[ECOLOG-L] Course on Agent-Based Models, Barcelona, October 3-7

Dear colleagues, Registration is open for the course "INTRODUCTION TO AGENT BASED MODELS IN ECOLOGY USING NETLOGO", October 3rd-7th, 2016. GRANTS: Thanks to the donations of former participants, this year there is a place for free at the course for PhD students. If you want to apply please send

[ECOLOG-L] Wildlife Handling Program - Peru

Field Projects International is offering a training program targeting students with an interest in wildlife handling or veterinary science. This program will train students to participate in an annual capture and release program on tamarins (small Neotropical primates) in southeastern Peru, and is

[ECOLOG-L] Summer 2016 Marine Mammal Research Internship

*Summer 2016 Marine Mammal Research Internship* The IMMS Research Internship Program is designed as a way for students interested in a career in marine science to gain valuable research experience in a real-world setting. Interns will participate with multiple projects involving bottlenose

[ECOLOG-L] 5 Days Until Feb 15 Application Deadline for Grad Student and Post-doc Summer Course: Assimilating Long-term Data into Ecosystem Models

Course offered by the PaleoEcological Observatory Network (PaLEON) Course Dates: August 13-20, 2016 Application Deadline: February 15, 2016. Selected candidates will be announced by March 15, 2016. Course Description: Estimating the impact of global change processes like land-use and climate

[ECOLOG-L] 2016 fellowship applications due next Wed., Feb. 17

Dear Colleagues, Applications for the Gulf Research Program's 2016 Early-Career Research Fellowships and Science Policy Fellowships are due next Wednesday, February 17 at 11:59pm ET. Visit the fellowships webpage to review eligibility

[ECOLOG-L] MS Student Position to study temporary Wetland Ecology/Evolution at the University of Akron

MS STUDENT POSITION with TA support at the University of Akron for student to study ecology/evolution of organisms in temporary wetlands with Dr. Stephen Weeks and Dr. Randy Mitchell. TA accompanied with $14,550 nine month stipend and full tuition remission. Applications and further

[ECOLOG-L] 2016 exploratory grants letters of intent due Wed., Feb. 17 at 5pm ET

Dear Colleagues, Letters of intent for the Gulf Research Program's 2016 exploratory grants competition are due on Wednesday, February 17 at 5pm ET. Visit the exploratory grants webpage to review opportunity details, access the online

[ECOLOG-L] Employment Opportunities: Crew Leads for Vegetation and Habitat Monitoring in various Great Basin locations

https://www.thegreatbasininstitute.org/jobs/ The vegetation/habitat monitoring program at GBI serves as an excellent professional development opportunity for burgeoning natural resource professionals. This program is a component of our well-established Research Associate Program

[ECOLOG-L] Bayesian statistics for ecologists & wildlife biologists (Jun 1-3)

BAYESIAN WORKSHOP For Ecologists and Wildlife Biologists Texas State University, San Marcos, TX JUNE 1-3, 2016 Instructors Dr. William A. Link USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, USA Dr. Richard J. Barker University of Otago, New Zealand Cost: Students - $299.00, Non-students - $499.00

[ECOLOG-L] Employment Opportunity: Land Health Assessment District Lead for BLM in Ely, NV

https://www.thegreatbasininstitute.org/job/land-health-assessment-district-lead-ely-nv/ The Great Basin Institute, in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is recruiting an experienced ecologist to work as a District Lead on a three-person interdisciplinary field team. The

[ECOLOG-L] Research Assistant: Buck Island Sea Turtle Research Program

*Buck Island Sea Turtle Research Program Research Assistant Vacancy Announcement 2016* Buck Island Reef National Monument (BIRNM), located on the island of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, is seeking applicants for the position of Sea Turtle Research Assistant (intern) to conduct sea turtle

[ECOLOG-L] PhD Position Available in Entomology at MSU

PhD Position Available in Entomology at MSU The White lab at Michigan State University (www.pjtwhite.org) is seeking a motivated PhD student interested in investigating the impact of urbanization and landscape change on insect populations, primarily the Lepidoptera. There is considerable

[ECOLOG-L] Employment Opportunities: Vegetation and Habitat Monitoring Crews in various Great Basin locations

The vegetation/habitat monitoring program at GBI serves as an excellent professional development opportunity for burgeoning natural resource professionals. This program is a component of our well-established Research Associate Program

[ECOLOG-L] Student Conference on Conservation Science - New York 2016

Save the Date! The 2016 Student Conference on Conservation Science-New York will be held at the American Museum of Natural History, October 20-22, 2016. SCCS-NY provides opportunities for emerging scientists to present their work and make contacts to help them launch their careers. We welcome

[ECOLOG-L] Restoration Scientist: Merrimack River Watershed Council

The Merrimack River Watershed Council in Lawrence, MA is hiring a part- time Restoration Scientist. To apply send a resume and 3 references to Dr. Caroly Shumway, Executive Director, at . If you have any questions about the position, please email Dr. Shumway or Josh Chase

[ECOLOG-L] Seeking Seasonal Research Technicians: fire effects on soils, seedbanks and vegetation in the Moquah barrens area (Wisconsin)

Seeking Seasonal Research Technicians: fire effects on soils, seedbanks and vegetation in the Moquah barrens area (Wisconsin) Position description: The Department of Forestry at Michigan State University, in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, is seeking three

[ECOLOG-L] Position – Undergraduate Research Assistant: Forest Restoration and Fire Management

Position – Undergraduate Research Assistant: Forest Restoration and Fire Management An undergraduate research assistant position is available in the Silviculture and Applied Forest Ecology laboratory in the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University (MSU). The undergraduate

[ECOLOG-L] Assistant Professor: Stream Fish Conservation Ecology, Colorado State University

Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Colorado State University Stream Fish Conservation Ecologist POSITION DESCRIPTION OVERVIEW: We seek candidates who can develop a locally and regionally relevant, internationally recognized research program addressing the complexities of

[ECOLOG-L] Deadline approaching: Individual-based modeling summer course

The Dresden University of Technology will conduct its 10th annual summer school in agent/individual-based modeling, June 30 through July 10, 2016. The application deadline is 19 February -- next week. The instructors will be Uta Berger, Volker Grimm, and Steven Railsback. This year the course

[ECOLOG-L] Organization for Tropical Studies announces winners of the 7th Annual Student Paper Award

This year's winner is Alejandro Rico-Guevara from the University of Connecticut for his paper "Bills as daggers? A test for sexually dimorphic weapons in a lekking hummingbird" published in Behavioral Ecology, a close collaboration with Marcelo Araya-Salas, a graduate student at New Mexico

[ECOLOG-L] Jobs in plant science at the University of Maine

Dear colleagues, My department at the School of Biology and Ecology announces two positions in applied plant sciences at the assistant professor level: Applied Plant Physiology: https://umaine.hiretouch.com/job-details? jobID=32427=assistant-professor-of-applied-plant-physiology Plant

[ECOLOG-L] UCLA/La Kretz Workshop in Conservation Genomics, 20-24 March, 2016

Conservation biology, genetics, and evolutionary biology have had a long and intimate relationship, and conservation constitutes one of the key applications of evolutionary analysis to real-world biological problems. The impacts of population and landscape genetics and gene expression