Re: [ECOLOG-L] Mobile mapping app for iPhone or Android?

2011-03-05 Thread Thiago Silva
Hi Jonathan and list, I have just downloaded and installed the ICMTGIS application on my iPad, but haven't had the chance to try it fully yet. Five minutes of play before bed showed me that you can digitize on screen, and even load Google Maps imagery to digitize on top, and it also lets you

Re: [ECOLOG-L] working in academia vs govt vs consultancies

2011-03-05 Thread malcolm McCallum
Publish or Perish is in my experience not that common. I've worked in some universities where publication was about as important as, well, what color your shirt is. On second thought, the color of your shirt was more important. Universities are highly variable and some value publication very

Re: [ECOLOG-L] working in academia vs govt vs consultancies

2011-03-05 Thread Moncie Wright
Hello, I work as a contractor for the Environmental Protection Agency, which has provided me with both insight to working as a contractor and as a government employee. My experience has been that contracting provides a great deal of flexibility in the workplace. Employees that work on the

[ECOLOG-L] TWO FACUTLY POSITIONS-UMADISON-WISCONSIN

2011-03-05 Thread Johanne Brunet
TENURE TRACK Faculty Positions in POPULATION, QUANTITATIVE, COMPUTATIONAL, and/or EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of WISCONSIN‐MADISON. We seek to hire two tenure‐track assistant professors in  the areas of population, quantitative, computational,

Re: [ECOLOG-L] working in academia vs govt vs consultancies

2011-03-05 Thread Tim Shepherd
Hi all, As always with this, who you work with strongly effects what your experience will be. The support from up the food web will also strongly influence the job experience. I've done a short stint working at a consulting firm, been a research tech at universities, and currently work for the

[ECOLOG-L] Changing Planet faculty study group

2011-03-05 Thread Inouye, David William
Faculty Development Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Teaching About Climate Change (Applications Due March 25) http://nsf-be-03.ad.nsf.gov/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.smdepo news.org/programs-events/faculty-development-opportunities-for-interdisc

Re: [ECOLOG-L] working in academia vs govt vs consultancies

2011-03-05 Thread malcolm McCallum
It can be, however, having taught in one program where the teaching load was 18 hrs, and in another one in which the teaching load was 12 hrs with the extra responsibilities you list far exceeding those numbers, I found the teaching, advising, and committee work stressfulbut research was a

[ECOLOG-L] 2011 Radiocarbon Short Course

2011-03-05 Thread Sue Natali
Dear Colleagues: We will be offering the upcoming isotope short course this summer. Please feel free to distribute this announcement to your department listserve, and anyone that may be interested in attending: Radiocarbon in Ecology and Earth System Science July 11-16, 2011 University of

[ECOLOG-L] Animals Caught on Camera....

2011-03-05 Thread J. Michael Nolan
Friends of Rainforest and Reef and List Members This could be a bit addictive? Saw it on CNN a couple of nights ago. A new website by the Smithsonian. Most done by high-end digitial photography. See:

Re: [ECOLOG-L] working in academia vs govt vs consultancies

2011-03-05 Thread Wayne Tyson
Honorable Forum: Scholarship, research, science; all are endeavors of honesty. Their core is about holding one's own against the slippery slopes of bs, not about having an easy time of it. There is always some pressure to sell your soul to the power structure, to buss your way to fame and

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Question Ecology Natural History etc Re: [ECOLOG-L] Hypothesis Testing in Ecology

2011-03-05 Thread Mike Marsh
An interesting thread. I read a book recently (at the age of 78 I do that more frequently), and I wondered if I had just forgotten what Iearned in school (Fresno State and UC Berkeley Mus Vert Zool) around 50-60 years ago. I'm pretty sure, though that I never heard much about Stephen Forbes,