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GDPEWeekly Digest
November 11th, 2019
UPCOMING GDPE EVENTS
Wed 11/13 - 4:00 pm LSCNorth. ResidentDistinguished EcologistRichard Knight: "Can Wildlife
Biology Inform Conservation
in an Era of Science
Skepticism?"
Reception to follow at 5:00 pm.
(find other up-coming DE speakers here)
For more ecology and other CSU events,please see Ecology & CSU events section.
From your GDPE Admin Team
In 2006, as the GDPE executive committee waspreparing a call for nominations for theDistinguished Ecologist lecture series,committee members discussed, and lamented,that we have many ecologists among our ranksat CSU that were as distinguished as those wehosted annually, yet we had no mechanism tohonor them. The solution was to opennominations to “Resident DistinguishedEcologists” as part of the lecture series.
This week, GDPE honors Dr. Richard (Rick)Knight as our 14th Resident DistinguishedEcologist. Rick will deliver a seminar to GDPEand the campus at 4 pm this Wednesday in theLSC North Ballroom. A reception will follow (formore details, look to the left!). Please plan toattend, enjoy an entertaining and informative talk,and congratulate Rick on this honor.
DEADLINES
GDPE DeadlinesMon., Nov. 11 - LIFE102/103 GDPE GTAapplications due. Please send your materials(including your advisor's letter of support) toJennifer Neuwald.
Graduate School Deadlines for Fall GraduatesFri, Dec. 20 - all outstanding issues resolved(e.g. GS25B, GS52, etc.)Find all of the deadline details on the CSUGraduate School's website here.
General Registration DeadlinesFind all of the registration deadline details on theCSU Registrar's website here.
Obtaining Signatures
Degree Deadlines
Student Forms
GDPE
GDPE in the Press:Diana Wall awarded President’s Medal by theBritish Ecological Society
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Upcoming Courses of Interest
AB511- Microbiome of Plant SystemDr. Pankaj Trivedi, MW 9:00 - 10:30 amMore info here.
GDPE Grad Student Survey NR510 - Ecosystem Services: Theory andPracticeDr. Kelly Jones, M 2:00 - 4:45 pmMore info here.
SOCR670 - Terrestrial Ecosystem IsotopeEcologyM. Francesca Cotrufo, M W 11-11:50 amLab F 11-1:00 pm More info here
ECOL693 (Research Seminar) will only offer theoral section (001) for this coming Sp20semester. The written section was offered thisFall.
SEEKING ECOL592 PROPOSALSWe are soliciting proposals for Spring 2020ECOL592 Interdisciplinary seminars. Theseseminars offer our students an in-depth look atecological topics at the forefront of our discipline.Please submit a proposal on-line here.
****************All paperwork: Please drop all paperwork at theGDPE office (Johnson Hall 102), and Dawn willcoordinate signatures and processing. Thanks!
We want your feedback! Do you have commentsor suggestions about how your GDPE experiencecan improve? Let us know! Contact yourExComm Student Representatives, ShelbyMcClelland and Erika Peirce to provide yourfeedback.
Stay in touch by tagging GDPE in your posts andphotos on Twitter - @CSU_Ecology and usehashtags #GDPE and #CSU_Ecology. We lookforward to seeing you on Twitter throughout thesemester!
Submitting AnnouncementsStudent Success: Let us know if you've gotten apaper accepted, won an award, or received agrant by emailing our Science CommunicationFellow, Arianna Punzalan.
Information for Digest: Please submitdetails here for consideration. If you havequestions about this, please contact ourProgram Coordinator, Dawn Koschnitzki.
