[ECOLOG-L] Job: Executive Director, Citizens for a Healthy Community, Colorado

[David Inouye]

*EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR*

Citizens for a Healthy Community (CHC), a nonprofit 501(c)3, is looking 
for an Executive Director to join them in leading the fight against oil 
and gas development in the Delta County region of Western Colorado. We 
are looking for the right person with strong advocacy, writing, and 
interpersonal skills, who can think big yet single-handedly manage the 
organization, and work closely with senior attorneys at the Western 
Environmental Law Center. The position is a full-time, high-energy, 
fast-paced, salaried position with some travel and weekend availability 
required. Job responsibilities include development of advocacy 
positions, monitoring and responding to energy development 
administrative processes, public outreach and organizing, fundraising, 
grant writing, and more. Applicants must be proficient in website and 
database applications, social media management, word processing, excel 
spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. Ideal candidates will 
demonstrate high levels of interpersonal communication, public speaking, 
and financial management skills. The Executive Director position 
requires experience with grassroots organizing, political advocacy, and 
governmental laws and regulations pertaining to oil and gas development. 
For more information, email Brian Wegner at 
br...@citizensforahealthycommunity.org 
 or view the *full job 
description here 
.

*

(I can give you more information about this position or the area of 
Colorado if you need more - David Inouye)*

*

--
Dr. David Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland

Principal Investigator
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

[ECOLOG-L] AGU 2016 GLOBAL CHANGE sesion: Scale-dependent ecological dynamics in a rapidly changing Arctic

[Jeff Kerby]

Dear Colleagues,
  We invite you to submit an abstract for the Fall 2016 American Geophysical
Union GLOBAL CHANGE Session 13826:

"Scale-dependent ecological dynamics in a rapidly changing Arctic"

The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 3 August 2016. Abstracts can
be submitted at https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13826

Session description:
The Arctic is rapidly changing as the climate warms, yet how this change
is altering ecological dynamics across scales is poorly understood.
Decades of plot- and satellite-based studies underpin our understanding
of change in Arctic systems, but linking patterns and processes across
levels of ecological organization has traditionally been hampered by a
lack of moderate-scale data.

The application of emerging methods - including the integration of
unmanned aerial systems (UAS), time-lapse photography, multi-platform
satellite observations and cross site ecological data synthesis * are
filling a long-standing gap in our understanding of how scale affects
observed and predicted ecological change.

This session will provide a forum for researchers from the fields of
tundra remote sensing, phenology, population- and ecosystem- ecology to
address concepts of scale-dependent ecological dynamics in high-latitude
ecosystems. Each presentation will address how working across scales
can improve our understanding of the ecological processes reshaping the
rapidly changing Arctic.

Conveners: Jeffrey Kerby, Isla Myers-Smith, Andrew Cunliffe, and Howard
Epstein.

For further session information, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13826

For additional questions/information please email:
Jeff Kerby at jeffrey.ke...@dartmouth.edu 

(note: Jeff Kerby will be out of contact for fieldwork from July 15 until
after the submission deadline.  For questions that arise after July 15,
please email Howie Epstein at he...@virginia.edu )

[ECOLOG-L] Immediate Openings for Ecological Field Monitoring Technicians and Leads in WA and OR

[Amy Gladding]

For complete information and to apply, please visit our website:
http://crcareers.thegreatbasininstitute.org/careers/

Locations are in Lakeview, OR and Wenatchee, WA

The ecological monitoring program at GBI serves as an excellent
professional development opportunity for burgeoning natural resource
professionals looking for experience in botanical, soil, and rangeland
surveys. This program is a component of our well-established Research
Associate Program, which focuses on the conservation of natural resources
in the Intermountain West. As an element of this program, participants will
implement the Bureau of Land Management’s national Assessment, Inventory,
and Monitoring (AIM) strategy, which is targeted at collecting standardized
inventory and long-term ecological data at multiple scales across the
Western BLM districts. In accordance with this strategy and through a
partnership with the BLM, GBI’s ecological monitoring program is dedicated
to providing college graduates and emerging professionals with hands-on
survey, inventory, monitoring, and reporting experience in natural resource
management.

This video highlights the BLM’s AIM strategy for landscape-scale data
capture across the western states.

*Techs*

Field Technicians will work cooperatively with BLM Biologists and Resource
Managers, and a GBI Field Lead. Each field crew (one Lead and two
Technicians) will characterize vegetation using the Assessment, Inventory
and Monitoring (AIM) protocol and Describing Indicators of Rangeland Health
(DIRH), for which training will be provided. Duties include following
established field protocols to conduct vegetation sampling and field data
collection on new and existing monitoring sites.

Compensation:
o $15.00/hour
o $15.00 Camping per diem
o $75/week housing stipend

Timeline:
o Upon availability - 2 September 2016
o Full-time, 40 hours per week minimum

*Leads*

Field Leads will work cooperatively with BLM Biologists and Resource
Managers; and GBI Field Technicians. Each Field Lead will coordinate a
field crew (one Lead and two Technicians) to characterize vegetation using
the Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) protocol and Interpreting
Indicators of Rangeland Health (IIRH), for which training will be provided.
Duties include following established field protocols to conduct vegetation
sampling and field data collection on new and existing monitoring sites.

Compensation:
o $1,360 bi-weekly salary
o $15.00 Camping per diem
o $75/week housing stipend

Timeline:
o 8 August – 30 December 2016
o Full-time, 40 hours per week minimum


Field work for this position includes maintaining safety awareness and
practices, navigating off-trail to sampling sites, establishing sampling
plots and transects, identifying and describing soil horizons, collecting
vegetation data (including species inventory, foliar cover, canopy gap, and
herbaceous and woody heights), making qualitative range assessments, and
taking photo-points. During these periods of field work, camping will be
required. Additional duties include entering data into an Access-based
database, employing QA/QC techniques, and aiding with field logistics.
Depending on the field office, the objective of the 2016 AIM sampling
season is to collect comprehensive vegetation and rangeland monitoring
data. This data will be summarized and analyzed at the end of the field
season to inform future management of sagebrush ecosystems, Resource
Management Plans, and grazing permit renewals.

[ECOLOG-L] POST-DOC: AQUATIC FOOD-WEB MODELING

[Rick Relyea]

POST-DOC: AQUATIC FOOD-WEB MODELING

The Jefferson Project—an unprecedented endeavor to examine freshwater
ecosystems with advanced “smart-sensor technology”—will be hiring a post-doc
to develop food web models that incorporate high-frequency monitoring,
modeling, and experimental data. This exciting research endeavor brings
together Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), IBM, and The FUND for Lake
George. The project is intended to serve as a blueprint for studying lakes
around the world and to better understand how humans are affecting lake
ecosystems. The research is based on the RPI campus, at the field station on
Lake George (located in upstate NY), and in IBM research labs around the world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0OU9hfyZqU=PLC5671247BDB6A0B8

The Jefferson Project was built upon 36 years of lake chemistry monitoring
and is currently deploying real-time sensors for high-frequency monitoring
of the physical, chemical, and biological conditions of Lake George (a lake
that is 32 miles long and 200’ deep). These monitoring data are being
integrated with data from experiments investigating the impacts of excess
nutrients, invasive species, and other contaminants on freshwater food webs.
We have already produced second- and third-generation weather, hydrology,
and lake circulation models; these models are being validated using
high-resolution data from the “Smart Sensor Network.” Our goal is to link
these physical models and integrate them with food web models, allowing us
to better understand how humans have altered, and will continue to alter,
lake ecosystems. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of
food web modeling and an associated publication record. Programing expertise
(e.g., C++, Python, R, Matlab) would also be quite valuable.

Rensselaer has a growing group of aquatic ecologists, first-rate facilities
for aquatic research, and a beautiful field station on Lake George. The
successful candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with
experimental ecologists, limnologists, modelers, computer scientists, and
engineers from both RPI and IBM. The post-doc will also have access to
state-of-the-art supercomputers, including the powerful IBM Blue Gene/Q.

