[ECOLOG-L] Woody Crops 2018 Conference SRWCOWG IUFRO USDA IEA IPC PWCC

2018-02-10 Thread Robert Froese
Colleagues, May I please draw your attention to the call for abstracts for the 2018 Woody Crops conference sponsored by the Short Rotation Woody Crops Operations Working Group? Apologies for cross-postings This conference is to be held July 23-25 at Rhinelander, Wisconsin. For more

[ECOLOG-L] Help crowdsource an anthology of field work stories to help raise funds for student grants, training, and scholarships

2018-02-10 Thread Joe Drake
++ Colleagues, Because of your ties with academia and direct connections to fellow professors and students/future wildlife biologists, I wanted to reach out to you about The Wildlife Society’s new upcoming anthology, The Wildlife Confessional in the hopes that you can help

[ECOLOG-L] PhD Assistantship in Crop-Wild Gene Flow at TAMU - due Feb 15 (may extend)

2018-02-10 Thread Muthukumar Bagavathiannan
A PhD graduate research assistantship is available to study the nature and dynamics of interspecific hybridization between Sorghum bicolor (crop sorghum) and its weedy congener S. halepense (johnsongrass), at Texas AM University, College Station, TX. The position is available immediately, but can

[ECOLOG-L] PhD position at TAMU - UAV for weed detection - due Feb 15

2018-02-10 Thread Muthukumar Bagavathiannan
A PhD graduate research assistantship is available on the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for weed mapping, species detection and other relevant applications in agricultural systems, at Texas A University, College Station, TX. The position starts in the fall term (Sep 2018), however

[ECOLOG-L] Ecuador announces new national park in the Andes

2018-02-10 Thread Erik Hoffner
Río Negro-Sopladora National Park comprises more than 30,000 ha of almost-intact alpine plateaus and forests in Ecuador’s Andes and will protect an estimated 546 species of plants and animals. ** This is the kind of news you can get via Mongabay's once-weekly newsletter, just put your address in

[ECOLOG-L] Research Assistants for Amazon Silvopastoral Systems in Madre de Dios, Peru

2018-02-10 Thread Lucy Dablin
TO APPLY FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY PLEASE EMAIL lucydab...@gmail.com WITH AN EMAIL TITLED 'REVERDE RESEARCH ASSISTANT', please include your dates of stay (please minimum 3 weeks), and any relevant experience. You can also contact me on whatsapp 0051997 860 977 or skype lucy.dablin Reforest the