[ECOLOG-L] Forestry Crew Supervisor

Description: The Great Basin Institute, in cooperation with the Nevada Division of Forestry, is recruiting for a Forestry Crew Supervisor. The position will be supervising up to 9 crew members cutting and chipping Pinon, Juniper and brush as part of a fuels management and forest health program fund

[ECOLOG-L] MS and PhD positions available

Positions available for MS and PhD students I am seeking MS and PhD students to join my lab in the Department of Biological Sciences and Institute of Applied Science at the University of North Texas beginning January 2010. Research topics are open but should closely match my own interests in a

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoctoral fellowship - applicants sought

I am seeking applicants for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship. Every year the Killam Trusts award one postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Calgary to an outstanding scholar, no more than 2 years post-PhD, to consolidate his or her training, conduct original research, and participate in the

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoctoral position(s) investigating interactions between evolution and ecology

Yale University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (http://www.eeb.yale.edu/). A group of faculty is seeking Postdoctoral Associate(s) to work on the evolution and ecological consequences of plasticity in life history and other traits affecting evolutionary and ecological interact

[ECOLOG-L] Post-doctoral fellowship--fisheries biology or related field--University of Vermont

Position/Title: Post-doctoral fellow (2 years) Location: University of Vermont, Burlington, VT – Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources Responsibilities: Conduct research on structural and micro-chemical changes in wild and laboratory-reared sea lamprey statolith during metam

[ECOLOG-L] Intelligence Who is the greatest of them all?

Ecolog: Would you please assess the following statement for its veracity and completeness? Is it misleading in any way, especially with respect to evolutionary biology? "Humans consider themselves to be above 'the animals,' believing that they are superior, either chosen by 'God' or are produ

[ECOLOG-L] Call for Papers

Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture and Change in Western North America Mount Royal University Calgary, Alberta, Canada October 13 – 16, 2010 This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural gathering welcomes presentations on the environmental challenges now faced by diverse populations, human and

[ECOLOG-L] Snake tissues needed for phylogeographic study

I'm a student at Oregon State University, conducting a phylogeographic study on the western hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus). If you have any tissue samples with locality data (GPS coordinates or county information), such as shed skin, blood samples, scale clips, or road kill, I would great

[ECOLOG-L] measuring red fir w/Li 2000

Dear Colleagues, I am looking for some information on establishing reliable LAI measurements in a pristine tall canopy, 30-50m, red fir forest with many gaps, at both point and stand scales. I haven't found any good references for this species in the literature and am sure it will require a "clu

[ECOLOG-L] post docs at Ohio State

*Two Post-doctoral Positions in Transcriptomics, Metabolomics, and Proteomics of Interactions between Ash and the Emerald Ash Borer * * * *The Ohio State University* *September 2009* Two postdoctoral positions are available _immediately_ to use transcriptomic, metabolomic, and proteomi

[ECOLOG-L] 70TH MIDWEST FISH AND WILDLIFE CONFERENCE: NEARLY-FINAL CALL W/ EXTENSION

*FINAL EXTENSION!!!* *Call for Contributed Papers and Posters:* ** *70th **MIDWEST* *FISH & WILDLIFE CONFERENCE* *Springfield**, **IL** * *DECEMBER 6-9, 2009* ** *NEW Deadline: **September 25, 2008** **Click to Submit Abstracts Online* * NOT

Re: [ECOLOG-L] transporting the LI-COR 6400 via backpack

Ray, I have also had the pleasure of transporting the 6400 on my back through Yellowstone National Park. I used an external pack frame and strapped the LICOR to it with 3 bungee cords. The LICOR fit nicely into a plastic bin that I lined with foam (I cut up an "egg-carton" mattress pad). The le

[ECOLOG-L] Faculty position in Environmental Science

Carthage College invites applications for a renewable three-year Assistant or Associate professor appointment in the Environmental Science Program. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in Environmental Science or related field by September 2010. Preferred specialization is Environmental Toxicology

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate position in ecology, Vonesh lab, VCU

Graduate position in ecology, Vonesh lab, VCU The Vonesh lab in the Department of Biology at Virginia Commonwealth Univesity (www.has.vcu.edu/bio) invites applications from prospective graduate students for Fall 2010 to collaborate on our NSF-funded project at the Smithsonian Tropical Research In

[ECOLOG-L] MS research assistantship – native spring snails and an invasive snail

*MS research assistantship – native springsnails and an invasive snail* *Job Description*: There is funding for a MS student to work in the lab of David Rogowski at Texas Tech University on a project entitled, "Native springsnails and the invasive red-rim melania snail (/Melanoides tuberculata

[ECOLOG-L] Occupancy Modeling Short-course

***Please excuse cross-postings*** Population Viability Analysis IV: Modeling Occupancy for Conservation Course Dates: December 7-11, 2009 Location: NCTC, Shepherdstown, WV Course Description/Course Overview: Population Viability Analysis IV (CSP4140) course will explore the t

[ECOLOG-L] Canopy Volume measurement????

Dear friends, I need to calculate the canopy volume in a rainforest and I would like to receive suggestion about it. Some people are using just one formula to do that but we have conic, cilindric, elipsoid and espheric canopies! Is there a general formula accepted for all canopy formats? T

Re: [ECOLOG-L] transporting the LI-COR 6400 via backpack

Ray, When I was using a LiCor in a tree plantation several years ago, we bought a wagon and swapped out the hard tires for softer inflatable tires that added height to the wagon base (for clearing weeds and tree debris). The softer tires were also great for rolling over smaller land features s

Re: [ECOLOG-L] mixed-model zero-inflated negative binomial regression in R

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:55:43 -0400, James Hodson wrote: >Dear all, > >I've been searching for a while now for a package in R that can perform >mixed-model zero-inflated negative binomial regression. I am looking to >analyze pellet count data at the individual plot level, while accounting >for th

Re: [ECOLOG-L] mixed-model zero-inflated negative binomial regression in R

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 14:55 -0500, Barney Luttbeg wrote: > Check out the pscl package. > > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pscl/index.html > > I haven't used it, but students in my class have. I don't think the pscl package can handle random effects in its count models (hurdle() and zeroi