Botany/Ecology Jobs - Sierra Nevada Foothills, CA

CNPS JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Seasonal Botany/Ecology Positions Spring/Summer 2006 The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is seeking applicants for up to four Botanist/Ecologist Positions for spring/summer 2006. Successful candidates will participate in a Sierra Nevada Foothill vegetation survey and

Re: { SPAM 1 }::nonlinear stats program

Brad, Have you checked out R? It is an open source program that does just about everything SAS does if not more. You can dowload it and get documentation from http://www.r-project.org/ I've switched to R from SAS. It hasn't been easy but so far it has been worth it. Best, Jeff ***

Needed: technicians for USFS eastern hardwoods fire behavior research

Research Technician Positions (GS-3 & GS-4) - US Forest Service Vinton Furnace Experimental Forest, Ohio Full-time technicians [temporary] needed for an eastern hardwoods fire behavior project. Duties will include sampling fuels before and after fires and monitoring fire behavior using a range

nonlinear stats program

I am looking for a statistical software program that can perform nonlinear statistics, specifically for density-dependent functions (not just quadratic, etc.). I can do this in SAS by defining the "model" (syntax statements), but I would like to further perform AIC analysis on the data and this wou

Director, School of BioSci Search

Biological Sciences: Director, School of Biological Sciences Twelve month tenure-track position available July 1, 2006, at Louisiana Tech University, a member of the University of Louisiana System. The School has 23 faculty, approximately 550 undergraduates, and 35 graduate students. Louisiana

Field Assistants Needed for Cowbird Begging Study

2 FIELD ASSISTANTS needed ~10 May to late July 2006 for a study of Brown- headed Cowbird begging behavior at Konza Prairie Biological Station in northeast Kansas (http://climate.konza.ksu.edu/). This research will focus on understanding if intense begging behavior by cowbirds is a unique adaptat

REU at Mountain Lake Biological Station Summer 2006

Dear Biologist, The Mountain Lake Biological Station (University of Virginia) is pleased to announce its Summer 2006 REU Program, now in its 14th year! Use these links to learn more about the program, complete an on-line application, or download a flier to post: * REU program web page - ht

link to ~70 papers on dead wood (pdf format)

For those of you that are interested, this link will take you to a nice assemblage of papers on the ecology and management of dead wood: http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/gtr-181/ You will find ~70 papers from the Proceedings of the Symposium on the Ecology and Management of Dead Woo

Reminder: 4th Annual North Star Science and Technology Transmitter Grant Program

REMINDER Please circulate. Thanks. NORTH STAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSMITTER GRANT PROGRAM - North Star Science and Technology, LLC and American Bird Conservancy announce the 4th annual North Star Science and Technology Transmitter Grant Program. Continuing two major changes instituted last y

Soils Postdoc at Chicago Botanic Garden

The following postdoctoral position, when originally posted, apparently had a closing date in December 2005. Please be advised that it is STILL OPEN until the end of January 2006!! PotashCorp Postdoctoral Research Fellow In Soil Science The Chicago Botanic Garden announces the creation of a 3

Graduate Fellowships in Ecology at the University of Wyoming

Graduate Fellowship Opportunities in Ecology Program in Ecology University of Wyoming Graduate Fellowships are available for students entering the new doctoral Program in Ecology (PiE) at the University of Wyoming in Fall 2006. The PiE is an interdepartmental program involving 22 faculty member

Forest_DEcay_response

A few weeks ago, a comment by Stan Moore (see below) elicited me to ponder the importance of other organisms (2nd comment) keeping the status quo in a forest, mainly due to the striking difference that one can find between Mexican (any developing country for that matter) and US forests; that is t

JOB OPENINGS: Wildlife Technicians at Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

APPLICATIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY THE JANUARY 6, 2006 DEADLINE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THESE POSITIONS. Biological Science Technicians (Wildlife): The National Park Service is seeking up to eleven biological science technicians for the 2006 summer field season at Sequoia and Kings Canyon Nationa

PhD assistantship in forest hydrology

The Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Oceans / Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington (http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig/) seeks prospective PhD students with exceptional quantitative skills for an integrated project that will assess the interactions between broad-

allelopathic chemicals in removed invasives

all, i am currently involved in a project removing invasive species from a forested area in southern ohio that was severely burned in april 2005. my question is this: when plants such as tree of heaven and garlic mustard are cut down/pulled and left on site (as is the practice unless the p