I find it hard to imagine that golf courses are as good as cemeteries for
habitat since they are loaded with herbicides, fungicides, insecticides
and every other kind of -cide you can imagine. Any wildlife that lives
there must be loaded with toxic chemicals.
> I'm not an expert (but rather, some
I agree 100% !!
> With sincere respect to all of you in the fields of microbiology,
> genetics, and other laboratory-based disciplines of the life sciences, I
> contend the "Campbell Essential Biology" approach is exactly what is wrong
> with biology education today.
>
> Nearly all undergraduate
>There are a number of institutions of higher ed which have a biology
curriculum totally devoted to what goes on inside the cell membrane...
>
Theres been quite a bit of
> discussion
> over the past two decades regarding establishment of foundations and
> standards in the disciplinenot all of
The NJ shore has lots of beaches and marshes but is very short on rocks!
And rocks are found largely in man-made jetties. There is one on the
Belmar beach that I took my class to for many years as the best example I
could find of rocky habitat in the northern half of the state.
Maybe the kids would
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Subject: [AAASFellows] New program: Emerging Leaders in Science & Society
From:"Melanie Roberts"
Date:Sun, October 21, 2012 10:49 pm
To: aaasfell...@listserv.aaas.org
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In my experience, search committees also look for individuals who have
published while in graduate school. This usually requires motivation and
efforts by both the student and the advisor.
> I'm very sorry to see that a few folks have had bad experiences in grad
> school. Many of us had very ha
Let me echo that some of us academics are involved in working with
environmental groups, serving on advisory committees to EPA, NOAA, and
state environmental agencies etc.
I am spending this week in the DC area on an advisory committee to NOAA
Sea Grant. (It's better to be here than in NJ/NY.)
>
Hi all - I hope effects of Sandy did not do much damage to your homes and
labs.
This is a "shameless plug" for my new book that's coming out this month -
it's a natural history book about crabs.
Here's the link:
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100864250
Best,
Judy
And many many thanks to David for tending to this list for almost 20 years!
> A few days ago the number of ECOLOG-L subscribers reached 13,000. I
> started the list in 1992. It reached 6,000 in September 2006, 7,000
> in November 2007, 8,000 in October 2008, 9,000 in March 2009, 10,000
> in Apri
I would suggest that this famous evolutionary biologist is stuck back in
the Cretaceous period when it comes to attitudes.
Both women and men need to have a life besides science. Choices need to be
made in life, and sometimes family has to come before doing that other
experiment right away, or what
This article from the AWIS newsletter is pertinent to recent discussions
on this list.
Work-Life Balance and Success in a Scientific Career
Work-life balance in a rigorous academic career is slowly being adopted as
part of the scientific communitys lexicon, although some resist its
infiltration.
Another element is that now faculty earn a reasonable living wage, while
several decades ago they didn't.
> One element in the increase in college costs, not just research, is
> accountability. Congress has passed laws that had good objectives
> (protecting human subjects, protecting animals, ens
HOWEVER, ecologists may have a way do accomplish research at schools with
high teaching loads plus research expectations. You can do your research
in the summer. This is the best time for studying a lot of the systems
here in the states. My estuarine organisms, for example, are "sleeping"
all winte
What you are leaving out is the quality of the reviews. Just as with
papers, some reviews are of much higher quality than others.
Perhaps there should also be included in the index how many times the
editors had to send reminders to the reviewer - before all the on-line
journal review systems were
s: "There's lots of good fish in the sea" W.S. Gilbert
1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and
pollution.
2000's: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction
MAY help restore populations.
Dr. Judith S. Weis
Dept. of
I've been thinking of chiming in before and will do so now.
As someone who is now a grandmother, I can say yes - you can do it all,
but not exactly all at the same time. Kids do not stay babies that long.
