Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecology Jobs and Living Re: [ECOLOG-L] A Graduate S tudent's Guide to Neces sary Skills for Landing a Job

2013-02-18 Thread Robert Rankin
My read of the original paper by Brickney is that technical/analytical skills are very important. Looking at their PCA, most of the variation lies on a spectrum of technical/analytical/field experience to project management/interpersonal. Despite comments on this listserv, both hard and soft

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Temperature, precipitation, degree of disturbance and stochasticity by ecoregion or habitat world-wide?

2012-09-18 Thread Robert Rankin
There is a great R package that provides one-stop-shop support for the query, download, and use of WorldClim datasets: http://www.rforge.net/doc/packages/climates/html/bioclim.html On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Martin Koechy b-l...@martinkoechy.de wrote: Hi Rob, did you consider WorldClim

Re: [ECOLOG-L] e-Reader for academic papers

2012-08-13 Thread Robert Rankin
Hi Ed, I was really interested in this topic and did a wide review. All the economical ereaders (nook touch, kindle touch, kobo, etc) are really jumpy/flashy when handling pdfs, and certainly lack pinch zones and smooth scrolling. IMO, this really distracts from the reading experience, having