Date:    Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:06:45 +0100
From:    REC Announcement 
Subject: Position available

Job Opening Announcement

Position: REC Webmaster

Organisation:
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and
Eastern Europe (REC).
The REC is a regional organisation based in Szentendre,
Hungary, with the mission to assist in solving the environmental
problems in Central and Eastern Europe by encouraging
cooperation among non-governmental organisations,
governments, businesses and other environmental stakeholders,
by supporting the free exchange of information and by promoting
public participation in environmental decision-making.

Department: Information Exchange (IED)
The IED: provides and improves public access to environmental
information; promotes networking and the exchange of
information among environmental stakeholders; and improves
the availability and distribution of REC products and services.

General Responsibilities:
The REC Webmaster is responsible for managing REC projects
related to the electronic communication and dissemination of
environmental news and information in Central and Eastern
Europe, including environmental news and information produced
by the REC itself. The main task involves management of the
REC Home Page (), which includes all REC
publications, directories, databases, magazines, news and
announcements (the Home Page received nearly three million
visits in 1998). The Webmaster will be involved, where possible,
in international Internet-related projects concerning the
environment. The Webmaster will also be involved in relational
database development (FileMaker Pro).

Experience and skill level required:
Excellent HTML and Internet skills
Atleast two years of related professional experience
Understanding of Macintosh operating system
Programming and relational database development
experience
Excellent English writing skills
Knowledge of one or more Central and Eastern European
(CEE) language useful
Solid organisational and project management skills, including
budgeting.
Understanding of the Central European region,
environmental issues and/or international relations preferred

Education:
University degree in related discipline.
Education in environmental sciences/studies a valuable asset.

To apply: Send a C.V. and cover letter by March 2, 1999 to:
Mozes Kiss, Regional Environmental Center for Central and
Eastern Europe (REC), Ady Endre ut 9-11, Szentendre 2000,
Hungary. Fax: (36-26) 311-294. Email: .

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Date:    Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:03:42 -0000
From:    Mike Dodd 
Subject: FIELD ASSISTANTS REQUIRED FOR A TREE ECOLOGY PROJECT

THREE FIELD ASSISTANTS REQUIRED FOR A TREE ECOLOGY PROJECT
AT WHITEFACE MT., LAKE PLACID, NY

Workers required June-August 1999 (10 weeks, exact dates yet to be
fixed)

THE JOB:

We shall be measuring & coring trees in the forest solidly so I need
people who are keen on fieldwork, dedicated and easy to get along with.
Senior undergraduates or graduates with interests in ecology or forestry
would be suitable.

PAY & CONDITIONS

$250 per wk plus lodging & food

THE PROJECT

The initial hypothesis to be tested was published in:

Silvertown, J. (1996). Are sub-alpine firs evolving towards semelparity?
Evolutionary Ecology, 10, 77-80.

This was later modified in:

Silvertown, J. & Dodd, M. (1999) Evolution of life history in balsam fir
(Abies balsamea) in sub-alpine forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society
(in press).

Abstract:
In sub-alpine forests of E.N.America & Japan pure stands of trees in the
genus Abies exhibit wave-regeneration. Opportunities for recruitment in
such forests are confined to a window in time and space that coincides
with the death of an even-aged cohort of adult trees.
This study system allows the age-specific demographic costs of
reproduction to be retrospectively estimated for natural, subalpine
populations of balsam fir. Pilot work with this system has shown that
age at first reproduction (alpha) occurs later in subalpine populations
than in lowland ones, and that there is a surprising lack of variation
in alpha between subalpine populations experiencing quite different
age-specific patterns of recruitment. This project aims to test a
cost-benefit model that may potentially explain these results by the
estimating of age-specific curves of reproductive cost and recruitment
in the field using novel techniques piloted in 1997

IF INTERESTED

Send an e-mail to Mike Dodd at:   m.e.dodd@open.ac.uk
website: www.open.ac.uk/OU/Academic/Biology/J_Silver/Abies.htm

Give me your name, relevant experience and interests, and the names &
e-mail addresses of two people who can give you a reference.

Dr Mike Dodd,
Ecology and Conservation Research Group,
Dept of Biology,
The Open University,
Milton Keynes,
MK7 6AA,
UK.

http://www.open.ac.uk/OU/Academic/Biology/C_G_Home.htmtmlompu.html27.h
http://www.open.ac.uk/Nature_Trail/iology/C_G_Home.htmtmlompu.html27.h