You can cut back when they are, and when your kids are a bit older, you
can plunge back into f
At the risk of "tooting my own horn" a book I co-authored with Carol
Butler, Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History, (Rutgers University
Press 2009) could be a good introduction to the subject. We do focus on
Atlantic coast marshes, have chapters on various ways in which humans have
altered
Some non-indigenous species don't cause problems in their new environment
- but they are not called "invasive." This term is for those that "cause
trouble" one way or another.
A couple of months ago we were snorkeling in the Turks and Caicos islands,
which are less developed than many other places,
I published an article last year on the role of behavior in the success of
invasive crustaceans.
> Dear Ecologgers:
>
> I would like to prepare a lecture for students on the behaviour of
> invasive species
> As a behavioural biologist I'am convinced that behavioural traits of
> individuals/popu
This whole report and the skunk apes (which I never heard of before) could
inspire another hilarious book from Carl Hiaassen.
> An Unstoppable Anaconda Invasion in Florida? What Slate Got Wrong.
> Photo By Dave Lonsdale, Wikimedia
> by Dr. David Steen from his Living Alongside Wildlife blog.
>
>
Since women generally live longer than men, what reason, aside from
discrimination, does China have for requiring them to retire 5 years
earlier?
> In China academics (at least ecologists) have a mandatory retirement
> age of 60 for men (can be extended to 65 if you're actively advising
> gradua
The existence of many good and rewarding jobs outside academia - in
federal agencies (EPA, NOAA, FWS, USGS, FDA etc.) as well as in state
agencies, the private sector (e.g. consulting firms) and non-profits
(environmental groups) or for those who love teaching, teaching in K-12
seems to be ignored
Here's an article about Tyrone Hayes, an environmental biologist at
Berkeley (who is probably not a member of ESA) who has had considerably
worse treatment from industry people who don't like his findings. Scary
...
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv
> A nice arti
Absolutely right! But how do you give essays in a very large class?
Grading them is an enormous job. And that's not what TA's are paid for
(unless the university provides a "grader" which I've never come across)
J
> Use short answer and essay questions. It's more work, but students can't
> cheat a
I've never heard of pea crabs being consumed on purpose. It's usually when
you pop a mussel in your mouth, get a surprise, and go "pfah" and see the
little crab on your plate!
> At a dinner conversation with Carl Zimmer (author of Parasite Rex,
> etc.) the question came up of whether there are
Epigenetics!!
(not brand new, but much more beginning to be learned)
I'm planning to end my ecology/evolution courses this semester with a
> section on what we have learned as recently as this year, which might
> cause the course to be taught differently next year. Some examples
> I've thought
Also field trips/courses may be more expensive to run with transportation
of groups of students to field sites etc etc.
I don't think we should worry about the status thing. We all know that
what we do is the most fun, and students often rate the field trips as the
best part of the class.
> It's
If you're not tagging a huge number of fishes there are dyes that can be
injected subcutaneously in various colors, quantities, and places that
could be used to identify individuals.
> Hello,
>
> I need to tag small amphibious fishes (2-10 cm) for individual
> identification on a behavioural stud
On a slightly different topic about PNAS, I found the article very
interesting in this week's issue that showed that gender bias can be
lethal: people don't take hurricanes with female names as seriously as
those with male names, so don't take enough precautions and are more
likely to be killed or
Why should some ecologists look down their noses at other ecologists when
we already have the molecular biologists looking down their noses at all
of us?
> To adapt a well-known aphorism, ALL ECOLOGY IS LOCAL. That is, the outcome
> of all ecological interactions â and thus, the abundance of i
Yes, but
I have had a number of foreign students who could not write English very
well and I had to do a lot of re-writing on their dissertations - but the
research itself was excellent and we produced many publications. Just more
work on the major professor's part.
> I agree with this asse
For a change, this is not a job ad!!
