Research Assisant Needed, Botany/Pollination Ecology

BOTANY/POLLINATION ECOLOGY RESEARCH ASSISTANT NEEDED Application deadline extended to Feb 23. Research assistant needed to monitor a pollinator restoration project in Yolo County, CA. Over the past year Dr. Claire Kremen of the University of California, Berkeley, The Xerces Society for Invertebrat

Position: Yellowstone National Park Environmental Education Intern

National Park Service Internship Yellowstone National Park Position Title: Environmental Education Intern Number of Positions: Fall internships: 2 positions Spring internships: 2 positions Stipend: $1000/mnth Location: Yellowstone National Park-Mammoth Hot Springs and Lamar Valley

Job: Seasonal Avian Ecologist (12)

SEASONAL AVIAN ECOLOGISTS (12) needed for long-term ecological study of forest bird populations at HUBBARD BROOK EXPERIMENTAL FOREST in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Current NSF-funded research focuses on effects of climatic variation on bird distribution and abundance along an elevational

FW: Field tech position: Coyotes on the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park

Coyotes on the northern range of Yellowstone National Park-- Field technician position . April 15, 2007 - Aug. 15, 2007 (4 positions) Project Description: The long-term ecological study of coyotes focuses on spatial distribution, and ecological relationships with prey and sympatric carniv

Position: Amphibian Distribution Patterns And Habitat Use

AMPHIBIAN DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS AND HABITAT USE ON THE FLYING D RANCH AND SURROUNDING NATIONAL FOREST LANDS Positions: 2 - 1 project leader; 1 project technician Project Background: The Yellowstone Ecological Research Center (YERC) seeks motivated student interns to participate in a uniq

Re: Ecology and Economy and Eco nomics Guns or butter and gas or gastronomy Re: Ethanol (in)efficiency

Thereare a few aspects to this discussion which no one seems to have brought up. If we produce cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass, which is a standing crop all spring and summer, then we are potentially providing wildlife habitat where there would otherwise be shopping malls or monotypic no

Ph.D. opportunity

A PhD studentship is offered for: Biodiversity, pollination services and economic benefits: current patterns and future risks in the UK The closing date for this PhD is 14 February 2007. Further details are attached and the relevant website is:

PhD opportunity in Ecological modeling/Stream fragmentation

Position Description - PhD opportunity in Ecological modeling/Stream = fragmentation University of Massachusetts - Amherst =20 We seek a highly-motivated student to participate in efforts to = understand fragmentation effects on population viability of stream fish. = The student will extend exis

Wild Pollinators: Agriculture’s Forgotten Pollinators

We are happy to announce a new Wild Farm Alliance briefing paper Wild Pollinators: Agriculture's Forgotten Pollinators. Speaking to farmers, the paper elaborates on how to attract native pollinators, lists pollination-dependent crops and their native bees, has real-world case studies, and gives

corrected application date on the National Phenology Network job

Should be 23 February, not the 9th. Executive Director, National Phenology Network. The U.S. Geological Survey invites applications for an Ecologist to serve as Executive Director for the USA-National Phenology Network (NPN). The NPN is an emerging and exciting partnership between academic com

Post-doc in Ecological modeling/Habitat fragmentation

Position Description - Post-doc in Ecological modeling/Stream = fragmentation =20 We seek a highly-motivated individual to participate in efforts to = understand fragmentation effects on population viability of stream fish. = The post-doc will extend existing data analyses to develop a system for

Job application deadline extended: Executive Director, National Phenology Network

Executive Director, National Phenology Network. The U.S. Geological Survey invites applications for an Ecologist to serve as Executive Director for the USA-National Phenology Network (NPN). The NPN is an emerging and exciting partnership between academic communities, federal agencies, and the

Summer Field Courses at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre

*Summer Field Courses at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre* At the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre field, lecture and laboratory work are combined into unforgettable learning experiences for senior undergraduates, graduate students and other qualified persons. Courses investigate diverse topics rel

Re: What would adding fertilizer do to a tropical forest?

