[ECOLOG-L] video abstracts for ecologists (ESA2016 & our papers)

Dear Ecolog, With ESA2016 right around the corner, I have been thinking about how to increase our outreach as a discipline. Last week, I discovered video abstracts for papers. They are relatively common in other fields, and we could consider doing them both for our papers and conference

[ECOLOG-L] Open Call Summer Schools BigGeoData2016‬

Dear colleagues,Registration open now for two International Summer Schools organized by www.spatial-ecology.net held at the Univ. of Basilicata, in the magnificent town of Matera, Italy(1) Spatio-Temporal Data Analyses Using Free and Open Source Software (6th-10th June 2016)An immersion 5 day

[ECOLOG-L] Human Rights Project Manager Job Opportunity at FishWise

Hello, Good news! FishWise is continuing to expand its scope of work on human rights in the seafood industry. Help us find qualified applicants by sharing the information below. Thank you! Also, if you have a suggestion for a better way to contact the UCSB EEMB Department for something of this

[ECOLOG-L] Microbial Ecology-Amphibian Microbiome postdoctoral position

Microbial Ecology – Amphibian Microbiome Post-doctoral Position at Virginia Tech Position Summary: A one-year postdoctoral position is available studying the amphibian microbiome in the lab of Dr. Lisa Belden in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech. The incumbent will work

[ECOLOG-L] Master or PhD Assistantship in Fisheries Population Dynamics and Conservation

Dear all, I'm looking for a master or a PhD student working on population dynamics. See information below: ** Title: Master or PhD Graduate Assistantship in Fisheries Population Dynamics and Conservation Location: Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech,

[ECOLOG-L] ESA Workshop on Extraorganismal DNA

Attention colleagues interested in species detection with environmental DNA (eDNA), forensic ecologists and geneticists, microbial ecologists, and others who share our enthusiasm for extraorganismal DNA: I would like to make you aware of an interdisciplinary workshop at the 2016 meeting of

[ECOLOG-L] Invasive Plant Technician in the Rocky Mountains, Summer 2016

*INVASIVE PLANT TECHNICIAN* *Position Description* The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory is now taking applications for an Invasive Plant Technician in 2016. We are looking for someone interested in invasive plant management and plant restoration. The employee’s duties will include: 1)

[ECOLOG-L] Repository of types of Arachnocoris alboannulatus

Dear Colleagues: Several colleagues and I are completing a paper on *Arachnocoris* (Insecta: Hemiptera: Nabidae). We would like to know what is the repository of the type material for *Arachnocoris alboannulatus* Costa-Lima. *** Eu e alguns colegas estamos terminando um artigo sobre

[ECOLOG-L] Iowa State University - Extension Program Specialist - Forestry

Position: Extension Program Specialist - Forestry Summary: The ISU Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management is currently seeking qualified applicants for an Extension Forestry Specialist II. This position will support extension and outreach needs to a diverse audience primarily

[ECOLOG-L] Intertidal videos 2.0

Hello, fellow ecologists, Ecolog-l somehow altered the YouTube links that I posted yesterday, so I've placed the videos here: http://intertidalvideos.weebly.com Hope you enjoy them, Ricardo -- Dr Ricardo A. Scrosati, Professor St. Francis Xavier University, Department of

[ECOLOG-L] Fall 2016 Marine Mammal Research Internship

*Summer 2016 Marine Mammal Research Internship* The IMMS Research Internship Program is designed as a way for students interested in a career in marine science to gain valuable research experience in a real-world setting. Interns will participate with multiple projects involving bottlenose

[ECOLOG-L] teatime4science: invitation to participate in a global tea decomposition experiment

Dear all, May I invite you to join an interesting project that studies decomposition on a global scale. Together with collaborators of Utrecht University, The Netherlands Institute of Ecology and Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, we developed a method that enables measuring

[ECOLOG-L] GEO BON Open Science Conference & All Hands Meeting 2016

GEO BON will held its First Open Science Conference & All Hands Meeting in July of 2016 in the beautiful city of Leipzig, Germany. The GEO BON network’s conference will convene hundreds of the world’s leading biodiversity monitoring experts for a full week of plenaries, workshops, and

[ECOLOG-L] Course: Tropical Landscape Conservation

Hello all, We are offering the following course, please forward to those that may be interested: Tropical Landscape Conservation In this intensive and practical course,

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Learning R -- summary of replies.

Dear Jason et al, The Use R! Series from Springer is a good collection of books all with the aim to explain R in a simple and non-too-jargony way. They are short and not too expensive, here is the website (not only ecology, but you can find your way to those):