ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND VECTOR ECOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
The College of Veterinary Medicine and the Odum School of Ecology at the
University of Georgia invite
applications for a joint appointment, tenure- track Assistant Professor in the
area of
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by email to Dr Andrew Park
(awp...@uga.edu). Applicants are also requested to arrange for 3 letters of
reference to be emailed to Dr Park. Salary will be commensurate with
experience and the position includes health and retirement benefits.
Informal enquiries by email are welcome. Start date could
Dr Andrew Park, who has a disease modeling lab at the University of Georgia,
is seeking to recruit 2 PhD students. Both projects have significant funding
available, and students may be eligible for further awards. One project will
develop ecological/evolutionary models alongside existing data sets
Postdoctoral position: modeling pathogen evolution
A postdoctoral position is available in the lab of Dr. Andrew Park at
the School of Ecology, University of Georgia (UGA). The lab has broad
research interests in disease ecology and evolution. The successful
applicant will develop modeling
Ecologgers,
How many of us got into ecology because we loved the natural world. I
suggest that the answer would be 'the majority'. How many of us got
into ecology because we had 'respect' for nature?
I certainly moved that way because I loved the natural world from an
early age. And
I think that Sarah Frias-Torres is both right and wrong.
She's right in that the value of money (and stocks, mortgages,
seashells or any other medium of exchange) depends on belief. If I go
to the store and buy 20 bucks worth of groceries, the store clerk
believes that the twenty I give
With respect, I disagree,
National boundaries make a profound difference to the management of
ecosystems and resources. The wars in the horn of Africa, which have
their roots in nationalistic and religious stresses, have undoubtedly
contributed to the ecological probems faced by these
Hi again,
Sure, growing populations demand that economies grow. Either that, or
the population will exist in a world of diminishing per capita
resources.
But wait! Many economies in Europe continue to grow even though their
population is stagnating. Further, they continue to be
The New Scientist Editorial that (re) initiated this Discussion thread
had the following to say about growth:
This is the logic of free-market capitalism: the economy must grow
continuously or face an unpalatable collapse.
This facet of our economy has always been a bit of a mystery to me.
Of course there is always a good IMMEDIATE reason to keep the engines
of economic growth going. The contributors to this thread raise valid
points. Increased efficiency in our use of raw materials, energy, and
the land needed to expoloit them might offset the tendency of a
growing
applicants to join the following projects:
* Evolutionary ecology of infectious diseases: a theoretical study of
within- and between-host diseases dynamics, emphasizing transient evolution,
pathogen diversity, and host heterogeneity. PI: Andrew Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Phylodynamics of disease
A while back I asked Ecologgers who answered the question What can
Americans do for the Environment? by saying simply Stay Put!
The only plausible response was that it was Wes Jackson of the Land
Institute. However, I searched in vain for a definitive attribution
of this quote to Wes
Dear ecologgers, especially those with long memories,
Years ago - maybe in the late sixties or seventies, a well known
conservatioinist / environmentalist was asked something like what can
americans do to help th eenvironment? His reply - in two words -
Stay Put!
Who said that, and what
Amartya Saha wrote the following
How do you define best students? Those with highest grades ? Well,
grades do not reflect success in the environmental field, although they
may result in more rigorous science. The thing is that there is a huge
disconnect between science research and
With respect tot he thread that began education to what degree?,
consider the following:
1. Canadian higher ed suffered severe government cuts in the 1990s,
which were compensated for by partial deregulation of fees and
increasing ties to private industry.
2. At the same time, the view
Neil Bryan says
No, we exceeded carrying capacity in the 1800's, but then, instead of =
rolling over like the dodo, we innovated and increased the carrying =
capacity.
Someone else said that carrying capacity was two billion.
I have a little problema with all that. First carrying capacity
Yasemin Baytok makes a good point. Obviously, we must avoid extending
the breadth of what is taught so far that any connection to the
original discipline (Ecology) disappears.
There are, however, eclogical aspects of of environmental engineering
and forest engineering that can be taught or
Bill Silvert underscores a point I was trying to make in my original post.
Humans are not only a part of the ecosystem; they have become one of
the dominant ecologicaland geological forces on the planet.
My own approach to this has been to insert humanity into the picture
as case studies to
Hi Ecologgers,
Responses are invited to the following thoughts, especially from
experienced teachers:
I teach a 2nd year course in basic Ecology at an undergraduate
university. After four years of teaching this course, I am being
drawn to the following conclusions:
[1] ? The textbook is
Ecologgers,
I think we have to analyze the critics of the dominant IPCC view of
global warming scientifically. We also have to squarely face the fact
that our normative beliefs and our deepest fears influence our
interpretations of scientific evidence.
To start, I propose a simple
Hi there Ecologgers,
Does anyone know of any means to automate the measurement of
throughfall and stemflow measurements in trees.
As anyone who has tried it knows, you need lots of throughfall
collectors to minimize variability, and collecting the throughfall
that falls into those
Unfortunately, Creationism in it's various forms is present in
Canada. I believe someone opened a Creationist museum in Alberta,
which non-coincidentally, is our most, ahem, American of Provinces.
Ciaou,
Andy
that
happen? and (b) does it continue to justify carbon-intensive travel?
Quoting Liane Cochran-Stafira [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
At 04:53 PM 8/6/2007, Andrew Park wrote:
Dear Ecologgers,
As for meetings, I suspect that they are usually more about networking
(careerism again) and less about achieving
Dear Ecologgers,
I think the keyword here is time. None of us have enough of it
because we are generally overcommitted, and the internal dynamics of
the career structures in which we work makes us that way. So the fact
that we do not have the time to take the (admittedly slow) train from,
Ecologgers,
A couple of words on this thread.
First to paraphrase Winston Churchill - Peer-review is the worst sort
of review we have - except for all the others.
Second, freedom of speech unfortunately means that complete idiots or
those with which you disagree completely get to say what
Dear Ecologgers
(Heaves a Sigh).
I have seen the GGWS at my University, which turns out to be the
University of Winnipeg, located in friendly Manitoba, Canada.
As it turns out, my august institution makes an appearance in this
documentary. At several points, you will see a fellow called Tim
Re: economic growth versus steady state,
There is a big problem with getting from where we are (catastrophic
EXPONENTIAL economic growth) to where some of us would like to be
(Steady state, dynamic flux around some mean value, call it what you
will).
The problem is that there is nobody
Dear Ecologgers,
Has anyone out there used classification and regression trees (CART)
on repeated measures data?
I have been familiarizing myself with R, and I know that the package
mvpart permits the construction of multivariate regression trees.
From what I have read, the CART
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