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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Bat Conservation International Student Research Scholarships
• Job Announcements
• Fellowship
• New Publications
• Call for Manuscripts
• Meetings and Workshops

Bat Conservation International Student Research Scholarships

Bat Conservation International hereby announces the availability of student research scholarships. Approximately 15 grants ranging from $500 to $2,500 will be made in 2001. Grants will go to research that best helps document the roosting and feeding habitat requirements of bats, their ecological or economic roles, or their conservation needs. Students enrolled in any college or university worldwide are eligible to apply. Projects must have bat conservation relevance. The application deadline for 2001 scholarships is 15 December 2000. Application information and forms are available on our web page at www.batcon.org/schol/schol.html or write to Bat Conservation International, Student Scholarship Program, P.O. Box 162603, Austin, TX 78716 or email: aengland@batcon.org

Job Announcements

The Department of Zoology at North Carolina State University seeks a 12-month, tenure-track assistant professor in fisheries science. This position will address applied fisheries issues relating changes in habitat, water quality, harvest, and management to fisheries production and the dynamics of fish and shellfish populations. Candidates should have expertise in field, quantitative, and analytical approaches to research that will result in more effective management. The position will be located at the new Center for Marine Sciences and Technology in Morehead City, North Carolina. To apply, send a letter of application, three letters of recommendation, a curriculum vitae, and statement of research interests to Jim Rice, Fisheries Scientist Search, Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University, Box 7617, Raleigh, NC 27695-7617. Application review will begin 1 September 2000. For more information, visit www.cals.ncsu.edu/zoology or contact Jim Rice, Telephone (919) 515-4592, jim_rice@ncsu.edu.

The Western Section of the Wildlife Society (California, Nevada, Hawaii, and Guam) seeks an Executive Secretary to provide professional development and association management services. The work schedule varies over the course of the year, but averages 55-60 hours per month. Qualifications include strong organizational skills, B.S. or B.A. in a natural resource field, and experience in business administration or marketing and in management. Salary is $20-25 per hour based upon experience. The position is available 1 September 2000; applications will be accepted until the position is filled. To apply, send a cover letter and resume to Michael Morrison, President, Western Section-TWS, 7700 Killdeer Way, Elk Grove, CA 95758.

Fellowship

The Garden Club of America (GCA) offers a $8000 graduate fellowship, administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to support study and research in ecological restoration at a leading accredited university in the United States. Selection criteria include the degree to which the proposed work addresses the objectives of the GCA and the student's academic and personal qualifications. Applications must be received by 15 January 2001; the award will be made in spring 2001. For guidelines and further information contact Gregory Armstrong, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, 1207 Seminole Highway, Madison, WI 53711, Telephone (608) 262-2746, FAX (608) 262-5209, gdarmstr@facstaff.wisc.edu.

New Publications

Since its inception in 1981, Biological Conservation Newsletter has been a monthly publication of the Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. After an 18-month hiatus, the newsletter has returned. The newsletter, available at http://www.mnh.si.edu/botany/bcn, contains articles on conservation research and activities of the Smithsonian Institution, current news items, information on new publications, and announcements of jobs, fellowships, grants, and meetings. The Conservation Bibliography includes over 7000 references obtained from a weekly review of new journals and books received by the Smithsonian Institution's botany and natural history libraries and from suggestions submitted by newsletter subscribers. An interactive searchable database of the Bibliography will be available soon. All newsletters from the past nine years have been archived and are available for viewing. The BCN listserv alerts subscribers when new issues are posted. To subscribe, send an email message to listserv@sivm.si.edu containing only the following in the body of the text: SUBSCRIBE BCN FIRSTNAME LASTNAME.

Reprints of articles from a special feature on biodiversity that appeared in the 11 May 2000 issue of Nature are available to SCB members, free of charge, from SCB Board member Gustavo Fonseca, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, 2501 M Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, D.C. 20037, Telephone (202) 974-9713, FAX (202) 331-0570, G.Fonseca@conservation.org.

The Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) announces the launch of the Pacific Northwest Conservation Assessment on the Web. The site, at http://www.consbio.org/cbi/assess/assess-main.cfm, includes information on 40 terrestrial ecoregions of the Pacific Northwest as defined by World Wildlife Fund. These encompass all of Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and portions of the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and California. Information provided for each ecoregion includes historic and current natural and cultural conditions, political influences on conservation, status and threats, and current research and planning. Please direct comments and suggestions to Nick Slosser, Telephone (541) 757-0687, nslosser@consbio.org.