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ECOLOGY & CSU EVENTS 11/25-11/26: QIIME2 Workshop: Is analyzingmicrobiome data in your future? We are excited tooffer a two-day workshop on using QIIME2 as atool for analyzing and visualizing amplicon-sequencing microbiome data! The workshop,
Upcoming:
11/12: Graduate Student Showcase: Celebrateresearch, creativity and entrepreneurship with uson November 12 at the GraduateStudent Showcase! Approximately 300 graduatestudents from all eight colleges present theirwork to 200+ judges while competing for $15K inscholarships during the GradShow. Info
11/12 - 11/13: Google Earth Engine Workshop,4pm-7pm. The FWCB Graduate StudentOrganization will host the Google Earth Engineworkshop, led by Dr. David Theobald and VincentLandau. Snacks and drinks will be provided, butworkshop is FULL, to be placed on wait listContact Nathan Hahn([email protected]) Info
11/13: GIS Day: Call for Spatial StoriesGIS Day will be celebrated at Colorado StateUniversity on Wednesday, November 13. We areseeking presenters and posters around thisyear's theme of Spatial Stories, so please usethe link above (by October 25) to indicate yourinterest in contributing. NOTE: Additional detailsabout GIS Day are forthcoming. This is the initialcall for involvement. For more information
11/22: Graduate Student Council Volunteer ofthe Month The next award cycle ends on November 22. Ifyou would like to nominate yourself or anothergraduate student for volunteer of the month,please apply here Email any questions [email protected].
taught by experienced QIIME2 instructors, willcover the entire process of analyzing amicrobiome study, from important data collectionsteps to final visualizations and everything inbetween! This is a great opportunity to becomefamiliar with a new bioinformatic tool, or to get arefresher if it has been awhile. No experience ordata is required for this course, just a laptop andenthusiasm! You are welcome to attend as astudent, postdoc, professor, or researcher!Register quickly, because the course will becapped at 25 students.When: November 25th - 26th, 9am - 5pmWhere: CSU campus, Animal Sciences room161Cost: $125 (includes lunch and refreshmentsboth days!)Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qiime2-workshop-tickets-74882203687If you have further questions, please contact AndyEsterle at [email protected]
12/11 - Invitation to Organize "InternationalMountain Day" Celebration at CSUDecember 11 is the UN-designated “InternationalMountain Day”. Our colleagues on the west slopeat Western Colorado University in Gunnison havean enthusiastic group of mountain grad studentswho are hoping to organize a student-led eventacross many universities on this date, followedby Mountain Day activities at respectiveuniversities. This will be coordinated andsupported by the UN Mountain Partnership,based in Rome. CSU STUDENTS: If you want tohelp organize the CSU portion of this, pleaseemail: Julia Klein, Associate Professor,CSU [email protected]
2/8 COPARC Annual MeetingSaturday February 8, 2020 Boulder County OpenSpace Building 5201 St Vrain Rd, Longmont, CO80503 Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pmRegister
RESOURCES
R-user group.Wednesdays 3-5 pm NR 256 Signup for updates or to contact the group. Questions.
Coming Out, Being Out, andQuestioning Support Group. Email JessieCharbonneau for details.
CSU Writes: Show up & write. Drop-in writingsessions provide faculty and graduate students a
designated time and place to "show up & write."
CSU Health Network Therapy: CSUHN hasindividual and group counseling as well asworkshops and are available for students forfree.
Data and Donuts - Data Management MadeTasty: Good data management practices arebecoming increasingly important in the digitalage. Learn how you can improve your datamanagement.
Coding and Cookies - Everything is better withcookies. Especially data: Sessions are focusedon coding in R.
Geospatial Graduate Students Club: Anyoneinterested in geospatial applications is welcome.Click here to learn more!
Society for Ecological Restoration- RockyMountains Chapter (SER-RM)Visit website. Follow Facebook page or Twitter.
Graduate Researchers Across Microbiomes(GRAM): Would like to invite any graduatestudents or post-docs with involvement orinterest in microbiome research to join ourstudent organization. We will be meeting monthlythis fall on the third Tuesday of every month at theMarmot.
NREL's EcoAcademy offers opportunities forstudents, scientists, environmentalprofessionals, and K-12 teachers to learn fromour over 50 years experience as a leader in thefield of ecosystem science. From these classes,participants will learn cutting edge techniquesfrom faculty and researchers that have been citedover 74,000 times since 2014. These non-creditcourses can provide you with skills and hands onexperience to take your research to next levelscience. Our 2020 EcoAcademy series is kickingoff with a R Shiny workshop Jan. 13-17! More info
GRANTS / JOBS
Evelyn Pruitt National Fellowship forDissertation Research The Society of WomanGeographers (SWG) invites applications for itsEvelyn L. Pruitt doctoral dissertation researchfellowships for 2020-2021 for women ingeography and geographical aspects of otherfields. SWG expects to make four to six awards of$8,000 to $12,000. Applications are due February1, 2020.www.iswg.org/fellowships.
