Re: [ECOLOG-L] Families in Science - Balancing your personal and professional life

Such "humble opinions" fly in the face of, at the very least, a significant body of empirical evidence. One might peruse the work of, for example, Carmen Binnewies (e.g. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/096317909X418049/abstract) or the heavily cited works of Charlotte Fritz (various work

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Ecosystem resilience and colonization study opportunity? Re: [ECOLOG-L] Cemeteries as habitat

Hi Wayne, This course only lasted one semester and to my knowledge, the idea of an eco-cemetery to restore an old degraded cornfield at the Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge is regretfully still on paper. I think that most people would agree that it would be a great idea to start monitoring proj

[ECOLOG-L] On-Call Scientists: Call for Agroecologists

On-Call Scientists: Call for Agroecologists A human rights organization working in more than 40 countries seeks to develop long-term partnerships with volunteers who can advise the group's projects about connections between human rights, empowerment, and agroecology, including through research

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Cemeteries as habitat

John Some work has been done regarding importance of golf courses as habitat, including my husband's masters work in Naples, Florida Jodice P.G.R. 1993. Movement patterns of translocated Big Cypress fox squirrels (Sciurus niger avicennia). Florida Scientist 56: 1-6. Jodice P.G.R. and S.R. H

[ECOLOG-L] Making data management fun: help fund our video contest!

Help make data management fun! A group of us affiliated with the DataONE project are organizing a contest to develop fun, educational videos about data management. We'd like to raise a modest sum through SciFund to provide prizes to the winners (see description below). Thanks in advance for your

[ECOLOG-L] UCS Webinar: Help defend the Lacey Act and stop illegal logging

The Lacey Act—and more specifically its 2008 amendments, created the world's first law to stop the import of illegal wood and wood products. Illegal logging threatens ecosystems, economies, and societies. Next Tuesday there will be a hearing in Congress on two bills that would gut the Lacey Ac

[ECOLOG-L] looking for help with Eddy Covariance data

Dear all, I have one year of eddy covariance data from a temperate forest system, that needs to be gap filled and partitioned into GPP and Re from NEE. As I have very little working knowledge of the eddy covariance system, I am wondering if anybody would be so kind to offer some help. I would real

[ECOLOG-L] Retention and Recruitment

A lot of corrupt things are done at Universities in the name of "retention and recruitment": http://chronicle.com/blogs/onhiring/would-you-trade-your-career-for-a-pickup-truck/31223?sid=oh&utm_source=oh&utm_medium=en

[ECOLOG-L] Job Position: Biostatistics Adjunct position

Environmental Studies Adjunct Position - Adjunct Faculty Conservation Biology Concentration Department of Environmental Studies Status: Part-time, Keene NH, Start Fall Semester 2012 The Environmental Studies Department Master’s Program at Antioch University New England seeks an adjunct instruct

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Cemeteries as habitat

Ecolog: Certainly more study is needed with respect to what exactly is going on with all forms of life in urban and other cultural places, but facts should not be twisted into misrepresentations. Skyscrapers might well make habitats, even refuges, for falcons and other species taking advantage

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Cemeteries as habitat

In Illinois we used to go to old abandoned cemeteries to look for prairie plants. These "family cemeteries" were rather common and were seldom larger than a typical backyard. But they often had many rare prairie plants that managed to tweak out an existence there. I have forgotten when or where,

[ECOLOG-L] Publishing Internship at Frontiers - Ecological Society of America

Publishing Internship at Frontiers - Ecological Society of America The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is looking for an intern, to be based at its Washington, DC, office, to help with the production of its journals, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (www.frontiersinecology.org). T

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Cemeteries as habitat

While I agree with the previous sentiment, things are not often as black and white as "Do we choose urban development or a 'natural' state?". The continuum of "natural" to "man made" habitats is vast and there are certainly some semi-natural, or cultural landscapes, that may be of conservation v