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/life-sciences/animal-behaviour/biological-invasions-and-animal-behaviour?format=HB
That may be the case, David, but I can think of two factors that may alter
it:
1. more and more ecologists spending all their time indoors in front of a
computer screen rather than in nature
2. attitudes and pressures from dept. chairs/deans etc. who may value
molecular/cell biologists more highly
What a great story! Many thanks to the Atlantic, David, and Billy.
came across this today about billy barr and ecolog-l's david inouye.
>
> who would have guessed? not me...
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/billy-barr-climate-change/512198/
>
> thank you...
>
> mike nolan
They will probably not take EPA's climate information down, just change
it. Put in their alternative facts.
> Hi All,
>
> A group at the University of Pennsylvania is organizing data refuges:
> http://www.ppehlab.org/
>
> Additionally, although I cannot find the article now, due to backlash
> Tru
Not many departments named "Zoology" any more either. It appeared
antiquated a couple of decades before "Botany" did (for some reason).
> Hi Chris,
>
> Our Department at NC State University changed its name from Botany to
> Plant Biology (not Plant Science) a number of years ago. We did so
> prim
It was around 1990 that the American Society of Zoologists changed its
name to Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology. In addition to
sounding "trendier" it also allows for inclusion of some plant biology.
> This kind of ârebrandingâ has been happening for some time. In
> ornithology
Courses like that Ecology for citizens - including pollution,
sustainablility etc. have been around for decades for non-majors - called
environmental science or similar.
> I've been thinking for a long time now that we need an "Ecology for
> Citizens" type class in high school and for non-scienc
Too bad Ben Carson's medical school didn't re
> There are quite a few books out there entitled "Evolutionary Medicine" and
> variations on that theme. I used one of them in our senior seminar
> course. There is an incredible wealth of material that has been well
> researched in these books. Th
The adversarial relationship of these House members with the NSF is caused
by their adversarial relationship with science itself.
> There is an unfortunate adversarial relationship between some members
> of the House Science Comittee and the National Science Foundation,
> described in an article
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1880's: "There's lots of good fish in the sea" W.S. Gilbert
1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and
pollution.
2000's: Marine reser
How can this happen when the editors of the journal invite the reviewers?
That's the type of peer review I'm familiar with.
> I hope this hasn't been an issue in ecology.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/27/fabricated-peer-reviews-prompt-scientific-journal-to-retract-
1:51 AM, Judith S. Weis
>> wrote:
>>
>> How can this happen when the editors of the journal invite the
>> reviewers?
>> That's the type of peer review I'm familiar with.
>>
>>
>>> I hope this hasn't been an issue in ecology.
>
-to-r/radiation-oncology/a
quaculture-and-research>
Dear Dr. Judith S Weis,
Warm greetings from Jacobs Publishers
Quality research and its access are important to Scientific Community!
We, Jacobs Publishers are committed in association with the research
community and our mo
The system is falling apart - so many people decline to do reviews these
days (well, maybe for Science or Nature..) that editors have to keep
looking for more. And lots of the folks who decline to do reviews don't
recommend another potential reviewer.
I usually do a Google Scholar search and fin
http://oaspa.org/membership/members/>, I would
> check this list before submitting any manuscripts.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alexandre Chausson
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Judith S. Weis
> > wrote:
>
>> I frequently get messages like this from journals I
I haven't looked at it lately, but last I knew, the Bio Dept at Brandeis
was not interested in anything outside the cell membrane - which would
explain some of these policies. I would suggest transferring to a school
that appreciates ecology.
> Dear Matt,
>
> What a crazy biology department you
of specialization. I have always felt that
>> the
>> rigor of the (essentially pre-med) Biology major at Brandeis has been
>> extremely helpful beyond college despite that my interests lay outside
>> the
>> cellular level.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ben Fertig
>
Look into the Xerxes Society.
> Organizations that promote public awareness (education) about invertebrate
> animals?
>
> Hello Ecolog-Listers:
>
> In addition to the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums (
> https://www.aza.org/ and http://www.titag.org/ ,
> http://www.titag.org/ieccmain.h
It's really unfortunate that the first, longest and most detailed answer
to this student's questions was so very negative and discouraging. That is
not a typical experience and many of us are happy we followed our
interests.
