Subject: ECOLOG-L Digest - 2 Mar 2003 to 3 Mar 2003 (#2003-60) There are 10 messages totalling 431 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Summer research opportunities 2. Ecologist Faculty Position 3. REU Site: Conservation of the Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem 4. World Wolf Congress 2003 Abstract Guidelines Clarification 5. SAS macro estimating variance of ratio data 6. Post-doc. opportunities at the Univ. of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign) 7. Labs for urban undergraduates in evolution/ecology (3) 8. lignin analyses ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 08:27:20 -0600 From: Stuart Wagenius <SWagenius@CHICAGOBOTANIC.ORG> Subject: Summer research opportunities Summer Field Research for undergrads or recent graduates Are you interested in gaining field research experience and learning about t e ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator interactions? I am looking for 2 3 field assistants for an NSF-funded research project on habitat fragmentati n of the tallgrass prairie. We are investigating how limited pollinator serv ces and small plant population sizes influence reproduction, genetic diversi y, and inbreeding in the purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia). This su mer we will conduct experiments to estimate genetic and environmental influe ces on plant growth and reproduction in 30 remnant Echinacea populations in estern Minnesota. No experience is necessary, but you must be enthusiastic and hard-working. Y u will survey plant populations, measure fitness and floral traits, hand-pol inate plants, observe insects, and assist in all aspects of research. Housin is included and there is a stipend. There are opportunities for doing an in ependent project. If you want more information or wish to apply, please look here http://www.cbs.umn.edu/~wagenius/jobs/index.html or contact Stuart Wagenius. Applications due 26 March 2002. ----- Stuart Wagenius, Ph.D. Conservation Scientist Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Road Glencoe, IL 60022 phone: 847 835 6978 fax: 847 835 5484 email: swagenius@chicagobotanic.org ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:43:23 -0500 From: John Wehr <wehr@FORDHAM.EDU> Subject: Ecologist Faculty Position *** ECOLOGIST FACULTY POSITION - 2nd Announcement *** The Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, invites applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in Ecology at the Assistant Professor level, for Fall 2003. Special consideration will be given to individuals studying insects, amphibians or fish, and conducting research at any level from the organism to the ecosystem. We seek individuals who will establish a vigorous, extramurally funded research program, and supervise undergraduate and graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) students at Fordham's biological field station, the Louis Calder Center, Armonk, NY (www.fordham.edu/calder_center), which contains a diversity of terrestrial and aquatic habitats, state of the art laboratories, and research library. There are also opportunities for collaboration with scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society, American Museum of Natural History, and the New York Botanical Garden. Teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels is expected. A Ph.D. is required and postdoctoral experience is preferred. Applicants should submit curriculum vitae, brief statement of teaching and research experience and future interests, and names and telephone numbers of three references to: Dr. Berish Y. Rubin, Ecologist Search Committee, c/o Louis Calder Center, Fordham University, Box 887, Armonk, NY 10504. Closing date is March 24, 2003. Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer - we strongly encourage applications from women and minorities. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:29:15 -0600 From: "Brett K.Sandercock" <bsanderc@KSU.EDU> Subject: REU Site: Conservation of the Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem 2003 Research Experience for Undergraduates Program at Konza Prairie Biological Station Kansas State University and Konza Prairie Biological Station announces an NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program that will address Conservation of the Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem. We anticipate offering eight positions for undergraduates interested in summer research experiences in the Flint Hills region of northeast Kansas. Independent research projects span a range of possible topics from physiology to ecosystem science, from aquatic to terrestrial habitats, and disciplines from environmental history to biogeochemistry. Participants will receive a stipend ($3500), housing costs, one college credit, travel to a national research meeting, and access to campus facilities. The program will run from June 1 to August 11, 2003. Students will be selected on the basis of academic record and for diversity of interests and background. To be eligible, applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents currently enrolled in an undergraduate program. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 14, 2003. Interested students may obtain additional information and application forms at the program website (http://www.ksu.edu/bsanderc/reu/) or by contacting the program coordinator: Gail Wilson, REU Program Coordinator, Division of Biology, 232 Ackert Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, E-mail: gwtw@ksu.edu, Phone (785) 532-2892. