[ECOLOG-L] sDiv call for Working Groups, Postdocs and Sabbatical Visitors

2015-12-05 Thread Jon Chase
Dear colleagues, sDiv, the Synthesis Centre for Biodiversity Sciences (www.idiv.de/sdiv), a unit of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, herewith announces the 4th call for Working Groups, Postdocs and Sabbatical Visitors. Please find all relevant

[ECOLOG-L] PhD Fellowship: Using geodiversity to prioritize sites for species representation when you don’t know where species are

2015-12-05 Thread Paul Beier
Because wall-to-wall species inventories do not exist for any planning area on earth, conservation planners would benefit from procedures that could use well-mapped abiotic variables to identify sites that represent all or most species efficiently (i.e., in a small number of sites). Our recent

[ECOLOG-L] AZ Insect Festival Crowdfunding

2015-12-05 Thread Cara Gibson
We are crowdfunding for the 2016 Arizona Insect Festival. https://crowdfund.arizona.edu/project/1376 This annual event receives over 6,000 visitors who can learn everything from how insects think, to how they feel in your hand, to how they taste in a taco! Campaign donations are tax deductible

[ECOLOG-L] Insect wing cuticle relative thickness

2015-12-05 Thread Jorge A. Santiago-Blay
Dear Ecolog-Listers: Generally, insect wing cuticle is thicker on the lower surface. My question is do you know of exceptions to this general trend? If you know, please feel free to send me an email directly: blayjo...@gmail.com Gratefully, Jorge Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD blaypublishers.com

[ECOLOG-L] Stable Isotope Short Courses at University of Utah Summer 2016

2015-12-05 Thread Laurie Mecham
Please pass this announcement along to any interested individuals. Thanks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There will be two different Stable Isotope Short Courses at the University of Utah in 2016: Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and Ecology, June 13-24, 2016 Isotopes in Spatial

[ECOLOG-L] Position Opening at Oberlin College

2015-12-05 Thread John Petersen
***Position available: Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies Facilities Manager and Community Outreach Coordinator*** The Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College invites applications for the position of A.J. Lewis Center Facilities Manager and Community Outreach

[ECOLOG-L] NASA-MSU Awards

2015-12-05 Thread Jianguo 'Jack' Liu
Dear All, Please share the following information with potentially interested individuals (e.g., students, postdocs, assistant professors, and junior researchers). Thanks! ** Call for NASA-MSU Award Applications ** With support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration