[ECOLOG-L] Internship: environmental change and security program, Wilson Center

2017-07-12 Thread David Inouye
Intern with the Environmental Change and Security Program The Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program is looking for the Fall 2017 class of interns, who will be based at the Wilson Center in

[ECOLOG-L] (RESENDING) Identifying top 40 CHANS questions

2017-07-12 Thread Nichols, Sue
Many months ago in this group, a colleague (apologies, it is now lost in my email graveyard) requested input on the priorities of applying coupled human and natural system research to questions of sustainability. The paper “Top 40 Questions in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS)

[ECOLOG-L] 4 yr postdoc position modelling invasive pine spread in NZ

2017-07-12 Thread Philip Hulme
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Risk modelling of the dispersal and spread of alien conifers in New Zealand The Bio-Protection Research Centre, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence hosted by Lincoln University, finds innovative, natural and sustainable solutions to protect New Zealand's

[ECOLOG-L] wildlife jam: DJ Ecotone mixes sounds of lemurs, birds and more into music that's inspiring kids

2017-07-12 Thread Erik Hoffner
On the new episode of the Mongabay Newscast we have a fun listen for you, this DJ (and Nat Geo Explorer/TV host) knows what an ecotone is for sure, being an avid birder and ecologist from his early days: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/audio-a-wildlife-dj-

[ECOLOG-L] Microbial Metagenomics @ ESA

2017-07-12 Thread Rob Colautti
SS 2 - Functional Diversity of Microbiomes: Integrating Human Biology and Ecology Towards New Avenues of Analysis August 7, 2017 10:15-1:15 At the ESA 2017 Meeting in Portland, OR Dear Colleagues, We would like to make you aware of a special session as part of the 2017 the ESA meeting in

[ECOLOG-L] AGU abstract call - Interdependence of Coupled Human and Natural Systems around the World

2017-07-12 Thread Nichols, Sue
Researchers are invited to submit abstracts to a session in this year’s AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans Dec. 11-15. GC046: Interdependence of Coupled Human and Natural Systems around the World, (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24711) Interactions among coupled human

[ECOLOG-L] $5,000 scholarship FOOD SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY FALL PROGRAM IN ITALY + Internship opportunities

2017-07-12 Thread salem paulos
Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting! Could you kindly forward this information to potentially interested students? We are offering $5,000 scholarship for our *FOOD SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY FALL PROGRAM IN ITALY.* *Internship opportunities are also available for academic credit*

[ECOLOG-L] New publication about humpback dolphins abundance, distribution and group dynamics in the Middle East.

2017-07-12 Thread Bruno Diaz Lopez
Dear colleagues, My co-authors and I are pleased to announce that our latest article about humpback dolphins has been published in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (JMBA). Díaz López, B., Grandcourt, E., Methion, S., Das, H., Bugla, I., Al Hameli, M., Al

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoctoral researcher position available in population modelling

2017-07-12 Thread Daniel Reuman
Dr Daniel Reuman is recruiting into his lab in the University of Kansas Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB). At least 3 years of funding are available to carry out modelling pertaining to spatial population dynamics and analysis of large spatial population data sets. The postdoc

[ECOLOG-L] Great Ideas and Networking at ESA for K12 education

2017-07-12 Thread Teresa Mourad
K12 Involvement Survey Are you involved in K12 ecology education in some way? Please take this survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K12involvement by July 14. The Ecological Society of America's Committee for Diversity and Education is interested in learning the extent to which ecologists

[ECOLOG-L] Seeking rapid input on name for DDIG redux

2017-07-12 Thread Maren Friesen
A group of us have been engaged in discussions for a replacement to the DDIG program that was recently cut by NSF. We need your input rapidly on one CRITICAL aspect of this -- what to call the nascent thing. I favour the word consortium, defined as *“A consortium is an association of two or more

[ECOLOG-L] Latest round of historical entomologically-oriented (and more) books for sale to support the Center for Systematic Entomology

2017-07-12 Thread Derek Woller
This message (apologies for cross-posting) is being sent on behalf of Paul Skelley (Entomology Section Administrator, Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA)) and Zachary Prusak (Florida Fire Manager for the Nature Conservancy) who are working on getting all of the donated books in FSCA's

[ECOLOG-L] Science storytelling at ESA2017

2017-07-12 Thread Shane M Hanlon
ESA is a great opportunity to hear about the latest in ecological research. But what about the people behind that work? That's where The Story Collider comes in. In collaboration with Before the Abstract, five of your fellow ecologists will tell true, personal stories about science. These