[ECOLOG-L] Lizard Evolution in a Human Context on the Greek Archipelago
Check out this guy's doctoral work. It's pretty great people are starting to look at species' evolution in human-modified context. Rick Relyea's lab published last year on frog adaptation to agriculture. Should be cool to see what happens in these lizards. https://experiment.com/projects/are-greek-lizards-adapting-to-live-with-humans -- *Max Lambert* *Doctoral Student, David K. Skelly LabYale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies* *Museum Assistant, Osteology Preparation Focus* *Peabody Museum, Division of Vertebrate Zoology* *619-990-7242619-990-7242http://environment.yale.edu/skelly/max.html http://environment.yale.edu/skelly/max.html* Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype
[ECOLOG-L] Yale Food Systems Symposium
http://yalefoodsymposium.org/ Request for Proposals http://yalefoodsymposium.org/2013/04/23/4/ Posted on April 23, 2013 http://yalefoodsymposium.org/2013/04/23/4/ http://yalefoodsymposium.org/2013/04/23/4/#respond Yale Food Systems Symposium Yale University, October 18-19, 2013 The parallel forces of urbanization and globalization are transforming our planet. They are bringing unprecedented changes to food production and distribution, livelihoods, communities, and the environment. While the pace of this transformation presents significant challenges to the creation of just and sustainable food systems, it may also create powerful opportunities: to support ecological stewardship, promote economic sustainability, cultivate human health, and ensure social justice. Currently, divergent food system paradigms compete for validity. How can these diverse perspectives be negotiated? How can we synchronize the efforts of research, policy, and practice? The Yale Food Systems Symposium will bring emerging and established scholars and practitioners to work together in action-oriented sessions that address the complex ecological and socio-economic processes of food production, consumption, climate change and rapid urbanization. A variety of session formats will encourage transdisciplinary dialogue and an active exchange of ideas. We seek a diversity of proposal formats: panels, working groups, roundtables, poster presentations, and papers. We welcome perspectives from the natural and social sciences, from applied disciplines, and from community practitioners. Proposals that bring scholars and practitioners together, work across disciplines, or partner emerging and established researchers are especially encouraged. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: - Climate change and the food system - Urbanization, land use change, and food systems planning - Politics, policies, and governance across scales - Agricultural biodiversity and issues of genetic property - Sustainable intensification, multi-functional agriculture - Urban-rural linkages - Public and market-based approaches to regulating the food system - Alternative food networks - The right to food, food justice, and food sovereignty movements - Industrial ecology approaches to food systems analysis - Sustainable diets and assessing and forecasting nutrition trends - Sustainable supply chains - University-community partnerships - Research methods, participatory practice, and frameworks for collaboration Submission form and deadlines: Deadline for submission is *July 1, 2013*. Abstracts workshop proposals should be 150-200 words and include a title and keywords. Please submit online using our abstract submission formhttp://yale.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e3bcs8IWpLTNA9f. Accepted proposals will be notified by *August 15, 2013*. Questions about proposal submission and registration may be directed to yalefoodsympos...@gmail.com. -- *Max Lambert** Doctoral Student Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Masters of Environmental Science (Yale - 2013) 619-990-7242 http://environment.yale.edu/skelly/max.html*
[ECOLOG-L] Submit to Sage Magazine's Environmental Writing Contest!
My friend Ben Goldfard (benjamin.goldf...@yale.edu) at Yale asked me to forward this along. _ Sage Magazine, a student-run publication at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, is looking for works of journalism, literary nonfiction, and essay that address nature, the environment, and sustainability. We strive to publish work that blurs the boundaries between human and natural systems, that links environmental issues with social justice and well-being. The only qualification for entry, however, is that your piece has not been previously published. Big bucks — not to mention eternal glory — could be yours: First prize is $500, second is $300, and third is $200. All finalists will be published online and possibly in print, and will be read by a panel of celebrity judges, including Bill McKibben (founder of 350.org), Florence Williams (author of Breasts), Carl Zimmer (science writer at the New York Times and elsewhere), and Jon Mooallem (contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine). The deadline for submissions is April 19, and we ask that you limit your submissions to 6,000 words. Please email your work to sagemagaz...@gmail.com. Good luck, and give us your best! -- Max Lambert MS 2013 PhD Student School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University Fellow, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology 2012-2013 619-990-7242 http://environment.yale.edu/skelly/max.html
[ECOLOG-L] Food Forests: Cultivating Resilient Landscapes -- Jan 24-26 - Register Now
On *January 24**th to January 26th*, 2013, the *Yale* *Chapter* of the *International Society of Tropical Foresters* will host a conference titled *Food and Forests: Cultivating Resilient Landscapes*, which will assess the complexities of building equitable and resilient food systems while enabling tropical forest conservation. The conference will commence with a keynote speech delivered by Frances Seymour, the former Director General of CIFOR and will feature a workshop on facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogues led by Gary Dunning of The Forest Dialogue. For more information and to register please visit: http://www.yale.edu/istf/and http://forestsandfood.eventbrite.com/. *Please register by January 15**th*. -- Max Lambert MESc Student School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University Fellow, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology 2012-2013 619-990-7242 http://environment.yale.edu/skelly/max.html https://environment.yale.edu/sigs/rana/
[ECOLOG-L] Suburban Frogs and Endocrine Disruption
http://frogsaregreen.com/4500/chemical-pollution-in-your-backyard-researching-the-effects-of-endocrine-disruptors-in-suburbia/ My lab mate, Geoff Giller, wrote an article about our work on suburban pollution and reproductive defects in wild amphibians. He also touches on crowd-funding websites that seem to be gaining popularity for researchers. I hope this is interesting to some people out there! -- Max Lambert MESc Student School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University Fellow, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology 2012-2013 619-990-7242 http://environment.yale.edu/skelly/max.html https://environment.yale.edu/sigs/rana/
[ECOLOG-L] PetriDish - Are there estrogens in your backyard?
Hi all, My lab mate, Geoff Giller, and myself are studying the effects of suburbia on endocrine disrupting pollutants in water and how these pollutants are affecting several frog species. We have a video up on the new science crowd-funding site, PetriDish.org. The video and page are on this link http://www.petridish.org/projects/estrogens-in-your-backyard-the-chemical-ecology-of-suburbia We would be very grateful of anyone who could pass this along to other interested parties! I would also be happy to answer any questions about our work if anyone has any. I'm hoping the EcoLog community can help us extend our reach a bit more. Thanks for your help! -Max -- Max Lambert MESc Student School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University Fellow, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology 2012-2013 619-990-7242 http://environment.yale.edu/skelly/max.html https://environment.yale.edu/sigs/rana/
