GDPEWeekly Digest

March 23rd 2020

UPCOMING GDPE EVENTS

Please help support the FRSES Organizingcommittee by donating to the FRSES fund for2021! For more information about FRSES and thecampaign, please watch the video below andcheck out the website by following this link:Ramfunder campaign

For more ecology and other CSU events,please see Ecology & CSU events section.

POSTPONED: Information on Spring 2020 DEspeakers here.

From your GDPE Admin Team

GDPE Community-

We realize that yet another message aboutCOVID-19 is the last thing you need toread right now. So we will just direct you tothe GDPE website for updates on how toconduct GDPE business during theseunusual times.

Instead, what we want students and facultyto know is that if you are having anydifficulties with regard to classes,curriculum, research or other GDPEmatters, please don't hesitate to contactus. We will try to help... and if we cannothelp directly, we will find the right people tohelp you.

So just because we are not interacting inperson for awhile, we can still assist youwith all things GDPE.

Hang in there everyone!

~ Your GDPE Admin Team

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Don't forget to check out our Resources andGrant/Jobs sections down below for informationon other resources and opportunities!

DEADLINES

GDPE Deadlines

2020 GDPE Travel Grant DeadlinesMonday, March 23: GDPE Spring 2020 Travel

GDPE

GDPE Course Information

[Fall 2020 course info will be posted later thissemester]

Grant Application DeadlinePlease be aware that many professionalmeetings/workshops are being cancelled.Check with the appropriate society toconfirm the current status of the meeting.

Other DeadlinesFriday, April 10Friday, April 10: The following are due to theGraduate School (we recommend submitting atleast 10 days prior):

GS-24 (Report of Final ExaminationResults) - Due within 2 days of your finaldefense exam!!GS-30 (Thesis/Dissertation SubmissionForm)GS-31 Embargo Request (optional)Survey for Earned Doctorates (PhD only)[herehere]Electronic copy of thesis/dissertation(formatted according to GS guidelines- herehere; they also have workshops to helpwith this!)

NOTE: The GS-30 and GS-31 must besubmitted BEFOREBEFORE your thesis/dissertation can beapproved. Submit the GS-30 as soon aspossible after your defense.

Friday, May 15Friday, May 15 : GS25B "Departmental Requirements Clearance"due to the Graduate SchoolReminder: Per your GS25, the DepartmentRequirement you need to submit to GDPEis: Complete exit interview (herehere)Please coordinate with our Program Coordinator,Dawn Koschnitzki, to get your GS25b signed andsubmitted.

Find all of the deadline details on the CSUGraduate School's website here.

General Registration Deadlines

Find all of the registration deadline details on theCSU Registrar's website here.

Obtaining Signatures

Degree Deadlines

Student Forms

GDPE Grad Student Survey

Proposals for ECOL592 seminars for Fall 2020can be submitted on-line here.

Upcoming Courses of Interest

◆PPA 540 Toolkit for International PolicyPractitioners The course will first be offeredonline in SU20 and then both face-to-face andonline thereafter. More info 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 your ExCommStudent Representatives, ShelbyMcClelland and Erika Peirce to provide yourfeedback.

Stay in touch by tagging GDPE in your postsand photos on Twitter - @CSU_Ecology and usehashtags #GDPE and #CSU_Ecology. We lookforward to seeing you on Twitter throughout thesemester!

The GDPE Conference Room - Johnson Hall132 is available for meetings. Please contactDawn Koschnitzki if you would like to reserve thisspace Conference Room Request Form

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 have

questions about this, please contact our ProgramCoordinator, Dawn Koschnitzki.

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ECOLOGY & CSU EVENTS

UPCOMING:

Upcoming Defense Seminars:

Upcoming Events:

4/11 4th Annual Rocky Mountain GeobiologySymposium Colorado School of Mines Golden,ColoradoAbstract submission deadline: February 29th,2020 Registration deadline: March 20th, 2020Cost: Free Infoinfo here

6/1-6/5 Workshop on Scaling Up sponsored byESA and NEON Fully funded week long workshopfor graduate students (MS and PhD) to learn howto manage big data sets and programing with R,hosted at NEON in Boulder, CO from June 1-5,2020. The deadline to apply is February 28,2020. More info here

7/12-7/18 Alpine Plant Ecology - InternationalSummer School. Jointly organized the Universityof Basel and ALPFOR Info Flyer

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 adesignated time and place to "show up & write."

CSU Health Network Therapy: CSUHN hasindividual and group counseling as well asworkshops and are available for students for free.

