[ECOLOG-L] FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Species occurrence modelling short course: Europe, 23-27 June

Modelling Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies Esporles, Mallorca, Spain 23-27 June 2014 Instructor: Darryl MacKenzie, Proteus Wildlife Research Consultants Cost: 500 Euros if registered before 1 June, 550 Euros thereafter This course will

[ECOLOG-L] Course: Introduction to GAM and GAMM with R

We would like to announce the following stats course: Course: Introduction to Generalized Additive Models and Generalized Additive Mixed Effects Models with R Where: Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia When: 25 - 29 August, 2014 URL Flyer:

[ECOLOG-L] PhD position in Evolutionary Ecology

The Department of Aquatic Ecology at EAWAG seeks to recruit a: PhD student in Evolutionary Ecology The PhD student will be funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation grant, entitled “The eco-evolutionary dynamics of community assembly in aquatic ecosystems”. The aim of the project is to

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This discussion reminded me of the 2007 paper by Mark Hafner (a fellow mammalogist/ecologist) titled “Field research in mammalogy: An enterprise in peril (Journal of Mammalogy, 88:1119-1128). In that paper he describes the decline of college-level field experiences for future mammalogists.

[ECOLOG-L] Call for Student Volunteers! - Sacramento, CA

CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS - Great networking opportunity!! 99th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America Sacramento, CA August 10-15, 2014 DEADLINE: JUNE 19, 2014 Are you an undergraduate or graduate student with a good attitude and strong work ethic? Learning from ecology’s

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc Opportunity

2-year Research Associate (Post-Doctoral) position Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The successful candidate will lead an ongoing project to develop climate change vulnerability assessments for a set of candidate

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This is a great thing, EXCEPT that a large point of going in the field is to experience getting up a 4 AM to see birds, dealing with snow up to your knees when you wore pumps and inappropriate gear, wading in the Makinaw R. up to you manly's or womanly's as the temperature drops from 40 F to 20 F,

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Excellent, Ryan. However, I will point out that though urban environments may have limited access to field sites for study, that does not mean that there are no field sites for study in urban environments. Urban environments have substantial populations of wild mammals, some feral, some

[ECOLOG-L] how to measure area with Photoshop

My brother's been using this technique to measure area by using images grabbed from Google Earth. Looks like it might work better for some of the areas I've been measuring by walking the perimeter with a hand-held GPS (Garmin) that can measure area that way. He provided a link to this

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As Malcolm pointed out it is sad when students can not obtain field experience in our backyard. I am not dishing the overseas programs - I would have loved to participate in them when I was a student but it was all I could manage to put myself through school. We need to not rely only/primarily on

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I mentioned in my previous post that we are happily increasing the field courses associated with our new Urban Ecology program. We have BA BS, MA MS, and combined BA-MA and BS-MS programs in UE. We have no problems working with local mammals, which are abundant. Of course they include

Re: [ECOLOG-L] how to measure area with Photoshop

There is a very interesting story behind this approach, having to do with a google earth engineer who lived near a proposed timber harvest in the Santa Cruz mountains that understated the extent of a clearcut. She successfully used google earth to accurately describe the proposal and

Re: [ECOLOG-L] how to measure area with Photoshop

ImageJ from the NIH works pretty well, or so I've been told. I have not used it, I used to have an old version of Image tool which predated ImageJ and it was very user friendly even though intended for microscope work. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:41 AM, David Inouye ino...@umd.edu wrote: My

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoctoral Researcher - Mangrove Carbon Biogeochemistry

Postdoctoral Researcher – Mangrove Carbon Biogeochemistry The Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher to examine aquatic carbon cycling in a mangrove estuary. Mangroves worldwide sequester atmospheric CO2 at a rate

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Dear colleagues, I have been enjoying this exchange immensely, especially because I lived through a similar shift in focus and institutional support (previously described by others) at a former institution. I was an outspoken critic of the lack of diversity in scientific approaches that ensued

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoctoral Research Associate -Plant Sciences/Genetics

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Plant Sciences/Genetics The Center for Agroforestry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO A Postdoctoral Research Associate position is available with the Center for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri to examine morphological and physiological traits

[ECOLOG-L] Symposium on Monarch Butterflies at Chicago Botanic Garden

Please join us for a symposium by members of Make Way for Monarchs: Alliance for Milkweed and Butterfly Recovery, (www.makewayformonarchs.org). Members of this group conduct research on monarch butterfly recovery and promote positive, science-based actions to avert food web collapse in the

[ECOLOG-L] Graduate Research Assistantship: Terrestrial Laser Scanning + grassland fire ecology

Description: We are offering a Graduate Research Assistantship to apply terrestrial laser scanning (TLS, or ground-based lidar) in the study of grassland fuel composition and structure. The student will be co-advised by Drs. Devan McGranahan and Stephanie Day, in the Range Science and Geosciences

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I actually have a bit of a unique experience with my undergraduate university that may make some of you feel mildly better about this whole situation. I just recently graduated, and when I started at my university, the department I was under was classified solely as Molecular and Cellular Biology

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc in evolutionary ecology

Postdoc in evolutionary ecology A postdoctoral research position in evolutionary ecology is available in Dr. Mark Urban’s laboratory at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. The postdoc will join a McDonnell Foundation-funded project to explore how rapid evolution affects zooplankton

[ECOLOG-L] Research technician in aquatic ecology

Research technician in aquatic ecology A research technician position is available in Dr. Mark Urban’s laboratory at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. The research technician will manage several grant-funded projects on aquatic ecology, including a project on the evolution of species

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Mitchell, We are interested! I think that has been shown throughout this thread, ie. there are many professors interested and excited about teaching field related courses. The problem is what the first person in this thread said - universities go for the newest and greatest trend. It was molecular

[ECOLOG-L] Collect data at a fraction of the cost and time

Dear Ecolog, Throughout the last few years, many of you have become familiar withAdventurers and Scientists for Conservation http://www.adventureandscience.organd hundreds of you have come to us to help gather data from the remote corners of the globe (and locally too). Thank you for trusting us

[ECOLOG-L] Adjunct Faculty Botany - Winthrop University Fall 2014

Ecolog Members - The Biology Department at Winthrop University, a liberal-arts, masters-granting state university in Rock Hill, South Carolina (part of the Charlotte, North Carolina metropolitan region) is looking to hire an adjunct faculty member capable of teaching an introductory Botany

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I have recently learned of the discussion concerning field-based courses and would like to share my thoughts. Please forgive this late installment (and its length), but I have been closstered away at a remote field station in Panama and was not privy to this discussion on ECOLOG until very

[ECOLOG-L] Looking for Insects and Man in PDF and original (1915) copies (Insects and Man: An Account of the More Important Harmful and Beneficial Insects)

Hello, I am looking for the following book in PDF format and also original copies (possibly also a cheap reprint). Thanks! Insects and Man: An Account of the More Important Harmful and Beneficial Insects Charles Aubrey Ealand London :G. Richards, ltd.,1915. ATD of ATB and ISI -- Aaron T.