[ECOLOG-L] Mozilla Fellows For Science- apply now!!

[Christie Bahlai]

The call is currently out for applications for the Mozilla Fellows for
Science. As a current fellow with MSL , I know this will be of interest to
many early-career ecologists- particularly those interested in data
science, reproducibility, quantitative methods, and using technology for
good. It’s an extremely well-funded fellowship ($60,000 USD per academic
year, plus provisions for travel, equipment, health and child care). I’m
happy to field any questions that  you might have. Details below.



Best,

-Christie Bahlai

--

Hi All,



The Mozilla Science Lab launched its second annual Mozilla Fellowship for
Science  call for
applications, and we’d love to share this with the LTER network!!



Our fellowships are designed to promote open access/source/science in
research programs globally, funding a few qualified individuals for 10
months of research in their local institutions and life/natural/physical
science departments.



Read on for:

   - Details in our overview and FAQ page
   
   - Testimonials from our current
    fellows
    on our blog
   
   - Application requirements
   
   on our CFP



We welcome all interested applicants to apply *before our July 15th
deadline*: https://science.mozilla.org/programs/fellowships.



Please share with your networks until then!



Best,

The Mozilla Science Lab Team



--

Christine (Christie) Bahlai Ph.D.

Mozilla Fellow for Science

Research Associate

Michigan State University

Research: https://sites.google.com/site/cbahlai/

Blog: http://practicaldatamanagement.wordpress.com/

[ECOLOG-L] Final Announcement: NACCB offsite registration closes Fri., June 30

[Jamie Hogberg]

Last call for offsite registration to NACCB 2016: "Communicating Science for 
Conservation Action” July 17-20, Madison, WI -  See you there!

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June 27, 2016

NACCB 2016: Offsite registration closes Friday, June 30th!

Dear Members and NACCB Attendees -

This is our last call to register for NACCB 2016! Conference Registration will 
remain open until June 30th, so be sure to register if you have not already. 
Follow this 
link
 to register for the conference! Onsite registration opens Sunday July 17th, 
8:00am at Monona Terrace.

Deadlines & Announcements:

  *   NACCB registrants, look for an email to download our conference app 
(early July), and to upload your presentation in advance of the congress!

  *   Vote on SCB North America Section Bylaws Changes! The bylaws of the SCB 
North America Section have been updated and approved by the SCBNA Board of 
Directors in March. In order for these changes to take effect, they must be 
voted on by the membership. To do so, please visit the SCB 
website
 and log in to your member homepage. In the blue box on top of the page you 
will see a link to the voting page. The voting page will have more information 
of the proposed changes and rationale. Please cast your vote before 1 August 
2016.


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are welcome! We’ve had animal finger puppets from Bolivia, an Aussie cowboy 
hat, botanical illustrations, organic wine, amazing nature photography and 
artwork, books, t-shirts and even experiential items like personalized 
eco-tours. There will be a designated area at NACCB where you can drop off your 
item. The Silent Auction will take place at the NACCB Closing Ceremony.

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[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Assistantship in Forest Nutrient Cycling

[Forest Ecology]

Ruth Yanai is seeking new graduate students (MS or PhD) to participate in a 
large collaborative project investigating above and belowground carbon 
allocation, nutrient cycling, and tradeoffs involved in multiple resource 
allocation. The Multiple Element Limitation in Northern Hardwood Ecosystems 
(MELNHE) project has field sites located at Hubbard Brook, Jeffers Brook, 
and Bartlett Experimental Forests in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. 
Since 2011, thirteen stands have been receiving N, P, N, and control 
treatments in 0.25-ha plots, with six stands receiving Ca treatments. 
Research in the MELNHE project includes soil respiration, soil 
mineralization, beech bark disease, leaf production by species,  foliar 
nutrient resorption, water use, mycorrhizae, forest productivity (among 
species and stand age classes), and snail and arthropod diversity.  More 
information on the project can be found at http://www.esf.edu/melnhe.
 
We welcome inquiries from prospective students interested in forest ecology, 
nutrient cycling, and uncertainty analysis. Applicants should be self-
motivated, excited to work as part of a multi-investigator project, have 
laboratory and field experience, and be comfortable living and working in a 
group setting. A field crew blog from previous years is available at 
http://shoestringproject.wordpress.com/.
 
Ideally, students will be able to start in July 2016, to become familiar 
with the field sites and our research activities before starting classes in 
late August.  Come help take sap flow measurements!
 
Funding will consist of a combination of research and teaching 
assistantships. A stipend, full tuition waiver, health insurance, and a 
summer position with the field crew in New Hampshire will be provided. 
Prospective students may apply to the Department of Forest and Natural 
Resources Management or the Graduate Program in Environmental Science, both 
at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY.
 
