS or PhD student to explore the

[ECOLOG-L] EMAIL CORRECTION- Job: Tenure Track Professor of Vertebrate Evolutionary Ecology at Eastern Connecticut State University

The Biology Department at Eastern Connecticut State University invites applications for a tenure track position in Vertebrate Evolutionary Ecology starting August 2014. The position will be filled at the rank of Assistant Professor. A Ph.D. in a biological science with expertise in

[ECOLOG-L] M.Sc. position: Biogeography of antimicrobial resistance

I invite applicants for an M.Sc. studentship in Biology. The student's research will involve devising indices to describe the diversity of antimicrobial resistance, mapping resistance across Canada, and developing software that can be used to quantify resistance. The student will become part of an

[ECOLOG-L] Tenure-track position in evolutionary ecology – Purdue University

Faculty Position in Evolutionary Ecology Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University The Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, invites applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of Evolutionary Ecology. We seek candidates whose research integrates the

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate opportunity in population and community ecology

Graduate opportunity with Mike McCoy in the Department of Biology at East Carolina University. Research in my lab addresses a broad range of questions in population, community and behavioral ecology, and biodiversity and ecosystem function with a strong emphasis on quantitative approaches.

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Growth and Laissez-faire

I've been following this thread and the one piece I'd like to add to the discussion is the idea that there is no one solution. Limiting population growth is one idea, but if there is anything I've learned from my studies of Environmental Sustainability is that although it relies on many

[ECOLOG-L] Tropical Conservation Ecology Course in Panama, December, 2013

2013 Winter Course Announcement (December 20, 2013-January 9, 2014) FIELD COURSE IN TROPICAL CONSERVATION ECOLOGY (TCE W-13) COURSE DESCRIPTION:  This course is designed to provide the student with a sound foundation in ecological concepts and field techniques as applied to conservation ecology

[ECOLOG-L] Textbooks (lecture and lab) upper division Population and community ecology

Dear Ecolog-Listers: Could I tap into your collective wisdom for textbooks (lecture and lab) for an upper division Population and Community Ecology course? If you have any suggestion, please feel free to send me an email, directly at blayjo...@gmail.com Gratefully, Jorge Jorge A.

[ECOLOG-L] PhD and postdoc positions at CIRC, Abisko (Sweden)

Dear colleagues, The Climate Impacts Research Centre (Umeå University) in Abisko, north Sweden is looking for a PhD-student (4 years) and a Postdoc (2 years) to study climate, plant and microbial controls on carbon storage in permafrost soils. Large uncertainties exist about the impacts of

[ECOLOG-L] Job: Faculty Position in Theoretical Ecology at University of Kansas

FACULTY POSITION IN THEORETICAL ECOLOGY: The Department of Ecology Evolutionary Biology (EEB) and the Kansas Biological Survey (KBS) at the University of Kansas invite researchers with expertise in theoretical ecology to apply for a joint position at the Advanced Assistant/Associate Professor

[ECOLOG-L] PhD Students in Landscape / Conservation Ecology

PHD STUDENTS IN LANDSCAPE/CONSERVATION ECOLOGY Highly motivated PhD students are sought to study the influences of habitat connectivity, landscape phenology, or land-cover transitions on North American bird populations and communities. Although effects of broad-scale ecological conditions

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Growth and Laissez-faire

Hi Matt, Rockström and other twenty eight co-authors published: Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity. The paper published in Nature in 2009 has already 394 citations and is explained in the link below, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries Juan

[ECOLOG-L] IUFRO 2014 World Congress

Dear Ecolog: Please join us at the XXIV World Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), to be held October 5-11, 2014 at Salt Lake City. The Congress title is “Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research”. Abstracts will be accepted until

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc position in community ecology at Stanford University

A postdoctoral fellow position is available in the Fukami Lab at Stanford University (www.stanford.edu/~fukamit/). The successful candidate will conduct NSF-funded laboratory and field research on the community assembly of nectar- inhabiting bacteria and yeasts. There will be opportunities to

[ECOLOG-L] Book: Biodiversity Conservation through the Lens of Indigenous Peoples

Hello all, A little over a month ago Claudine Sierra (UNA, Costa Rica), Mariana Altrichter (IUCN) with help from the Organization for Tropical Studies taught a course on Biodiversity Conservation through the Lens of Indigenous Peoples. The professors and students used Las Cruces Biological

[ECOLOG-L] M.S. Assistantships to study Black Bears in Oklahoma

Two M.S. Graduate Assistantships are available to study black bears in eastern Oklahoma beginning in January 2014. These projects are part of ongoing research on expanding black bear populations in the Ouachita and Ozark Mountain areas of Oklahoma. The focus of the two projects will be 1)

[ECOLOG-L] Course: Short Course in Tropical Biology and Primatology

Hello everybody, PrimatesPeru, a nonprofit conservation education organisation that works in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon rainforest, announces a short course on tropical biology. I've listed the details below: Course Dates: December 27, 2013-January 10, 2014 Course details: