[ECOLOG-L] Job Ad - Seasonal Seed Collector Region 9 USFS

2014-04-23 Thread Pati Vitt
Region 9 United States Forest Service Seasonal Seed Collector Purpose: To collect and bank, or store, native seed from plant species on Region 9’s Forester Sensitive Species’ (RFSS) List. Seed collected from native plant populations on Region 9 United States Forest Service Land will contribute

Re: [ECOLOG-L] [Direct] [ECOLOG-L] Restoration Ecology Environmental Horticulture Graduate Programs?

2014-08-01 Thread Pati Vitt
You might look into the joint Plant Biology and Conservation program at Northwestern and the Chicago Botanic Garden. Given the faculty and horticultural staff, you could create a program, and much our restoration focus is on the tall grass prairie. Pati On Jul 31, 2014, at 7:35 PM, Anderson,

Re: [ECOLOG-L] GPS Units with Sub-meter Accuracy

2015-05-13 Thread Pati Vitt
I use the Trimble GeoExplorer 6000 series, as well as previous models, and am very happy with it's performance. With the addition of GLONASS, acquiring high accuracy positional data is fast and seamless. I use TerraSync to download data into shapefiles. Setting up data dictionaries takes a bit

Re: [ECOLOG-L] How to measure plant leaf responses to microbial variation?

2015-08-21 Thread Pati Vitt
Photosynthetic rate and local leaf nutrient status... From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] on behalf of Geoff Zahn [geoff.g...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 6:47 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject:

Re: [ECOLOG-L] advice for label maker for field and lab applications

2015-07-22 Thread Pati Vitt
Just one caveat: these labels won't hold up well in any wet applications. I used them to label plastic bags for emptying bee bowls, and if they got wet during transfer, the ink on the labels ran. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 22, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Syndonia Bret-Harte

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Seed counter

2015-09-18 Thread Pati Vitt
correctly. Pati Pati Vitt, PhD Curator, Dixon National Tallgrass Prairie Seed Bank Chicago Botanic Garden Sent from my iPhone On Sep 18, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Houseman, Gregory <greg.house...@wichita.edu<mailto:greg.house...@wichita.edu>> wrote: Does anyone know of a commercial s

Re: [ECOLOG-L] cycles in plant populations?

2017-02-05 Thread Pati Vitt
Perhaps the best example is masting in trees. Pati Vitt > On Feb 4, 2017, at 6:57 PM, David Inouye <ino...@umd.edu> wrote: > > The classic examples of populations that cycle, including predator-prey > interactions, and some host-parasite interactions, a

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Recommendation for seed counter

2017-03-24 Thread Pati Vitt
We use the Seedburo 801 Count-a-pak and find it to be very reliable for a variety of seeds. Pati Vitt, Curator Dixon National Tallgrass Prairie Seed Bank Chicago Botanic Garden Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2017, at 12:28 PM, Susana Wadgymar <swadgy...@gmail.com> wrote: >

[ECOLOG-L] Job Opening at the Chicago Botanic Garden - Manager, Plants of Concern & Regional Native Plant Conservation Specialist

2018-01-23 Thread Pati Vitt
jobs/manager_plants_concern_regional_native_plant_conservation_specialist Pati Vitt

[ECOLOG-L] Plant Conservation Internships at the Chicago Botanic Garden

2018-03-08 Thread Pati Vitt
on how to apply for both positions may be found at: http://bit.ly/ApplyPlantConservationJobs Thank you, Pati Vitt, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Susan and Roger Stone Curator Dixon National Tallgrass Prairie Seedbank Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Road Glencoe, IL 60022 847-835-8268 https

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Volunteering in the Sciences Question

2018-09-20 Thread Pati Vitt
) for fieldwork, or if they know that you might be a returning team member...so they only have to train you once. Obviously, opportunities may be limited where you live. Pati Vitt > On Sep 20, 2018, at 5:48 PM, Angela Trenkle wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have a background in the sci