Absdigest Digest, Vol 16, Issue 6
James Ha
jcha at u.washington.edu
Fri Feb 15 19:35:19 EST 2008
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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. Summer Animal Behavior course with lab, Villanova U (Robert Curry)
2. Major International Conference on Animals & Society (James Ha)
3. Job opening at Univ. of Manitoba (Shan Duncan)
4. Birdcinema.com - video sharing for bird watchers (al at acrllc.com)
5. Correction for Internship Posting, Behavioral Ecology of
Bottlenose Dolphins (Jennifer Lewis)
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Message: 1
From: Robert Curry <robert.curry at villanova.edu>
Subject: Summer Animal Behavior course with lab, Villanova U
I am teaching my undergraduate Animal Behavior lecture course (Bio 3011; 3
credits) and its companion Lab course (Bio 3012; 1 credit) in Villanova's
Summer Session II (27 June - 28 July 2008) on our main campus in the
Philadelphia suburbs. Students matriculated at other colleges and
universities with appropriate background (2 semesters of introductory
biology) are welcome to enroll. The lecture course can be taken alone,
although I recommend concurrent enrollment in both parts; students needing
lab credit must take both lecture and lab components. Additional
information about each course is available at:
* http://www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.curry/3011/index.html
* http://www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.curry/3012/index.html
General information about Villanova's summer school (including
registration procedures) is available at:
* http://www.villanova.edu/vpaa/parttime/programs/summercources.htm
Robert. L. Curry, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biology
Villanova University
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Message: 2
From: Peter Kabai <peter.kabai at gmail.com>
Subject: [behaviour] Fwd: Major International Conference on Animals & Society
The 2009 International Academic and Community Conference on Animals
and Society:
Minding Animals
I am writing to inform you of a momentous event in the study of human
nonhuman animal interrelationships. The University of Newcastle and
the Society and Animals (Australia) Study Group have just announced
their hosting of the 2009 International Academic and Community
Conference on Animals and Society. Subtitled Minding Animals, the
Conference is bound to be a benchmark event in the study and
interpretation of human nonhuman animal interrelationships. It will be
held between 13 and 19 July, 2009, at Newcastle in Australia.
The 2009 Minding Animals Conference will bring together a broad range
of academic disciplines and representatives from universities,
non-government organisations and the community, industry and
government from across the planet. Conference delegates will examine
the interrelationships between human and nonhuman animals from a
cultural, historical, geographical, environmental, moral, legal and
political perspective.
Further, the conference will bring together an unheralded number of
leading scientists, philosophers and social theorists, academics and
community leaders, many committed to environmentalism or animal
protection or both, but never having all met at the one event. Our
confirmed dinner and plenary speakers alone (alphabetical order, and
the number is not yet exhausted) will provide you with an idea of
breadth of knowledge and importance of this conference:
Professor Carol Adams
Professor Emeritus Marc Bekoff
Professor J Baird Callicott
Nobel Laureate Professor JM Coetzee
Professor Dale Jamieson
Professor Val Plumwood
Professor Emeritus Tom Regan
Distinguished Professor Bernard Rollin
Dr Andrew Rowan
Professor James Serpell
Professor Peter Singer
Professor Emeritus Michael Soulé
Professor Paul Waldau
Professor Jennifer Wolch
The conference will have six major themes and objectives:
To reassess the relationship between the animal and environmental
movements in light of climate change and other jointly-held threats
and concerns
To examine how humans identify and represent nonhuman animals in
art, literature, music, science, and in the media and on film
How, throughout history, the objectification of nonhuman animals and
nature in science and society, religion and philosophy, has led to the
abuse of nonhuman animals and how this has since been interpreted and
evaluated
To examine how the lives of humans and companion and domesticated
nonhuman animals are intertwined, and how science, human and
veterinary medicine utilise these important connections
How the study of animals and society can better inform both the
scientific study of animals and community activism and advocacy
And how science and community activism and advocacy can inform the
study of nonhuman animals and society
An extensive list of subjects is being developed that will be allotted
concurrent sessions. These subjects will greatly expand on our
conference themes. A tentative list is provided on the conference
website. Some of the academic disciplines covered by the conference
include:
Conservation biology and biodiversity conservation
Environmental history and history of animals
Animals in religion
Animal liberation, rights and welfare
Environmentalism and political science
Veterinary science
Animal geography
Animals and sociology
Animals and the law
Anthrozoology, zooanthropology and zooarchaeology
Animals and gender studies
Animals in literature, music, and the arts
Media and communications
Ecotourism
Zoo science
Animals and assisted therapies
Animal behaviour, psychology and cognitive ethology
I invite you to log on to our website www.mindinganimals.com where you
will be able to complete our 'Expression of Interest in Attending'
form.