And see Chris Emery's Dispatches piece in the February 2007 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (page 8), describing work by Koren et al. that finds that half the nutrient demand of Amazon forests comes from dust exported from the Sahara. The Koren piece is Environ. Res. Lett 2006; 1:14005.

temporary plant ecology research position

JOSEPH W. JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER ICHAUWAY, INC. PLANT ECOLOGY The Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center invites applications for a temporary Hourly Research Assistant position. This position will begin in March 2007 and is a 3 month position to start, with the potential of being

Re: What would adding fertilizer do to a tropical forest?

I forwarded the ECOLOG-L discussion about fertilizing tropical soils to William Woods, Director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Kansas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who studies soils in the Amazon valley. Here is his response: Without major amendments tropical soils are gener

SPRING RESEARCH POSITIONS S. CALIFORNIA RESTORATION

SPRING/SUMMER RESEARCH POSITIONS Southern California Sustainability and Exotic Invasion Project University of California Irvine Irvine Ranch Land Reserve, Nature Reserve of OC I am seeking applicants for field assistant positions (project leader and field crew members) starting this SPRING on a

Field Positions in the Sierra Nevada

SUMMER JOBS IN THE SIERRA NEVADA Employer: Sierra Nevada Research Center, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station Location: Lake Tahoe Basin and Eldorado National Forest Job Title: Biological Technician (Wildlife) Employment Duration: 3-4 months (May – August 2007, exact da

tenure track position at large, mostly undergraduate institution

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY Animal Biologist The Department of Biology at Hofstra University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track, assistant professor position in any sub-discipline in Organismal Biology. The successful candidate will be qualified to teach an introductory Animal

seeking info on air pollution reduction

Dear All: To prepare a presentation for a working-group meeting at the UN Headquarters in NYC on 2/20, I need all the information (or links) that I may get on successful cases of curbing air pollution or its effects on the environment while considering sustainable development (economic & social

Watershed Assessment Field Crews in Eastern Nevada

The Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition is seeking Field Crew Members for a Watershed Assessment Project. The Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition is a non-profit organization composed of public, private, and non-profit partners dedicated to the restoration of the Great Basin ecosystems thr

JOBS: FIELD BOTANY TECHNICIANS (MOFEP)

The MIssouri Department of Conservation is hiring 2 summer field botany technicians to conduct vegetation and soft mast monitoring for the long- term MOFEP study (Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project). Duties will include learning to identify 400+ plants to species, locating permanent plots a

Help finding field sites

Hi I am trying to identify suitable locations to investigate changes in forest nutrient cyclnig during stand development. I'm looking for [semi-]natural temerate deciduous monospecific even-aged stands of a wide range of different ages (and therefore mean tree size) - from seedling to senescent.

dispersal and metapopulations

Volunteer Opportunity We are looking for volunteers on a new project looking at the evolution of dispersal and sociality. The themes of this work are centered on the evolution of sociality and meta-population dynamics. This project seeks to experimentally manipulate parameters in dispersal behavior

AGU Session on Roots + Belowground Carbon

Hello Ecologgers, On behalf of my co-coordinators, Kelly Caylor and Paolo D'Odorico, I would like to bring your attention to a session of the Spring AGU Joint Assembly (22-25 May) in Acapulco. The session is entitled: Dynamics and interaction of belowground carbon pools in dryland ecosyste

reminder: Feb 15 abstract deadline: IUGB Aug. 2007, Sweden

THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS: February 15 2006 Abstract deadline For further information and details, please visit our home page: www-conference.slu.se/iugb2007/ Welcome to the XXVIIIth IUGB congress (International Union of Game Biologists) in Uppsala, Sweden, 13th-18th August 2007 The Departments of W

Planting temperate forests

The current issue of Frontiers in Ecology contains a short article "Planting temperate forests won't temper global warming" (Vol. 5, No. 1, page 6). This article reports on a presentation by ecologist Ken Cadeira at the December 2006 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. This presentation sai