Subject: ECOLOG-L Digest - 8 Aug 2003 to 10 Aug 2003 (#2003-199)
There are 3 messages totalling 301 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Hawaii Community College: Instructor in Agro-Forestry and Forest Ecosys
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Management
2. PhD and Postdoc Opportunities in Ecology. Israel
3. Job Announcement
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Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 06:37:14 -1000
From: Dan Gruner <dgruner@HAWAII.EDU>
Subject: Hawaii Community College: Instructor in Agro-Forestry and Forest
Ecosystem Management
This ad is forwarded on behalf of Fred Stone. Please distribute to your
networks.
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Instructor in Agro-Forestry and Forest Ecosystem Management, position
number 83045, Hawaii CC, (Hawai'i Community College), tenure track,
full-time, 9-month appointment, general funds to begin approximately
01/01/2004, pending availability of funds and actual staffing requirements.
May include instructional assignments involving distance education.
Possible evening, weekend and off-campus assignments Duties: Under general
supervision, conduct lecture (including distance education) and field
laboratory courses in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global
Positioning Systems (GPS), forest ecosystem management, agro-forestry,
geography, and some combination of environmental sciences, biological
sciences, natural resources, or forestry. Work on the development and
implementation of vocational programs in forest ecosystem management and
agro-forestry with advisory board members, and colleagues. Develop
curriculum; identify, plan, develop and implement courses and teaching
strategies with a strong technology and field component. Actively seek
grants for program development. Carry out instructional and
non-instructional assignments; maintain a professional self-improvement
plan; participate in division, college, and community service as
appropriate; perform related duties as assigned Minimum qualifications:
Master's Degree from an accredited institution in geography, biological
sciences, environmental sciences, natural resources, conservation ecology,
agriculture, forestry or related field Desirable qualifications: Teaching
experience at the community college level; ability to teach lecture,
distance education, and laboratory courses with a strong field component;
experience in working with GIS and GPS; experience in course and curriculum
development in an agro-forestry and ecosystem management program;
willingness to utilize computers and advanced technology in teaching;
experience in obtaining grants; experience working with government,
community and private agencies in planning vocational programs; familiarity
with tropical island flora and fauna; ability to work with peers and
vocational, technical and liberal arts students in a multicultural setting;
willingness to work on student recruitment, and summer internship programs
Pay range: C2, $36,420 per year To apply: Submit postmarked by closing
date, (1) application (CC Form, 27A) at
http://www.hawaii.edu/ohr/bor/forms/uh27.pdf (2) transcripts awarding the
degree from an accredited institution (copies are acceptable; however,
official transcripts will be required at the time of hire), (3) a statement
outlining how you meet the minimum and desirable qualifications, and (4)
resume to: Professor Marilyn Bader, Chairperson, HawCC, Math & Natural
Science Dept., 200 West Kawili Street, Hilo, HI 96720-4091. Letters of
recommendation are welcome. An incomplete application will not be
considered. Materials submitted will not be returned. Complete faxes to
808-974-7757 are acceptable with originals postmarked within three working
days from closing. All minimum qualifications must be met by the effective
date of employment INQUIRIES: 808- 974-7421 Date posted: Aug-04-2003
Closing date: Aug-29-2003
The University of Hawai'i is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
institution. All qualified applicants will be considered, regardless of
race, sex, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability,
marital status, sexual orientation, or status as disabled veteran or
veteran of Vietnam era.
Employment is contingent on satisfying employment eligibility verification
requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
Appointments to positions are subject to campus recruitment guidelines and
the collective bargaining agreement.
http://workatuh.hawaii.edu/faculty.php
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:13:03 -0400
From: Moshe Inbar <minbar@RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL>
Subject: PhD and Postdoc Opportunities in Ecology. Israel
Sorry for cross posting .
PhD and Postdoc Opportunities in Ecology at Haifa University (Israel)
We are interested in a PhD student and a postdoc to work on an ISF-funded
program in the field of Animal - Plant Interactions. The project links
herbivory and pollination to plant (Nicotiana glauca) constitutive and
induced chemical defense (see abstract below).
Please pass this on to potential candidates that you think might be
interested.
For more information:
Prof. Ido Izhaki izhaki@research.haifa.ac.il
Dr. Moshe Inbar minbar@research.haifa.ac.il
Dr. Gidi Ne'eman gneeman@research.haifa.ac.il
ABSTRACT
Traditionally, pollination and herbivory were treated as separate
ecological events interacting plant and animals.
Until recently secondary compounds, which many of them are feeding
deterrents, were mostly considered to play a major role in the coevolution
of plants and their herbivores. However, the fact that many plant species
contain secondary compounds in their nectar arises the question regarding
the role of these substances in the mutual interactions with their
pollinators. Nectar is a reward produced to attract pollinators. However,
the pollinators^Ò attracting traits may also attract other organisms, such
as microbes and nectar robbers, which may decrease plants^Ò fitness.
Plants thus face an evolutionary dilemma: how to make their nectar
attractive to legitimate pollinators while unattractive to detrimental
consumers. Secondary compounds in nectar might offer a novel solution to
this evolutionary dilemma, mediating interactions between plants and the
disparate array of nectarivores. Several ^Óadaptive hypotheses^Ô have been
proposed to explain the potential functions of secondary compounds in
floral nectar including: pollinator fidelity, deterring nectar robbers,
altering pollinator behavior and preventing microbial degradation of
nectar. These hypotheses are suggested to confer fitness benefits to the
plant. In contrast, the ^Ónon-adaptive hypotheses^Ô suggest that secondary
compounds are of low costs to the plants and provide no benefits.
