[ECOLOG-L] Commercial drone operators license now available

2016-09-05 Thread Gregory Crutsinger
As some of you know, the commercial drone rules for the U.S. are out from the FAA and the written exam was made available last week. This is a big deal. You can now legally teach and do research using drones under this license. Its a written exam only (no flight tests) with a $150 test fee.

[ECOLOG-L] Assistant Professor of Biology - Tenure Track - Siena College

2016-09-05 Thread Sarah Berke
Assistant Professor, tenure-track position, starting fall 2017. Microbiologist. Candidate must be broadly trained in biology and have a Ph.D. in the biological sciences. Post doctoral research and/or teaching experience strongly preferred. Successful candidate will be committed to teaching

[ECOLOG-L] Link of potential interest on some authorship, etc. issues

2016-09-05 Thread Jorge A. Santiago-Blay
Link of potential interest on some authorship, etc. trends http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-many-scientists-does-it-take-to-write-a-paper-apparently-thousands-1439169200 Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD blaypublishers.com 1. Positive experiences for authors of papers published in *LEB*

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc Position on Peatland Phenology and Carbon Dy namics at the Department of Forest Ecology and Management, S wedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

2016-09-05 Thread Matthias Peichl
Dear colleagues, we are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher with focus on: *Peatland Phenology and Carbon Dynamics* *Project and Tasks:* The postdoc will lead the synthesis and analysis of phenology camera images and CO2 & CH4 flux data collected within the PhenoPeatCam

[ECOLOG-L] Automated Stomatal Density - ImageJ

2016-09-05 Thread Karl Fetter
Hello Everyone, I have a growing population (>1,000) of images taken from epidermal peels (=finger nail polish) on both the ab & adaxial surface of Balsam Poplar leaves. I need to estimate stomatal density from these images and I really don't want to count these by hand. I would like to use a

[ECOLOG-L] International Course Geometric Morphometrics with Plants, May 8-13, Barcelona.

2016-09-05 Thread Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno
Dear Colleagues, Registration is open for the course "GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS WITH PLANTS - 2nd edition", May 8th-13th, 2017. END EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OCTOBER 31ST! Instructors: Dr. Klingenberg (University of Manchester, UK) and José María Gómez (Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas de