[ECOLOG-L] CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI)

Hello all, This is a general notice to interested parties that the Chinese Academy of Sciences has announced this year’s PIFI fellowships. Faculty members, postdocs, and prospective PhD students can get funding (salaries) to collaborate with CAS scientists. Deadline is 1 Sep. The

[ECOLOG-L] Species distribution/occupancy modelling course - University of Guelph - 24-28 August

Second Announcement - apologies for any cross postings Modelling Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence Darryl I. MacKenzie Date: 24-28 August 2015 Venue: University of Guelph, Guelph Course Fee: CAD$800 before 1 Aug; CAD$850 thereafter The presence or absence of a species across a set of

[ECOLOG-L] PhD Scholarship in Australia: Mitigating climate change with blue carbon ecosystems

PhD Scholarship for climate change project Title: Mitigating climate change with blue carbon ecosystems Summary: Atmospheric accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) accounts for 80% of Earth’s greenhouse effect, which causes global warming. Leading nations recognise the need to reduce atmospheric

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Request for recommended resources on R (for undergraduate course)

Probably the best R resource out there: http://statsthewayilikeit.com/ On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Mary Beth Kolozsvary mkolozsv...@siena.edu wrote: Hi Eco-loggers, We are offering a new undergraduate course, designed to introduce students to using R for scientific data analysis. This

[ECOLOG-L] Post-Doc: Adaptive Management of Invasive Phragmites in the Great Lakes Basin

See position description below. Please distribute widely. Thank you! ** *Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Adaptive Management of Invasive Phragmites in the Great Lakes Basin* Aggressive invasion by the non-native invasive *Phragmites australis* (common reed) is a significant management

[ECOLOG-L] Request for recommended resources on R (for undergraduate course)

Hi Eco-loggers, We are offering a new undergraduate course, designed to introduce students to using R for scientific data analysis. This 2-credit course will have students from a variety of science majors, so we would like to pull examples from different fields. These will be undergraduate

[ECOLOG-L] Tweets from the American Elasmobranch Society conference

Hello, everyone! The American Elasmobranch Society has just completed our annual conference. I have organized many of the live-tweets into Storify transcripts, which are easily viewable by anyone even if you are unfamiliar with twitter. Each topic has it's own Storify transcript (e.g.

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Request for recommended resources on R (for undergraduate course)

Hi, For this audience I recommend R in Action (http://www.manning.com/kabacoff2/), goes hand-in-hand with Quick-R (http://www.statmethods.net/index.html). Best, On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Mary Beth Kolozsvary mkolozsv...@siena.edu wrote: Hi Eco-loggers, We are offering a new

[ECOLOG-L] tomorrow: Webinar: Tips Tricks for Segmentation (Targeting/Profiling/Classification) with Data Science and Analytics

Webinar: Tips Tricks for Segmentation (Targeting/Profiling/Classification) Registration: http://hubs.ly/y0Zfhr0https://app.getsignals.com/link?url=http%3a%2f%2fhubs.ly%2fy0Zfhr0ukey=agxzfnNpZ25hbHNjcnhyGAsSC1VzZXJQcm9maWxlGICAgMCxqZwIDAk=69ffab5fbc1d4878aef969fee8eeb746 *Alternative link:

[ECOLOG-L] AGU 2015: Biogeochemical cycles across the genomes-to-ecosystems cascade: Observations and computational approaches across scales

Dear Colleagues, Please consider contributing you research to the AGU session: Biogeochemical cycles across the genomes-to-ecosystems cascade: Observations and computational approaches across scales (ID: 8943), at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting to be held in San Francisco,

[ECOLOG-L] IMMEDIATEOPENING.PAID.Benthic Ecology Internship

Paid Benthic Ecology internship. Mostly microscope work. Contact bayli...@si.edu with any questions and for more information.

