This opportunity is being posted by the academics in the School of
Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland (Australia), in hopes of
attracting excellent postdoctoral candidates interested in working with the
staff at UQ. However, these grants are not UQ specific (or ecology
specific) a
I have to agree with Christopher B. on his points. Stating unequivocally
(if not dogmatically) that work that isn't hypothesis-driven is NOT research
simply doesn't correspond to the meaning of "research" if we look it up in a
dictionary. Granted, specialized fields such as ecology may redefine
E
Paul Grogan has stated very elegantly the case for a well formulated
hypothesis, but I wish point out another aspect of the matter. People who
are prospecting for iron will pass right over gold without seeing it. This
is more than just a metaphor; it reflects how the human mind seems to work.
That
Hi,
I am fascinated by the varying use of hypotheses in ecology, and have been
following the recent emails with great interest. All scientific research
must presumably share a common goal to reach the highest attainable levels
of precision in explicitly articulating the research focus, and the en
Managing Director, Global Freshwater Team
The Nature Conservancy seeks a strategic conservation thinker to
lead and manage its Global Freshwater Team. The primary focus of the
team is to reduce the impact of water infrastructure development,
reduce agriculture's footprint on freshwater resou
William and others,
Personally, I think that the answer to the question "Is all data
gathering research?" is clearly and unequivocally YES...just as I think
this is not really the question you are addressing here. Instead, I
think you are more properly asking "Is all data gathering fundable
resear
Hello:
Could you please post the following position asap? Mahalo!
David.
HAWAII BIRD FIELD ASSISTANT needed for 4 months (April 1 - July 31, 2011). We
are seeking a committed, enthusiastic, and hard working field technician to
work with native birds on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Meadows' book is excellent -- by far the best I've read on intro-level
systems thinking. Also, have you looked at G. Tyler Miller's
"Essentials of Ecology"? I haven't read it, but Miller's environmental
science textbooks are substantive and very engaging.
Jane Shevtsov
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:44
Workshop Highlights Tools to Help Plan for Change
The Earth's climate is dynamic, which poses challenges for forest managers.
Fortunately, many of the management tools that promote healthy forests also
can alert managers to problems from extreme weather, climate change or other
stressors. Forester
JOB TITLE: Summer Field Technician 40-50 hours/week.
A second year grad student in the Knapp Lab at Colorado State University
needs summer field work help in South Dakota.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project addresses the ecological impacts of
nitrogen deposition on native plant communities and soi
Dear ECOLOG-L'ers,
I've seen enough of this kind of advertisement and I must speak up.
I want everyone to read this very carefully and tell me if you REALLY
think this sounds like an 'opportunity' for learning and being taught
and mentored - an educational/student scenario - OR, meerly a 3-yea
Is anyone in this list working on the recent fish kill in Redondo Beach, south
of Los Angeles, California ?
Sarah Frias-Torres, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar &Schmidt Research Vessel
Institute Postdoctoral
Fellowhttp://independent.academia.edu/SarahFriasTorresOcean Research &
Conservation Associa
Next fall I am going to start up a senior-level course in symbiosis,
which I will mostly teach from my skewed perspective as a biochemist,
but which I realize has very patchy coverage in that regard. I will
probably hand out papers to the students from the original
literature, but I was hoping
The Department of Aquatic Ecology (Eawag, Switzerland) and the Department of
Ecohydrology
(EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) seek a PhD student in Ecology and Ecohydrology.
Project title: Experimental and theoretical evaluations of travelling waves of
organisms spreading in
differently structured aq
Is it not true that in attempting to say something about environmental
influence on barnacle biology, Darwin realized he did not know enough about
barnacles to use them as a model for his theories? Thus arose one of the most
famous and definitive studies of any time about the morphology and bi
Hi all,
GISROAM from ESRI is pretty flexible. The program is free, but they charge
you to transfer data.
IGIS is supposed to decent, but I have not tried it.
Theodolite Pro is fantastic, but it doesn't do polygons. It will export
location data and photographs to Google Maps and send you a .k
The National Park Service's Northern Great Plains Network (NGPN) Inventory
and Monitoring Program seeks an Ecologist (GS-0408) or Botanist (GS-0430)
to implement a long-term ecological monitoring program for vegetation in
13 park units. This is a permanent, full time, GS-11 position (approx.
$5
If you think Darwin's comment overstates the case, I recommend Michael
Ghiselin's book, The Triumph of the Darwinian Method. He tested alternate
hypotheses regularly as he gathered his observations. He did gather much
information about many things and collected widely on many areas (e.g. coral
re
Dear Ecologgers
I want to use GLA (Gap light analyser v 2.0) to estimate canopy aperture in
a coffee shadow plantation at our field site in Panama.
Difficulties in finding a suitable fish eye lens (because of the cost and
the risk of bringing one from a friend to the field), have forced me towards
Dear colleagues,
I was contacted yesterday by Congresswoman Grace Napolitano who is seeking
research articles from the university community on quagga and zebra mussels to
help inform the US Bureau of Reclamation on their control actions.
Of course, I can do a web of science search and come up w
Thought this might interest some of you.. it's an animated global version of my
old QEN maps, vegetation since the last glacial maximum. It was done by Adrian
Meyer and Karl Rege in Switzerland. There are a few little glitches: the ice
extent is not from my maps, and I disagree with its accuracy
Dear all,
I would like to draw your attention to this job announcement:
The Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis seeks to attract a PhD
student who will be
working on a project focussing on the diversification of mycoheterotrophic
angiosperms. You are
an energetic and enthusiastic sc
Dear list members,
- Some people now are talking about "question-driven research" as the
same as "hypothesis- riven research". Those are 2 different things. I
think every research could be based on a question, even if you are
making a species list of an area, "what butterflies species occur i
Darwin's comment is indeed famous, but let's not forget that it was
made in a private letter in the context of defending the theory of
evolution by natural selection. For that reason, it may well overstate
the case. I'm no expert on Darwin, but I'm willing to guess
(hypothesize?) that a good fracti
Having joined the list serve only recently, I am quite surprised at the
lengthy discussions going on. I see that ECOLOG has an archive, but it is
organized by date. If this discussion reflects the current state of the
field, I think it would be good to have some formal online publication of
the v
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