Absdigest Digest, Vol 14, Issue 21
James Ha
jcha at u.washington.edu
Fri Aug 3 12:37:30 EDT 2007
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| Maintained in association with the Animal Behavior Society |
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| Editors: * James C. Ha Internet: jcha at u.washington.edu |
| ** Shan D. Duncan Internet: sdduncan at abs.animalbehavior.org |
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Today's Topics:
1. Seeking data on parasitism and group size for meta-analysis
(Charles Nunn)
2. 24th Annual Animal Behavior Film Festival Awards (Shan Duncan)
3. Founders Memorial Poster Award (Shan Duncan)
4. 2007 Genesis Award for the Outstanding Undergraduate Poster
Presentation (Shan Duncan)
5. Allee: BEST STUDENT PAPER 2007 (Shan Duncan)
6. Open Position as Video Curator of the Macaulay
Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Shan Duncan)
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Message: 1
From: Charles Nunn <nunn at eva.mpg.de>
Subject: Seeking data on parasitism and group size for meta-analysis
META-ANALYSIS SEEKING DATA ON GROUP SIZE AND PARASITISM
A National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent: www.nescent.org)
working group is exploring ways to enhance meta-analyses and syntheses
through broader requests for data. Here, we present one pilot request for
data for a proposed synthetic work. Charles Nunn and Laszlo Garamszegi
seek unpublished results and "pointers" to published results involving the
association between group size and parasitism in vertebrates. The data
will be used in a meta-analysis to investigate the links between sociality
and parasitism. All published studies will be cited in resultant
publications, and unpublished work may be given credit through consortium
coauthorship for the person providing the data. For more information,
please see:
http://www.biology.duke.edu/noorlab/Nunn.html
If you have questions about the broader NESCent project of enhancing
synthetic works, or have an idea for a synthetic work that you'd like to
pursue that also would benefit from broader requests for data, please
contact Mohamed Noor (Duke) or Maria Servedio (UNC-Chapel Hill), or see:
http://www.biology.duke.edu/noorlab/SEED.pdf
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Charles L. Nunn
personal site: www.eva.mpg.de/primat/staff/charles_nunn/index.htm
mammal parasites: www.mammalparasites.org
phylogeny of sleep: www.bu.edu/phylogeny/index.html
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig, Germany
email: nunn at eva.mpg.de
tel.: ++49 (0) 341 3550 204
fax: ++49 (0) 341 3550 299
and
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California
Berkeley, CA USA
tel.: ++1 510 643 2579
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Message: 2
Subject: 24th Annual Animal Behavior Film Festival Awards
From: Marianne Engle - Char ABS Film Committee
Announcement:
The 24th Annual Animal Behavior Film Festival was held July 21-22 at the
2007 ABS meeting in Burlington, Vermont. The 2007 ABS Film Award for Best
Commercial Film went to "Seasons of the Otter", co-produced by Dale
Johnson and Bob Landis, with primary photographer Bob Landis. The winner
of the 2007 Jack Ward Memorial Film Competition for Non-Commercial Films
was "NUTS about Capuchins", co-produced by Elisabetta Visalberghi and
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (NcR) – Rome, Italy).
Order information for these films and others that have been shown at ABS
Film Festivals is available in the newest version of the catalog which
will be posted on the ABS Film Committee Website.
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Message: 3
Subject: Founders Memorial Poster Award
From: Jan Randall
Founders Memorial Poster Award
Each year a poster competition, named for a founder of the Animal Behavior
Society, is held at the annual meeting. (“A founder is defined as a person
active in the period prior to 1966 who held at least two administrative
positions, elected or appointed, in ABS or the ESA Section on Animal
Behavior and Sociobiology or the ASZ Division of Animal Behavior as
recorded by the ABS Historian.”) George Bartholomew (1919-2006) was
selected this year. A Fellow of the National Academy of Science, Dr.
Bartholomew published scientific papers for 63 years, graduated 42 Ph.D.
students and had 14 postdocs.
The award for the best of 27 posters was shared by Yu- Fang Tseng, Tunghai
University-Taiwan, and Rebecca Hale, Florida State University. Ms. Tseng's
poster was titled "The dear enemy effect in Uca Laceta", and Ms. Hale's
poster (with Joseph Travis) was "A comparative study of parental care and
life history evolution in birds". Honorable Mention was awarded to Sheila
Reynolds, University of Maryland (with Mary Christmas, Al Uy, Gail
Patricelli, Michael Braun and Gerald Borgia), for the poster "Relatedness
explains male display site location and bower display in satin bowerbirds,
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus". Jerry Wilkinson, Tom Wright, Scott Creel and
Michelle Pellissier Scott served as judges.