> where should i click on the "like" buttom for this last answer?
>
> Ev
I was particularly impressed by the amount of work for the outside
"opposition" - much more than for any committee member here. Do they give
a generous honorarium?
O> That was a REALLY INTERESTING read.
>
> I think some aspects of the Swedish defense would scare the bajeezes out
> of
> doctoral c
e reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction
MAY help restore populations.
Dr. Judith S. Weis
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Rutgers University
Newark NJ 07102
Phone 973 353-5387 FAX 973 353-5518
http://runewarkbiology.rutgers.edu/weis%20lab/Home.html
It should be strongly recommended to all grad school applicants to learn
about their potential advisors ahead of time by talking to grad students
in that lab and in other labs. That way you can find out about the
person's attitudes towards grad students having a life, having a family
etc. and wheth
ployees. To qualify for exemption, employees generally must meet
>> certain tests regarding their job duties and be paid on a salary basis
>> at not less than $455 per week.
>>
>> At 06:10 PM 2/14/2013, Aaron T. Dossey wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't a requirement
I remember getting advice back in the '70s and '80s that it would be a
good idea to publish using only your initials, thus preventing bias. There
had been a couple of studies in which the identical manuscript was
submitted with a female name or with initials, and guess which one got
more favorable
Today's paper has an op-ed relevant to the recent discussions here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/opinion/natures-case-for-same-sex-marriage.html?ref=global&_r=0
There's also a fish-sci list for ichthyophiles, and a crust-l list for
crustophiles.
Here is what I learned from member replies (thanks!), and from some other
> digging regarding listservs like ECOLOG. Specifically, I was seeking open
> interactive discussion lists (like ECOLOG), that allow an
Original Message
Subject: [Fwd: Join the Impact Factor Insurrection; Sign DORA]
From:"Edward M. Bonder"
Date:Tue, May 21, 2013 4:20 pm
To: nabon...@andromeda.rutgers.edu
aj...@andromeda.rutgers.edu
annc...@and
Ecolog-l is not meant to be a jobs board, though it functions well as one,
for both jobs and course announcements. But it's supposed to be more than
that, and now and then some very interesting conversations arise, the most
recent being an intense discussion about a month ago about the importance
o
Is this true??
"Given the situation with wifi at ESA 2013 (as in, there isn't any except
in the lobby),"
This is unheard of. How in the world did they let this happen How did
they choose a meeting site without wifi available all over?
> Hello Ecologists!
>
> If you're attending ESA, you may
My fourth book, and first technical one, has just been published, even
though the official date is 2014!
http://www.springer.com/environment/environmental+toxicology/book/978-94-007-6948-9
Respectable journals won't publish applied material??? I can't let that
pass unanswered. There are numerous respectable journals that focus on
applied areas such as pollution, aquaculture, agriculture, silviculture,
invasion biology, environmental management and so forth. Even ESA has a
journal in
I trust (hope) that your paper on insects will not result in the vicious
attacks that Tyrone Hayes of Berkeley has been subjected to by the
manufacturers of atrazine because of his findings on amphibians.
> If any of you are interested in sexual selection, endocrinally active
> chemicals, or ins
Feeling like an old-fashioned old fogey a couple of years ago, I put one
of my courses onto powerpoint, and I agree with you 100%!!
> Perhaps this is well tread ground, but I think there is an important
> element missing in the recent discussion regarding effective teaching
> styles, particular w
the lousy job market has caused lots of PhDs to apply for jobs that would
otherwise gone to folks with a Masters.
> So having job-hunted for the past 6 months with an MS in Fisheries
> Biology, I have to agree with David that most of the interesting agency
> jobs are GS-11 and require a PhD. I,
And aside from the direct toxicity that the dispersants may have, they
make the hydrocarbons in the oil more available to the marine organisms in
the offshore water that were previously not exposed to much, since most of
the hydrocarbons were concentrated above them at the surface.