CSU Writing CenterEvery year the CSU Writing Center works withhundreds of graduate students from across thecurriculum. Many of those graduate students haverequested that we offer longer consultations forwork on dissertations, theses, and professionalwriting projects. We're happy to announce thathour-long consultations are now available.Whether you're developing a literature review,working to understand reviewers' comments, ortrying to master a new genre of writing, we canhelp. Just make an Hour-Long AppointmentRequest. Questions? Contact us atwriting@colostate.edu or 970-391-0222.

Geospatial Graduate Students Club: Anyoneinterested in geospatial applications is welcome.Click here to learn more!

Data and Donuts - Data Management MadeTasty: Good data management practices arebecoming increasingly important in the digital age.Learn how you can improve your datamanagement.

Coding and Cookies - Everything is better withcookies. Especially data: Sessions are focusedon coding in R.

Society for Ecological Restoration- RockyMountains Chapter (SER-RM)Visit website. Follow Facebook page orTwitter.Graduate Researchers Across

Microbiomes (GRAM): Would like to invite anygraduate students or post-docs with involvementor interest 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, environmental professionals,and K-12 teachers to learn from our over 50 yearsexperience as a leader in the field of ecosystemscience. From these classes, participants willlearn cutting edge techniques from faculty andresearchers that have been cited over 74,000times since 2014. These non-credit courses canprovide you with skills and hands on experience totake your research to next level science.

GRANTS / JOBS

Science Communication LiaisonCOMPASS and the National Center for EcologicalAnalysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) are hiring for ajoint Science Communication Liaison position! Thisexciting partnership between COMPASS andNCEAS offers a unique and powerful way to bringrelevant science to society. We’d greatlyappreciate your help sharing this opportunitywidely across your networks and with particularpeople that you believe would be fabulous in thisposition. The position will be located at theNCEAS building in Santa Barbara, CA. Info

Postdoctoral PositionThe University of Birminghamis seeking a postdoctoral researcher with both bioinformatics and field biology experience. Applicantsmust hold a PhD degree and evidence ofbioinformatics experience is critical,ideally at postdoc level.The candidate will be required to (i)understand theoretical underpinnings of sequence alignment algorithms for nextgeneration sequencing (NGS) data (ii)have proven experience in NGS analysis andcomparative genomics (iii)have knowledge of data visualization methods and of bioinformatics resourcessuch as annotation tools and databases; (iv)have knowledge of methods and approaches fordata integration; and a strong statistical geneticsbackground.

Ecological StatisticsThe analytic methods include, but are not limitedto, Bayesian occupancy modeling including recentdevelopments for false positives and countdetection data; general and generalized linearmodels and mixed models; multivariate methods;Bayesian methods and design-assisted methods.The nature of the collaborative work requiresknowledge and experience in ecology. Info

CSU Extension: Summer Help Needed It is the time of year when CSU Extension isrecruiting educators (and supervisors) for ENORsummer day camp and for AmeriCorps STEMprograms for disadvantaged youth. STEMAmeriCorps, ENOR Educator, ENORSupervisor

The Department of Fish, Wildlife &Conservation Ecology, New Mexico StateUniversity Assistant Professor – FisheriesEcologistThe Department of Fish, Wildlife and ConservationEcology at New Mexico State Universityannounces an opening for an AssistantProfessor/Fisheries Ecologist. The Departmentseeks a candidate to establish a competitivelyfunded research program in applied fisheriesconservation and management to addressimportant scientific questions and societal issuesof relevance to the state of New Mexico, as well asregionally, nationally and internationally. Info

Research Assistantship Opportunity: ClimateChange Adaptation Science AssistantThe National Park Service (NPS) Climate ChangeResponse Program (CCRP) seeks one qualified

Quantitative EcologistsPrimary service provided by the student/recentgraduate is to help develop, run, modify, analyze,and document continental level avian migrationmodels in the study of the potential effects ofenvironmental contaminants on bird populations.In addition, the student/recent graduate shall beexpected to assist in literature search, documentediting, and preparation of data summaries andreports.

Neon Postdoctoral PositionNEON is currently seeking three (3) PostdoctoralFellows to contribute to its scientific missionthrough both advancement of science andengagement of the user community. NEONPostdoctoral Fellows will receive funding for aperiod of two years, contingent on successfulperformance and available funding.

Statistical Position at NOROCK The NorthernRocky Mountain Science Center of the U. S.Geological Survey conducts research in support ofnatural resources management with geographicemphasis on the mountains and plains ofMontana, Wyoming and Idaho. The duty station forthis position is Bozeman, Montana. Info

Assistant Unit Leader New MexicoResearch Ecologist/Wildlife Biologist within theNew Mexico Cooperative Fish & Wildlife ResearchUnit looks like if you've worked with our featheredgame bird friends you might have an edge for thisone. Info

Postdoctoral Position - Boston UniversityThe Department of Earth and Environment atBoston University (BU)invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar tocollaborate on an NSFCNH2 project examining theintegrated socio-environmental dynamicsof deer management in suburban and urban areasof the northeastern UnitedStates. The postdoctoral scholar will conductresearch on the institutions that shape suburbanand urban deer management in the northeasternUnited States. This is an exciting opportunity foran environmental social scientist to engage inconvergent research at the intersections ofinstitutional change and wildlife management.

