The Department Natural Resources Management invites qualified candidates to
apply for a 9-month, tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor
in Aquatic Sciences. A Ph.D. in fisheries, aquatic sciences, ecology, or
closely related field is required. The anticipated start date is Sep
I’ll add my two cents. The scarcity of positions is absolutely nothing new.
In the 1980’s it was not unusual for there to be 300-400 applicants or more for
positions in any kind of organismal biology. It was during that decade that
doing a post-doc in ecology became the norm as a holding plac
Has anyone established that the reduction in open positions is due to a lack of
funds? It seems to me that Universities are fairly flush given the increases
in tuition and the overhead charges to grants (over 50% in most cases). That
alone has been an eye opener as I’ve been writing grants to
The Amazon Conservation Association (ACA) is offering volunteer
opportunities at our Peruvian field stations (
http://www.amazonconservation.org/about/fieldsites.html) available in the
following areas: *biological monitoring and research*, *sustainable
agriculture*, and *community outreach and edu
Hi
sorry the corrected link for the annual meeting is
http://www.chemecol.org/annualmeeting.shtml
Or try directly www.chemecol.org/annualmeeting.shtml
Take a look at chemecol.org if interested as well
Ling Huang
Sacramento City College
huangl.webs.comwww.scc.losrios.edu
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Hi
The annual meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology for those
interested will be held in Champagne-Urbana, Illinois from 8-12 July 2014.
Here is the link for those interested:
http://www.chemecol.org/annualmeeting.shtml
Ling Huang
Sacramento City College
huangl.webs.com
www.
If we agree that jobs for ecologists are resource limited, and
If we agree that resources are not increasing,
then it follows that ecologists who wish to produce intellectual offspring
(MS and PhD) should produce such offspring in a way that maximizes the
probability that they will be represented i
Its more than a way to lower costs.
Its a way to weaken faculty governance.
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 5:15 PM, David L. McNeely wrote:
> Well, the "adjunct" positions, a fancy word for part-time jobs, are the
> main problem at the Ph.D. level. A majority of credit hours at some
> institutions ar
The U.S. Geological Survey's Virginia Water Science Center in Richmond,
Virginia has a position available for a strongly quantitative candidate
with skills in water-quality data organization and analysis, scientific
programming, and statistics. This candidate would join a team of
water-quality dat
Yes, I would agree with retribution anxiety, and for those of us without the
opportunity to gain experience, it still ultimately falls to the left-out
feeling
that we / should/ not, rather than /cannot/, participate because of lacking
that confidence that is gained when working in one's chosen
Well, the "adjunct" positions, a fancy word for part-time jobs, are the main
problem at the Ph.D. level. A majority of credit hours at some institutions
are taught in that way. At community colleges there are often only a handful
of full-time faculty, with part-time teaching almost all the cou
Exactly! Unfortunately, the academic pyramid structure has made itself
far too dependent on cheap temporary labor of students and postdocs.
So, they continue to wave the career carrot out there, with no intention
to reform the system in a way that makes the carrot real.
In reality, the new P
Coastal Herpetology is once again being offered through the University of
Southern Mississippi. This summer short course will be held from May 12-
23, 2014 at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in beautiful Ocean Springs,
MS. Topics include the identification, life history, and ecology of
amphi
We invite applications for an internship position on collaborative
environmental research project
based out of the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The overarching goal of
this research is to
quantify carbon storage in agroforestry systems (where there is tree cover)
surrounding
agricultur
One thing that would help a lot would be to get rid of the system of unpaid
and underpaid internships and make those real-paying jobs. Many graduates
at all levels of education find themselves in a position where the majority
of positions available are internships, more and more of which require
g
Kevin Klein wrote:
> I haven't been able to follow the entire thread but one thing I draw from
> what I have read is that it is incumbent on those of us who work with
> students at all stages in their academic careers to also advise them to
> consider the job market in their chosen disciplin
In light of the outpouring of grievances that John A. has received, perhaps it
would be useful for any of those respondents to allow their stories to be
published here - as a form of moral support.
We are obviously not alone, though I know many of us feel that way; isolated
from our would-be pe
I haven't been able to follow the entire thread but one thing I draw from
what I have read is that it is incumbent on those of us who work with
students at all stages in their academic careers to also advise them to
consider the job market in their chosen disciplines. In so doing, they
make more i
This is a painful, poignant but necessary discussion that academic
biologists in general need to keep in mind. I would add another question:
how many retirees academic biology retirees are living (partially) on food
stamps as well..? I know a couple in just my own area. At first, to many
on this
The best solution imho, but trust the older administrative types to not
implement such a policy because it will affect them the most, just like
in our political scene. Well we can hope though !
On 9 February 2014 13:57, Aaron T. Dossey wrote:
> Rather than a rather arbritrary age-based cutoff,
http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/Ecology_%28including_organismal_and_environmental_science_2013_-_2014%29
Rather than a rather arbritrary age-based cutoff, why not allow
attrition based on lack of productivity? ie: if a department thinks
they can get a better crop of faculty, why not allow them to let some go
in favor of departmental improvement? (yes, this would probably mean an
end to, or at le
Wouldn't there be many more postdocs than adjuncts fitting this
description (and possibly on food stamps)?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Postdoc-Union/275402225908673
On 2/9/2014 10:20 AM, John A. wrote:
-the invisible and disregarded of modern academia.
ATD of ATB and ISI
--
Aar
Since women generally live longer than men, what reason, aside from
discrimination, does China have for requiring them to retire 5 years
earlier?
> In China academics (at least ecologists) have a mandatory retirement
> age of 60 for men (can be extended to 65 if you're actively advising
> gradua
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In China academics (at least ecologists) have a mandatory retirement
age of 60 for men (can be extended to 65 if you're actively advising
graduate students), and 55 for women. When I asked a female faculty
member about that in a visit to China 2 years ago, she seemed very
accepting of the idea
I've already received many, many replies in the first 48 hours since I
posted my request. I've heard from more people than I can easily count--recent
Ph.D.s, graduate students, even undergraduates with difficult stories of hard
work, perseverance, and increasing despair that they will ever
FIELD ASSISTANTS (4) needed to conduct Golden-winged Warbler surveys and
monitoring of reproduction in the Alleghany Mountains of Virginia, 2 hours
west of Charlottesville. Three assistants are needed from *~April 20 until
June 30 *and one is needed until* mid August*. Applicants should be
willin
This time of year, I scan ECOLOG for summer opportunities for students I
mentor. However, I end up having to discard many excellent programs,
including the majority of REU positions, because they start a week or more
before spring quarter ends at UCLA.
The quarter system isn't that rare. For examp
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