Honorable Forum:
Re: I think these general surveys are valuable, but they don't overtly
involve hypotheses and testing. However, it can and does include
assumptions/hypotheses; as one of the posters on the topic pointed out there
are always assumptions made. One doesn't walk every square inch
For your consideration:
Mother Pelican - A Journal of Sustainable Human Development
Volume 7, Number 3, March 2011
Energy Transition, Homo Economicus, and Homo Ecologicus
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n03page1.html
This issue is focused on the transition from nonrenewable to renewable
Dear ECOLOGGERS,
The Student Section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA -SS) would
like to collect the opinion of young ecologists (high school through
pre-tenured faculty members) regarding the involvement of young researchers
in the peer-review process of journals. Please complete this
Science Teaching Fellow
The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO), at the University of
Colorado, Boulder, invites applicants for the position of Science Teaching
Fellow
to assist with enhancing teaching and learning in our undergraduate courses.
Candidates should hold a
I am developing a course in Ecological Literacy. At a minimum, I would like to
use one book on
systems thinking, and one general ecology text. I may use two books on systems
thinking and also
add a book on ecological resilience, and of course, individual papers and book
chapters.
I am having
I am amazed by Pat Swain's statements implying that unless a program of work
includes formal hypothesis testing, it's not even research. (...I think
that pure survey of a property for species (making a list of all the species
of some taxonomic group) encountered isn't research..., ...some of the
Hi,
for 4-5 years I have been among a group of people that keep an academic jobs
wiki together for applicants to communicate. It is generally intended to be
a supportive community that exchanges information about job searches. It is
not a place to post vacancies, but rather a place where people
Hola Manuel,
Yours is a tough question, looking for specificity that is beyond what I
looking for in grant proposals. When I reviewed grad student research proposals
, I was looking for a statement that would demonstrate some thought about the
proposed project and plans for analysis beyond
People seem to be struggling over how to understand the value of observational
research in the context of hypothesis-oriented discussions. One missing fact is
that hypothesis-oriented research does not have to involve “modern statistics”,
because scientific hypothesis-testing is not the same as
Donella Meadows book Thinking in Systems: A Primer would appear to fit
one of your needs. I was impressed with this book after a quick hands-on
review at a local bookstore. I recall thinking it would make a nice
intro to the subject...
Doug
Penn State University
mil...@eesi.psu.edu
On 3/8/11
Ecology suffers from a surfeit or people who feel that if you don't do
things their way it isn't right.
One of the greatest events in marine ecology in my opinion was the discovery
of abyssal vent communities fuelled by chemosynthesis. I have no idea what
the funding proposal for this
Actually, there is no reason why library research shouldn't be rigorously
hypothesis driven: I wish to test the hypothesis that there is no article
in the ecological literature on the incidence of frogs in lily ponds. Uf
we find some articles that are almost there, say on the incidence of toads
Martin Meiss mme...@gmail.com wrote:
I am amazed by Pat Swain's statements implying that unless a program of work
includes formal hypothesis testing, it's not even research. (...I think
that pure survey of a property for species (making a list of all the species
of some taxonomic group)
I think Martin identifies one of the problems with a very restrictive
definition of what science is - it excludes a bunch of stuff that most
of us would think of as research. In fact, I would say that
sequencing the human genome did not involve hypothesis testing - it
was natural history
Hello all,
I am writing to see if any of you all know a quicker way to calculate
rarefaction curves. I currently use EstimateS to calculate rarefaction
curves and I really like the program, but the numerous notepad outputs
after each run are starting to drive me crazy. I have nearly 220
Dear Colleagues,
Three postdoctoral research positions are available with the PalEON
project (A PaleoEcological Observatory Network to Assess Terrestrial
Ecosystem Models), an interdisciplinary research group of
paleoecologists, ecological statisticians, and ecosystems modelers
working
Having reviewed dozens of research proposals for NSF, USGS, Delta Bay
Authority, and Faculty Grant Programs at Universities I have rejected
research w/o hypotheses stated when the program required hypotheses be
stated. In two cases, the proposals set up LTREM sites in which data
collection and
I am grad student at the University of Central Oklahoma and I am gathering
GIS data layers for the US and Mexico. I am making habitat suitability
maps from 3 separate ecological niche models for a threatened cactus
*Echinocereus
reichenbachii*. Mainly I am looking for Mexico environmental
The new solicitation (NSF 11-690) for the Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) Program has been posted on the CAREER webpage:
www.nsf.gov/career (http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214)
The new associated FAQs (NSF 11-038) will be posted soon.
BIO, CISE, EHR, OCI -
We are re-advertising for applications to a PhD project at the University of
Auckland in collaboration with Landcare Research focussed on pest mammal
behavior and interactions with control devices in relation to maximizing
detection probabilities. This PhD is part of a larger programme of research
Hello all,
I've been doing seasonal fieldwork the last 3 years and another option,
similar to the desert strategy, is fieldwork in the tropics. I've spent at
least part of all my winters, since graduating from undergrad in 2008,
working for field ecology research projects in Latin America.
A
In cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service Spring Mountains National
Recreation Area (SMNRA), the Great Basin Institute is recruiting up to
three (3) Field Technicians to work cooperatively as part of a larger team
on botany, avian biology and restoration initiatives. The Technicians will
Colleagues,
The scientific foundation of the Endangered Species Act is under attack by
Congress-again. The House of Representatives is trying to remove an individual
species from the endangered species list for purely political reasons. If
successful, this would be the first time Congress has
The Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of
Oregon has an opening for a full time Research Assistant to work on
research project investigating how predicted climate change will
affect native prairie plants in the Pacific Northwest. The position
is available 4/15/2011,
William and Honorable Ecolog Forum:
The benefit of addressing those questions, or gathering data in the context of
those questions, rather than simply plunging ahead with gathering more data, is
that the answers to those questions can guide us to be more efficient in
prioritizing what data we
Thought this might be of interest to folks on this list living in the
New York City area.
The Global Health Department of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is
hosting a conference this Friday- Saturday on environmental toxins in
the developing world, with a particular emphasis on hydraulic
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