The Nature Conservancy announces the release of the second edition of Geography of hope: a practitioner's handbook for ecoregional conservation planning. This edition builds upon the experience of TNC and other organizations in large-scale conservation planning over the last four years. The volume details advances in identifying conservation targets at multiple scales, setting goals for communities and ecological systems, conceptualizing functional sites and landscapes, selecting conservation targets in freshwater systems, and the site selection or assembly process. The handbook is available at www.consci.org/forum/front.asp (look for the link on the front page, or in the library under "Publications"). CD-ROM format is also available; contact Monica Perez, FAX (703) 525-8024, mperez@tnc.org.

Urban stream restoration: a video tour of ecological restoration techniques, a 61-minute documentary, can be ordered at http://www.urbanstreamrestoration.com/. The video, which tours six urban stream restoration sites, provides background information on how the projects were funded and organized with community involvement. It also examines the history and principles of restoration, including recreating stream shapes and meanders, creek daylighting, soil bioengineering, and ecological flood control projects.

Call for Manuscripts

Transactions of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society is published annually in January. Transactions publishes original manuscripts that report research results, new techniques, and reviews or syntheses pertaining to natural resource biology, conservation, management, and administration. Submissions should have relevance to Nevada, California, Hawaii, and/or U.S. territories in the Pacific Ocean. Manuscripts are accepted at any time. However, to be published in the volume for a given year, manuscripts must be received by 1 May of that year. All manuscripts are peer-reviewed. Instructions for authors can be obtained from the Editor. Please submit any manuscripts or questions to Brian Cypher, Editor, Transactions of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society, P.O. Box 9622, Bakersfield, CA 93389, Telephone (661) 398-2201, bcypher@tcsn.net.

Meetings and Workshops

A workshop on wildlife radiotelemetry design and analysis will be held 8-12 January 2001. Participants will explore how radiotelemetry can be used to estimate home range size, dispersal, habitat use, resource selection, population size, survival rate, and fecundity by working with real data on continuously monitored elk and deer at Starkey Experimental Forest and Range as well as data on mammals and birds from other studies. Class size is limited to 22 participants. For more details see http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/population_ecology or contact Oz Garton or Karla Makus, Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1136, Telephone (208) 885-4006, fish_wildlife@uidaho.edu.

The 2001 annual meeting of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society, Conserving wildlife at the start of the 21st century: politics and realities, will be held 22-24 February 2001 in Sacramento, California. Workshop topics include lyme disease, habitat mapping, wildlife translocations, sage grouse, declining amphibians, and media relations. Technical sessions include deer management, seabirds, large mammals, carnivores, wetlands and waterfowl, habitat restoration, reptiles and amphibians, and forest management. For more information contact Barry Garrison, California Department of Fish and Game, 1416 Ninth Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, Telephone (916) 653-1738, FAX (916) 653-1019, bagarris@dfg.ca.gov, http://www.tws-west.org.

A workshop on inventory, monitoring, and viability analysis of metapopulations of animals and plants will be held 19-23 March 2001. Participants will learn how to identify and delineate different types of metapopulations, design efficient surveys to inventory and monitor metapopulations, assess the genetic characteristics of metapopulations, and analyze the resulting information to assess long-term dynamics and viability of metapopulations. Participants will gain hands-on experience in the use of statistical tools, simulation modeling, and GIS software by analyzing recent data on the distribution and abundance of fish and wildlife populations in the Pacific Northwest. Class size is limited to 22 participants. For more details see http://www.ets.uidaho.edu/population_ecology or contact Oz Garton or Karla Makus, Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1136, Telephone (208) 885-4006, fish_wildlife@uidaho.edu.
A conference on riparian habitat and floodplains will be held 14-17 March 2001 in Sacramento, California. Papers are sought in three major theme areas: conservation and restoration, research and technology in restoration and monitoring, and policy and programs in management. Abstracts are due by 17 November 2000. They must be in Word or Word Perfect, 10 point Times New Roman font. Include title, author(s), affiliation(s), address(es), and text of 300 words or less. Send as an email attachment to one of the addresses below. At the discretion of the conference steering committee, presentations may be either oral (20 minutes) or poster. Manuscript instructions will be provided after receipt of the abstract. Final manuscripts will be required prior to the conference. More information is available at http://www.tws-west.org/riparian. For program information, contact Diana Craig. USDA Forest Service, Telephone (707) 562-8930. dcraig01@fs.fed.us or Lyann Comrack, California Department Fish and Game, Telephone (858) 467-4208, lcomrack@dfg.ca.gov.

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