We appreciate communicating with students as part of the application 
process. Students are encouraged to review MELNHE related data and 
publications and supply their own ideas for research in relation to the 
project. Prospective students should begin that conversation by requesting 
the password for Ruth's project materials from Mary Hagemann at 
forestecol...@esf.edu
 
Thank you,
Mary Hagemann/Research Support Specialist

[ECOLOG-L] 'STATS COURSE - Landscape (population) genetic data analysis uding R

[Oliver Hooker]

"Landscape (population) genetic data analysis using R”

Delivered by Dr. Rodney Dyer

http://prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-phylogenetic-analysis-with-r-
phyg/ 

This course will run from 18th – 22nd October 2016 at SCENE Field Station, 
Loch Lomond, Glasgow, Scotland

The term ‘landscape genetics’ has been applied studies that integrate 
ecological context and intervening landscape into population genetic 
analyses of contemporary processes such as gene flow and migration.  This 
course will cover the basics of both quantitative landscape ecology and 
population genetics, focusing on how we develop and evaluate 
spatial/genetic analyses using the R platform

Course content is as follows

Day 1
•   Spatial & Ecological Data
•   Installation & configuring R & RStudio
•   Acquiring spatial data, projections, and visualization
•   Vector and raster data

Day 2
•   Genetic markers and basic analyses
•   Genetic markers and sampling
•   Genetic distance, diversity, and structure
•   Ordination techniques based upon genetic markers

Day 3
•   Integrating spatial and genetic data
•   Barrier detection & population division
•   Resistance Modeling
•   Mantel and distance regressions
•   Remote sensing - LiDAR and Hyperspectral data 

Day 4
•   Integrating spatial and genetic data
•   Spatial autocorrelation
•   Network Approaches
•   PCMN & Redundancy

Day 5
•   Adaptive Genetic Variance
•   Outliers & gradients
•   Quantitative genetics, why we should care.
•   Chromosome walking

Please email any inquiries to oliverhoo...@prstatistics.com or visit our 
website www.prstatistics.com

Please feel free to distribute this material anywhere you feel is suitable

Upcoming courses - email for details oliverhoo...@prstatistics.com
1.  ADVANCES IN SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE ECOLOGICAL DATA (July)
2.  INTRODUCTION TO BIOINFORMATICS USING LINUX (August)
3.  GENETIC DATA ANALYSIS / EXPLORATION USING R (August)
4.  INTRODUCTION TO BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELLING (August)
5.  INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON FOR BIOLOGISTS (October)
6.  APPLIED BAYESIAN MODELLING FOR ECOLOGISTS AND EPIDEMIOLOGISTS 
(October)
7.  PHYLOGENETIC DATA ANALYSIS USING R (October/November)
8.  SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGIC AL DATA USING R (November)
9.  ADVANCING IN STATISTICAL MODELLING USING R (December) 
10. MODEL BASED MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL DATA USING R 
(January)
11. ADVANCED PYTHON FOR BIOLOGISTS (February)
12. NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR ECOLOGISTS USING R (March)
13. INTRODUCTION TO GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS USING R (June)

Dates still to be confirmed - email for details 
oliverhoo...@prstatistics.com
•   STABLE ISOTOPE MIXING MODELS USING SIAR, SIBER AND MIXSIAR USING R
•   INTRODUCTION TO R AND STATISTICS FOR BIOLOGISTS
•   BIOINFORMATICS FOR GENETICISTS AND BIOLOGISTS

Oliver Hooker
www.prstatistics.com

[ECOLOG-L] 11th North American Forest Ecology Workshop (NAFEW), June 19 - 22, 2017, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Call for Special Session Proposals

[Anne McIntosh]

Please direct inquiries to nafe...@ualberta.ca

.



*Call for Special Session Proposals*



*11th North American Forest Ecology Workshop (NAFEW)Edmonton, Alberta,
CanadaJune 19 – 22, 2017*

*Proposal Deadline: Thursday, September 30, 2016 5:00 PM MDT*

*Proposals that are incomplete or received after the deadline will not be
considered.*



*About Special Sessions*

We invite proposals for Special Sessions for the 11th NAFEW in 2017. These
sessions are distinguished from other organized sessions in that they are
more explicitly integrated, provide an overall synthesis on a specific
topic, and have broad enough appeal to generate large audiences at the
meeting.



Proposals are encouraged to address the meeting theme, “Sustaining Forests:
>From Restoration to Conservation”. Any timely and coherent subject of broad
interest to forest ecology will be considered. We also welcome proposals
that explore interdisciplinary connections of forest sustainability in a
social or economic context.



