Numerous factors--both good and less pleasant--have slowed our
attempts to achieve regularity in posting "This Week at Hilton Pond,"
so right now we're playing catch-up. We apologize for the delay.
Our 1-14 December 2008 installment deals with a holiday-appropriate
topic: Red berries that cont
EXPLORING THE DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The Milstein Science Symposium
Presented by the American Museum of Natural History's
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation and Sackler Institute for Comparative
Genomics
New York City, New York, USA
April 2 and 3, 2009
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Dear all
[please distribute as appropriate; sorry for cross-posting]
This is to inform you about an attractive job offer in France the yearly
announcement of researcher positions financed by the French Funding
Organization “Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique” (CNRS). These
are *li
I think that Sarah Frias-Torres is both right and wrong.
She's right in that the value of money (and stocks, mortgages,
seashells or any other medium of exchange) depends on belief. If I go
to the store and buy 20 bucks worth of groceries, the store clerk
believes that the twenty I give her
Genetic Manipulation of Pest Species: Ecological and Social Challenges
March 4-6, 2009
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
In the past 10 years major advances have been made in our ability to build
transgenic pest strains
that are conditionally sterile, harbor selfish genetic element
The National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program is
recruiting a 6-month seasonal Biological Science Technician to lead a 2-3
person field crew that will be collecting forest health data in 16 parks
throughout the Eastern US. Prior to the forest monitoring field season
incumbe
Position Title: Science Policy Analyst
The Terrestrial Carbon Group project, housed at the H. John Heinz III
Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in Washington, DC, seeks
a Science Policy Analyst (12 month position with possibility of renewal
pending funding).
Terrestrial carbon (t
Harvard Forest offers an exciting program for up to 30 undergraduate
students from institutions across the country to collaborate with scientists
conducting ecological research for 12 weeks during the summer of 2009.
Program Description: Each student will participate in an on‑going study
with
seni
Please circulate:
Conservation Projects Specialist, International Division
Position Description
December 2008
American Bird Conservancy (ABC), an international bird conservation
organization, has an opening for a full-time Conservation Projects Specialist
for the International Division based in
Call for Contributed Oral and Poster Abstracts
94th ESA Annual Meeting
Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 2 - 7, 2009
Deadline for Submission: February 26, 2009
We invite submission of abstracts for contributed oral and poster
presentations at the 2009 ESA Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held
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Environmental Concern has kicked off Part 1 of our 5th annual Write On!
Wetlands Challenge. This competition, designed to celebrate American
Wetlands Month in May, challenges students to create a book written and
illustrated by kids for kids!
Part 1, for grades 6-8, is th
Take a look at the following site:
http://www.clexchange.org/ and join their listserve discussion group
(recently there was a serious discussion of K-12 pedagogy).
A few years ago for third graders, I gave an introduction to systems with
some games from the above site and its links. We then walk
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