important a task to outsource. So I am asking the ECOLOG
community: do you think there would be a demand for this service,or should I
turn my thinking elsewhere?
Thank you.
Jason Hernandez
high paying countries, while residing in a low cost-of-living country. The
suggestion that I should conduct a marketing survey using one of those online
survey engines was a useful one, and that is my next step.
Thank you to all who replied.
Jason Hernandez
nical reports on the botany of either of these
islands?Jason Hernandez
yone. I am interested in the stories of
young people who succeeded in pursuing this dream sustainably. How did you make
it happen?
Jason Hernandez
Malcolm McCallum's reply was certainly thorough. But in response to his initial
question, what do you mean by success, I should clarify. In my OP, I referred
to unpaid, or even pay-to-play internships and positions in the tropics. What I
meant by success, in that context, was: moving on from unp
From: Jason Hernandez
To: "Ecological
From: Jason Hernandez
To: "Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news"
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: Invasive Truffles
Alas, it seems we cannot seriously discuss any issue here without getting into
arguments ab
-explored bioregion, I
have it from Jerry Toth himself that he would be interested in hosting such an
expedition. Recently, a herpetologist discovered two new species of frogs there.
Jason Hernandez
Returned 3M Intern
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Date: Mon, 16
truggle to formulate any workable
hypotheses. Has anyone else worked with any similar phenomena?
Jason Hernandez
roposition that humans are irrevocably an evolutionary force, and develop an
ethics for our influence on evolution? The answers to these questions are not
really scientific ones.
Jason Hernandez
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:59:47 -0700
From: Beyhan Titiz
Government has preferential policies
toward hiring applicants who have already worked for them.
Jason Hernandez
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:08:21 -0500
From: Ryan Metz
Subject: Best way to jump start a career in ecology
After graduating in 2009 I have
stream of
decomposing trees. Net growth would have to exceed net decomposition. In
other words, the only long-term way to counteract ever-increasing CO2
emissions, is to have ever-increasing acreage of forest.
Jason Hernandez
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:5
was largely a distant
problem I read about in textbooks and magazines. I would say that this sort of
program can be valuable, IF the content is well-planned to address the concerns
Jones brought up. Her call for an "independent and quantitative evaluation" is
well taken, as it would se
eople. Of course each slice will
be smaller. That does not mean there is now less pizza. I believe most of the
so-called "droughts," as indicated by drawing down of reserviors and soforth,
are actually more of this nature.
Jason Hernandez
Date:
I was wondering about scientists, raised and educated in the Western developed
world, who establish their reputation and become based in the developing
world. Examples would be Birute Galdikas among the Orangutans, or, better yet,
Daniel Janzen and his work with the biodiversity of Costa Rica.
One thing was not clear: were the cats eradicated before, after, or
concurrently with the rabbits? Because if there are eradication efforts
against rodents and rabbits, the presence or absence of cats could be a factor
in the likelihood of success.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:18:55 -1000
Fro
researchers away from those parts of
the world.
Jason Hernandez
M.S., East Carolina University
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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:40:15 -0500
From: Steven Schwartz
Subject: Re: Recent PhDs on Food Stamps - Overwhelmed with Replies
I=92ll add my two cents. The scarcity
course there is no natural
log of zero. Is there a way to adjust the analysis to included these zero
values? i have not managed to find anything on this.
Jason Hernandez
two brief references to
herbivory. This, for a common, widespread plant that has been well-studied by
phytochemists interested in its secondary metabolites.
Jason Hernandez
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:56:51 -0400
From: =?windows-1252?Q?Natalie_Scott?=
Subject: Plant Ecology Websites for
Dear ecologgers:
I have been working my way through _R for Dummies_, by Andrie de Vries and
Joris Meys. My question is, of all the books out there on R coding, which is
the best one for the next level after R for Dummies, from an ecologist's
perspective?
Jason Hernandez
,N., Saveliev, A. A.,
and Smith, G. M., 2009. "Mixed effects models andextensions in ecology with R,"
especially for mixed effects models including time series, glms, and analysis
of overdispersed and zero inflated data.
Now I just need to decide which one to go with. No way can I afford all the
books, so it looks like I'll be starting with the online resources.
Jason Hernandez
think that any solution to that problem will be more
economic than scientific. Still, I acknowledge the good in having the shade
grown option for those of us privileged to choose it; that is better than it
not existing at all.
Jason Hernandez
Tropical Permaculturist
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016
, then for less money than buying my own
scope would be? Thank you.
Jason Hernandez
This is more a geology question than ecology, but: Can anyone direct me to
sources that examine whether any of the Puget Sound Islands have been connected
to the mainland since last glaciation? This is relevant to an ecological
question I am investigating.
Jason Hernandez
direct me to keys for
the following taxa:
Typhlocybine leafhoppers,Aphids,
Woolly aphids,
Phylloxerids,Drospohilid flies,
Chrysomelid beetles.
These specimens were collected in the Puget Sound basin of Washington, but
broader regional keys should be useful, too. Can anyone help?