At the conference we have space for approximately 6 Special Sessions, each
running for 2 hours. The organization of the special session should include
from 3-6 talks, each talk should be in increments of 15 minutes (e.g., 3
talks each 30 minutes in length, or 6 talks each 15 minutes in length). All
special sessions must include a 30 minute general discussion period to end
the special session.



*All proposals must include:*

Title of Special Session

Principal organizer (Name, institution, email) - this person is the point
of contact for the session and responsible for communicating with speakers
and ensuring that individual abstracts are being submitted by the deadline

Co-organizers (Names, institutions, emails)

Moderator (Name, institution, email)

Speakers (Names, affiliations, emails, and tentative talk titles) - only
speakers who have been contacted and have committed to the session should
be listed

Special session description (< 500 words):

It should focus on the theme of the special session and include a session
justification. It may include background information, goals, objectives,
importance, and potential interest to the main theme of NAFEW 2017.

One sentence session summary (<50 words): This is a very short version of
the session description that will appear in the print program.



*Review Criteria*

All proposals will be reviewed by the NAFEW 2017 scientific committee. The
committee may accept, decline, or offer an opportunity to present the
proposed work in a different format particularly if there are few
speakers.  Special session organizers will be notified of decision by
December 1, 2016.



Symposium proposals will be assessed using the following criteria:

   - Offer a diverse mix of speakers, each of whom brings new contributions
   to the special session topic
   - Offer significant contributions to understanding of specific issues in
   forest ecology
   - Present innovative or interdisciplinary approaches, including novel
   collaborations or syntheses across subdisciplines
   - Have broad enough appeal to generate large audiences at the meeting


   - Build a well-integrated whole session, more cohesive than other
   concurrent sessions (each talk should have clear relevance to an overall
   synthesis discussion provided at the end of the special session)
   - Provide strong overall synthesis or overview; they should not be
   simply a set of related case studies and avoid the appearance of biases by
   taking a narrow perspective on the special session topic



*Please note*, once a special session has been accepted, cancellation
imposes a serious burden to the workshop and deprives others from being
able to present their work. Do not submit a proposal if you are uncertain
that you will be able to fulfill your obligation to organize and conduct
the special session. In addition, the meeting registration is not waived or
reduced for anyone participating in any capacity in a special session. This
includes the session organizer(s), moderator, and speakers. All meeting
attendees must register at the appropriate rate. Organizers are responsible
for making this clear to everyone they recruit to help with the session. No
funds are available for honoraria or to support participant travel.


Important Dates

September 30, 2016

Deadline for submitting a special session proposal

December 1, 2016

Notification of acceptance sent to organizer.

January 31, 2017

Deadline to submit session revisions and confirmed speaker lists along with
list of abstracts for all speakers.
 To Submit

You must submit your proposal (by email) to NAFEW at: nafe...@ualberta.ca




Be sure to include “Special Session Proposal” as your subject heading.





For more information about the 11th North American Forest Ecology Workshop
(NAFEW), which is being held June 19 – 22, 2017, at the University of
Albera in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, please go to our website:
http://www.nafew.org/





If you have any questions relating to 

[ECOLOG-L] Biodiversity Faculty Search, 2 positions (Associate, Full, or Assistant in-review for tenure)

[Lichstein,Jeremy]

Biodiversity Faculty Search, University of Florida. Two positions at the 
Associate or Full Professor level (or Assistant Professors in process for 
tenure).



The Department of Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the 
University of Florida is seeking applicants for two positions at the Associate 
or Full Professor level (or Assistant Professors whose tenure package is 
already under review) in the area of Biodiversity, including the generation, 
maintenance, dynamics, conservation, structure, or functional consequences of 
biodiversity. One position targets researchers who creatively explore 
biodiversity science using mathematical, statistical, and/or computational 
tools, at scales from single species to entire communities and biogeographical 
realms. The other position is more broadly defined, and we welcome candidates 
with strong empirical (field, lab, or comparative) and applied research 
dimensions in biodiversity science, working in terrestrial, freshwater, marine, 
or coastal ecosystems. Successful candidates must have obtained a Ph.D. in 
biological sciences, mathematics, statistics, or a related field, and will be 
expected to have an internationally recognized research program and contribute 
to training and education in biodiversity science.