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:34:35 -0500 From: World Wolf Congress 2003 - The Wolf Project <congress@GRAYWOLF.C > Subject: World Wolf Congress 2003 Abstract Guidelines Clarification Subject: Abstract Content and Format Guidelines -World Wolf Congress 2003 Dear Members, The Scientific Advisory Committee of The World Wolf Congress 2003 has create a set of guidelines for abstracts to be submitted. The guidelines are posted on the congress website www.worldwolfcongress.ca. hey involve important format and content aspects. We also posted a sample ab tract. The Scientific Advisory Committee will refer to such guidelines during abstr ct review and selection processes, which pay tribute to original data and ne facts being contributed. Due to the number of registrations already received and the time involved to review submitted abstracts, presenters of accepted abstracts (one per abstra t) will be offered registration at a lower rate. This will be the "Early Bir Rate" (normally effective until April 1, 2003) that will be extended only f r presenters of accepted abstracts! Please note that abstract submissions must be received by March 15, 2003! Pl ase let us apologize for the delay in posting the guidelines. Thanking you for your attention to this important notice, Best Regards, Carolyn Callaghan & Marco Musiani, Scientific Advisory Committee ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:58:40 -0700 From: Kurt Reinhart <reinhart@SELWAY.UMT.EDU> Subject: SAS macro estimating variance of ratio data Hi, I'm trying to acquire a confidence interval for the ratio of two means. Do any of you have a SAS macro that you would be willing to share which estimates the ratio of two means and the variance of this estimate using a resampling procedure (bootstrapping, etc.)? I've been trying to piece together macros from jackboot, bootvare_v20.sas, and macroe_v20.sas, but I'm about to pull out my hair. Thanks in advance. Kurt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:50:03 -0600 From: chalcraft@NCEAS.UCSB.EDU Subject: Post-doc. opportunities at the Univ. of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign) Two postdoctoral research positions are available under the direction of Car a Cáceres at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Position 1: Anticipated start date: May or June 2003. The successful applicant will participate in research that will integrate techniques from molecular biology, quantitative genetics and community ecology to explore zooplankton species diversity in space and time. At least two years of fund ng are available. Individuals with experience with molecular markers are particularly encouraged to apply. Position 2: Anticipated start date 9/1/03. The successful applicant will participate in a project involving investigators from University of Illinois Michigan State University and University of California at Santa Barbara. Th project combines aspects of physical limnology, community ecology and epidemiological modeling to address host-parasite interactions in aquatic systems. Two years of funding are available. The postdoctoral associate wi l spend one-three months each year in residence at Michigan State's Kellogg Biological Station. For additional information, please email Carla Cáceres (caceres@life.uiuc.ed ). To apply for either of these positions, please send a letter of interest th t describes your research background and indicates which position(s) are of interest to you, a C.V., and the names of three references to: Dr. Carla Cáceres, School of Integrative Biology, 515 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Ave University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801. Review of applications will begin April 14 2003 and continue until suitable candidates are found. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:40:57 -0500 From: Betsy Rich <e.l.rich@VERIZON.NET> Subject: Labs for urban undergraduates in evolution/ecology Hi -- I will be teaching an organismal biology/evolution/ecology class (all in 10 weeks!) to non-major undergraduates in an urban university. Unfortunately, we do not have access to transportation to go into the field beyond the city, which would be my preference for the labs. Does anyone out there have any suggestions for good labs or sources of labs that would be aimed at such a group? All suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Betsy Betsy Rich erich@drexel.edu Bioscience Department Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:50:53 -0800 From: David Bryant <dmb@IO.HARVARD.EDU> Subject: Re: lignin analyses Tracy, The best way is by near infrared spectroscopy. Not that it's cheap but its accurate and gives you cellulose and N data to boot. The main reason is that the alternative, wet chem, method is deathly toxic, takes days to get numbers and should never be undertaken by those of sound mind. Do I need to be more emphatic? ;-) Contact Colin Pinney at the University of New Hampshire, colin.pinney@unh.ed Good luck David At 12:50 PM 3/2/03 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Ecologers,. > >Does anyone know of a reliable and reasonably priced service laboratory >that would analyze ground leaf tissue for lignin? > >Thanks for any input! > >Tracy > > >Tracy Blickhan Gartner, PhD Candidate >Ecology and Evolutionary Biology >University of Connecticut >75 North Eagleville Road, U-3043 >Storrs, CT 06269 > >860 486 0805 (office) >860 486 5382 (lab) >http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/grads/tgartner/ David M. Bryant Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University 20 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 dmb@io.harvard.edu 617-496-6246 