We are looking for an ecology graduate student or post-doc who would be interested in helping us with background research for a new interactive chapter on Biogeography and Conservation. This chapter will become part of the SimUText Ecology series of interactive chapters (an alternative to a standard ecology textbook that is starting to get wide usage).
We are especially interested in someone familiar with data sets on large-scale biodiversity, such as species richness across temperature, PET, latitude, etc.. These data will become parts of some interactive data manipulation exercises to be included in the chapter. We will also want you to find a few interesting case studies on various topics in biogeography and write one page summaries to be included in the chapter. We are offering $25 / hour for this work, as well a line in the chapter credits, and feedback on your writing vis-a-vis an undergraduate audience. It should also be fun. We expect 15 - 30 hours of work, to happen in May. Please have a good command of writing in english and access to a good research library. If interested, please email e...@simbio.com asap, including a sentence on your research background. Thanks.
