[ECOLOG-L] New Marine Mammal Stranding Internships on Spain (October-November 2014)

2014-08-26 Thread Bruno Diaz Lopez
I would like to post the below advertisement to the ECOLOG-L li Hello, I would like to post the below advertisement to the ECOLOG-L list serve. Please feel free to contact if have any questions. Thank you for your efforts, Marine Mammal Stranding Internships on Galicia, Spain Due to a last

[ECOLOG-L] landscape ecology (US-IALE) newsletter

2014-08-26 Thread Emily Minor
Dear Colleagues, Check out the latest newsletter from the US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), which is posted online at this website http://usiale.org/newsletters or can be directly downloaded here

[ECOLOG-L] Position Announcement

2014-08-26 Thread Scott Meiners
POSITION: Molecular Plant Physiologist, Department of Biological Sciences APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 31, 2014 APPLY TO: Dr. Thomas Canam, Chair of the Search Committee The Department of Biological Sciences at Eastern Illinois University (www.eiu.edu/biology) is seeking a Molecular Plant

[ECOLOG-L] Tenure Track Position: Nat. Res. Biometrics | Warnell@UGA

2014-08-26 Thread PUNEET DWIVEDI
FYI: Please contact Dr. Pete Bettinger (chair of the search committee) directly. Deadline is September 19, 2014. Sincerely, Puneet Dwivedi Warnell@UGA

[ECOLOG-L] Interdisciplinary Symposium at ACS meeting: Call for abstracts

2014-08-26 Thread Kraus, Johanna
Dear Colleagues, We invite you to submit an abstract to our symposium How do geologic processes drive the structure and function of aquatic and riparian ecosystems? at the upcoming American Chemical Society Meeting in Denver, March 22-26.

[ECOLOG-L] Volunteer Position - SouthAfrica_CapeGroundSquirrels

2014-08-26 Thread Nicola Harrison
## VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY - CAPE GROUND SQUIRRELS ## We are looking for volunteers to work with Cape ground squirrels in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa for a period of 12 months and preferably to start in October. Applicants will be accepted until the position is filled. Please see link for

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Some ideas for advancing grad education in the face of scarcity

2014-08-26 Thread Risa Pesapane
I agree Ryan. I would like to add under this bullet (a) revive and respect the Master's degree we should include reviving it's appreciation in the working world. The reason that many (including myself) are now pursuing a PhD is because, in a limited employment market, the MS left us in limbo land.

[ECOLOG-L] Call for NASA-MSU Award Application (Class of 2015)

2014-08-26 Thread Jianguo (Jack) Liu
Dear colleagues, Please share the following information with potentially interested students, postdocs, and junior researchers (e.g., assistant professors). Thanks. * With support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Michigan State University (MSU), NASA-MSU

[ECOLOG-L] Land Use History Forest Dynamics

2014-08-26 Thread Glenn Matlack
We are looking for a capable student to join our Forest History research team at the Masters or PhD level. The student will use historical remote sensing data and image analysis to reconstruct the recent history of forests in southeast Ohio. Historical data will be paired with vegetation surveys

[ECOLOG-L] Urban Forest Ecology

2014-08-26 Thread Glenn Matlack
Graduate Study in Urban Forest Ecology We are looking for capable students to join our Urban Forest research team at the Masters or PhD level. Students will work on one of two projects: 1) Microclimate of street trees and its positive and negative effects on urban hardscape. The student will

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Study in Forest Ecolgy

2014-08-26 Thread Glenn Matlack
Graduate Study in Forest Ecology at Ohio University We offer a well-rounded program in Forest Ecology at both the Masters and PhD levels. Set in the forested hills of the Allegheny plateau, our faculty pursue research in a wide range to topics including biological invasion, urban ecology,

[ECOLOG-L] M.S. Assistantship: Population Genetics and Breeding Ecology of Flatwoods Salamanders

2014-08-26 Thread Jamie Roberts
A Masters assistantship is available in the Department of Biology at Georgia Southern University (GSU), with an intended start date in January 2015. In collaboration with Virginia Tech, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the student will investigate the population

[ECOLOG-L] M.S. Assistantship: Conservation Genetics of Roanoke Bass

2014-08-26 Thread Jamie Roberts
A Masters assistantship is available in the Department of Biology at Georgia Southern University (GSU), with an intended start date in January 2015. The student will investigate the conservation genetics of Roanoke bass, a sport- fish endemic to Virginia and North Carolina. Many populations of

[ECOLOG-L] Job announcement: Postdoctoral fellowship in climate modeling and fisheries

2014-08-26 Thread Rebecca Asch
*Nippon Foundation Fellow Postdoctoral Position in* *Climate Modeling and Fisheries at Princeton University* The Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Biogeochemistry group at Princeton University is seeking applicants for a postdoctoral position in the area of modeling climate impacts on

[ECOLOG-L] Biodiversity, Citizen Science -Opportunity for a U. S. Graduate Student to Present at an International Conference

2014-08-26 Thread Robert Stevenson
Biodiversity, Citizen Science, and Informatics Opportunity for a U. S. Graduate Student to Present at an International Conference Deadline Sept 9th, 2014 The National Science Foundation has funded a symposium and workshop entitled Citizen science: a growing approach to biodiversity monitoring

[ECOLOG-L] 5 Post-doc positions in the AmazonFACE project

2014-08-26 Thread Thiago S. F. Silva
Forwarding on behalf of my colleague, Dr. David Lapola: Dear colleague, The Amazon-FACE project (Assessing the effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 on the ecology and resilience of the Amazon forest) is hiring 5 post-doc fellows to work in different project components, the majority of them in

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Some ideas for advancing grad education in the face of scarcity

2014-08-26 Thread Kenneth M Brown
A good point which brings up a larger question. I know colleagues who only value basic ecological research and testing theory. Applied ecology and working in a particular geographic area or on particular organisms is considered provincial. Do we as professional ecologists need to rethink our

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Some ideas for advancing grad education in the face of scarcity

2014-08-26 Thread Thomas J. Givnish
To adapt a well-known aphorism, ALL ECOLOGY IS LOCAL. That is, the outcome of all ecological interactions – and thus, the abundance of individual species, the composition and structure of communities, and the nature of energy and nutrient flows in ecosystems – is context-dependent. Any

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Some ideas for advancing grad education in the face of scarcity

2014-08-26 Thread Judith S. Weis
Why should some ecologists look down their noses at other ecologists when we already have the molecular biologists looking down their noses at all of us? To adapt a well-known aphorism, ALL ECOLOGY IS LOCAL. That is, the outcome of all ecological interactions – and thus, the abundance of

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Some ideas for advancing grad education in the face of scarcity

2014-08-26 Thread Malcolm McCallum
Everyone wants the world to think they are an international expert. Every school wants to be thought of as an international university. It is almost as if everyone has forgotten what is important and what isn't. We are all chasing stature instead of chasing data. This erodes and slows the