Evelyn L. Pruitt National Minority Fellowship TheSociety of Woman Geographers (SWG)Evelyn L. Pruitt National Minority Fellowship TheSociety of Woman Geographers (SWG) invitesapplications for its Evelyn L. Pruitt NationalMinority Fellowship for 2020-2021. Applicationsare due February 1, 2020.www.iswg.org/fellowships.
Ecologist and Economist Post Doc Positions UMand UNL Seeking two researchscientists/postdoctoral scholars at the Universityof Montana and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, incollaboration with USDA Natural ResourcesConservation Service and their ConservationEffects Assessment Project. To apply for eitherposition provide 1) letter of interest, and 2) CV(including references) to both Brady Allred ([email protected] ) and Dirac Twidwell( [email protected] ) by December 1, 2019
Rocky Mountain Research Station USDA ForestService - Outreach Notice
Forest Ecology TT position at West Virginia UWest Virginia University is currently trying to fill atenure-track position in forest ecology at theAssistant Professor level in the Department ofBiology at West Virginia University.They areseeking an individual who uses a combination ofempirical and advanced analytical techniques,and who can leverage “Big Data” (e.g., NEON,FIA, NADP, ForestGEO, or AmeriFlux data) to linkchanges in tree species composition with theresulting impacts on forest ecosystemfunction. For more info
Research Assistantship - National Park Service(NPS) The National Park Service (NPS) ClimateChange Response Program (CCRP) seeks onequalified graduate student to contribute tonumerous ongoing climate change adaptationactivities supporting management of nationalparks. The selected candidate will support NPSscientists in developing and applying soundscience to identify, inform, implement, andevaluate the application of climate changeadaptation strategies across the U.S. NationalPark System.This is a salaried graduateresearch assistantship position throughColorado State University. Please provide yourstatement of interest, resume of experience, andcollege transcripts to Alan Ellsworthat [email protected] position willremain open until filled.
Post-Doctoral Position: The project will identifyand evaluate potential management strategiestowards recovery of the Federally EndangeredShenandoah salamander within ShenandoahNational Park. Managers at Shenandoah
Wildlife and Terrestrial Ecosystems Program -Wildlife Research Ecologist with QuantitativeSkills Location: Albuquerque, NMResponsibilities: We are seeking a permanentresearch ecologist with strong statistical andspatial modeling skills to develop a researchprogram in the Southern Rockies / SouthwesternUnited States.
Southeast Alaska Network (SEAN) -Quantitative Ecologist PositionThe Southeast Alaska Network (SEAN) supportsGlacier Bay National Park and Preserve, KlondikeGold Rush National Historical Park, SitkaNational Historical Park, and coastal portions ofWrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve byconducting long-term monitoring of ecosystemdrivers and indicators of ecosystem condition.
USGS Ecologist (Term)Term landscape ecologist position with theUSGS Fort Collins Science Center that will workclosely with planners, managers, and policymakers at the Bureau of Land Management andother land management agencies andorganizations, to conduct landscape-scaleresearch addressing priority managementquestions on western public lands.Info
U.S. Geological Survey Southwest BiologicalScience Center, Flagstaff, AZ-Fire Ecology Post-Doc The U.S. Geological Survey SouthwestBiological Science Center in Flagstaff, AZ ishiring a fire ecology post-doc to begin December2019. The post-doc will apply fuels mappingmethods and fire modeling to understand currentand future fire behavior in grasslands, savannas,and dry forests of the southwestern U.S. Info
Post-doc in Ecological Land Surface ModelingUniversity of WyomingWe are looking for a post-doctoral researcher towork for two years on a funded DOE projectfocused on improving grass/shrub componentswithin land surface models. To apply: Pleaseemail a cover letter, your CV, and contactinformation for three professional references asa single PDF to Kevin Wilcox([email protected]) by Wednesday, Nov20th for full consideration. Info
Assistant Professor – Biology Department,Ithaca College The Biology Department at IthacaCollege seeks applicants with expertise inevolutionary biology and ecology for a full-time,non-tenure-eligible appointment as an AssistantProfessor for a three-year contract (with thepossibility of renewal) beginning August 16,2020. – The primary responsibility is tocoordinate and teach an introductory Ecology andEvolution course, including lectures andlaboratory sessions for 140-180 students in thephysical therapy and occupational therapy
National Park need validated information to bettermanage the endangered Shenandoahsalamander in the face of climate change.