To date, most of these hypotheses were overlooked and not experimentally
tested. Furthermore, plant resources allocated for defense (secondary
compounds) in nectar may be affected by foliar herbivory. The main
hypothesis of our proposed research is that evolutionary interactions
between plants and nectar consumers (legitimate pollinators,
nectar robbers and microorganisms) are mediated by the secondary compounds
in the nectar. We propose to test the above hypotheses regarding the
possible role of specific secondary compounds (anabasine & nicotine) in
Tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca), adopting a multiperspective design. This
approach will include the plants^Ò responses to foliar herbivory and to
legitimate and non-legitimate pollination and the consequential impacts on
its reproductive success. We will use controlled experiments to compare
the concentrations of secondary compounds in the nectar before and after
artificial herbivory and artificial non-legitimate pollination events. We
will assess pollination efficiencies of sunbirds, bees and ants, which are
natural nectar consumers of N. glauca, and by adding naturally
occurring secondary compounds to artificial nectar, we will test the
pollinators^Ò response to various levels of secondary compounds. We will
also examine the reproductive success of plants, visited by various nectar
consumers, as a function of the levels of secondary compounds in the
nectar. The effect of alkaloids on microbial activity in the nectar, and
therefore on nectar viability to pollinators, will be tested. The
significance of the proposed study is in its novel view looking at role of
secondary compounds in complex pollination system. The present work
may suggest direct interactions between two trajectories of coevolution:
plant-herbivore and plant-pollinator, via secondary compounds.
Understanding the reproductive strategies and plant population dynamics of
N. glauca may also have valuable implications for controlling this
worldwide invasive weed.
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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:38:10 -0700
From: "Constance, Anna" <conann05@EVERGREEN.EDU>
Subject: Job Announcement
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Nalini M. Nadkarni<BR>
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to create software tools and concepts that will be of use in the =
collection, manipulation, analysis, visualization, and storage of =
canopy-related data. We have put together an interdisciplinary research =
team to create databases, develop templates for database design and =
data analysis, and are now working towards building ways to visualize =
and statistically analyze canopy structure and function data in ways =
that will enhance the ability of forest canopy researchers to link and =
compare their data. We recently received funds for a 9-12 month =
postdoctoral position in forest ecology and ecosystem =
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Subject: ECOLOG-L Digest - 3 Aug 2003 to 4 Aug 2003 (#2003-195)
There are 2 messages totalling 100 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Sustainable development summary
2. Postdoc - Ecology of plague, California/Colorado
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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:52:09 -0500
From: "Meretsky, Vicky J." <meretsky@INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: Sustainable development summary
A short time ago I sent a request for teaching material and texts for a
broad-based sustainable development course. These are the suggestions I
received. Many thanks to all who wrote.
Vicky Meretsky
The newest (July 8) issue of PNAS has a special section on
sustainability.
Wonder if any of those papers might be helpful.
The concept of SD is fine, it's the assumptions one makes in specifying
a
complex system that create pits and nebulae;-) I'd recommend
"Supply-side
Sustainability" by Allen, Tainter, & Hoekstra (Columbia U. Press) as the
place to start, for ecologist and economists alike. Also, SD goes hand
in
hand with adaptive management (see James Kay et al, AMESH process
papers, U.
of Waterloo, CA). Enjoy!
Lester Brown's Eco-Economy is a "how to" guide for building an economy
based on natural capital.
Feel free to refer your colleague to the following lightly annotated
bibliography on the steady state economy and related sustainability
publications:
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-brianczech/Publications.html
You may also refer him or her to the Resources site:
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-brianczech/Figures.html
which has a link to curricula using sustainability texts.
I taught such a course last year at Colby College. For what it's worth,
your colleague might find some relevant publications in my syllabus,
which includes live hyperlinks to a lot of the pieces:
http://www.colby.edu/govt/faculty/wcgb/es235XX.html
Herman Daly from the School of Public Affairs at University of Maryland
at College Park offers a very interesting course on sustainable
development. I would highly recommend his book 'Beyond Growth' for any
course on Sustainable Development.
I can suggest that he take a look at the Symposium issue of the Columbia
Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 27 No. 2 produced in the spring of
2002
after the Conference on Trade, Sustainability and Global Governance that
took place at Columbia Law School on March 2, 2002.
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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 07:38:10 -0700
From: "Stapp, Paul" <pstapp@EXCHANGE.FULLERTON.EDU>
Subject: Postdoc - Ecology of plague, California/Colorado
Apologies for cross-postings:
Postdoctoral research position available in Fall 2003 as part of a
NSF-funded study of the ecology of plague in small mammal populations.
Position will be based in southern California, with 6-8 months of field
work at the Shortgrass Steppe LTER site in north-central Colorado. A
two-year commitment expected, with a possibility of extension. The
start date is somewhat flexible; Sep-Oct preferred, Nov-Dec acceptable.
Field experience with small mammals, strong quantitative skills, and
solid record of research productivity are required.
Send cover letter describing qualifications, CV and three letters of
reference to: Paul Stapp, Department of Biological Science, California
State University, Fullerton, CA 92834-6850. Email or call for more
details (pstapp@fullerton.edu; telephone: 714 278 2849).
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