May be of interest:
NSF Awards Second Round of Grants to Advance Digitization of Biological
Collections
05/01/2012 02:52 PM EDT
Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on
Earth.
Records of that biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed widely across
I am a master's student at the University of Central Florida and am looking
for a field technician to help me during my third, and final field season.
Specifically, I need help during a week long plant survey on Nantucket, MA.
What:
A survey of plant diversity in a Nantucket heathland. The
http://frogsaregreen.com/4500/chemical-pollution-in-your-backyard-researching-the-effects-of-endocrine-disruptors-in-suburbia/
My lab mate, Geoff Giller, wrote an article about our work on suburban
pollution and reproductive defects in wild amphibians. He also touches on
crowd-funding websites
Somewhere in my boxes of books I have a small paperback that is
entitled something like labs in botany. It is probably from the
1950s, but I don't know where it is right now. In that book is a
version of the lab of which you speak.
When I taught biology at Belleville Area College (Belleville,
I don't think people are nasty because they work hard. In fact, it could
well be that people who don't get as much done get nasty/envious and
backstab more productive people...but I could be wrong about that! I see
work as a much higher level social interaction that say networking.
Working with
MS Biology Graduate Student wanted for research project on the evolution of
mating systems in Galapagos lizards. Student will learn microsatellite DNA
laboratory techniques to identify parent- offspring relationships using
tissues sent from the Galapagos. Student can apply for a 9-mo Teaching
University of Connecticut
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Assistant I
Aquatic Ecology Evolutionary Biology Laboratory
The Department of Ecology Evolutionary Biology at the University of
Connecticut has one opening for a full-time Research Assistant I position
beginning
I'm not an expert (but rather, someone with a deep interest) in urban
ecology, but my understanding is that areas like cemeteries,
ballfields, golf courses, etc., often act as ecological traps,
providing enough low-quality habitat to foster low-levels of
biodiversity, but preventing
And many NYC cemeteries have introduced Italian wall lizards, Podarcis siculus.
They do very well in such habitats.
RBurke
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Im currently looking for field assistants to help me study butterfly abundance
and niche breadth in
the southern Peruvian Amazon, as part of my PhD research on Neotropical
butterfly ecology at the
University of Florida.
LOCATION
Field work will be conducted at the Los Amigos Biological
On May 2, 2012, at 11:39 AM, John Mickelson wrote:
Wondering what folks thoughts are re: the extent to which
cemeteries (and, to a lesser extent: ball fields, play grounds,
golf courses etc...) really serve as habitat.
Along the California coast, native monarch butterflies
routinely use
There is some really interesting research coming out of all these urban
areas, green roofs, cemeteries, vacant lots - especially in the arthropod
communities. They definitely have value on the micro as well as macro
scale - although it hasn't all been quantified yet.
Brady Simmons
NYC Parks
On
John - This fits firmly into the evolving concept of Novel Ecosystems. They
may provide some very useful ecosystem services (speaking of another evolving
concept) and, in any case, are widespread on the landscape. If we only focus on
the pristine, we will wind up with little to study - or
http://scientopia.org/blogs/proflikesubstance/2012/04/16/what-i-learned-at-an-nsf-bio-preproposal-panel/http
MS Biology Graduate Student wanted for research project on the evolution of
mating systems in Galapagos lizards. Student will learn microsatellite DNA
laboratory techniques to identify parent- offspring relationships using tissues
sent from the Galapagos. Student can apply for a 9-mo Teaching
hi, John:
you probably know this already, but the Jacksonville Oregon cemetery is an
important site for the protection of the endangered lily, Fritillaria
gentneri, and supports a large population. It is managed to protect the
lily (as well as for normal cemetery things)
Duncan Thomas
Hello List Members: I am soliciting your interest to collaborate on a PVA
paper. I have been collecting data on populations of Critically Endangered Gyps
Vultures since 2002. Since the past few years, I have been thinking of writing
a paper on population viability analysis, but now I am
John,
You raised an interesting question.
I just have a comment. A few years back I taught a class called Restoring
Ecosystems Across the Landscape. Among the projects we proposed, was one on
a wildlife park in Charlotte, Vermont with a couple of degraded 25-acre corn
fields. One of the proposed
While I was doing my thesis research I traveled from Maine to Florida
taking pictures of trees. I was specifically interested in open grown
crowns whose shape had not been modified by pruning, as city street trees
usually are. Not surprisingly, cemeteries were one of my best sources.
For many
Juan (and Ecolog):
This project strikes me (I must confess that most such projects strike me)
as a great opportunity to start with a known baseline like the cornfield and
some trees, then follow the changes to the baseline over time. I hope this
has been done; if so, the results should be
As I understand it there is only really GeneMapper and GeneMarker to create
bins and score alleles.
I think both require manual tweaking to score stuttered peaks correctly (I
only use GeneMapper, imagine GeneMarker is same).
Related to this, if anyone knows of any open source development to
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