[ECOLOG-L] Fish Physiologist Faculty Position - University of Manitoba

The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba invites applications for a full-time probationary (tenure-track) appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin by January 1, 2016, or as soon thereafter as possible. This position includes responsibilities for

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Looking for free intro to disease modeling

Hi all, I am involved with a quantitative biology education group which has developed a community-driven sharing space, qubeshub.orghttps://qubeshub.org/. Here is a public group that is using IONTW, a NetLogo simulator for exploration of disease transmission across networks:

[ECOLOG-L] Internship Announcement_Florida

**Needs Filled** Paid Marine Ecology Internship (Benthic) – Fall/Winter 2015 Smithsonian Marine Station - Ft. Pierce, FL Description of Proposed Activity: The primary task for any intern will be pre-sorting benthic samples. This involves separating organisms from detritus and sorting them into

[ECOLOG-L] Evolutionary Demography Society annual meeting - Oct 5-7 2015 Lantern, The Netherlands

EvoDemoS 2015 will bring together researchers interested in all aspects of the interface between evolution and demography. This includes the evolution of demographic and life history traits, and the influence of demographic characteristics on the process of evolution. Theoretical,

[ECOLOG-L] Ecology Educator position at Cary Institute

The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook NY seeks an Ecology Educator to develop innovative programs and materials for K-12 students and teachers, and to lead our Summer Ecology Camps. The full job announcement follows, or go to:

[ECOLOG-L] Response of terrestrial ecosystems biogeochemistry to dynamic hydrological and climatic drivers

Dear Colleagues, Within the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting (14-18 December 2015, San Francisco), a session on “Response of terrestrial ecosystems biogeochemistry to dynamic hydrological and climatic drivers” will be organized by Fereidoun Rezanezhad (University of Waterloo), Geertje Pronk (University

[ECOLOG-L] postdoc announcement

Title: Topic: Modelling benthic population distributions using a multi-agent modelling platform Supervision: C. Bacher cedric.bac...@ifremer.fr http://annuaire.ifremer.fr/cv/15747/en/ Location: Brest (France) Duration: 18

[ECOLOG-L] Tenure-track U. Idaho Wildlife Ecology and Management

Hello all, Please see below for an announcement for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the University of Idaho Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences. Inquiries about the position can be directed to myself or to the search chair (Dr. Kerri Vierling, ker...@uidaho.edu). Please

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Request for recommended resources on R (for undergraduate course)

I strongly recommend A Field Guide to Programming: Population Growth in R ...

[ECOLOG-L] PhD Announcement: Movement and space use of prey

Hello EcoLoggers, We are recruiting a Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant in Wildlife Sciences for a recently funded project based at Mississippi State University in Starkville, MS. The selected candidate will conduct research relating to habitat selection and movement by white-tailed deer

[ECOLOG-L] Programmer/Database position - Utah State University

Programmer/Analyst II National Aquatic Monitoring Center Department of Watershed Sciences Utah State University – Logan, UT Position Summary The successful candidate will serve as the Data Manager, Programmer and/or Analyst for the National Aquatic Monitoring Center (NAMC) at Utah State

[ECOLOG-L] Job - Research Technician: Grassland Ecosystem Ecology - Arizona State University

*Research Technician: Grassland Ecosystem Ecology* *School of Life Sciences - Arizona State University* We are seeking an outstanding full-time research technician to support an active research project in the Sala Lab. Research activities will involve 5 to 7 trips per year to Colorado, Kansas

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Request for recommended resources on R (for undergraduate course)

Hi, We wrote an introduction to programming using R (and also one using MATLAB): http://www.codee.org/library/projects/the-field-guide-to-programming-a-tutorial-for-learning-programming-and-population-models It uses population growth to teach programming concepts, like why and how to use arrays

[ECOLOG-L] Job announcement: Executive Director; Lancaster County Conservancy

The Lancaster County Conservancy (LCC), based in Lancaster, PA, USA is searching for a new CEO/COO. The LCC is a vibrant land protection and stewardship organization in central PA: http://www.lancasterconservancy.org/ Questions on the position can be directed to:

[ECOLOG-L] Paid internships in benthic ecology - Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Paid benthic ecology internships – Fall 2015 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL Two paid intern positions are available to work with Dr. Kelly Dorgan at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. http://polychaetes.org The interns will be working on a project studying the impacts of oil and hypoxia on

[ECOLOG-L] Salamander Field Assistant Needed

Job Duration: August 24th – September 11th Closing Date: July 27th Description of Duties: The successful applicant will help in an ongoing salamander mark recapture study at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire. Duties will include salamander collection from both stream and