> In
> Ecoton
For Phragmites, there was an assumption that it was evil and lots of money
spent on removal projects long before we had studied its impacts on marsh
ecology, which are not all negative.
> I don't know that subjectivity is necessarily a bad thing (of course, that
> is a subjective judgement!), as
I think there are still a number of programs out there where students can
graduate without any courses dealing with what goes on outside the cell
membrane.
> I gave a somewhat jocular response to this question a day or so ago, but
> my point was that we have a lot of diversity, and probably want
Original Message
Subject: Announcing the President's National Ocean Policy
From:"NOAA Office of Communications and External Affairs"
Date:Mon, July 19, 2010 6:06 pm
To: jw...@andromeda.rutgers.edu
--
This article is spot on. It is way too premature for anyone to make
pronouncements about the effects of this oil. The overall effects and time
needed for the environment there to clean itself up will not be known for
a very long time - if ever, since so much of the dispersed oil is below
the surfac
Just because fish can metabolize oil doesn't mean that it doesn't have
toxic effects on them. Oil and its breakdown products, while they are
still around, can still have negative effects. But it does mean that fish
won't store it in their body over a long period of time (like DDT or PCBs
or mercury
"Maybe taxonomists should stick to labeling species with objective rigor
instead of labeling other scientists with snobby scorn."
Maybe this is really just a defensive attitude since for so many years
they were looked down on by other branches of biology - including
ecologists - as being just "sta
But why would this affect just red-winged blackbirds and not other birds?
> Dear ECOLOG-L Members,
>
> I have an ornithologist friend who works for the Dept. of the Environment
> in
> D.C., and in a recent correspondence I asked for his opinion on the mass
> bird kills in the news. Here is his re
Original Message
Subject: MFCN Seeking New Executive Director
From:"Bruce Stedman"
Date:Wed, January 12, 2011 11:59 am
To: "Board of Directors"
boardofadvis...@conservefish.org
FISH SLEEP?
Fascinating Answers to Questions about Fishes
Judith S. Weis
Fish, fish, and more fishfrom minnows to sharks, mountain streams to ocean
bottoms, and teeth to tail fins, if it's a fish question, it's answered
here.
John Waldman, author of Heartbeats in the Muck: The H
Most plants put and store most of the metals in their roots. But the
percentage varies and you would have to look it up for particular species
and a particular metal. So plants where roots are eaten would not be
advised, but usually there would be much less in the stems, leaves or
fruits.
> I am
I wouldn't care at all which degree they had. I would care about what they
knew and what they could do.
> Hello Ecologgers!
>
> I'm wrapping up my fourth-year in environmental sciences at UC Davis and
> have been looking at graduate schools. I notice that different schools
> will
> offer either a
Recognizing this problem (which is not just marine-related!) Paul Ehrlich
and others started the Millenium Assessment of Human Behavior - MAHB - a
few years ago. Here's the website:
http://mahbsustainability.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/paul-ehrlichs-invitation/
> Operating from sampling platforms
It's not just flooding wildlife habitat, it's totally changing the aquatic
habitat and blocking the migration of salmon, eels, etc. Dams are a major
factor in the dramatic declines of migratory fishes.
> Certain water planning regions in Texas have proposed new dams/reservoirs
> and I'm just won
IMHO, they are attacking a "straw man." I haven't seen many scientists,
managers, policy-makers etc. getting all worked up about non-indigenous
species who integrate well into the environment, get a green card, pay
their taxes etc. The ones that are being attacked and for which they are
spending lo
ta of the
> various localities will remain unchanged. International trade,
> globailzation, and like activities are conducive to such introductions and
> it would be through such new thinking that the issue would receive a fresh
> understanding.
>
> Esat Atikkan
>
>
http://www.truth-out.org/pesticides-and-politics-americas-eco-war/1307539754
There was a widely cited article some years back by Pimentel et al. that
estimated economic impacts, but it turns out that it included the costs of
controlling/removing the invasive species, which does not seem appropriate
to me.