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:46:02 EST From: WirtAtmar@AOL.COM Subject: Re: Labs for urban undergraduates in evolution/ecology Betsy asks: > I will be teaching an organismal biology/evolution/ecology class (all n 10 > weeks!) to non-major undergraduates in an urban university. Unfortuna ely, > we do not have access to transportation to go into the field beyond th > city, which would be my preference for the labs. Does anyone out ther have > any suggestions for good labs or sources of labs that would be aimed a such > a group? All suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I have attached below an article from today's NY Times. It may initially see like a facetious answer, but it isn't meant to be. Ecology, like gold, is where you find it. And so is apparently lunch. Wirt Atmar ======================================= Waikiki Beach's Unloved Backwater Spawns a Record-Setting Crustacean By LAWRENCE DOWNES HONOLULU, March 2 â^Ŕ^Ô Murderous, google-eyed crustaceans with barbed spear and razor-switchblade appendages that can shred fish and flesh to ribbons have been captured in the shallow waters off Waikiki. Big ones. Salami-sized. The biggest ever recorded in Hawaii. Panic, however, has not set in. That is because these creatures, burrowing predators called mantis shrimp, have turned up not on Waikiki Beach, the stretch of white sand and blue-gree surf that remains as dreamy and safe as ever, but in the Ala Wai Canal, a smelly, silty drainage basin behind Waikiki that tourists shun and many locals deride as one step up from a sewer. The news that the jumbo stomatopods (not shrimp, technically) were thriving in waters that regularly give canoe paddlers infections and parasitic rashes caused much wonderment when it was reported recently in The Honolulu Advertiser. People here think of the Ala Wai (pronounced Allah-why), when they think of it at all, mainly as a habitat for old tires, rusty shopping carts and schools of indestructible tilapia. The shrimp were good news, too, for Keith Harvey, a member of a dredging cre that dug up the five specimens of the stomatopod, Lysiosquillina maculata, while working to clear the canal of two decades' worth of silt and trash. Mr Harvey dared to nab the biggest one, a 15-inch, 1.35-pound monster, using a stick and a gloved hand as it flopped in the muck on the crew's barge. "I saw this one, I was all smiles," recalled Mr. Harvey, 43, who kept it in cooler while his boss, Dan Mahnke, contacted The Hawaii Fishing News, which later issued a certificate confirming Mr. Harvey's shrimp as the state record-holder. The dredging is a state-financed, $7.4 million effort to restore a measure o health and self-respect to the Ala Wai, which began filling with sediment almost as soon as the Army Corps of Engineers dug it in 1927 to control floods and mosquitoes and to provide landfill for the swampland that was the Waikiki. The canal, which collects runoff from streams and storm drains on the densely populated mountain slopes above Waikiki, has been dredged periodically, most recently in 1979. With little ocean circulation to flush it clean, the 1.3-mile-long canal has essentially become a liquid compost pile, teeming with marine life and bacteria, but stinky, and unloved by people who walk next to or paddle in it Some heavily silted stretches are barely a foot deep or exposed at low tide. "It's either working really well or not at all," said Dr. Eric H. De Carlo, professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii. "The Ala Wai is one o the world's most productive estuaries in terms of carbon production," Professor De Carlo said, thanks to runoff nutrients, but it also contains contaminants like pesticides, detergents and lead. Karen Ah Mai, executive director of the Ala Wai Watershed Association, a nonprofit group, said the Ala Wai has the most densely populated watershed i the United States. It is home to 150,000 people, all living in a compact zon between mountains and sea that has long since lost its natural flood-control and water-filtration system, the marshes now occupied by the concrete jungle of Waikiki. The dredging should improve things, she said, but the only lasting solution depends on reducing contaminants from the streets, sidewalk and culverts that drain down to the canal. The canal's years of neglect gave the dredged-up shrimp time to grow about a big as the species ever gets. Dr. Roy L. Caldwell, a professor of integrativ biology at the University of California at Berkeley and a leading authority on mantis shrimp, said that judging from the size of Mr. Harvey's specimens, they had probably been in the Ala Wai for 20 years. Ferocious as they are, mantis shrimp are homebodies and mate for life, said Professor Caldwell, who has studied the same pair in a burrow in Kaneohe Bay, on Oahu, for 25 years. Not knowing what he had, Mr. Mahnke said, he let the first shrimp go. He tried to give the others to aquariums, but "nobody wanted a thing to do with them," he said. Mr. Harvey took the big one home. "I was planning on raising him," he said. He kept it in a cooler for a few days, changing the water regularly. "Then I thought about the aquarium not wanting him," he said, and so he boiled the mantis shrimp, a delicacy throughout the South Pacific, and ate it. "It was really sweet," Mr. Harvey said, even without butter. Mr. Mahnke cut in: "I told him all you need is New York steak to make a good meal. He looked at that big one, shook his head, and said, `I no need steak. " ======================================= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:54:44 -0800 From: Patrick Foley <patfoley@CSUS.EDU> Subject: Re: Labs for urban undergraduates in evolution/ecology Betsy, Look at the local insects and plants. They are common and interesting. You c n do nearest neighbor competition studies on any common plant where a size mea ure is a reasonable proxy for fitness. Gall forming insects are great for studyi g the spatial distribution of herbivory. Pollination preference studies, butte fly thermoregulation, butterfly migration and mark-release recapture are all fun I have an ecology lab manual in the works (~160 pages, but it is still a ver early draft, and it is a majors manual). Patrick Foley patfoley@csus.edu Betsy Rich wrote: > Hi -- > > I will be teaching an organismal biology/evolution/ecology class (all i 10 > weeks!) to non-major undergraduates in an urban university. Unfortunat ly, > we do not have access to transportation to go into the field beyond the > city, which would be my preference for the labs. Does anyone out there have > any suggestions for good labs or sources of labs that would be aimed at such > a group? All suggestions would be greatly appreciated! > > Betsy > > Betsy Rich > erich@drexel.edu > Bioscience Department > Drexel University > Philadelphia, PA 19104 ------------------------------ Subject: ECOLOG-L Digest - 1 Mar 2003 to 2 Mar 2003 (#2003-59) There are 3 messages totalling 135 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Species matrix using SAS 2. Announcement: Distance Workshops September 2003, Scotland 3. lignin analyses ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:12:41 -0400 From: Sheila Ward <seward@CARIBE.NET> Subject: Species matrix using SAS Does anyone have a SAS routine for converting a data set tree = measurement data set with three variables (plot, species, measurement) = to a plot x species matrix? I think I could modify it to meet my case = instead of struggling to write a relatively efficient program myself. Thanks! Sheila Ward University of Puerto Rico ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:34:09 -0000 From: Catherine Brown <cathy@MCS.ST-AND.AC.UK> Subject: Announcement: Distance Workshops September 2003, Scotland ********************************************************** ANNOUNCEMENT ********************************************************** DISTANCE WORKSHOPS 2003 St Andrews, Fife, Scotland ********************************************************** The Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM) is hosting another set of Distance Sampling workshops in September of this year. The aim of these workshops is to train participants in the latest methods for design and analysis of distance sampling surveys, including line and point transects. The workshops are taught by leading researchers in the field, using Distance software. ********************************************************* Workshop 1: Introduction to Distance Sampling, 10-12 September An introductory workshop focusing on standard distance sampling methods. The workshop will be a blend of theory and practice and participants will learn how to use version 4 of the program Distance. Participants will gain a solid grounding in both survey design and methods of analysis for distance sampling surveys. ********************************************************** Workshop 2: Advanced Techniques and Recent Developments in Distance Sampling, 15-17 September A workshop designed for those who are already familiar with the basics, where we will teach advanced material such as automated survey design, adaptive sampling, incorporating covariates into the detection function, methods for where g(0)<1, and spatial modelling of density. Participants will learn the more advanced features of version 4 of Distance. ********************************************************** For both workshops, participants are encouraged to bring their own data sets, and can expect to do some preliminary analyses of their data. The number of participants on both workshops is strictly limited, and for this reason we encourage you to register as soon as possible. Information and forms can be downloaded from our web site, www.creem.st-and.ac.uk/conferences.php Please contact the workshop organizers with any queries: Rhona Rodger / Catherine Brown CREEM, The Observatory Buchanan Gardens University of St Andrews St Andrews, Fife Scotland KY16 9LZ Tel: (+44) (0) 1334 461829/1840 Fax: (+44) (0) 1334 461800 rhona@mcs.st-and.ac.uk cathy@mcs.st-and.ac.uk ******** Catherine Brown, Assistant Administrator Centre for Research for Ecological and Environmental Monitoring (CREEM) School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews The Observatory Buchanan Gardens St Andrews, Fife KY16 9LZ Scotland Tel: (+44) (0) 1334 461829 Fax: (+44) (0) 1334 461800 email: cathy@mcs.st-and.ac.uk http://www.creem.mcs.st-and.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:50:24 -0500 From: Tracy B Gartner <Tracy.Gartner@HUSKYMAIL.UCONN.EDU> Subject: lignin analyses Dear Ecologers, Does anyone know of a reliable and reasonably priced service laboratory that would analyze ground leaf tissue for lignin? Thanks for any input! Tracy Tracy Blickhan Gartner, PhD Candidate Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut 75 North Eagleville Road, U-3043 Storrs, CT 06269 860 486 0805 (office) 860 486 5382 (lab) http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/grads/tgartner/ ------------------------------ End of ECOLOG-L Digest - 1 Mar 2003 to 2 Mar 2003 (#2003-59) ************************************************************ ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙
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