JOB OPENINGS: Ecology of at-risk butterflies In the Pacific Northwest

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butterfly database

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 February, 2007 DAVIS,CALIFORNIA – One of the two largest butterfly databases in the world , with important implications for the study of global change, will “go public” on March 1. Since 1972, Dr. Arthur Shapiro of the Center for Population Biology and Section

Churchill Manitoba Graduate Student Volunteer Research Assistant July 20-31

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Position announcement

Penn State's School of Forest Resources is seeking a Research Support Technologist III (Job #24382) to maintain and schedule use of greenhouse, shadehouse, and related facilities and equipment. Coordinate, oversee, and perform care of experimental plants in greenhouse and other facilities. Coordin

Graduate Research Assistantship in Soil Microbial Ecology/Biogeochemistry

We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated graduate student to pursue a PhD through the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology (GDPE) at Colorado State University. The student will be housed at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, and will work under the advisorship of Dr. Matthew Wallenstein, in c

Summer 2007-Flathead Lake Biological Station, UM

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Virginia Water Quality Monitoring job announcement

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Summer field assistant for plant study wanted (free trip to China!)

I am looking for a field assistant to help collect plant data in western China for my dissertation research. Please forward this to any adventurous conservation-minded students you know of. Reliability and maturity are more important than upper level biology courses! --

Extended Deadline: Paid Internships through Chicago Botanic Garden

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FIELD BOTANISTS needed this spring for UC Berkeley research

Description: Two experienced field botanists are needed to conduct baseline vegetation surveys as part of a new long-term study in the Carrizo National Monument, California, from approximately April 1-May 31, 2007 (with possible extension). The Carrizo is the largest remnant of the San Joaqui

Online registration open for the 2007 Yodzis Colloquium

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Summer Biological/Botany Field Tech Positions in Flagstaff, AZ

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the MARMAM listserv: what it is and how to subscribe

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modelling age-specific mortality rate

Dear all,=0AI want to model age-specific mortality rates, but have only age= data of captured indivdiduals. These individuals are a random sample (with= out replacement) of the larger population. I assume that the age-distributi= on of the captured individuals is a function of the age-specific mor