Dr. Jan Randall
Department of Biology
San Francisco State University
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Message: 4
Subject: 2007 Genesis Award for the Outstanding Undergraduate Poster
Presentation
From: Jan Randall
Genesis Award for the Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation
The Genesis Award honors the best undergraduate poster, in addition to
recognizing all undergraduates presenting posters at the annual meeting.
First place award for the best undergraduate research poster awarded in
2007 went to J. Scott MacIvor (with Gard Otis and Jonathan Schmidt),
University of Guelph, for his poster titled "Size does not matter: Dietary
influence on mate selection by Oncopeltus fasciatus". Bushra Wazed (with
Mitchell Baker), Queens College, and Kathryn Kitchens (with J. Chadwick
Johnson) Arizona State University, were awarded Honorable Mention on their
respective posters: "A trade between immunocompetence and resistance in a
leaf beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata" and "Kin recognition and juvenile
cannibalism in the black widow, Latrodectus Hesperus". Judges included
Becky Talyn, Jennifer Mather, Sue Margulis, Abby Schwarz, Denise Pope,
Catherine Bevier and Garrison Smith.
Dr. Jan Randall
Department of Biology
San Francisco State University
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Message: 5
Subject: Allee: BEST STUDENT PAPER 2007
From: Jan Randall
Allee: BEST STUDENT PAPER 2007
There were 17 participants in the Allee Student Paper Session that
extended over two days at the annual ABS meetings in Burlington, Vermont.
Based on six talk and project criteria as well as an evaluation of the
written paper, The Allee Award was given to Karen Mabry, University of
California--Davis: "Habitat selection by dispersers: Natal habitat type
affects dispersal behavior". Two runners-up were Margaret Crofoot,
Harvard University, "The home-field advantage: The relative importance of
location and group-size in capuchin intergroup competition" and Ximena
Bernal, University of Texas -- Austin, "Love bites: Interaction between
Corethrella spp blood-sucking flies and tungara frogs". Congratulations!
The Allee Awards are generously supported by donations from Princeton
University Press, University of Chicago Press, Harvard University Press,
Sinauer Associates, and Elsevier Press. The Animal Behavior Society is
very grateful for their support. Judges included Chris Boake, Hugh
Drummond, Jeff Podos and Chair of the Allee Session, First President Elect
Molly Morris.
Dr. Jan Randall
Department of Biology
San Francisco State University
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Message: 6
Subject: Open Position as Video Curator of the Macaulay
Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
From: Dr. Jack W. Bradbury
Open Position as Video Curator of the Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of
Ornithology
Quick Summary:
The Macaulay Library at the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology is
seeking qualified candidates with an MA or PhD in animal behavior to fill
an open position as Curator of the Video Collection. The Macaulay Library
(formerly Library of Natural Sounds) is the world's largest archive of
animal sounds. In 2002, it began building a complementary archive of
videos of birds and animal behavior. While birds remain the central focus
at the Lab of O, documenting animal behavior "writ large" has become an
increasingly important function of the Library. The Curator would report
directly to the Director of the Macaulay Library (currently Jack Bradbury)
and supervise the video solicitation and archival operation. The Lab of
Ornithology is widely regarded as one of the most exciting programs at
Cornell University (with over 200 staff working on basic research,
education, conservation, and outreach), and Ithaca is repeatedly cited as
one of the most livable cities in North America. Applications need to be
made online using the following URL:
https://cornellu.taleo.net/servlets/CareerSection?
art_ip_action=FlowDispatcher&flowTypeNo=13&pageSeq=2&reqNo=104349&art_se
rvlet_language=en&selected_language=en&csNo=10164#topOfCsPage
(Make sure the URL is all on one line. The ABS Website listing (See News
and Announcements) includes a pdf of the application form. Note that you
must still apply on-line from the cornell website listed above)
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Dr. Jack W. Bradbury
Robert G. Engel Professor of Ornithology
& Director, Macaulay Library
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca NY 14850-1999
Phone: (607)-254-2493 FAX: (607)-254-2439
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