[ECOLOG-L] Apply Now! ESA Portland: Joan Ehrenfeld Award

2017-07-27 Thread Myla Aronson
For students giving a presentation at the annual Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland, OR in August: At this year's meeting the Urban Ecosystems Ecology (UEE) section of ESA will be awarding its 6th annual award for best student presentation in urban ecology in honor of the

[ECOLOG-L] ASN and SMBE regional meeting in Pittsburgh Sept. 9

2017-07-27 Thread Melissa Plakke
Please join us at the Three Rivers Evolution Event (TREE), a regional conference in Pittsburgh on September 9! Thanks to funding from SMBE, we are offering small (up to $200) travel awards to facilitate attendance by those with limited travel resources. The deadline for submitting abstracts

[ECOLOG-L] Reminder: AGU Session "Recent Advances and Future Directions in Data-Model Integration: Approaches for Improving Predictive Understanding in the Biogeosciences"

2017-07-27 Thread Natasha MacBean
Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting an abstract to our session *Recent Advances and Future Directions in Data-Model Integration: Approaches for Improving Predictive Understanding in the Biogeosciences* (Session B060) at

[ECOLOG-L] AGU session: the Bio-atmospheric N Cycle

2017-07-27 Thread Rebecca Ryals
Dear colleagues, We welcome your contributions to our AGU session, *B060. The Bio-atmospheric N cycle: N emissions, transformations, deposition, and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem impacts*. This session is in its 15th year running. We look forward to another year of interesting and diverse

[ECOLOG-L] Volunteer positions on remote Pacific island - Johnston Atoll NWR

2017-07-27 Thread Scheiner, Katrina
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking four (4) volunteers to begin early November, 2017 for up to 8 months to join the 15th Crazy Ant Strike Team (CAST XV) Expedition to Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to work towards eradicating an infestation of the Yellow Crazy Ant (YCA),

[ECOLOG-L] Field course - Wildlife ecology field techniques - 3 spots left!

2017-07-27 Thread John Perrine
There are only 3 spots left in our summer “Field Techniques in Wildlife Ecology” field course, which will be held Aug 14-25, 2017 at the Swanton Pacific Ranch just north of Santa Cruz, California. The goal of the course is to give upper-division college students hands-on experience with the main

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc: Revisionary Molluscan Systematics

2017-07-27 Thread Kenneth A. Hayes
Postdoctoral Researcher – Revisionary Molluscan Systematics Malacology - Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI An NSF funded postdoctoral position in revisionary molluscan systematics is available in the Department of Malacology at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (BPBM) under the

[ECOLOG-L] ESA Session - Accessing Research Funding from Federal Agencies: An Early Career Networking Session

2017-07-27 Thread Stover, Daniel
Dear colleagues, For those attend the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland, OR, I would like to invite you to attend the Accessing Research Funding from Federal Agencies: An Early Career Networking Session. The session will be held on Monday, August 7th (11:30-1:15) in

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Fisheries/seafood data by state

2017-07-27 Thread Matthew Von Hendy Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype Credit Free via Skype
Hi Kat: Interesting question. I think that if the data does exist, it is going to be found from business market research sources and not science based ones. (I have a background as a science and business librarian/researcher so I am pretty familiar with both.) I also think that it is going to

[ECOLOG-L] AGU Session on "Asymmetric responses of ecosystems to changing precipitation regimes:..."

2017-07-27 Thread Melinda Smith
Dear Colleagues, With one week left until the deadline for abstracts submissions to AGU, we invite you to submit an abstract to: B010: Asymmetric responses of ecosystems to changing precipitation regimes: Theory, experiments and modeling approaches

[ECOLOG-L] Job: GIS Teaching Faculty Position

2017-07-27 Thread David Inouye
*GIS Teaching Faculty Position* The Department of Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England (AUNE) seeks applicants for a full-time, 1-year faculty appointment in its innovative, interdisciplinary graduate department with programs leading to Master’s and Doctoral degrees in

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Distribution data for trees of North America

2017-07-27 Thread Michael J Borucke
The USGS gSSURGO dataset also has spatially-explicit tree data, but for windbreak trees, specifically. On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Emily Moran wrote: > What about the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data? Just for the US, > but very detailed:

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Fisheries/seafood data by state

2017-07-27 Thread Laura Jodice
For our state, we have had to ask the state managers for fisheries or aquaculture data (based on state ports), but even then the info isn't standardized between states. For example, we recently wrote a proposal for which we wanted shellfish aquaculture stats for our state and adjacent state

[ECOLOG-L] Restoration Ecology Technician Position Available at The Wilds

2017-07-27 Thread Patrick Boleman
The Restoration Ecology department at The Wilds in Cumberland, Ohio has a restoration ecology technician position open beginning in August of 2017. The Technician's duties will involve land management activities such as invasive species control, vegetation monitoring, and applied field

[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc position: Soil Microbiology/Bioinformatics in Florida

2017-07-27 Thread Strauss,Sarah L
Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate Location: University of Florida/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, Immokalee, FL Position description: A postdoctoral position is available with the Soil Microbiology Lab at the University of Florida/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and

[ECOLOG-L] PhD position in urban ecology in Switzerland

2017-07-27 Thread Martin Obrist
The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is a part of the ETH domain. Approximately 500 people work on the sustainable use and protection of the environment and on the handling of natural hazards. The Research Unit Biodiversity and Conservation Biology

[ECOLOG-L] Northern Georgia White-Tailed Deer Technician

2017-07-27 Thread Cheyenne Yates
Agency: University of Georgia - Deer Lab Location: Northern Georgia Mountains Salary: $7.25/hour with housing provided Start Date: 01/02/2018 Last Date to Apply: 08/16/2017 Description: We are seeking two white-tailed deer research technicians to participate in a deer research project

[ECOLOG-L] Support Available for Activities at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis

2017-07-27 Thread Catherine Crawley
September 1, 2017 is the deadline for requests for support for Working Groups and Investigative Workshops at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), to be scheduled through August 2019. All areas of research at the interface of biology and mathematics will

[ECOLOG-L] AGU session on "Ecohydrology and Biogeochemical processes in Savannas and Woodlands"

2017-07-27 Thread Shishir Basant
Dear Colleagues, As we get closer to the deadline for AGU abstract submission for 2017 Fall meeting, I would like to draw your attention to our session on Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry of Savannas and Woodlands. Dr.Thomas Boutton from Texas A and Dr.Carla Staver from Yale have confirmed to

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Distribution data for trees of North America

2017-07-27 Thread Emily Moran
What about the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data? Just for the US, but very detailed: https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/ Emily Moran On Jul 26, 2017, at 8:26 AM, Adhithya Kondalsamy wrote: > Hello, > > I am a high school student doing research on the distribution of

[ECOLOG-L] AGU 2017 session on research of the world’s major rive r deltas

2017-07-27 Thread Yi-jun Xu
Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to AGU 2017 session EP031. Progress in research on the world’s major river deltas https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23857 Session

[ECOLOG-L] PhD projects in Biogeochemistry & Earth System Science in Jena, Germany

2017-07-27 Thread Steffi Rothhardt
Join us! In cooperation with the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry houses a unique and flexible research program that grants German and foreign students a broad selection of learning opportunities while still maintaining a research focus. The

[ECOLOG-L] influential studies that could be replicated by undergrads

2017-07-27 Thread Tim Parker
I'm coordinating an upcoming grant proposal to integrate promotion of increased replication (to assess validity and generality) with teaching of undergraduates. We're generating a list of studies that had major impacts on the field of ecology (or evolutionary biology), AND that COULD plausibly be