Jason
As Midway is part of the same archipelago that includes Hawaii, it is included
in _A Field Guide to Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific_ by H. Douglas
Pratt. It covers seabirds and landbirds of the entire Pacific.
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:05:53 -0400From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Wieteke_Ho
into
the job market, and spend a period of time working on other people's projects.
None of us will ever go straight from grad student to PI. It will be to your
advantage to be willing and able to devote your time and efforts to a project
you did not develop, and turn out quality work un
With graduation season fast approaching, or, for some institutions, already
past, it is time to bring attention to an issue about which I feel as
passionately as this author: https://aurielfournier.github.io/unpaid-intern/
Jason HernandezM.S. East Carolina 2010
But Abad, the point was about the people who *are* sufficiently privileged to
take those kinds of positions, and that historically, those people were mainly
white and male. I didn't see those comments as gratuitous at all. That is what
that system gave us.
Jason Hernandez
Date: Tue,
statistical tests? The sample size is (by design) the same in both treatments.
Thanks.
Jason Hernandez
ering, how often are
there actually openings for applicants who already have Master's degrees and
are not currently students? I am trying to figure out my strategy for life
after grad school, and this kind of information will help me to find the best
approach.
Jason Hernandez
East Carolina University
Now there's an interesting thought. A number of years ago, I did some
English-as-a-foreign-language teaching in Taiwan. On the other hand, having
done a lot of moving around from seasonal job to seasonal job, I have finally
found an area where I feel I could put down roots. There are only jus
h one running along the
Continental Divide. I recall at least one trail goung down the Caribbean slope
and fading out; but since that was 'way back in 1996, it may have been extended
by now. Altogether an excellent research site -- without the tourists who come
through the Reserve.
Jason
problem and explain in detail how
we would design it, collect and statistically analyze the data. If Professor
Chalcraft is reading this, I am sure he can elaborate further; his course was
well-designed and well-taught from the standpoint of equipping students to use
statistics.
Jason
cept in the
case of continental islands formerly connected to the mainland.
Jason Hernandez
East Carolina University
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But that question is easy to answer. If humans put the species in a
place or it arrived in a place that it woul
t extent be considred to originate with "gods" revealing themselves
to our ancestors. None of this requires that we see such "gods" as personal
beings; but of course, subjectively, non-scientific humans have tended to do so.
Jason Hernandez
M.S., East Carolina University
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priority effects as they relate to larval amphibians.
Jason Hernandez
East Carolina University Alumnus
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Subject: Ec
conservation, how worthwhile is it to save
that species with gardening? Can we determine when a species' only hope is
gardening?
Jason Hernandez
Biological Science Technician, USDA Forest Service
er
respondents. I posed the question mostly as food for thought, which it
certainly seems to have been.
Jason Hernandez
Biological Science Technician, USDA Forest Service
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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:52:57 -0800
From: Wayne T
hould I be looking at now to
maximize my chance of being employed come this fall and next winter?
Jason Hernandez
Biological Science Technician, USDA Forest Service
nal policy concepts as NEPA, CWA,
CAA, and were required to attend a legislative committee meeting on some
environment-related bill. I do think it is important both for scientists to
understand how policy works, and for policymakers to understand the role of
science.
Jason Hernandez
Biologic
ure out what implications that has for the
rest of my life.
Jason Hernandez
Biological Science Technician, USFS
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From
guidebooks
nearly useless.
Given that the Peterson series never published a wildflower guide to the
Southeastern US, are there any guidebooks to this region which follow a similar
format, and would thus be useful to me?
Jason Hernandez
this definition more political than scientific.
Jason Hernandez
Ecolog:
Some may find it informative or ill-informative to follow the bouncing =
links on this site (they come up as pdf files).=20
I am particularly interested in all ecologists' views of the definition =
of "invasive speci
des cover every part of the contiguous 48
states except the Southeast, I wonder if it is worthwhile contacting the folks
at Houghton-Mifflin about this?
Jason Hernandez
The problem is that "people" (meaning laypersons from the point of view of the
particular scientific discipline) do not actually read *scientific* literature
on it. How often have we seen -- in books about horticulture, landscape
architecture, and so on -- that willows should not be planted nea
Re: the question: "Is the fact that a "huge percentage of our population don't
understand (or at least can't articulate) the basic mechanisms of evolution"
their fault or the fault of the scientific establishment?" I would say
neither. As was pointed out earlier in the thread, in the U.S., over
If you do not mind swinging a bit south of Seattle, to the South Puget Sound
region, there are "Puget Prairies," i.e. glacial outwash plains formed at the
end of the last glaciation. Historic burning by Native American peoples
allowed them to retain their distinctive prairie flora in a region t
such thing as a probability >1. I cannot figure out where I went wrong.
Jason Hernandez
I have been trying to find Schaus' original 1920 description of the Crambid
moth, Herpetogramma antillalis. I have not had success with Google Scholar;
narrowing my search to that author and a nearby range of dates brings up a
number of his moth papers, but not the one containing that descriptio
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