Re: [ECOLOG-L] the Big Biology podcast
A lot of great podcasts listed so far! Wanted to throw in a plug for our ecology and science-focused podcast, Major Revisions (https://majorrevisions.weebly.com/). New episodes every couple of weeks or so on topics ranging from big ideas in ecology and science, to classic ecology papers, to the perils of fieldwork, or even how to review a paper or get into graduate school. We also have interviews with ecologists as well (and more coming!). You can find our show on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and Stitcher and follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/Major_Revisions> and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/major_revisions/> or email us ! Also, I personally love Every Little Thing <http://www.gimletmedia.com/every-little-thing>, Science Vs <https://www.gimletmedia.com/science-vs>., In Defense of Plants <http://www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/>, Superwomen in Science <https://superwomeninscience.wordpress.com/> and Science In Progress <http://www.esastudents.org/> from ESA's Student Section. If you want a deep dive, Lewis MacKenzie wrote a paper on the Science Pod-o-sphere that is great and includes an exhaustive list of virtually every science podcast ever: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/04/11/298356 --jeff On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Lynn B. Martin wrote: > Please spread the word about Big Biology (www.bigbiology.org), a podcast > hosted by Dr. Art Woods > from the University of Montana and Dr. Marty Martin from the University of > South Florida. Our goal is to > discuss some of the big ideas in biology with experts in the field, but in > a fun and engaging way for a > broad audience. > > We're up to episode 6 right now, having talked to Carl Zimmer about the > future of biology, Barbara Han > about predicting disease epidemics, Jon Harrison and Jim Brown about > scaling, Sheila Patek about fast > movements in shrimp, Denis Noble about randomness, and Robert Dudley about > why primates consume > alcohol. Next up is Massimo Pigliucci on phenotypic plasticity and niche > construction. In the coming > weeks, we'll also be posting episodes with Fred Tauber, an immunologist > covering the concept of self, > Vinnie Cassone on time-keeping in animals, Sara Walker on a universal > theory of life, and Patty Brennan > on genital evolution. > > Please check it out and let us know what you think on our Facebook page, > or just spread the word over > Twitter and your other social media favorites. > > We're also very interested to learn what big biology is to you and who > you'd like to hear on an episode, > so share your ideas directly with us via email or post them to our > Facebook page > (https://www.facebook.com/BigBiologypodcast/). > > We hope you like it! > Marty and Art > -- Jeff Atkins Post-Doctoral Scholar Department of Biology Virginia Commonwealth University Visiting Scholar Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia
[ECOLOG-L] AGU 2018 Session B058: Novel methods of connecting ecosystem structure to function with remote sensing
Dear colleagues, We would like to bring to your attention our AGU 2018 session focusing on novel methods of remote sensing aimed at linking ecosystem structure to function, broadly defined. We are particularly keen to highlight emerging technologies, cross-disciplinary research, and innovative applications of any and all remote sensing techniques. Please feel free to contact me (Jeff Atkins) via email (jwatki...@vcu.edu) or Twitter (@atkinsjeff) for any follow-up. Our abstract follows this message. Thank you for your consideration. Session Conveners, Drs. Jeff Atkins (VCU), Elizabeth LaRue (Purdue), and Atticus Stovall (UVA) Session Abstract for B058: Novel methods of connecting ecosystem structure to function with remote sensing Remote sensing provides a critical link in understanding how ecological and biogeochemical processes scale to entire ecosystems. Advances in technology, techniques, and theory have led to novel applications across the biogeosciences. Passive (e.g. optical, multi- and hyperspectral, and thermal) and active (e.g. LiDAR and radar) sensors enable complementary measurements across a broad range of spatial scales. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS/UAV) allow for rapid and repeated measurements of smaller, targeted areas of interest, facilitating upscaling by bridging ground and spaceborne observation. Terrestrial LiDAR improves our ability to characterize vegetation structure and complexity, while imaging spectroscopy (e.g. hyperspectral) helps map plant species composition and measure plant function. Linking structure to function via remote sensing is an exciting research frontier. In this session, we invite submissions from all who are using innovative applications of remote sensing to understand structure-function connections, or who are working in novel environments. AGU On-Demand SWIRL Theme: Data & Emerging Technologies Index Terms 0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling 0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics 0480 Remote sensing 1640 Remote sensing
[ECOLOG-L] Rapid Ecology - A new community-science blog for ecologists
I wanted to bring to everyones attention the new community-science blog, Rapid Ecology, a blog written for ecologists, by ecologists. Science blogs are significant drivers of scientific discourse, yet only a few blogs have broad visibility. Rapid Ecology is intended to address this issue by providing a platform for many voices. If you have something to say and youd like other ecologists to hear you, Rapid Ecology is designed to be your megaphone. Rapid Ecology invites posts written for a general audience focusing on new research, professional aspects of being an ecologist, musings on the natural world, tips on methodology, or anything broadly interesting to the ecology community. The site is also interested in monthly themed columns from single-authors. Recent posts have tackled imposter syndrome, academic accountability, species distribution modeling, and whether manuscript cover letters have outlived their usefulness. You can find Rapid Ecology at rapidecology.com and take a closer look at the submission guidelines at rapidecology.com/submission-guidelines/ You can also follow Rapid Ecology on Twitter: @RapidEcology I and the fellow members of the editorial board look forward to your submissions! Rapid Ecology Associate Editors: Jeff Atkins, Alissa Brown, Paul Caplat, Anna Carter, Luke Lamb, Graziella Iossa, Elisabeth Maxwell, Terry McGlynn, Julua Mlynarek, Elva Robinson, Casey TerHorst, Ruth Schmidt, Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva, and Luke Lamb (Managing Editor)
[ECOLOG-L] AGU 2017 Session: Carbon Cycling Effects of Moderate Severity Disturbance (B015)
