[ECOLOG-L] the making of the science budget

2014-04-01 Thread David Inouye
If you've never seen one of the hearings of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, here's a link to the 26 March hearing on "A Review of the President's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Request for Science Agencies": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuVjambmQCM The discussion about NSF fu

[ECOLOG-L] Summer (2014) internship in pollinator ecology and restoration

2014-04-01 Thread Bethanne Albert-Bruninga
Summer internship in pollinator ecology and restoration Dates: Part-time position from May 20-August 20 (dates flexible) Location: The Nachusa Grasslands, a tallgrass prairie restoration run by The Nature Conservancy in Franklin Grove, Illinois Project managers: Bethanne Bruninga-Socolar, (

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc in cloud forest ecohydrology and ecosystem services, University of New Hampshire

2014-04-01 Thread Heidi Asbjornsen
Postdoctoral associate position in cloud forest ecohydrology, ecosystem services, and coupled natural-human systems at the University of New Hampshire A postdoctoral associate position is available with a large interdisciplinary research project that will examine the ecohydrological and socioecono

[ECOLOG-L] Call for Proposals for SNAP: Science for Nature and People

2014-04-01 Thread LeeAnne French
Science for Nature and People (SNAP) releases the 2014 Call for Proposals seeking projects that use existing data to fill important knowledge gaps and advance solutions to significant problems at the intersection of nature conservation and human well-being. Projects must have the potential to g

[ECOLOG-L] Job posting: Restoration Manager, LA-Ventura Project | The Nature Conservancy | Ventura, CA

2014-04-01 Thread Amy Parks
The Nature Conservancy is currently recruiting a Restoration Manager for the LA-Ventura Project! The Restoration Manager position is based in Ventura, California and provides high-level technical leadership and support to the LA-Ventura Project on all aspects of habitat restoration, including,

[ECOLOG-L] Workshops: Methods in Ecological Genomic Analysis (MEGA) 2014 in the Florida Keys

2014-04-01 Thread Sarah W. Davies
Dear colleagues - After receiving overwhelming interest we are excited to announce that we will be teaching three workshops on Methods in Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics at the Mote Tropical Research Laboratory, Florida Keys. Metabarcoding of Symbiont Communities June 15 - June 20 Whol

[ECOLOG-L] Summer field biology courses and workshops at the Highlands Biological Station

2014-04-01 Thread Michelle Ruigrok
2014 SUMMER COURSES AND WORKSHOPS AT THE HIGHLANDS BIOLOGICAL STATION Summer Immersion Program The Highlands Biological Station, an inter-institutional research center of the University of North Carolina, is offering its 2014 series of summer courses and workshops that can be taken for undergra

[ECOLOG-L] Accepting applications - M.S. Program in Environmental Science & Biology at SUNY-Brockport

2014-04-01 Thread Amatangelo, Kathryn
The Environmental Science & Biology Graduate Program at The College at Brockport - State University of New York is currently accepting applications for Fall 2014 and Spring 2015. The purpose of the ES Graduate Program is to develop scientists who will be able to analyze and understand environme

[ECOLOG-L] NRC post-doc position: Nitrogen & ecosystem services

2014-04-01 Thread Jana Compton
National Research Council Post-doctoral position with the US EPA Nitrogen and aquatic ecosystem services The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program seeks an individual to contribute to an effort to inform sustainable nitrogen management in th

[ECOLOG-L] rare Scholarship in Graduate Research

2014-04-01 Thread Jenna T Quinn
The rare Charitable Research Reserve is a 900+ acre property in Cambridge and North Dumfries, Ontario at the confluence of the Grand and the Speed Rivers. The goal of rare is to protect this environmentally sensitive landscape intact, in perpetuity, and to promote the use of the property for e

[ECOLOG-L] Summer course: Field Ornithology in Maine through Cornell University

2014-04-01 Thread Robin Hadlock Seeley
Join us in Maine (USA) for: FIELD ORNITHOLOGY: BioSM 3740 (through Cornell University) COURSE INFORMATION: http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_cc_ifo.html DATES: May 23 - June 6, 2014 CREDITS: 3 undergraduate credits from Cornell University (Class size: 8; Two places in the course remain open.) FI

[ECOLOG-L] Two news items: New arctic carbon sink and ancient wheeled animals

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Kaye
Extinct wheeled creature discovered as ice recedes http://appliedeco.org/news/extinct-wheeled-creature-discovered-ice-recedes So long tundra, hello trees: US Forest Service Plants massive carbon sink in arctic http://appliedeco.org/news/so-long-tundra-hello-trees And two previous news items from

[ECOLOG-L] Yale Postdoctoral Position in Microbial Evolutionary Ecology

2014-04-01 Thread David Vasseur
A two- to three-year postdoctoral position is available immediately in the laboratory of Paul Turner in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. We are seeking a highly motivated and creative individual to participate in ongoing experimental projects relating to e