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Cemeteries as habitat

I wonder if anyone knows of the tradition in Korea, Japan, or other east Asian countries in terms of natural areas associated with grave sites. My understanding is that families (at least in the past) in Korea would have a semi-natural tract of land that was kept undeveloped and served as a fam

[ECOLOG-L] Petridish.org crowdfunding site

Hi all - Petridish.org is looking for another round of projects to put up on their site (still in beta), and are particularly interested in good ecology projects. (Disclaimer: a friend of mine started the site.) They've gotten over $100k in pledges in just over 2 months, which is impressive

[ECOLOG-L] UCS Trivia Night in DC

The Union of Concerned Scientists is hosting a young scientist Trivia Night in response to the EPA's new carbon standard on Thursday May 17th, 6 PM at Science Club. Join us for free food, drinks, and fun! For more information and to RSVP, please click on the link: http://www.ucsusa.org/global

[ECOLOG-L] PhD Assistantship - Wetland Ecology

The Wetland Lab at Indiana University-Bloomington, directed by Dr. Chris Craft, is seeking a highly motivated PhD student to evaluate the responses of coastal wetland biogeochemistry to climate change on the Georgia coast. Our current projects are focused on understanding the effects of sea level r

[ECOLOG-L] Job: Chief of Party for USAID Measuring Impact Project

CHIEF OF PARTY - Biodiversity and Forestry Conservation, USAID Measuring Impact Project Duration: Long-term Location: Washington, DC Integra Government Services International LLC (www.integrallc.com) is an international development firm dedicated to improving the lives of the poor by facilitatin

[ECOLOG-L] Call for abstracts and scholarship applications, deadline extended to May 15, 2012

Call for abstracts and scholarship applications, deadline extended to May 15, 2012 Conference on Public Participation in Scientific Research August 4th and 5th, 2012 in Portland, Or

[ECOLOG-L] MS wetland ecology

TEACHING AND GRADUATE RESEARCH (FRESHWATER RESTORATION ECOLOGY) OPPORTUNITY IN SOUTH TEXAS We are inviting applications for a graduate position (MSc) that includes 8-9 hours/week as assistant instructor in undergraduate biology laboratory classes, in addition to assist his/her faculty teachin

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Cemeteries as habitat

Hello Mark, I am second-generation Korean-American and I can ask family members for more accurate information, but yes, I think that is true about pieces of land being kept partially undeveloped for burial mounds of ancestors. Traditionally, family members -- usually direct descendents -- go back

[ECOLOG-L] AP BIOLOGY/LIFE SCIENCE teacher, Santa Cruz, ca

> AP BIOLOGY/LIFE SCIENCE > Pacific Collegiate School, a small, nationally recognized 7-12 grade charter > school in Santa Cruz with a college-preparatory focus, is looking to hire one > full-time teacher for four sections of AP Biology (taught primarily to 11th > and 12th grade students) and on

[ECOLOG-L] Environmental Internship Clearinghouse Portal

NCSE Launches New Environmental Internship Clearinghouse Portal http://environmentalinterns.ncseonline.org/ As an extension of the National Council for Science and the Environment's (NCSE's) Campus to Careers (C2C) program, NCSE has created an en

[ECOLOG-L] AIC MODEL SELECTION COURSES -- SUMMER 2012

I am planning to offer several 2-day courses on the Information-Theoretic approaches to statistical inference over the coming summer months. These courses focus on the practical application of these new methods and are based on Kullback-Leibler information and Akaike's information criterion (AI

[ECOLOG-L] CURRENT ZOOLOGY: Vol 58, Issue 3, with a special column about Sexual selection and Speciation

http://www.currentzoology.org/currentissue.asp Volume 58, Issue 3 Contents ( PDF[2618 KB] ) Analyses towards determining Madagascar’s place in global biogeography ( PDF[3161 KB] ) Şerban PROCHEŞ, Syd RAMDHANI Analyses towards determining Madagascar’s place in global biogeography:Supplem