Dear colleagues, We would like to bring your attention to our session for this year's AGU conference in New Orleans on the carbon cycling effects of moderate severity disturbances. We encourage submission of your work to our session. The full session description and relevant information follows. Abstract Submission Deadline: 26 July (late submission: 2 August) Thank you for your consideration. Jeff Atkins and Christopher Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University Session ID#: 27244 Session Description: Disturbances, which occur along a continuum of severity, exert a strong influence over the global carbon cycle. A foundational literature has advanced understanding of how severe, catastrophic disturbance alters carbon cycling, but considerably less is known about the consequences of moderate severity disturbances (e.g. insects, pathogens, low intensity fire, windthrow, ice damage, extreme weather, flooding, etc.), which result in the loss of only a fraction of primary producers within an ecosystem. Whether moderate severity disturbance carbon cycling patterns exist across ecosystems or disturbance types is an open question, yet, the answer is fundamental to theoretical, modeling, and empirical understanding of the carbon cycle. This session will highlight experimental, observational, and modelling studies that seek to quantify, forecast, and mechanistically interpret the effects of moderate disturbance on carbon cycling processes. We invite submissions from a broad community of researchers working at any scale, in any system--including terrestrial and aquatic.
[ECOLOG-L] AGU session "Toward Better Understanding of the Impacts of Climate Variability: From Ecosystem Processes to Agricultural Adaptation and Decision Making"
Dear colleagues, we would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our AGU session, "Toward Better Understanding of the Impacts of Climate Variability: From Ecosystem Processes to Agricultural Adaptation and Decision Making." Invited speakers for this session include Drs. Christine Rollinson (Boston University) and Tom Evans (Indiana University). We welcome submissions across multiple areas that consider effects of climate variability. See abstract and session info below. AGU abstract submissions site: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/ Session ID#: 13898 Session Description: Climate variability (CV) is a critical driver of climate change impacts to both managed and unmanaged ecosystems. To properly understand its ecological impacts, it’s necessary to quantify how ecosystems have historically responded to climate variability, and to characterize the uncertainty in projected impacts. In agricultural systems, assessing impacts of climate variability also requires understanding dynamics of farmer adaptation and decision-making. Here we seek new efforts to quantify both historical and future impacts of climate variability on unmanaged ecosystems and in agriculture, the most extensive managed ecosystem: e.g., i) empirical/process-based methods for estimating CV impacts to ecosystems across multiple spatio-temporal scales; ii) identifying key sources of CV and methodological factors lead to uncertainty; iii) new CV forecasting methods at relevant scales for understanding ecosystem response; iv) translating forecasts into useful decision support for natural resource managers and farmers; v) attributing farmer decisions to CV viz a viz socioeconomic and ecological circumstances. Primary Convener: Amor V M Ines, Michigan State University, Department of plant, soil and microbial sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States Conveners: Lyndon D Estes1, Jeffrey W Atkins2 and Erin Swails2, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States(2)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States Cross-Listed: A - Atmospheric Sciences H - Hydrology IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences Index Terms: 1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE] 1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE] 1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE] 1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
[ECOLOG-L] PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellowships for ESA 2016
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 masters 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 2016with 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.
[ECOLOG-L] AGU session on ecosystem impacts of climate variability
Colleagues, We would like to encourage submissions to our session entitled "Propagating uncertainty from climate variability into assessments of ecosystem impacts" (GC054; session ID# 8460) at this year's Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco (December 14- 18, 2015). We welcome submissions from across ecology and related disciplines as we are motivated to encourage cross-disciplinary research and insight into the impacts of climate variability on ecosystems and ecological processes and to foster future collaborations. The submission deadline is Wednesday, August 5. More information (including the full session description) is below. Regards, Jeff Atkins and Erin Swails (University of Virginia) Deepti Singh and Justin Mankin (Stanford University) Session URL: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8460.html Session description: Internal and forced climate variability has the potential to affect the magnitude and direction of mean climate change impacts on ecosystems. Changes in precipitation, drought occurrence, temperature extremes and other manifestations of climate variability and change can result in ecosystem state changes and regime shifts. Quantifying the historical relationships of ecosystem processes and climate variability and characterizing uncertainty of future climate impacts is key. We welcome submissions that integrate well-constrained estimates of present and projected climate variability and change across temporal and spatial scales into ecosystem science using both empirical and model-based approaches. Submissions could include efforts to link climate and ecosystem variability on different scales, identify sources of climate variability, assess impacts of climate variability and change on various ecosystems, or climate downscaling approaches relevant to ecosystem processes. This session aims to integrate research communities to identify the full range of potential outcomes in future climate-driven ecosystem impacts. Co-Organized with: Global Environmental Change, Atmospheric Sciences, and Biogeosciences Cross-Listed: B - Biogeosciences SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences Index Terms: 0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES] 1605 Abrupt/rapid climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE] 1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE] 1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