In the meantime, if you prefer and are interested in receiving further
information, please feel free to email me directly at:
rod.bennison at newcastle.edu.au or, call me anytime (Australian Eastern
Summer Time) on +61-(0)41-491-4040 to discuss the conference.
Thank you and I look forward to receiving your emails and meeting you
all in 2009,
Rod
Dr Rod Bennison
Co-convenor
2009 International Academic and Community Conference on Animals and
Society School of Environmental and Life Sciences
University of Newcastle,
University Drive,
Callaghan NSW 2308 AUSTRALIA
Email: rod.bennison at newcastle.edu.au
Phone: +61-41-491-4040
Web: www.mindinganimals.com
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Message: 3
From: Shan Duncan <sdduncan at indiana.edu>
Subject: Job opening at Univ. of Manitoba
The Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada, is offering a job in its Brain and Cognitive Science
Research Group. The job is described below. The review of applications
has not begun but will shortly. Applications will be accepted until the
job is filled. Interested individuals should immediately email the Dean,
stating your interest in the position, and send in your application as
soon as possible. All that is required is a curriculum vitae and a one
page description of a five-year research program.
This opening is an excellent opportunity for an animal behaviourist,
especially one interested in waterfowl behaviour. The Brain and Cognitive
Science Research Group consists of several very advanced laboratories. One
of them is the Avian Behaviour Laboratory. This laboratory is one of the
most complete laboratories for studying waterfowl behaviour in North
America. It has indoor and outdoor facilities. The indoor component
consists of two aviaries, one of which houses wild mallards. Complete
facilities to incubate, hatch, brood, and experimentally test waterfowl
are available. The outdoor component consists of a field station
surrounded by a predator proof fence housing resident flocks of giant
Canada geese and mallard ducks. A pond, nesting sites, breeding pens,
feeders, and a one- bedroom residence for staff or students are located at
the field station. For information concerning the Avian Behaviour
Laboratory contact Dr. Jim Shapiro, Director, Avian Behaviour Laboratory,
Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada, R3T 2N2. Email: HYPERLINK "mailto:Shapiro at cc.umanitoba.ca"
Shapiro at cc.umanitoba.ca
. Phone: (204) 474-7422. Fax: 204-257-2081.
University of Manitoba
NSERC Tier II Canada Research Chair in Brain & Cognitive Science
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
Assistant or Associate Professor – Position Number 06692/06693
The University of Manitoba is seeking applications or nominations for a
Canada Research Chair established by the Government of Canada to enable
Canadian universities to foster world-class research excellence. The
University’s Strategic Research Plan includes a Tier II Chair in the
Faculty of Arts in the area of Brain & Cognitive Science.
Candidates must be established scholars with demonstrated potential of
becoming world leaders in their research area. The appointment will be a
full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate
Professor. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and
experience. For the duration of the CRC, the successful candidate will be
granted reduced teaching responsibilities.
A Ph.D. with a successful record of teaching and research relevant to the
investigation of cognition and/or neuroscience in either humans or
nonhuman animals is required. The successful candidate will develop a
research program with a primary focus on relationships between cognitive
processes and underlying neurological mechanisms. He or she should have a
strong commitment to interdisciplinary research and the ability to attract
excellent graduate students.
