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SIUC Center for Ecology
Overview
Ecology is the branch of biology that deals with organisms
in relation to their environment. The purpose of these pages
is to provide and allow communication among faculty, staff, and
students interested in ecology at Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, and to provide information for people outside the
university that might be interested in the activities of our
group. Ecologists at SIUC are spread across several departments
including, Anthropology, Forestry,
Geography, Geology,
Microbiology,
Plant Biology,
Plant, Soil &
Agricultural Systems, and Zoology
in three colleges (Science,
Agricultural
Sciences, Liberal Arts).
The ecology faculty in these departments have a wide range of
interests and expertise.
   
News
**Summer Undergraduate Internships Available - see: details (pdf)
2 interns - Ferne Clyffe State Park, Goreville Illinois. Will be assisting IDNR Natural Heritage Biologist and TNC's Southern Illinois Invasive Species Strike Team working in southern Illinois. Opportunity to work with IDNR and TNC in high quality natural areas.
2 interns- Cache River State Natural Area, Ullin Illinois Will be working at the Cache River State Natural Area and the Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge. Student will be assisting IDNR natural Heritage Biologist and NW Refuge staff. Opportunity to work with IDNR and National Wildlife Refuge staff in a very high quality southern swamp wetland community.
2 interns - Prairie Ridge State Natural Area, Newton Ilinois. Will be assisting IDNR Natural Heritage Biologist and IDNR ecoteam working in southeastern Illinois. Opportunity to work with IDNR and Illinois Nature Preserves Commission staff in high quality natural areas in southeastern Illinois including Prairie Ridge Stat Natural Area. PRSNA is a 5,000 acre site dedicated towards the management of grassland wildlife including the only remnant Illinois population of the greater prairie chicken.
1 intern- River to River Cooperative Weed Management Area, Marion Illinois - will assist RtR CWMA coordinator working primarily on invasive plant species issues in southern Illinois. Opportunity to work with multiple CWMA partners.
**NSF-sponsored HEART Fellowships available for incoming Center
for Ecology graduate students - see: Heart
website.
Media coverage
Nov 4, 2005. Ecology
Center looks to future. Article in Daily Egyptian.
Oct 28,
2005: SIUC news journalist K.C. Jaehnig describes the creation
of the Center for Ecology.
Links
[Members] [Seminars]
[Listserv] [Research]
[Courses]
[Middle
Mississippi Wetland Field Station] [Touch
of Nature Environmental Center]
[Heartland
Ecological/Environmental Academic Research Training GK-12 (HEART
GK12) program]
Further information - Departmental Representatives
Sara Baer - Department of Plant Biology
-sgbaer@siu.edu
David Gibson - Department of Plant Biology dgibson@plant.siu.edu
John Groninger - Department of Forestry groninge@siu.edu
Matt Whiles - Department of Zoology mwhiles@zoology.siu.edu
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