[ECOLOG-L] Recommendations, digital water chemistry tester

Dear Colleagues: I am putting together a proposal and one of the items in there is a digital water chemistry tester. I have ca. 1,500-2,000 available and would like a device with the following characteristics: 1. easy to operate and with simple operating instructions (ideally, with instructions

[ECOLOG-L] Registration Deadline is September 12 - Meeting the Challenge: Preventing, Detecting, and Controlling Invasive Plants

2014 Conference - Meeting the Challenge: Preventing, Detecting, and Controlling Invasive Plants Registration deadline is this Friday, September 12. www.bit.ly/invplants2014 Keynote speakers: Dan Simberloff, University of Tennessee Jason McLachlan, University of Notre Dame September 16-17,

[ECOLOG-L] The World Science Summit on Climate Engineering: Future Guiding Principles and Ethics

The World Science Summit on Climate Engineering: Future Guiding Principles and Ethics Date: 2-3 December 2014 Venue: U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington DC Background: The inability of the global community to effectively limit or roll back greenhouse gas

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Sustainability Journal

Calandra, I recommend Brian Czech's book, *Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution* as an excellent text on the only truly sustainable alternative to economic growth. Many good recommendations here, but a word of caution on cradle-to-cradle which is similar

[ECOLOG-L] Wildlife Management Branch Manager-Game Branch Chief position with the Arizona Game and Fish Dept

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT BRANCH MANAGER GAME BRANCH CHIEF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT DIVISION / GAME BRANCH / PHOENIX BASED FLSA-Exempt GRADE 24 (Salary range $50,890-$91,490) REQUISITION#11879 / CLOSING DATE: 10/06/2014 Description of Duties: This position leads, manages and provides oversight for the

[ECOLOG-L] Fully-supported doctoral student position in Environmental Science at Arkansas State University

The Marsico Lab seeks one Ph.D. student to conduct research on the community ecology of insect herbivore mega-invasions by analyzing available and underutilized datasets. The approach will be to conduct meta-analyses of biological control introductions to determine under what conditions

[ECOLOG-L] Watershed Education Conference - Register now!

This November, the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC) and its partners invite educators, both formal and non-formal, and various watershed resource professionals to join in the Mississippi River Watershed Education Symposium. Please help spread your success stories and

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoctoral Fellowship in Fish Ecology

Applications are being accepted for a Postdoctoral Fellow position at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, TX working in the laboratory of Dr. Benjamin Walther. This is a full-time 12-month position to begin in Spring 2015 (start date negotiable) for a duration of

[ECOLOG-L] Costs of water chemistry tests for Volatile organic compounds

Dear Ecolog-Listers: Do you know how much do water chemistry tests for Volatile organic compounds cost? All I need is a ball park idea. Suspect sources of the VOCs are gasoline, diesel, oil (any such used for lubricating and powering machinery). If you have an idea, please send me an email:

[ECOLOG-L] Job announcement - Catalina Island Conservancy invasive plant program

JOB DESCRIPTION POSITION: Habitat Program Supervisor REPORTS TO: Senior Plant Ecologist STATUS: Full-time, Exempt UPDATED:July 2014 DEPT: Conservation POSITION SUMMARY: The Habitat Program Supervisor leads the Conservancy’s Catalina Habitat Improvement and

[ECOLOG-L] 2 PhD positions, ecological engineering / environmental science

Dear colleagues, In my new position at the University of Arkansas, I have the opportunity to hire some PhD students and to encourage students interested in a masters degree to check out our programs. A post-doc announcement is coming soon. I'd be delighted if you can forward this to your

[ECOLOG-L] Modeling connectivity? Resistance and core area mapping made easy

We've recently updated the Gnarly Landscape Utilities toolkit for ArcGIS. It lets you easily create resistance and habitat suitability rasters using one or many input rasters. The tool reads in user-defined values for each input raster class from an Excel spreadsheet, and uses them to calculate

[ECOLOG-L] Fw: Numerical Methods and Optimization, A Consumer Guide

On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 4:33 PM, ling huang ling.huang@p On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 4:33 PM, ling huang ling.hu...@prodigy.net wrote: Thought this may be of interest for those using numerical optimization methods in ecology applications. Cheers Ling Ling Huang Sacramento City