The Brain & Cognitive Science research group in the Department of
Psychology possesses strengths in cognitive and neurological basis of
auditory and visual perception and attention, learning and memory,
development and aging, and visually-guided motor control. The successful
candidate would be able to develop affiliations with researchers in the
Department of Psychology with expertise in the areas of Applied
Behavioural Analysis, Clinical, Developmental, Social/ Personality, and
Quantitative Psychology. Departmental resources include modern animal
research and surgery facilities, computer laboratories (as well as
supercomputing available through WestGrid [www.westgrid.ca ]), and an
optical imaging system. For conducting behavioural research with human
participants, the Department also provides access to eye- movement
monitoring equipment, an Optotrak infrared motion tracking system,
abundant laboratory space for conducting behavioural research with human
participants, and a large, web-based undergraduate participant pool. Our
department also has a close relationship with the National Research
Council’s Institute for Biodiagnostics, which oversees several
neuroimaging facilities across Winnipeg.
The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified women
and men, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and
persons with disabilities. Women are particularly encouraged to apply or
to be nominated. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply;
however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae with a brief (1 page) five- year
program plan, along with the names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers
of three references to:
Dr. Richard Sigurdson, Dean,
Faculty of Arts
310 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T5V5
Phone (204) 474-9271, FAX (204) 474-7590
E-mail: Richard_Sigurdson at umanitoba.ca
Nominations or applications, including letters of reference, will be
handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of
Privacy Act (Manitoba). Review of applications will begin on January 7,
2008 and will continue until the position is filled. All Chairs are
subject to review and final approval by the CRC Secretariat; thus, the
starting date for this position will begin after CRC approval.
For details regarding:
The CRC program "http://www.chairs.gc.ca/"
The University of Manitoba Strategic Research Plan
"http://www.umanitoba.ca/admin/vp_research/media/strategicplan_current.pdf"
The Department of Psychology "http://www.umanitoba.ca/psychology/"
The City of Winnipeg "http://www.winnipeg.ca/interhom/"
The Province of Manitoba "http://www.gov.mb.ca/"
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Message: 4
From: "al at acrllc.com" <al at acrllc.com>
Subject: Birdcinema.com - video sharing for bird watchers
To Whom It May Concern:
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where birdwatchers can place their video and pictures from their tours.
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Please contact David Garcia about becoming a partner or sponsor at
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videos on birdcinema.com.
Thanks
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Message: 5
From: "Jennifer Lewis" <jlewi006 at fiu.edu>
Subject: Correction for Internship Posting, Behavioral Ecology of
Bottlenose Dolphins
The previous posting had an incorrect date. Please see below for corrected
message with correct times of field work:
Internship: Behavioral Ecology of Bottlenose Dolphins in the Florida Keys
Period of Service: May- August 2008. Need commitment of at least one
month.
Details of Position: Work will involve assisting doctoral student with
field research on bottlenose dolphins in the Lower Florida Keys.
Responsibilities will include assisting in collection of dolphin behavior
and fish sampling. Off water duties will include data entry, management
and analysis in addition to equipment maintenance.
Interns will receive training in field and lab techniques used in cetacean
research.
Requirements: Must be upper division undergraduate or recent graduate from
a scientific discipline. Prefer students with an interest in continuing
education beyond Bachelors. Previous field experience a plus. Must be able
to handle long hours (8+ per day) under extreme heat (up to 37 degrees
Celsius).
Positions are voluntary.
All work conducted will be done under a Letter of Confirmation for Level B
Harassment (MMPA 1972).
For further information please contact Jennifer Lewis at:
jennifer.lewis1 at fiu.edu
Florida International University
Department of Biological Sciences
Miami, Florida
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| 2611 East 10th Street #170, Bloomington, IN 47405 |
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