Director of Conservation Science: The Directorof Conservation Science will play a criticalleadership role in promoting positive outcomesfor nature and people by using an evidence-based, scientific approach to inspire, inform andguide the conservation and policy strategies ofthe Nature Conservancy’s Colorado Chapter.
Doctoral Graduate Position - Invasive GrassDistributions and Niche ModelingWe are seeking a PhD-level graduate studentinterested in invasive plants, plant ecology, andlandscape-scale patterns andprocesses.capacity. To apply, send the followingvia email (1) resume, (2) names and contactinformation of three professional references, (3)undergraduate and graduate universitytranscripts (unofficial transcripts are sufficient),and (4) letter explaining why you are interested inand qualified for this position to Dr. CynthiaBrown. Review of applications will begin October15 and will continue until the position is filled.For more information contact Dr. Cini Brown([email protected]).
Postdoctoral PositionDisease ecology, epidemiological modeling, &ecoimmunology School of Biological Sciences,Washington State UniversityThe Brunner/Crespi Lab is looking for apostdoctoral researcher to work on an NSF-fundedproject scaling the stress-induced susceptibilityhypothesis to population-level outcomes. Thebroad goal is to understand how susceptibility(tolerance and resistance) changes throughdevelopment of wood frog tadpoles, and how thisscales up to affect the likelihood and severityof ranavirus epidemics. For more informationcontact:[email protected]
Post Doctoral Research Associate:USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center isseeking a post-doctoral research associate withinterest in survey design and analysis andwaterfowl biology. Specific duties will be toconduct statistical analyses of waterfowl surveydata in support of a review and re-design of theWaterfowl Breeding Population & Habitat Survey(WBPHS).For further information, contact:John Sauer, [email protected], 301-497-5662
Ph.D. Student Opportunity: The Deer Laboratoryat the Warnell School of Forestry and NaturalResources at University of Georgia is recruiting aPh.D. student with an interest in using structureddecision making to improve wildlifemanagement.
programs. Info
Assistant Professor, NC State UniversityNC State University is advertising for an AssistantProfessor position to be hired under theChancellor's Faculty Excellence Program for theGlobal Environmental Change and Human Well-being Cluster. In addition to working closely withother faculty within this cluster, the incumbent willhave opportunities for collaboration exist acrossdepartments and colleges as well as with theUSGS Southeast Climate Adaptation ScienceCenter, the North Carolina Museum of NaturalSciences, the Office of Public Science, theCluster of Public Science, the Cluster inGeospatial Analytics, and the Cluster inEmerging Plant Disease and Global FoodSecurity (NB: emphasis is mine). Note,applications and nominations for Associate andFull Professors will also beconsidered. Relocation assistance services areprovided by the university.Review of Applications will begin on December15, 2019. See the full advertisementhere: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/124813
Post-doctoral position - FORECASTING THECONSEQUENCES, FOR FISH POPULATIONS,OF WATER MANAGEMENT DECISIONS, INRESPONSE TO ONGOING DROUGHT IN THECOLORADO RIVER BASIN - State and federalagencies will soon begin negotiating water-supply agreements that would govern watersupply and storage in the Colorado River basinthrough 2046. A start date in the winter or springof 2019-2020 is preferred and term ofappointment will be for at least 18 months.Review of applications will begin on November 8and will continue until a suitable candidate isfound. Interested candidates should send a coverletter, cv, three references, and onerepresentative publication to Charles [email protected].
Post-Doctoral Position - DEVELOPING FISHPOPULATION MODELS TO INFORM ADAPTIVEMANAGEMENT IN THE GRAND CANYONA start date in the winter or spring of 2019-2020is preferred and term of appointment will be for atleast 18 months. Review of applications willbegin on November 8 and will continue until asuitable candidate is found. Interestedcandidates should send a cover letter, cv, threereferences, and one representative publicationto Charles Yackulic [email protected].