These hires are part of a new Biodiversity Initiative launched by the 
University of Florida, a campus-wide initiative bridging multiple units (and 
including the establishment of a Biodiversity Institute), and aiming at 
fostering collaborations among scientists, students, resource managers, and 
policy analysts, formulating strategies to meet the biodiversity challenges of 
the 21st century and beyond. Such strategic questions include gauging the 
effects on biodiversity, ecosystem processes, emerging diseases, and resource 
sustainability of factors such as climate change, sea level rise, invasive 
species, and environmental degradation. The University of Florida is uniquely 
positioned to take a leadership role in biodiversity science, capitalizing on 
its status as a land grant, sea grant, and space grant university, with the 
most comprehensive academic health center in the Southeastern US. The 
Biodiversity Initiative will leverage extraordinary data resources and 
computing power (including one of the most powerful university supercomputers), 
one of the nation's largest natural history museums, and a strong collaborative 
culture across disciplines.



Applications must be submitted at 
http://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/cw/en-us/job/497559/preeminence-associate-full-professor-in-biodiversity
 and must include: (1) a letter summarizing the applicant's qualifications, 
ongoing research directions, and interests in the Department, (2) a complete 
curriculum vitae, and (3) names and contact information for three references. 
Applications will be reviewed beginning August 22, 2016 as received and the 
position will remain open until filled. Questions about these positions may be 
emailed to Jeremy Lichstein (jlichst...@ufl.edu) with subject "BIODIVERSITY 
SEARCH".



The University of Florida counts among its greatest strengths - and a major 
component of its excellence - that it values broad diversity in its faculty, 
students and staff and creates a robust, inclusive and welcoming climate for 
learning, research and other work. UF is committed to equal educational and 
employment opportunity and access, and it seeks individuals of all races, 
ethnicities, genders and other attributes who, among their many exceptional 
qualifications, have a record of including a broad diversity of individuals in 
work and learning activities.



The final candidate will be required to provide an official transcript to the 
hiring department upon hire. A transcript will not be considered "official" if 
a designation of "Issued to Student" is visible. Degrees earned from an 
educational institution outside of the United States must be evaluated by a 
professional credentialing service provider approved by the National 
Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES), which can be found at 
http://www.naces.org/.



The University of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Institution.

[ECOLOG-L] PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellowships for ESA 2016

[Jeff Atkins]

The PLOS Ecology Community (http://blogs.plos.org/ecology/) is excited 
to announce the PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellowships Program that will 
provide five, $500 grants to PLOS Ecology community members to help us 
provide in-depth coverage of the 2016 Ecological Society of America 
Annual Meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, August 7-12. Applications are 
due by July 11, 2016.

Full details can be found at:  http://goo.gl/cDe0sT

In total, five (5) fellowships of $500 will be awarded to selected 
individuals. To be eligible, one must be/have:

- a PLOS Ecology Community Member (on the Community opt-in email list)—
though one does not have to have published previously in a PLOS journal.

- attend the 2016 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Ft. 
Lauderdale, Florida, August 7-12, 2016.

- a practicing ecologist at any career-level, with minimum qualification 
being current enrollment in a graduate program at either the master’s or 
doctoral level.

- proven experience as a science communicator.
demonstrated facility using social media (e.g. Twitter or some other 
social media outlet)
 

During your time at ESA 2016, we expect that you would:

- write three (3) blog posts for PLOS Ecology; one of these to cover a 
PLOS paper included in the PLOS Ecological Impacts of Climate Change 
Collection or be a recent PLOS paper fitting this theme; two remaining 
posts to cover individual sessions or events at ESA 2016—with final 
choice of topics to be approved by PLOS Ecology lead CE, Jeff Atkins and 
PLOS Senior Social Media & Community Editor Victoria Costello – both of 
whom will be present at ESA 16.

- live Tweet a minimum of one ESA session using the @PLOSEcology Twitter 
Feed in accordance to the ESA 2016 social media policy.

- participate in brief logistics planning sessions before and during ESA 
2016.

- provide receipts for travel/lodging during their attendance at ESA 
2016 to PLOS.
 

Fellowship recipients will receive:

- $500 in cash to offset travel/lodging for ESA 2016.

- PLOS Ecology T-shirt

- Recognition as a PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellowship recipient.

To enter, send a writing sample (e.g. blog post, non-academic article), 
CV or resume, and a brief statement on which specific sessions or sub-
topics of ecology at ESA 16 that you would be interested in covering to 
ecologycommun...@plos.org. The scientific program for ESA 2016 can be 
found here. The deadline for applications is July 11, 2016. Winners will 
be notified by July 18, 2016. Final selections will be made by the PLOS 
Ecology Community Editors and PLOS, taking into account the need for 
diversity among recipients (i.e. gender, geography, disciplinary 
specialty, career level, etc.).

Questions or comments can be addressed to jwa...@virginia.edu or 
ecologycommun...@plos.org as well.