Curated info on:
- Funding, grants, scholarships and awards
- Grad skewl (survive and thrive!)
- Jobs, jobs, jobs
- Science communication
Miscellaneous Ecology and Conservation
- Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution (CIEE)
- Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE)
- Conservation Training has a big database of online workshops to learn conservation tools (e.g. GIS, IUCN Red List,. REDD+)
- Dynamic Ecology, a self-described "brain-dump" of ideas about ecology and academia
- Ecological Society for America
- Evidence for Democracy (E4D), advocates for transparent use of science in Canadian policy and government decision-making
- International League of Conservation Photographers has a Conservation Image Bank with free, fabulous photos
- Montréal's Ecosystems at Your Service links Montrealers with local ecosystem services through storytelling
- Smartphone apps for ecologists: UFlorida's Bruna lab, Writing for Nature blog, and Apps for Environment Challenge
- Society for Conservation Biology
- World Agroforestry Center 'Tree diversity analysis' BiodiversityR manual
Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)
- Peer-reviewed articles and association/gov't reports about women in science/academia
- The Symposium for Women Entering Ecology and Evolution Today (SWEEET) - a one-day symposium in Canada
- Canadian 'Women in science' organizations
- NextProf Workshop three-day workshop for women in science and engineering in the US
- Women Evolving the Biological Sciences (WEBS) three-day workshop for postdocs and new faculty in the US
- Diversify EEB: a database of ecologists & evolutionary biologists who are women and/or underrepresented minorities
Québec, Canada
- Etudiants chercheurs etoiles: Recognizes excellence in Québec's student researchers (nominate your paper!)
- Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies
- McGill Biology Graduate Students Association - see the BGSA Youtube channel for recent student- and invited-speaker talks
- McGill Biology Department
- McGill School of Environment
- Montreal's Ecosystems at Your Service connects Montrealers with the benefits they get from ecosystems
- The Montreal R User Group Meetup (formerly the BGSA Statistics/R workshop, past workshop resources here)
- The Montreal Urban Sustainability Experience is a McGill field school studying the island of Montreal
- Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science
British Columbia, Canada
University of Victoria
- Applied Conservation Science (ACS) Lab
- Marine Ethnoecology Research (MER) group
- School of Environmental Studies
- Department of Geography
- Department of Biology
- Ecology@UVic has a weekly journal club and weekly stats help sessions. Everyone welcome!
- Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS)
- Institute for Coastal Research studies the cultural, economic, environmental, and social dynamics of the BC coast
- Lunch and Learn speaker series
- Protected Area and Poverty Reduction (PAPR) Alliance has projects in western Canada, Ghana, and Tanzania
- Faculty of Science and Technology Spring Lecture Series has great speakers each week (hear interviews on the Not Rocket Science podcast)
