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M-EID Forum

3rd Friday forum of the month Trainees only, to discuss problem sets, research plans, and home program issues.

Departmental Events

RMS Seminar

"Biological Control of the invasive tree Melaleuca quinquenervia" The Rocky Mountain Research Station is currently expanding its biological control program. The station is recruiting to fill 2 Research Entomologist positions to be stationed at the Bozeman Forestry Sciences Laboratory. The selected personnel will collaborate with other RMRS scientists and university personnel at MSU and UM to form a research team to address Foreign Exploration, Quarantine Testing, Permitting, Release and Establishment, and Efficacy of classical biological control agents. Five candidates will be giving seminars and be available for one on one interviews over the next few weeks. Feedback on candidates from University and RMRS personnel is encouraged. Please direct feedback to Jack Butler (e-mail: jackbutler@fs.fed.us; phone: 605-716-2160) or Dean Pearson (e-mail: dpearson@fs.fed.us; phone: 406-542-4159). All seminars will take place in the Forestry Sciences Lab Conference room upstairs (the building south of Science Complex on Beckwith Ave.). Schedules are given below as well as titles for the first two seminars this week. Any questions contact Dean Pearson.

RMS Seminar

“Assessing the post-release efficacy of Mecinus janthinus Germar: Implications for future biological control of exotic invasive toadflaxes”. Friday, May 16 10:00 at the Forestry Sciences Lab. The Rocky Mountain Research Station is currently expanding its biological control program. The station is recruiting to fill 2 Research Entomologist positions to be stationed at the Bozeman Forestry Sciences Laboratory. The selected personnel will collaborate with other RMRS scientists and university personnel at MSU and UM to form a research team to address Foreign Exploration, Quarantine Testing, Permitting, Release and Establishment, and Efficacy of classical biological control agents. Five candidates will be giving seminars and be available for one on one interviews over the next few weeks. Feedback on candidates from University and RMRS personnel is encouraged. Please direct feedback to Jack Butler (e-mail: jackbutler@fs.fed.us; phone: 605-716-2160) or Dean Pearson (e-mail: dpearson@fs.fed.us; phone: 406-542-4159). All seminars will take place in the Forestry Sciences Lab Conference room upstairs (the building south of Science Complex on Beckwith Ave.). Schedules are given below as well as titles for the first two seminars this week. Any questions contact Dean Pearson.

Math Colloquium

Krzysztof Jarosz - Southern Illinois University.  "Noncommutative Uniform Algebras"

Student Opportunities

LandSat Data - Imagery for Everyone…

The USGS Landsat archive is an unequaled 35-year record of the Earth’s surface that is valuable for a broad range of uses, ranging from climate change science to forest management to emergency response, plus countless other user applications. Under a transition toward a National Land Imaging Program sponsored by the Secretary of the Interior, the USGS is pursuing an aggressive schedule to provide users with electronic access to any Landsat scene held in the USGS-managed national archive of global scenes dating back to Landsat 1, launched in 1972. By February 2009, any archive scene selected by a user – with no restriction on cloud cover – will be processed automatically to a standard product recipe, using such parameters as the Universe Transverse Mercator projection, and staged for electronic retrieval. In addition, newly acquired scenes meeting a cloud cover threshold of 20% or below will be processed to the standard recipe and placed on line for at least six months, after which they will remain available for selection from the archive.

Newly acquired, minimally cloudy Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data covering North America and Africa are already being distributed by the USGS over the Internet at no charge, with expansion to full global coverage of incoming Landsat 7 data to be completed by July 2008 (see timeline below). The full archive of historical Landsat 7 ETM+ data acquired by the USGS since launch in 1999 will become available for selection and downloading by the end of September 2008. At that time, all Landsat 7 data purchasing options from the USGS, wherein users pay for on-demand processing to various parameters will be discontinued.

By the end of December of 2008, both incoming Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) data and all Landsat 5 TM data acquired by the USGS since launch (1984) will become available, with all Landsat 4 TM (1982-1985) and Landsat 1-5 Multi-Spectral Scanner (MSS) (1972-1994) data becoming available by the end of January 2009. All Landsat data purchasing options from the USGS will be discontinued by February 2009, once the entire Landsat archive can be accessed at no charge.

Landsat scenes can be previewed and downloaded using the USGS Global Visualization Viewer at http://glovis.usgs.gov [under “Select Collection” choose Landsat archive: L7 SLC-off (2003-present)]. Scenes can also be selected using the USGS Earth Explorer tool at http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov [under “Select Your Dataset” choose Landsat Archive: L7 SLC-off (2003-present)]. For further information on Landsat satellites and products, see http://landsat.usgs.gov

CS177 - Computer Modeling for Science Majors

For information regarding this course, please visit the link: «http://www.cs.umt.edu/»

National Graduate Student Research Festival - Candidate Recruitment

The National Institutes of Health is actively recruiting candidates to participate in the upcoming National Graduate Student Research Festival, to be held September 11th -12th, 2008 on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

To be eligible, students (both US and international) must be enrolled in a PhD program in the U.S. and on schedule to complete their PhD degree between June 2008 and October 2009. We will select up to 250 students to spend two days discussing their research, meeting other students from around the U.S., learning about the research being done at NIH, and exploring postdoctoral training opportunities on the NIH campuses. Expenses will be paid by NIH. Please share this email and the attached flyer with graduate students in your PhD programs.

The deadline for application is May 15, 2008

For an online application and more information visit «http://www.training.nih.gov»