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LUQ-LTER Newsletter
October 2023 Fall
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Reminders: Take a few minutes to fill out our Workplace climate survey
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Encuesta Ambiente Laboral LUQ
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Conferences of Interest
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The 2024 BIOGEOMON Conference (the 11th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior) will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 7-11, 2024.
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Abstract submissions and registration will open on Friday, September 5th. Abstract Deadline has been extended to October 17. Please see website.
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Discounts are offered, such as travel subsidies, are geared towards students, early career scientists, and scientists from groups underrepresented in STEM who are students at or employed by US-based (including US territories) institutions. Applicants from these groups are encouraged to apply.
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LUQ Monthly Meeting
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Our first Monthly Meeting this school year will be taking place on:
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 3:00 PM (AST)
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Invited speaker: Dr. Trevor Fristoe, UPR- Rio Piedras.
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Dr. Fristoe is an assistant professor in ecology at the University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras, who works with environmental constraints and evolutionary forces interact to shape species distributions in ecosystems. For more information, visit https://fristoeecology.com/
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86570380284?pwd=aGRLMjY3WHFINjhCSzhLejhTcDg2UT09
Meeting ID: 865 7038 0284
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2024 LUQ REU Opportunities
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Doctoral student Vamery Gonzales, from the Alonso Ramírez lab, will be presenting a talk about REU opportunities on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM in UPR-Rio Piedras.
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Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83369628880?pwd=aHFZd3pSNUI5S3lpQlhYTDdOb0ZlUT09
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Meeting ID: 833 6962 8880
Passcode: 049697
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Graduate Student + Postdoctoral Support Grants
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OBJECTIVE: LUQ typically sets aside a portion of its annual budget to support graduate student and postdoctoral research needs. Through the rest of this calendar year, LUQ will focus those resources on travel, for purposes such as conferences and field work. A maximum of $2,000 can be requested per year per person, but larger requests will be considered if the need can be strongly justified. Nevertheless, funds for this initiative are limited and we wish to support as many applicants as possible. Therefore, it is very important that applicants carefully justify all proposed expenditures.
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TO APPLY: Submit a two-page (single-spaced) justification for funding including scientific rationale and appropriate methodology (if applicable). Please make it clear how the travel supports research that contributes to the goals of the LTER program.
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This opportunity has a rolling deadline, and applications will be reviewed in the order they are received.
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- Applications for summer travel should be submitted by May 1. For travel after August 15, the due date will be two months prior to the date of departure.
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Job Advertisement
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Thoughts or comments? Interested in sharing news or lab results in the next Newsletter? Please reach out to Juan G. García at juan.garcia5@upr.edu, and we will be more than happy to include it. ¡Excelente semana!
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