[ECOLOG-L] 4-year PhD opportunity at UNSW (Sydney, Australia) funded through a prestigious Scientia Scholarship (a stipend of $40k/year & $10k/year for career development) -deadline July 20

Dear colleagues, Please share this 4 year PhD opportunity with potentially interested candidates. Interested students should lodge and Expression of Interest by 20 July 2018 at the link below. *The project*: In the face of global environmental change and during Earth’s “sixth mass extinction”,

[ECOLOG-L] Service Opportunity: AmeriCorps Restoration and Monitoring Member

POSITION TITLE: AmeriCorps Restoration and Monitoring Member STATUS: Full Time, 1700-hour term from September 10, 2018 to August 22, 2019 NUMBER OF POSITINS AVAILABLE: 6 REPORTS TO: AmeriCorps Program Manager POSITIONS REPORTING TO THIS POSITION: None LOCATION: Yerington, NV (exact reporting

[ECOLOG-L] Reducing Barriers to Teaching with R in Undergraduate Biology

Are you interested in using R to teach data visualization and/or data analysis in your undergraduate biology course? Are you looking for tools and modules to reduce barriers for students with little to no prior programming experience? Apply now to join us for a Fall 2018 Quantitative Undergraduate

[ECOLOG-L] Project Leader: Invasive Species Removal in the Sierra Nevada, California

Wildlife Ecology Program Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Pending appropriate regulatory approval and permitting, I am seeking a wildlife biologist to act as a project leader for an invasive species experimental

[ECOLOG-L] Vegetation Research Associate - Mojave National Preserve, California

Vegetation Research Associate Great Basin Institute and Mojave National Preserve, California *Description:* In cooperation with the National Park Service Mojave National Preserve (MOJA), the Great Basin Institute (GBI) is recruiting a Vegetation Research Associate to work cooperatively with

[ECOLOG-L] Trade-offs and other analogies in eclogy

Dear Colleagues: Could someone tell me where analogies (e.g., from economics) came from into ecology? I can think of many of them, such as: 1. comparing living things with machines - I assume as a result of 16-17th century advances in astronomy, 2. comparing populations and above with well

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Those rare success stories...

I'm surprised no one has posted a link to this 2017 article from MongaBay yet (and apologies if someone already has and I missed it): https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/a-rich-persons-profession-young-conservationists-struggle-to-make-it/ If I have any advice it is: a) do NOT go into debt to

[ECOLOG-L] Webinar on Platform for Managing Multiple Conservation Projects

Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_auI4sXPETw6tW9ja3hTUQw Part of the Natural Areas Association's 2018 Webinar Series. FREE to all registrants. Time: July 18, Noon Eastern Talk: How to Use an Open Source Platform to Manage Multiple Cross-Agency Conservation Projects:

[ECOLOG-L] Internship: Post-Hurricane Field Work in El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico

*Internship Opportunity* University of Puerto Rico- Río Piedras Tropical Forest Research Experience for College Graduates Complete applications must be submitted by July 21, 2018 *RESEARCH DESCRIPTION: *The University of Puerto Rico will carry out Post hurricane field work in El Verde

[ECOLOG-L] ESA Bulletin article about ECOLOG-L

The July issue of the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America has an article about the ECOLOG-L list. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bes2.1408 or a PDF: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.1408 -- Dr. David W. Inouye

[ECOLOG-L] Job: Director of Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium

Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium offers school groups, families and visitors a unique view into the ocean world just outside its doors and is home to hundreds of organisms native to the Santa Monica Bay. The Aquarium is the public learning center of Heal the Bay and inspires visitors

[ECOLOG-L] Eukaryotic metabarcoding (EUKB01) Deadline 13.07.18

Eukaryotic metabarcoding (EUKB01) Deadline 13.07.18 https://www.prinformatics.com/course/eukaryotic-metabarcoding-eukb01/ This course is being delivered by Dr Dr. Owen Wangensteen from the 23rd - 27th July 2018 in Glasgow City Centre Course Overview: Metabarcoding techniques are a set of novel

[ECOLOG-L] Introduction to Frequentist and Bayesian mixed (Hierarchical) models - Oct 2019

Introduction to Frequentist and Bayesian mixed (Hierarchical) models (IFBM01) https://www.psstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-frequentis-and-bayesian- mixed-models-ifbm01/ This course is being delivered by Dr Andrew Parnell from the 8th - 12th October 2018 in Glasgow City Centre Course

[ECOLOG-L] Course on population genetics - Feb 2019 - Thibaut Jombart and Zhian Kamvar

Reproducible data science for population genetics (RDPG02) https://www.prstatistics.com/course/reproducible-data-science-for- population-genetics-rdpg02/ This course is being delivered by Dr Thibaut Jombart and Dr Zhian Kamvar (authors of the Adgenet package which will focus heavily in the

[ECOLOG-L] Assistant Professor in Data Science, Geovisualization and Design

*Assistant Professor in Data Science, Geovisualization and Design * *School for Environment and Sustainability * *Universityof Michigan, Ann Arbor * The School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the

[ECOLOG-L] Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistantship – Wetland Water Quality and Macroinvertebrates, West Virginia Universit y

Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistantship – Wetland Water Quality and Macroinvertebrates, Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, Wildlife and Fisheries Resources Program, West Virginia University STARTING DATE: January 2019 CLOSING DATE: Position is open until filled. DESCRIPTION: Student

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoctoral position - Climate change, fire, and plant physiology

Postdoctoral position in fire behavior and plant physiological effects at the University of British Columbia The Physiological Ecology Lab at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada (PI Sean Michaletz) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to study fire behavior and its

[ECOLOG-L] How lake trout have led to collapse of Yellowstone's iconic birds

How lake trout have led to collapse of Yellowstone's iconic birds nationalgeographic.com An

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc @ iDiv (Leipzig, Germany)--Scale-dependent drivers of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial ecosystems

We are searching for a Postdoc to investigate: “Scale-dependent drivers of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial ecosystems” The position is based in Leipzig, Germany at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, co-supervised by Jonathan Chase

[ECOLOG-L] Aquatic vertebrate ecologist / evolutionary biologist assistant professor position - Wichita State University

Aquatic vertebrate ecologist / evolutionary biologist The Department of Biological Sciences at Wichita State University invites applications for a 9-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The successful candidate will be an ecologist or evolutionary biologist with interests in