From sdduncan at abs.animalbehavior.org Fri Nov 14 15:50:08 2008 From: sdduncan at abs.animalbehavior.org (Shan Duncan) Date: Fri Nov 14 15:50:10 2008 Subject: ABSNet Digest, Vol 16, Issue 30 References: <200811142044.mAEKiktw013863@abs.animalbehavior.org> Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A B S n e t - Electronic Newsletter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maintained in association with the Animal Behavior Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Shan D. Duncan Internet: sdduncan@abs.animalbehavior.org Editorial Support: * James C. Ha Internet: jcha@u.washington.edu Today's Topics: 1. Graduate Study at UCLA 2. Position announcement 3. Call for Abstracts - Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference 4. BCI Workshops 5. GRADUATE STUDENT OPPORTUNITY : 2009 EMERGING PUBLIC POLICY LEADERSHIP AWARD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:28:37 -0800 From: Dan Blumstein Subject: Graduate Study at UCLA To: absnet-post@abs.animalbehavior.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA welcomes applications for graduate study. Our PhD support packages provide guaranteed support packages of $26,000 per year along with research seed money. Visit our website http://www.eeb.ucla.edu and learn about our department's interdisciplinary strengths animal behavior, conservation biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, marine biology, paleobiology, plant biology, physiological ecology, theoretical biology and tropical biology. The hiring of John Novembre, Jamie Lloyd-Smith, and Steve Hubbell strengthens UCLA's theoretical biology group, the arrival of Patty Gowaty strengthens our interdisciplinary animal behavior group, and the addition of Novembre, Michael Alfaro, and Paul Barber to existing faculty make UCLA one of the best places to study phylogeography and quantitative evolution. We are committed to the recruitment and education of underrepresented minorities. Prospective students are encouraged to contact potential faculty advisors prior to applying. Our application deadline is 1 December; applications can be submitted on-line. -- Daniel T. Blumstein Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:08:36 -0500 From: "Schneider, Stan" Subject: RE: position announcement To: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Chair, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte Chair, The Dept. of Biology, UNC Charlotte, effective July 1, 2009. 12-month appointment. Required qualifications: 1) a doctoral degree in the biological sciences; 2) a distinguished record of scholarship and teaching, appropriate for appointment as a full professor; and 3) evidence of strong administrative skills. Desired qualifications: prev. admin. experience; a record of securing external funding. A full description of the position and application details can be found at http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu. Applications must be made electronically at https://jobs.uncc.edu and must include a CV and statements on research, teaching and leadership/management style. Informal inquiries can be made to the Search Committee co-Chairs, Charles Brody (cbrody@uncc.edu) and Stan Schneider (sschnedr@uncc.edu). Review of applications will begin Dec. 15, 2008 and continue until the position is filled. All inquires and applications will be treated as confidential. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained. Therefore, we celebrate diversity that includes, but is not limited to ability/disability, age, culture, ethnicity, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. Dr. Stan Schneider Department of Biology University of North Carolina Charlotte, NC 28223 704-687-8527 http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Faculty/Schneider/index.htm ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:15:55 -0600 From: Travis Hinkelman Subject: Call for Abstracts - Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference To: absnet-post@abs.animalbehavior.org Message-ID: <4919150B.9040506@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed The *Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference (MEEC) *will be hosted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from March 27-29, 2009. This conference is for graduate and undergraduate students to present research via oral paper and poster presentations. Keynote speakers will include David Quammen, David Hillis, and Svata Louda. For more information about MEEC 2009, please visit midwesteec.org . While faculty and post-docs are not allowed to present at MEEC 2009, they are strongly encouraged to attend to support and network with top students from throughout the Midwest. All MEEC attendees must register for the conference. Abstract submission and meeting registration should be completed online at midwesteec.org . * Abstract Submission Deadline: *February 15, 2009* * Conference Registration Deadline*: February 15, 2009* * Hotel Special Rate Deadline*: February 15, 2009* Sincerely, MEEC 2009 Steering Committee TJ Bliss, Chair Matthew Giovanni Travis Hinkelman ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:30:53 -0600 From: Shan Duncan Subject: BCI Workshops To: absnet-post@abs.animalbehavior.org Message-ID: <71251F87-0605-4FE6-B9E4-D6C45C0EB01B@abs.animalbehavior.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:20:23 -0600 From: workshops To: jcha@u.washington.edu Subject: BCI Workshops Hello all, I am pleased to announce the dates and locations for Bat Conservation International's 2009 Bat Conservation & Management workshops in Arizona, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. For the sixth consecutive year, BCI will also be hosting an Acoustic Monitoring workshop to be held in Arizona. Please help BCI spread the word by posting information on your organization’s website/list serve, distributing this information to key contacts in your organization, and informing any of your colleagues who may benefit from the training offered in these workshops. Below are brief workshop descriptions. For your convenience, I have attached workshop fliers to this e-mail. Additional information and registration forms are available on BCI's website: http://batcon.org/workshops Experiences at each workshop are designed to teach new techniques, refresh old ones and foster an interest in pro-active conservation, education, and research projects. Please contact me if you have questions or need more information. Thank you in advance for sharing this important opportunity with others. Sincerely, Peg Lau Hee Workshops Coordinator workshops@batcon.org Bat Conservation International 2009 BAT CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT WORKSHOPS Each year, Bat Conservation International (BCI) offers a series of comprehensive, introductory field workshops to train serious students of bat conservation in current research and management techniques for the study of bats. Following an intensive 6-day, 5-night agenda, participants will experience a combination of lectures and discussions, field trips to view bat habitat resources and hands-on training to catch and identify bats. Learn species identification, netting, radio-tracking, night-vision observation and habitat assessment while working in extraordinary settings. An Arizona workshop in the Chiricahua Mountains emphasizes western bats. The Chiricahuas offer a biodiversity unequalled anywhere else in North America. You can expect to see, capture and handle as many as 18 bat species in a single evening, and then watch endangered long-nosed bats visit hummingbird feeders at your front door. Participants have also enjoyed spotting ring-tailed cats, coatis, and trogans. BCI workshop veteran Janet Tyburec, along with BCI biologists and professional colleagues will share a wealth of knowledge on species identification (including by echolocation calls), bat conservation, management, education, public health and nuisance issues, artificial habitats and much more. We will stay at the American Museum of Natural History’s famous Southwestern Research Station, where you will enjoy superb dining with researchers from around the world. Two sessions: May 5-10 and May 11-16, 2009. Each session limited to 16 people. Departure city: Tucson, AZ. Co! st: $1,395 A Kentucky workshop will focus on underground environments and their importance to bats, including the federally endangered gray and Indiana myotis. In partnership with the National Park Service at Mammoth Cave, students will explore cave habitats and learn to assess past bat use by identifying hibernation staining and quantifying historic guano piles. All fieldwork here is part of a vital, long-term inventory program for the Park Service. One session: July 14-19, 2009. This workshop is limited to 20 people per session. Departure city: Nashville, TN. Cost: $1,395 Our Pennsylvania workshop highlights eastern bats and their habitats. We’ll net, trap and release bats over trout streams and beaver ponds, observe endangered Indiana bats swarming at a mine entrance, watch 20,000 little brown myotis in a spectacular dawn return to their roost at a restored church and examine them up close. Workshop co- leader Cal Butchkoski of the Pennsylvania Game Commission is a leading expert on surveying and radio-tracking Indiana bats, as well as one of America’s most successful builders of bat houses and other artificial roosts. Cal and Janet Tyburec, joined by local consultant John Chenger, will share a wealth of knowledge covering all aspects of bat conservation, management, education and public health and nuisance issues. Home cooking is but one of many unexpected treats at historic Greene Hills Manor, our workshop headquarters. One session: August 14-19, 2009. This session is limited to 20 people. Departure city: Harrisburg, PA. Cost: $! 1,395 2009 ACOUSTIC MONITORING WORKSHOP BCI is offering an acoustic monitoring workshop session at the Southwestern Research Station in Portal, Arizona. This workshop will cover hardware and software including Anabat and SonoBat and teach call identifications and how to develop a monitoring program. Participants will learn directly from software developers Chris Corben and Joe Szewczak, along with acoustic experts Sybill Amelon and Ted Weller. The format will be similar to BCI's Bat Conservation and Management workshops, combining discussions of current research with hands-on demonstrations and fieldwork. Each night, we will be capturing bats and developing call libraries so participants can return to their home study areas and begin their own projects armed with knowledge and experience. BCI will have equipment available, but participants are encouraged to bring there own systems. The Acoustic Monitoring Workshop is an advanced workshop designed for graduates of previous BCI workshops and/or experienced bat worke! rs. One session: May 11-16, 2000. Acoustic Monitoring workshop is limited to 15 people. Departure city: Tucson, Arizona. Cost: $1,595 For additional information, registration forms and scholarship applications, visit www.batcon.org/workshops or contact Peg Lau Hee, Workshops Coordinator, at BCI, PO Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716; 512-327-9721; workshops@batcon.org. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:31:45 -0600 From: Shan Duncan Subject: GRADUATE STUDENT OPPORTUNITY : 2009 EMERGING PUBLIC POLICY LEADERSHIP AWARD To: absnet-post@abs.animalbehavior.org Message-ID: <0C52CEE0-14DA-4AA3-86F1-D8EE52062B39@abs.animalbehavior.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes GRADUATE STUDENT OPPORTUNITY : 2009 EMERGING PUBLIC POLICY LEADERSHIP AWARD The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS, www.aibs.org) is pleased to announce that applications are being accepted for the 2009 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award (EPPLA). The EPPLA program enables graduate students in the biological sciences to receive first-hand experience in the science policy arena. Recipients receive: - A trip to Washington, DC, during spring 2009 to participate in a Biological and Ecological Sciences Coalition (BESC) Congressional Visits Day (target dates are 21-22 April 2009). The BESC CVD is an annual event that brings scientists to Washington , DC , to advocate for federal funding for the biological sciences. - The EPPLA will attend briefings by key officials from the White House and Congress and a Capitol Hill reception honoring a member of Congress. - The EPPLA will meet with their Representative and Senators. - A certificate and 1-year AIBS membership, including subscription to BioScience and a copy of Communicating Science: A Primer for Working with the Media. For application details and requirements, go to:http://www.aibs.org/announcements/081031_aibs_accepting_applications_2009.html Applications must be received by 5:00 PM eastern, 6 February 2009. Dr. Jan Randall Department of Biology San Francisco State University San Francisco , Ca 94132 jrandall@sfsu.edu janners98@yahoo.com jan@janrandall.org ------------------------------ Contact Addresses: James Ha Department of Psychology and National Primate Research Center University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 Shan D. Duncan Animal Behavior Society Central Office at Indiana University 402 N. 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