[ECOLOG-L] Job Opportunity - Field Director, North America Regional Climate Center

Job Title: Field Director, North America Climate Change Field Center Reports to: Director of Field Centers, Earthwatch Institute Department: Field Management Position: Grant Funded, full-time, salaried, exempt Position location: North America Regional

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Student Opportunities in Biogeosciences at Boston University

Graduate Student Opportunities in Terrestrial Biogeosciences at Boston University The Departments of Biology, Geography Environment, and Earth Sciences at Boston University invite applications from interested students for the PhD program in Terrestrial Biogeosciences at Boston University. This

[ECOLOG-L] PhD course in Boreal Forest Ecology

First announcement: PhD Course on ‘Functioning of Boreal Forest Ecosystems’, June 4-10 2011. This course will provide a comprehensive coverage on topics relevant to the functioning of boreal forest ecosystems, including linkages between aboveground and belowground subsystems, nutrient

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Taxonomy and Ecology Integrating or Disintegrating?

Getting back to the original question, I think the botanist deserves at least a little sympathy. When it comes to objectively defining things like ecoregions, we're still far behind systematists and their attempts to come up with objective tools for defining species. After all, people have

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Taxonomy and Ecology Integrating or Disintegrating?

I can't disagree with most of what most posters have said regarding this matter (the question of species and the question of ecoregions, I can disagree with the perception that people generally throw stones at fellow scientists in disciplines other than their own). That said, I do have to

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Taxonomy and Ecology Integrating or Disintegrating?

David, I don’t understand your distinction between something that is 'real' in nature versus something that is 'not actual, real, or concrete'. Whether something is real or not depends on the context in which it is used. A 'real' ecoregion, is real in that it represents a spatial area that is

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Taxonomy and Ecology Integrating or Disintegrating?

Burak, you are correct that an ecoregion is a specific piece of real estate. I guess I have been bothered considerably over the years by attempts to assign Clementsian community meaning to all the various ways we divide natural real estate. Sure, a Cross Timbers Ecoregion is a defined piece

[ECOLOG-L] DNR bat ecologist discusses bats white-nose syndrome on Wisconsin Public Radio- Wednesday Nov 17 11:05AM

Here's your chance to hear about Wisconsin bats and the epidemic [white-nose syndrome] that threatens them (and call in if you want)! Wisconsin Pub Radio Wed Nov 17 11:05 - 11:45 AM - DNR bat ecologist Dave Redell talks about white-nose syndrome and WDNR's response on the Larry Meiller show.

[ECOLOG-L] NEON - STREON Scientist job - Revised Skill Requirements

Overview The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.) is a nonprofit science corporation dedicated to understanding how changes in climate, land use and invasive species impact ecology. For the next three decades NEON will collect a comprehensive range of ecological data on a

[ECOLOG-L] Ph.D. Student Opportunity - Population Connectivity / Ocean Modeling

Ph.D. Student Opportunity MIT/WHOI Joint Program Population Connectivity / Ocean Modeling We are looking for a highly motivated Ph.D. student to join a team of scientists in the Biology Department at WHOI to work on modeling marine population connectivity in a tropical ecosystem. Research will

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Taxonomy and Ecology Integrating or Disintegrating?

Honorable Forum: . . . species are actually real things in nature, whether we know how to define them or not. There, I've said it to a group of professionals. These things are not real entities (they ARE useful concepts). --David McNeely Why should McNeely imply that there is some kind of

Re: [ECOLOG-L] What is the best equipement for recording bird calls?

Rebecca, We have been using a Olympus LS-10 Linear PCM Recorder with a AudioTechnica AT 897 condenser microphone to record a variety of animal vocalizations successfully (including cranes and kiwis). We're saving the files in .wav format. Hope this helps, Anne Anne Marchant, PhD. Associate

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Taxonomy and Ecology Integrating or Disintegrating?

Yes, I agree that the importance of the 'reality' that any categorization represents is an issue in itself. Perhaps their interest in categorizing organisms to purely reflect their genetics rather than their ecological functions has made taxonomists less prone to justifying categorizations

[ECOLOG-L] IGERT grad student opportunity - Portland State Univ.

Colleagues, I'm writing to ask for your help in recruiting students to our new interdisciplinary PhD program at Portland State University (PSU). With support from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, we are seeking prospective

[ECOLOG-L] PhD position - Marine Ecology

Location: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans Start Date: Summer or Fall, 2011 Project: Applications are invited for a highly motivated Ph.D. student to conduct an interdisciplinary research project studying the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil

[ECOLOG-L] Volunteer research assistants sought for bat project in Panama

VOLUNTEER RESEARCH ASSISTANTS (4 positions available) needed for February 1, 2011 to June 1, 2011 to assist with a study on the foraging behavior of the tropical frog-eating bat, Trachops cirrhosus. Work will be conducted at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute facilities in PANAMA, both in