Attached is the announcement for a forest health position with Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry located in ST Paul, Minnesota.
Applications are due by January 13, 2014. Application instructions are included in the attachment.
For more information contact: Gregory R Russell 651-259-5798/ greg.russell(a)state.mn.us
View at: https://statejobs.doer.state.mn.us/JobPosting/View?_posting=13DNR000865
Dear colleagues,
For the first time, forest entomologists have used the freely
downloadable Google Street View (GSV) database to map the geographical
distribution of an increasingly common invasive pest insect, the pine
processionary moth. The scientists estimated that this on-line database
would provide a good representation of the presence of this species.
Their findings, published in PLOS ONE on 9 October 2013, open the way to
the simplified and inexpensive acquisition of data that are essential
when studying invasive or expanding species.
Press release:
http://presse.inra.fr/en/Resources/Press-releases/Using-Google-Street-View-…
The article:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0074918
Best regards,
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Dr Pascal FREY
INRA, University of Lorraine
Department of Tree - Microbe Interactions
Ecology of Forest Pathogenic Fungi team
UMR1136 IAM
F-54280 Champenoux
FRANCE
Phone: 33 383 394 056
Fax: 33 383 394 069
E-mail: frey(a)nancy.inra.fr
http://mycor.nancy.inra.fr/IAM/?page_id=731
A PhD position in Ecology, Forest Entomology is available at the Department of Ecology, SLU, Uppsala.
The PhD student will be working in a project that connects ecological theory to practical forestry. Within the project bottom-up and top-down effects of increased diversity will be examined using a pest insect, Neodiprion sertifer, the European Pine Sawfly. The research will involve observational and experimental fieldwork.
Please see the advertisement attached for more information.
Please inform suitable candidates!
Best regards
Christer B
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Christer Björkman, professor
Department of Ecology
Swedish University of Agricultural University
PO Box 7044, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 671532
Fax: +46 18 672890
E-mail: christer.bjorkman(a)slu.se
www.slu.se/ecology/christerbjorkman<http://www.slu.se/ecology/christerbjorkman>
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Dear Colleagues,
You surely marked your calendars a long time ago, but now the time has come to register for the XXIV IUFRO World Congress, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 5-11 October 2014.
All the details, such as registration fees, early-bird registration, payment, and key dates are available at http://iufro2014.com/registration/.
For the actual registration, please click the green button "CLICK HERE TO REGISTER". - We look forward to seeing you in Salt Lake City!
Sincerely yours,
IUFRO Headquarters
on behalf of the Congress Organizing Committee
