Soil Carbon Sessions at Fall07 AGU Meeting

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Job (4 year PhD position): intraspecific variation in fish movement behaviour

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Two Tenure Track Assistant Professor Positions: Animal Physiology and Ecology

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testing approaches for multinomial

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PhD Compentency or Knowledge Exams

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Postdoctoral Associate Position Available to Study Invasive Ants

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paid internship in Buffalo, Wyoming

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Call for applicants: PASI's Interdisciplinary Studies in the Chemical Biology of the Tropics- Tambopata, Peru May 26-June 5, 2008

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seed request

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Tenure-track position in Biogeography

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potentially good news for NSF budget

House Passes $600 Million Increase in National Science Foundation Budget July 27, 2007 --The U.S. House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill that would increase funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF) by nearly $600 million or 10 percent to $6.5 billion in fiscal year

GRE Test in Biology

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Job Searching - Ohio and Pennsylvania

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AIBS Public Affairs opening: Meet-up at ESA meeting

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Wolfquest - immersive gaming for ecology

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