[PCA] FELLOWSHIP: Nat'l Parks Ecological Research Program Fellowship

[Olivia Kwong]

The National Park Service, National Park Foundation, and Ecological
Society of America are pleased to announce the 2005 National Parks
Ecological Research Fellowship Program. The program encourages and
supports outstanding post-doctoral research in ecological sciences related
to the flora of U.S. National Parks.  The program will award up to three
fellowships each year to researchers who have recently completed their
Ph.D. Awards are made for up to two years, with the possibility for
renewal for a third year determined at the end of the first year. Awards
support research in any area of ecology related to the flora of the
National Parks. Research topics can address any level of ecological
organization, ranging from populations, species interactions, and
community patterns, to landscape and ecosystem level processes associated
with plants.  Research should focus on questions that advance the science
of ecology independent of immediate Park needs.  Plants, fungi, mosses,
algae, cryptogamic crusts, lichens, or other flora must be the main focus
of the research.  Research that takes advantage of the range of
environments, conditions, and scales available in National Parks is of
particular interest. Additional information and application materials are
available at http://www.esa.org/nper . Completed applications must be
received at ESA Headquarters between September 1, 2005 and October 1,
2005. For more information on the NPER Fellowship Program, contact: NPER
Program Manager, Ecological Society of America, 202-833-8773 or
nper at esa.org