The High Altitude Revegetation (HAR)Committee Student Travel GrantsUp to three student travel awards of $1000 will bepresented this year. HAR promotes understandingof revegetation procedures when fragile highelevation and high plains ecosystems aredisturbed by human activities. The committee is agrassroots group interested in the revegetationand restoration of plant communities andecosystems. Info Deadline extended to 4/30

Assistant Professor of Fisheries Ecology at

graduate student to contribute to numerousongoing climate change adaptation activitiessupporting management of national parks. Theselected candidate will support NPS scientists indeveloping and applying sound science to identify,inform, implement, and evaluate the application ofclimate change adaptation strategies across theU.S. National Park System. Open until filled. Info

Exciting employment opportunities in appliedherpetology and invasive species controlresearch -- all levels - Brown Treesnake Severalemployment opportunities are available with theResearch Corporation of the University of Guam tosupport USDA in this researchInfo

Assistant Professor (Tenure track)Applied Environmental EconomistDepartment of Natural Resources andEnvironmental Management University ofHawaii Manoa The Department of NaturalResources and Environmental Management(NREM) in the College of Tropical Agriculture andHuman Resources (CTAHR) at the University ofHawaii Manoa seeks an applied environmentaleconomist who will apply cutting edge modelingand statistical techniques as part of a novel,integrative research program that is relevant to thesustainability and resiliency of Hawaii and thePacific Region.Info

PhD Opportunity at New Mexico StateUniversityFunded PhD Assistant Ship - Dryland MicrobialEcology The Pietrasiak lab at New Mexico StateUniversity invites applications for a USDA-AFRIsponsored Ph.D. assistantship in the Plant andEnvironmental Science (PES) program starting insummer/fall 2020. This project is a highlycollaborative and interdisciplinary study with PI’sspanning disciplines such as EnvironmentalSciences, Rangeland, and Global Change Ecologyto using cutting edge techniques in Microbiology,Plant Genomics, and Ecology. Info

GIS/Air Resources Internship via Geoscientistin the Parks (GIP) Program The Great SmokyMountains National Park is hiring a 26 week internposition that will use GIS skills to develop anArcGIS on-line Story-map depicting how historicacid deposition has impacted air, soil and streamwater quality as well as the mitigation's andsignificant deposition improvements that havebeen made in these areas. Info

Indo-U.S. 21st Century Knowledge InitiativeGrant (Fully Funded Travel to India)Dr. Barry R. Noon (Department of Fish, Wildlifeand Conservation Biology), Dr. Ajith Kumar(National Centre for Biological Sciences) and Dr.Karthik Shanker (Indian Institute of Sciences,Centre for Ecological Sciences) received a five-year grant to support science, education and

NMSUPlan, conduct, and direct research related to fish,wildlife, or ecological resources, with application tocontemporary science, policy and managementneeds. Conduct research that is cooperator drivenand provide scientific basis for management andpolicy decisions. Info

Post doctoral Position In Global Change andSpatial Modeling at UC BerkeleyA postdoctoral position is available with theGrinnell Resurvey Project under the direction ofProfessor Steve Beissinger at UC Berkeley in theMuseum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ). Thisproject is funded by NSF to resample birds andmammals in California at sites originally visitedby Joseph Grinnell and colleagues in the early20th century in order to understand how climateand land-use change have affected species’turnover during the past century in California.Info

technology transfer between CSU and five partnerinstitutions in India. The funded proposal is part ofthe Indo-U.S. 21st Century Knowledge Initiative(Project Title: Partnering to Sustain India’sBiological Diversity in the Context of RapidEnvironmental Change: Research, Education andCommunity Outreach). More info here

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 graduate researchassistantship position through Colorado StateUniversity. Please provide your statement ofinterest, resume of experience, and collegetranscripts to Alan Ellsworthat climate_change@nps.gov.The position willremain open until filled.

COPARC Student Conservation ScholarshipThe COPARC Student Conservation Scholarshipopportunity is made possible by the ColoradoPartners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation.The award is intended to assist students studyingreptiles and/or amphibians by offsetting costs ofclasses, education projects, research projects,professional meetings, training events, orcertifications. Recipients are eligible for up to a$250 award. Deadline May 1. Info