Re: [ECOLOG-L] Field Assistant Wanted - April 25 2011 British Columbia

Hi all, After immediately being swamped with a single question, I thought it would be best to note that this is a PAID position. Pay will be approximately $1400/month depending on your level of experience. We will likely be staying in the field for 5-6 days at a time, leaving once a week to

[ECOLOG-L] Two associate senior lecturer positions

Umeå University, Sweden, announces two associate senior lecturer positions. The positions are announced as part of the research programme Ecosystem Change which includes ecologists, environmental scientists, evolutionary biologists, bio-mathematicians, and biogeochemists. The focus of our

[ECOLOG-L] Job: Research Coordinator (Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve)

http://www.uwsuper.edu/hr/employment/research-coordinator-lake-superior-national-estuarine-research-reserve_employment1310853 Vacancy Announcement UW-Superior http://www.uwsuper.edu/ Human Resources Office http://www.uwsuper.edu/hr/ Employment http://www.uwsuper.edu/hr/employment/ Vacancy

[ECOLOG-L] Summer Course Offerings at University of Maine - Darling Marine Center

The University of Maine's marine lab, the Darling Marine Center, is offering the following undergraduate and graduate courses this summer: Life Histories Functional Morphology of Commercially Important Marine Invertebrates of Maine, May 11-27 Estuarine Oceanography, May 11-27 MATLAB for

Re: [ECOLOG-L] the precautionary principle makes sense and should be applied to GCC arguments

Mike,   It strikes me that your comments are beginning to sound less like a discussion of scientific principles and more like a rant against the academic and regulatory communities. I hope that besides simply venting your frustrations here, you also support research/scientific efforts which

Re: [ECOLOG-L] More on anthropogenic effects on climate change

The attribution issue mentioned in these articles brought to mind another Nature article, 'Overstretching attribution' by Parmesan et al., that a colleague forwarded to me yesterday: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1056.html Interesting switch of the IPCC’s WG2

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Hypothesis testing in ecology

Perhaps I missed it in this discussion, but I haven't seen any reference to differences in how easily hypotheses can be formulated in different cases. In studying a series of similar systems, such as a series of glacial lakes, it is easy to formulate hypotheses based on the idea that there are

Re: [ECOLOG-L] the precautionary principle makes sense and should be applied to GCC arguments

On the contrary, examples exist (sea mink, cod) of animal communities being greatly diminished at the hands of the very people turning a profit from their harvesting. Phil The tragedy of the commons. The benefit from harvesting a resource accrues only whoever collects it (and probably to

[ECOLOG-L] Assistant/Associate Professor -- Geomatics, College of Forestry, Oregon State University

ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (TENURE-TRACK) IN GEOMATICS DEPARTMENT OF FOREST ENGINEERING, RESOURCES AND MANAGEMENT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY Posting # 0007018 Oregon State University’s Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management invites applications for an Assistant/Associate

[ECOLOG-L] Spodoptera wanted

I am seeking approximately 100 eggs or young larvae of a generalist feeding Spodoptera (frugiperda or exigua would do nicely, among others) ASAP). Thanks in advance for your help! Malia Fincher rmfin...@samford.edu Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

Re: [ECOLOG-L] the precautionary principle makes sense and should be applied to GCC arguments

Phil, It is a discussion of all of the above because they are deeply inter-twined. I have never said they (academics and regulators) were tightening down out of spite, fortune and fame. As with many discussions about issues there are many facets that are inter or intra-related. And often times

[ECOLOG-L] Job Posting: Postdoc in bioacoustic signal detection, Cornell University

*Postdoctoral Associate- Animal Acoustic Signal Detection, Classification and Localization *(position 14540) *Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University* The Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) is a diverse group of scientists and engineers focused on

[ECOLOG-L] Internship oppty: data managment for citizen science projects

Internship Opportunity with DataONE Citizen Science Working Group, USA National Phenology Network, and Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology: Best practices of data management for public participation in science and research The Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is a virtual

Re: [ECOLOG-L] the precautionary principle makes sense and should be applied to GCC arguments

Passenger pigeon, anyone? WT - Original Message - From: James Crants jcra...@gmail.com To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] the precautionary principle makes sense and should be applied to GCC arguments On the contrary,

[ECOLOG-L] Audubon magazine article: Wetlands - rice and the long-billed curlew

Hi Some years ago I sent a link for the Davis wetlands area (Yolo Bypass) [see below]. This month (March-April, 2011) there is an excellent article in the Audubon magazine titled Grains of Change (pages 64-71) showing pictures of the Yolo Bypass Wildlife area talking about rice production and

[ECOLOG-L] Plant water relations question

Dear ECOLOGGERS: One of my intro biology students posed a question for me last week that I cannot answer. Can you help? I am doing a unit on plant physiology, covering how trees take up water from the soil. I have told students that a turgid living plant cell is one where the pressure potential

[ECOLOG-L] Plant water relations quesiton 2

I forgot to tell you how to reach me: mlovel...@wooster.edu Thanks. Lyn Loveless

[ECOLOG-L] Assistant Director/Coordinator of Sustainability Education Programs, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA

*Assistant Director/Coordinator of Sustainability Education Programs, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA* Dickinson College’s Center for Sustainability Education ( www.dickinson.edu/departments/cese) seeks a dynamic self-motivated individual with sustainability education experience in higher