FIELD TECHNICIAN POSITIONS IN THE NORTHERN CHIHUAHUAN DESERT

2006-05-31 Thread Ericha Courtright
FIELD TECHNICIAN POSITION ANTICIPATED: $7.34 - $11.34 (commensurate with education and experience). Temporary, 4-6 months, no benefits. Start date: ASAP. Collect/record data in the field for vegetation and soil sampling on monitoring and research projects. Opportunity to work with a diverse group

Lecture of the Week: Part II: Astrobiology

2006-05-31 Thread Wirt Atmar
This week's lecture is given by Geoff Marcy, someone you've perhaps never heard of, but only proving once again that you can only be famous if people have heard of you. Nonetheless, Marcy has discovered more planets than Galileo ever dreamt of, and as a result of his and his colleagues extraor

JOB: Biological Sciences Metadata Technician

2006-05-31 Thread major
This position opportunity was announced earlier and is being re-posted. Position Announcement: Biological sciences metadata technician Position Location: Greenbelt, Maryland ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Assist NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) in populating the GCMD database and the Nat

Duke stable isotope lab soliciting samples

2006-05-31 Thread Jonathan Karr
The stable isotope lab at Duke (DEVIL)is seeking new clients who need analyses of biological or geological materials including solids, liquids and gases, for light stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen. We currently have very short turn-around time on samples analyzed by EA-C

Research Associate Position - Isotope Biogeochemistry

2006-05-31 Thread James Bauer
A research associate position in natural abundance isotope biogeochemistry is available beginning summer 2006 in the School of Marine Science, VIMS, College of Wm. & Mary. The successful individual will assist in the collection and preparation of samples for C-14, C-13 and N-15 analyses of diss

field technicians needed - small mammal trapping

2006-05-31 Thread Lori Campbell
SUMMER IN THE SIERRA NEVADA!! We have an immediate need for field technicians for an ongoing project to evaluate the effects of OHV use and other forms of recreation on a variety of wildlife species and their habitat. Students are particularly encouraged to apply. Employer: Sierra Nevada Rese

Summer Field Station Courses Available

2006-05-31 Thread David White
The Hancock Biological Station on Kentucky Lake still has spots available in four of its summer courses. Housing at the Station is available. For further information on registration and housing, contact Gerry Harris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our web site at http://www.murraystate.edu/hbs SES

Ph.D. research assistant in invasive species

2006-05-31 Thread Songlin Fei
Graduate Research Assistantship - Invasive Species Accessing Invasive Exotic Plants in Urban Forests I am seeking a qualified student who wants to work with invasive exotic plants in city parks in Lexington and Louisville Kentucky. This Ph.D. research assistantship will begin in the fall se

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2006-05-31 Thread Curt Lively
Post-Doctoral Position in the Ecology and Ecological Genetics of Disease Indiana University, Bloomington A post-doctoral position in disease ecology is available August 1, =20 2006 at Indiana University. We are especially interested in =20 recruiting a theoretician working on (or willing to wo

Modeling in integers: exporting from excel to BASIC

2006-05-31 Thread Heather Hawk
I have a large set of data that I've been working with using various stat programs that import ASCII values from excel spreadsheets, like PC-ORD and JMP, but I'm trying to write a program for modeling in programs that only accept values in integer form, like BASIC. Does anyone know a relativel

New Zealand PhD Fellowship available: foodwebs and biocontrol

2006-05-31 Thread Jon Sullivan
New Zealand PhD Fellowship Available - How native plant-insect foodwebs can disrupt and be disprupted by weed biocontrol Indirect effects of weed invasion and biocontrol on native plant- insect foodwebs may act to reduce the effectiveness of weed biocontrol and reduce the abundance of native

Exciting U.S. EPA internship posting in Washington, DC

2006-05-31 Thread Kevin Rosseel
Interested candidates should send a resume and cover letter to Steve Dunn (contact info listed below) by Friday 6/9. Thanks! U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Atmospheric Programs, Washington DC Internship Opportunity EPA Clean Energy-Environment State Partner

photosynthesis systems

2006-05-31 Thread Kaduk, Dr J.
Hello, we are looking into buying a photosynthesis system I would appreciate to hear about any comparisons of ADC Lcpro+ ppsystems CIRAS 2 Licor LI6400 or any other experiences or recommendations. I'd be happy to compile the answers and send back to the list. Thank you very much! Cheers, Jör

Position Open-- Penn State Coordinator of Ecology Grad Program

2006-05-31 Thread David A. Mortensen
A position is open that involves working closely with students and = faculty in Penn State's Ecology Graduate Program. Graduate experience in Ecology = or other life-science field is desired. This round of applications may = close on Friday June 2. Please apply on Penn State's "Jobs" website: http:

PhD position (Forest Succession)

2006-05-31 Thread Alain Leduc
PhD student position available in Forest Ecology, University of Quebec at Montreal Aging succession aims to understand how mortality process occurs in absence of large scale disturbance. How this mortality involves changes in composition and structure of forest and on how many time it occurs. T

Upcoming job opportunity at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC: SunWise Program

2006-05-31 Thread Kevin Rosseel
Attached is a description of a position with EPA's SunWise children's education program, which we will be advertising in June. Please send materials to the contact person listed if you are interested. .. POSITION AVAILABLE – PROTECTING CHILDREN’S HEALTH U.S. EPA’s S

Behavioral Arachnology

2006-05-31 Thread MAtthew Adams
Hi all, I am looking for opinions regarding behavioral arachnology/entomology Masters/PhD programs. I have done some preliminary research and it seems that most of what is being published (at least recently) has come out of New Zealand. I was wondering if anyone else had reached this s

a little bit of ecology celebrated in recent song

2006-05-31 Thread stan moore
Folks -- One of my favorite Aldo Leopold essays (from A Sand County Almanac) was about Draba, an obscure, plain little flower. Leopold had a wonderful way of celebrating obscure and often overlooked artifacts of nature. I found a song very reminiscent of that Aldo Leopold essay, on a cd calle

Re: photosynthesis systems - Krishna

2006-05-31 Thread krishna prasad
Dear Dr.Kaduk, We are using photosynthetic system from http://www.cid-inc.com/ Like other systems, it too has several merits and de-merits. It depends on the frequency of the measurements that you plan to conduct and also the basic experimental design (over forests/ agricultural syste

Your help to identify the top 10 of the most important breakthroughs in environmental or ecological sciences in the past 20 years

2006-05-31 Thread Wei, Adam
Dear Ecologists, I thought it would be useful for educators or reachers to know what the top 10 breakthroughts in the past 20 years we have acheived in environmental or ecological science. In order to accomplish this task, I ask any one who is interestd in this exercise to identify one or two in