[ECOLOG-L] Local NJ Coastal Ecologist

I am a local Long Beach Island resident who has been displaced but trying to stay in the area. I am a coastal ecology who currently teaches at 3 county colleges. If any companies are looking to hire environmental scientists for any of the NJ clean-ups that will be happening sometime in the

[ECOLOG-L] Biologists Giving Back...Ideas needed

A great angle on the story could be the Unsung Hero or Lead by Example type of Biologist. Who sacrifices convenience and rejects the products of greenwashing by: riding her bicycle to work instead of buying a hybrid automobile, composts his organic waste with a worm factory in his classroom, she

[ECOLOG-L] FIU and Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Graduate Student Opportunities

*Graduate Positions in Ecology at Florida International University* *Florida International University, Miami, Florida* Three PhD graduate assistantship are available in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University (FIU) ( http://casgroup.fiu.edu/Biology) to conduct

[ECOLOG-L] Post-Doctoral Position

Post-doctoral Research Associate Description: The Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University invites applications for the position of Post-doctoral Research Associate to investigate the long-term, regional population dynamics of wild turkeys. The position is a

[ECOLOG-L] PhD Program at Wright State

Pursue a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences at Wright State University The Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences Ph.D. program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio invites applicants for Fall 2013 admission. The program provides interdisciplinary and focused topic courses, exciting

[ECOLOG-L] ideas - environmental hurricane relief projects

La MICA Biological Station (www.lamica.org), our small, community-run project in Panama working on conservation, education, and research (and employing all local people in the operations) is in the midst of our last fundraiser for the year. We hope to raise about $1000 to run operations

[ECOLOG-L] Goliath Grouper encounters

Dear all,Just wanted to share some extraordinary encounters with a charismatic coral reef fish we almost lost to extinction: the goliath grouper.We dove a wreck at night, in southeast Florida during this year's spawning aggregation season. We were fortunate to have a couple of filmmakers on

[ECOLOG-L] Ph. D. Fellowship in Population Ecology

A Graduate Fellowship is available in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University. We are searching for a highly motivated Ph.D. student to study the population dynamics of eastern wild turkeys. The project aims to: 1) simulate spatially explicit

[ECOLOG-L] Jefferson Science Fellowship

Jefferson Science Fellowship ­ due Jan. 14 The National Academies is pleased to announce a call for nominations and applications for the 2013 Jefferson Science Fellows program. Initiated by the Secretary of State in 2003, this fellowship program engages the American academic science,

[ECOLOG-L] NSF/IOS updated proposal solicitation and FAQs

The National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems has issued an updated solicitation for the core programs (NSF 13-506) along with a revised set of IOS Frequently Asked Questions (NSF 13-09) which are now available on the IOS home page at:

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Research Assistantships in Forest Soils/Biogeochemistry

Graduate Research Assistantships in Forest Soils/Biogeochemistry Two Graduate Research Assistantships will be available in 2012 in the area of forest soils and ecosystem biogeochemistry in the laboratory of Ivan Fernandez at the University of Maine. We are seeking highly motivated students

[ECOLOG-L] finding in behavioural/urban ecology

Hi Folks, I was wondering if you might know of funding that might be suitable for: A. wildlife-human conflicts in urban areas, specifically concerning animal fitness/welfare and behaviour. Thanks, Hilit Hilit Finkler PhD Zoology and urban ecology Tel Aviv University Israel

[ECOLOG-L] Post-doc in Plant-Microbial Ecology

Postdoctoral Position in Plant-Microbial Ecology University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities The University of Minnesota seeks a plant-microbial ecologist to fill a 2-year postdoctoral fellow positional. The project goal is to explore the compositional and functional attributes of soil-microbial

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Student Position in Marine Conservation Modeling - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Details: Graduate Student Position in Marine Conservation Modeling - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. See: http://www.marine.calpoly.edu/community/faculty/ms-student-mar-conserv-model

[ECOLOG-L] Primate Ecology Field Course in Panama

2012 WINTER COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT (December 20, 2012-January 9, 2013) FIELD COURSE IN PRIMATE ECOLOGY (PRE W-12). Course Location: Bocas del Toro Biological Station, Boca del Drago, Isla Colon, Republic of Panama. The biological station is located on a beach facing the Caribbean Sea. Coral

[ECOLOG-L] Tropical Rainforest and Canopy Ecology

2012 WINTER COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT (December 20, 2012-January 9, 2013) FIELD COURSE IN TROPICAL RAINFOREST AND CANOPY ECOLOGY. COURSE LOCATION: Bocas del Toro Biological Station, Boca del Drago, Isla Colon, Republic of Panama. The biological station is located on a beach facing the Caribbean

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Discussion Panel Topic Suggestions

Jason et y'all: Good idea. Better yet pick out the biggest elephant in the room that is taboo for discussion. Here's one that I thought was pretty universally settled until I posted it on a widely-known evolutionary biology site, got one response from one of the big names--who then declined

[ECOLOG-L] University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus IGERT Program: Natural-Human Sys tems in the Urbanizing Tropics

University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus IGERT Program: Natural-Human Systems in the Urbanizing Tropics Description: The NSF-funded IGERT program at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras aims to train Ph.D. students to develop interdisciplinary and collaborative research for environmental