> Since there seems to be some confusion as to what
> invasion bio
Venus fly traps would definitely appeal to middle school kids.
> I nominate:
> 1. Trigger plants (Stylidiaceae - Australia). They slap pollinators
> with their reproductive parts to effect pollination.
> 2. Resurrection plant (Selaginella)- desert species and eastern
> epiphytes. Yes, they lo
Around Indonesia (no surprise!) there is more appreciation for Wallace
than around here. More of us should learn about him and read his books.
> I strongly second this opinion. As someone who recently read "The
> Malay Archipelago" and is now making herself read "Origins" as kind
> of a bicenten
What Dave says is true, but since there is this prejudice, Jay would do
better getting a Ph.D. and avoiding the issue.
> It seems the prejudice against the EdD, like most prejudices, is based
> on little evidence. Unfortunately, such prejudice is fairly common in
> the supposedly rational confin
Attention NJ-ites - contact Senator Menendez.
OSTP, NOAA Confirmations Delayed. The Washington Post reported last week
that the confirmations of John Holdren to be Director of the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy and of Jane Lubchenco to be
Administrator of the National Oceanic
At last!
Lubchenco Clears Senate Committee
On March 12, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
unanimously voted for Oregon State University marine biologist Jane
Lubchenco to
lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The
Committee also
unanimously v
o>
1880's: "There's lots of good fish in the sea" W.S. Gilbert
1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and
pollution.
2000's: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction
MAY help restore populations.
Dr. J
Martin Meiss said:
This should be more than an exercise in rhetoric; we need
formulations that in simple terms expose the fundamentals of the process,
acknowledge its weaknesses, and distinguish it from phony imitators.
I sure don't have the answers, but I think that we as a community
cou
It's probably a more responsible thing for the reviewers to do than to say
they will do the review and then not get around to it for 5 or 6 months,
as has happened to me several times. When I was editing a journal, there
were certain people who I stopped asking for reviews because I knew from
their
Remember the old song about the old lady that swallowed a fly?
> Ecolog:
>
> Any comments?
>
> WT
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Wayne Tyson"
> To:
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:41 PM
> Subject: Biological control of invasive species by import of alien species
> Re: [APWG] NEWS
There's a lot more money to be made in this sort of biomedical and
clinical research, of course, than there is in ecology and evolution.
I recently read that the famous other "fake" - the midwife toad, may not
have been a fake after all, but don't remember the details at the moment.
> Why, do we
>For a bit of whacky humor and an environmental message (especially about
development in Florida), you could include some of Carl Hiaassen's books.
"Tourist Season" and "Skinny Dip" come to mind but there are others.>
Was he complaining about this study as being an "earmark" ? I don't
remember that particular complaint and of course support more funding for
ecological research, but I don't think we should be supporting earmarks
for ecological studies or for anything else!
> Dear Ecologgers-
> I was very disapp
There is an organization called Blue Ventures, run out of England, that
has a program utilizing mostly volunteers in studying/monitoring reefs in
a remote area in western Madagascar. This would be an example of "research
tourism." They are very involved with the local community and have worked
with
One would hope that primate watchers (or watchers of anything else) would
become a bit more interested in the behaviors, life history etc. of the
creatures they watch than many birders who couldn't care less about the
biology of the birds they see, but just want to check them off their list.
Does a
The Cane Toads film also has a fair amount of humor, something generally
lacking in such documentaries. And, strange for a documentary, it has an
_actor_ who plays a now-retired colleague of mine, Dan Wilhoft, who
studied the cane toads in Australia! I never could figure that one out.
Judy Weis
However, additional children in the US have a much larger "footprint" than
additional children in less developed countries. The combination of
population size x per capita resource use/pollution production should be
the measure of environmental stress.
I have not previously weighed in on the gener
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