[ECOLOG-L] 2012 SWS-PNW Regional Conference 2012

Call for abstracts 2012 SWS PNW Chapter Meeting: September 19-21, 2012 * East or West, Water Defines Us All * Abstracts will be accepted through May 18, 2012 You are invited to submit abstracts for technical sessions, panel discussions, and/or posters to be presented at the 2012 Pacific

[ECOLOG-L] coursework materials for university faculty from AAAS

Hello all, Here is a AAAS initiated program/website to help facilitate the development of curricula for teaching biology including diverse topics such as mycology, eugenics, ecology, genomics (link below). For example, there are 444 short science articles about genomics. In addition, much of

[ECOLOG-L] PhD (3) positions: carbon cycle of the aquatic-terrestrial interface

Within the Leibniz Association funded project LandScales (Connecting processes and structures driving the Landscape carbon dynamics over Scales) focusing on Carbon relations of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at the landscape level, the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research

[ECOLOG-L] ESA Agroecology Section Graduate Student Professional Enhancement Travel Award

ESA Agroecology Section Graduate Student Professional Enhancement Travel Award The Agroecology Section is pleased to announce that we will be offering travel awards for graduate students presenting papers or posters at the 97th Annual ESA Meeting in Portland, OR.  The following describes the

[ECOLOG-L] Fungi Podcast

Fungi Podcast From the Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org) Hypholoma fasciculare and Amanita brunnescens This week’s podcast begins with a riddle about a life form that’s all around us, yet rarely seen. Working under cover, it sends its ghostly tendrils into almost every corner of the

[ECOLOG-L] Crowdfunding Ecology in #SciFund 2

Hello, Ecolog! This is just an FYI that #SciFund, the largest Science Crowdfunding project on the internet, has launched its second round at http://scifund.rockethub.com. Last time, we raised $76K for science. This time, with 75 scientists, we've already hit $25K by day 2, and it's just

[ECOLOG-L] Land Health Assessment/GIS District Lead

Contract length: June 4, 2012 – September 28, 2012; potential for extension pending funding and performance review Rate of Pay: $17.40/hour Benefits: Health insurance, Paid personal leave, Location: Shoshone, ID ***POSITION AVAILABLE PENDING FUNDING*** Position Objectives: The Great Basin

[ECOLOG-L] Job Announcement - Executive Director of Monteverde Institute

The science and education non-profit Monteverde Institute, located in Monteverde, Costa Rica, is seeking an executive director. Full job description is available at: http://monteverde-institute.org/job-opportunities.htmlEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Currently, we are looking for an Executive Director who

[ECOLOG-L] ungulates and plastic

Does anyone out there know of papers that address, or even note, ungulates eating plastic? Many of us have had the problem of cows or elk eating plastic flagging or the tops off of pin flags, but I am having a difficult time finding mention of this in papers or books. Fred Provenza mentions

[ECOLOG-L] Sage Grouse Habitat Field Technician

The Great Basin Institute, in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management Idaho, is recruiting field technicians for land health assessment teams. Teams will consist of a GIS Lead and field technician. Each team will be comprised of environmental scientists (ecologists) having diverse areas of

[ECOLOG-L] CALL FOR AUTHORS: Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia Edited by Robert Warren Howarth

***PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY*** Greetings, We are inviting academic editorial contributors to a new reference work about biomes and ecosystems to be published by Salem Press in 2013. With approximately 600 articles in 4 volumes, Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia is a comprehensive

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Cemeteries as habitat

This is a wonderful conversation going on. To add more data to the topic, the paper by Tonietto R, Fant J, Ascher J, Ellis K, Larkin D (2011) A comparison of bee communities of Chicago green roofs, parks and prairies. Landscape and Urban Planning 103(1):102-108, performed data analysis with

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Cemeteries as habitat

In Pittsburgh, PA we have a fair amount of large cemeteries within the city limits, and as a result of our impossible topography a significant portion of these are under natural cover on steep slopes or valleys.  I'm not aware of any formal studies on their wildlife value, but some of these appear

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Cemeteries as habitat

I had never thought about graveyards specifically, but on a recent field trip to a 19th century graveyard in central Alabama with very old trees I found an amazingly high density of northern parula warblers. They were also found outside the graveyard, but I had never before seen (really heard) so

[ECOLOG-L] Ecology and Agronomy

Ecolog: Is there any debate within ESA about Agroecology? Thanks for educating me, WT

[ECOLOG-L] Field assistant for harlequin duck project wanted IMMEDIATELY (BC, Canada)

Position: Field Assistant Location: BC, Canada Dates: Approx. May 7 – June 15 2012 (start date negotiable) Pay: Starting at $1500 CAD per month (can increase with experience) Project: Do fish lower the quality of harlequin duck breeding streams? (Simon Fraser University Ph.D. project)

[ECOLOG-L] Preserving and Displaying Insect Specimens in Hand Sanitizer - The Video

All: Below is our latest video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUhOIN76lBgxZ-BIIo8MvzHAv=izqFaia_8bUfeature=player_detailpage This is a distillation of our work this past year on working with insect and invertebrate specimens in hand sanitizer, this technique is based on this slide share