[ECOLOG-L] Overpopulation

I can't buy the logic of this. A boundary is a boundary, whether it is an ocean, a crocodile-infested river, or a row of soldiers with guns. There are few boundaries as inpenetrable as the one between North and South Korea. Rwanda is clearly an example of a country whose suffering is caused lar

Re: [ECOLOG-L] FW: [ECOLOG-L] ECONOMICS AND ECOLOGY Growth or Equilibrium? Re: [ECOLOG-L] Climate Change Experts lose faith in Renewable Energies

Hi Andrew, I think you misunderstood the point I was making. Of course political boundaries affect environmental management, since political bodies are the ones making management decisions. My point, however, was that the concept of overpopulation does not apply to purely political entities whose

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Student Opportunity: Old-Growth Forest Ecology

An opportunity exists for a MS-Level student in a collaborative analysis of an outstanding example of old-growth mixed mesophytic forest in southeastern Kentucky. Research will be conducted at the Lilley Cornett Woods Appalachian Research Station. The student will be based at Eastern Kentucky Uni

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Fellowships in Ecology available at SIUC

The Southern Illinois University Center for Ecology (http://www.ecology.siu.edu/) is pleased to announce the availability of NSF-funded Graduate Fellowships for new, incoming MS and PhD students. Fellowships will fund students for two years of their program starting Summer 2009. Fellows will work w

[ECOLOG-L] Summer Field Technician

Biological/Rangeland Field Technician Position Summary/Duties: Assist graduate student in collecting vegetation and soil data in sagebrush steppe communities and recording detailed and accurate field notes. Work will involve establishing and monitoring plots in sagebrush steppe and implementi

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc position: ecology of leaf litter communities

Postdoctoral Research Position Ecosystem Ecology and Trophic Structure of Litter Food Webs The CICLOS Biocomplexity project was funded by NSF to model a whole-forest carbon budget at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. A postdoctoral researcher is sought for the final year of the project

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Assistantships at ESF/Hubbard Brook

Ruth Yanai is recruiting a graduate student, MS or PhD, to participate in a new multi-investigator project on nutrient limitation (N vs P) of young and old northern hardwood stands at Hubbard Brook, Jeffers Brook, and Bartlett Experimental Forest (sites with contrasting P availability) in New Hamps

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Student Position: Cornell University

Graduate Student Position: Cornell University Field of Natural Resources We are seeking a graduate student to study early life ecology of fish in rivers and estuaries. The research will be highly quantitative, field oriented, and relevant to a prominent conservation challenge. Support will

[ECOLOG-L] Job Announcement - Marine Policy Analyst

I.M. Systems Group, Inc. (IMSG) www.imsg.com is looking to hire a Marine Policy Analyst with a combination of career experience and academic credentials in an environmental science to coordinate and facilitate long- range planning efforts for NOAA-wide water (oceans, coastal, water resources) po

[ECOLOG-L] Job Announcement - Oceanographer

I.M. Systems Group, Inc. (IMSG) (www.imsg.com) seeks a talented individual to serve as an Oceanographer supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R - www.response.restoration.noaa.gov).OR&R is a program office in the National Ocea

[ECOLOG-L] Coastal Climate Change Specialist

I.M. Systems Group, Inc. (IMSG) (www.imsg.com) is looking for a motivated individual to join our team at the NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC) (www.csc.noaa.gov), a federal facility in Charleston, South Carolina. The NOAA CSC serves the nation’s state coastal programs and others concerned with

[ECOLOG-L] Job Announcement - Fisheries Biologist

I.M. Systems Group, Inc. (IMSG) www.imsg.com is seeking to hire a Fisheries Biologist to work at NOAA’s Restoration Center Southwest (RCSW) in Santa Rosa, CA. The candidate will be responsible for the oversight and implementation of habitat restoration projects affecting NOAA’s trust resource

Re: [ECOLOG-L] FW: [ECOLOG-L] ECONOMICS AND ECOLOGY Growth or Equilibrium? Re: [ECOLOG-L] Climate Change Experts lose faith in Renewable Energies

With respect, I disagree, National boundaries make a profound difference to the management of ecosystems and resources. The wars in the horn of Africa, which have their roots in nationalistic and religious stresses, have undoubtedly contributed to the ecological probems faced by these soci

[ECOLOG-L] introduced plant pathogens

Does anyone know where I can find stats on introduced plant pests and pathogens, especially those that have been introduced via the horticultural trade? Carrie E. DeJaco, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology Queens University of Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28274 704-688-2842 deja...@queens.edu

[ECOLOG-L] Conference announcement: Ecopath 25 years

*"Ecopath 25 years"* Conference: August 30 - September 1, 2009 Introductory Workshop: August 26-28 Specialized workshops: September 2-3, 2009 In Vancouver, Canada ‘Ecopath: 25 years’ Congress is being planned to be held at Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia in September 2009. The

Re: [ECOLOG-L] ECONOMIC growth, population and a couple of

I have also looked into the economics literature for insight into growth, and found it lacking. IMHO: 1. Some growth is driven by population growth (I emphatically deny that we are overlooking that issue, but I think we all recognize it's "third-rail" quality in politics). 2. Some growth is dr

[ECOLOG-L] corticosterone in saliva

Dear all, I am David Jansen and I am an animal behaviour PhD student at Zurich University. As part of my part of my PhD I would like to investigate the effect of glucocorticoids on vocalisations in mongooses. One of the measurments I would like to do is corticosterone in saliva. But searching

[ECOLOG-L] PhD position in plant invasion ecology at the University of Bern, Switzerland

We are seeking a PhD student highly motivated to work on determinants of the invasiveness of clonal plants. The work will be part of a Sino-Swiss collaborative research project, which will involve field work in Europe and China, and experimentation on multiple clonal plant species in greenhouse and

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Audio software programs

Julia Audacity is a free, open-source audio program (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It has effects to change the pitch and speed. Jordan Date:Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:46:58 -0500 From:Julia Shonfield Subject: Audio software programs I'm looking fo