For additional information:
 http://relyealab.wix.com/relyea-lab
 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/35931
 http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/35932
 http://eichll.wix.com/lawrence-eichler
 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/DFWI/
 http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47219.wss


Applicants should send a cover letter, CV, research statement, and a list of
3 references to Dr. Rick Relyea (rel...@rpi.edu) in PDF format.

Applications will be reviewed as they arrive. The desired start date is late
summer or early fall.


--
Dr. Rick Relyea
Director, Darrin Fresh Water Institute
Director, The Jefferson Project
David M. Darrin ’40 Senior Endowed Chair
Dept. of Biological Sciences, BT2115
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180

[ECOLOG-L] Workshop:College Park,MD.BioinformaticsPracticalToolsWorkshop.September15-18

[Nic Blouin]

Hi Everyone-

We are offering a  Fall Workshop in Introductory Bioinformatics
 
Where/when:
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
September 15-18, 2016
 
The handling of large datasets has become intractable without some level of
bioinformatic literacy. Many biologists find that there is a steep learning
curve to develop the confidence required to explore their genomics datasets
effectively. This bioinformatics short course includes a rich collection of
hands-on instruction and lectures specifically intended to help novice users
become comfortable with a range of tools currently used to analyze deep
sequencing data. 
There is no prerequisite for this course other than a willingness to learn
and to work hard throughout the week. All workshop exercises will be
implemented via VirtualBox and focus primarily on Illumina data; however, we
will also include PacBio data during the genome assembly tutorial.
Course participation is limited to 25 students to ensure an intimate
learning environment. Course tuition is $800 and is open to graduate
students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and industry researchers on a first come
basis.
 
Full course information, contact, instructor info and application
instructions at
https://biodatatraining.wordpress.com



Please contact us if you have any questions or need additional info.
Hope to see you in College Park.


Nic and Ian

[ECOLOG-L] Request for Information on the Development of the 2017 National Plan for Civil Earth Observations due July 1

[Alison Mize]

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) 
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/06/02/2016-13010/request-for-information-on-the-development-of-the-2017-national-plan-for-civil-earth-observations

Responses must be received by 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time), July 1, 2016, 
to be considered.

Request for Information on the Development of the 2017 National Plan for Civil 
Earth Observations

On behalf of the U.S. Group on Earth Observations (USGEO), a Subcommittee of 
the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Committee on Environment, 
Natural Resources, and Sustainability (CENRS), the White House Office of 
Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties 
regarding recommendations for the development of the 2017 National Plan for 
Civil Earth Observations ("National Plan", or "Plan"). 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/library/shareyourinput



Alison Mize
Director of Public Affairs

Ecological Society of America
1990 M Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC  20036
www.esa.org

ali...@esa.org
703.625.3628 (cell)
202.833.8773 ext. 205 (office)

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Improvement in Google Earth imagery

[Gregg Miller]

An example of government working very well.  The U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) and NASA operate Landsat, which is the source of GooleEarth
imagery..

On 6/28/16, 6:39 AM, "David Inouye" <ino...@umd.edu> wrote:

>Google Maps And Earth Just Got A Huge Boost: New, More Detailed And
>Higher Contrast Images - See more at:
>http://www.techtimes.com/articles/167385/20160628/google-maps-and-earth-ju
>st-got-a-huge-boost-new-more-detailed-and-higher-contrast-images.htm#sthas
>h.WAA15bCv.dpuf
>
>Hasn't yet affected the imagery around the Rocky Mountain Biological
>Laboratory, but maybe will affect your study sites.
>
>
>-- 
>Dr. David Inouye
>Professor Emeritus
>Department of Biology
>University of Maryland
>
>Principal Investigator
>Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
>
>Past-President, Ecological Society of America

[ECOLOG-L] 6th International Deep-Sea Coral Symposium deadline

[Erik Cordes]

6th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals
September 11-16, 2016 • Boston Marriott Long Wharf • Boston, MA
Abstract Deadline: Thursday, June 30th

We are delighted to announce the 6th International Symposium on Deep-Sea
Corals to be held at the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel in Boston, MA USA, from
September 11 - 16, 2016. The ISDSC #6 will bring together scientists,
industry specialists, students and managers with recent, state-of-the-art
knowledge on the distribution, linkages, ecosystem function and biodiversity
of cold water corals and their habitats. Our current knowledge and outlook
of the driving factors and consequences of past and present biogeography and
ecological constraints, climate change, natural and anthropogenic impacts,
and the conservation and management of cold-water coral ecosystems will be
discussed. The latest topical coral-related research on ocean acidification,
biogeography, larval dispersal, genetic connectivity and evolution,
autecology, reproduction, predictive habitat modeling, (paleo)productivity,
new proxies in paleoceanography, conservation strategies, national and
international management, and the design and development of marine protected
areas will be featured. We hope you will join us at this Symposium and
register today at www.deepseacoral.org !

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Early Registration:June 30, 2016
Deadline for Abstract Submission:   June 30, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: July 2016
Program Announced:  August 2016
Symposium Dates:September 11-16, 2016

TOPICS
The symposium consists of an opening reception at the New England Aquarium,
keynote talks, oral presentations, poster flash talks, poster sessions,
student and early career presentation awards, travel awards, a mentorship
program, and two mid-symposium excursions to Star Island / Shoals Marine Lab
and Woods Hole / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The symposium will
feature numerous topics for oral and poster presentations, including:

Biodiversity, Community Structure, and Functional Role
Biogeography and Macroevolution
Ecosystem Dynamics and Food Webs
Coral Taxonomy, Systematics, and Phylogenetics
Genetics, Connectivity and Evolution
Life History Characteristics, Reproduction and Larval ecology
Experimental Coral Biology
Microbial Community Associations and Interactions
Environmental habitat conditions and coral distribution
Hydrodynamics and food supply
Habitat characterization, mapping, GIS applications
Corals and Climate Change
Paleooceanography
Climate records from deep-sea corals, mounds and reefs
Reef and Mound structures in time and space
Anthropogenic threats and impacts
Management and conservation strategies
Role of Marine Protected Areas and Reserves
Use of predictive habitat mapping and protected area design
New Technologies and Techniques

REGISTRATION
Online Registration and Abstract submission through the website at
www.deepseacoral.org 


Erik Cordes
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Temple University
BL315, 1900 N 12th St
Philadelphia PA 19122
office: 215-204-8876
fax: 215-204-6646
http://astro.temple.edu/~ecordes/
twitter: @CordesLab

[ECOLOG-L] Permanent USGS position – Invasive reptiles - Research Ecologist, GS-12, Fort Collins S cience Center, CO

[Alison Mize]

Permanent USGS position – Invasive reptiles

Application deadline 25 July 2016

Research Ecologist, GS-12, Fort Collins Science Center, CO

Applications are invited for a position with the Invasive Reptiles Project, 
which is part of the Invasive Species Science Branch at the USGS Fort Collins 
Science Center. Project members currently include over a dozen scientists and 
staff based in Colorado, Florida, or Guam, collectively pursuing a range of 
research projects on ecology, control, and containment of invasive reptiles 
including but not limited to Brown Treesnakes, Burmese Pythons, and Argentine 
tegus. 

We are seeking a permanent principal investigator to be based in Fort Collins, 
with frequent travel to field and meeting sites required. Must be U.S. citizen. 
This is a Research Grade position with the potential to advance to higher pay 
grades based on panel evaluations by peers.

We invite applications from candidates with proven abilities in herpetology, a 
strong quantitative toolbox, and a record of high-quality publications. 
Excellent communication skills are vital to the position.

All applications must be submitted through the USAJobs website, which also has 
more information on the position: 
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/442610800
Follow instructions on the USAJobs page carefully, including submitting 
transcripts etc, in order to be considered for the position.

More info on the Invasive Species Science Branch: 
https://www.fort.usgs.gov/branch/100

Contact Bob Reed (re...@usgs.gov, 970-420-3044) for more information on duties 
of the position. The USAJobs sites lists a HR contact for questions related to 
how to apply, etc.