Announcements

Ethnobotany Job at the Missouri Botanical Garden

The 2009 SoE meetings will be held at Tulane University,
New Orleans,
1–4 April, 2009

Free access to Journal of Ethnobiology via BioOne for Society Members

Nancy Turner Receives
Two Prestigious Awards

Society Members
Publish New Books

 

Ethnobiological News

Ethnobotany Job at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Applicants should apply on-line. This position is to work with Jan Salick on Ethnobotany in the Himalayas and potentially elsewhere. For job details and to apply on-line, please visit the Missouri Botanical Garden website. For further information contact Jan directly:

Jan Salick, PhD
Senior Curator of Ethnobotany
Missouri Botanical Garden
Box 299
St Louis, MO 63166-0299
USA

jan.salick@mobot.org
www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/curators/salick.shtml
phone: 314-577-5165
fax: 314-577-0800

Nancy Turner Wins Two Prestigious Awards

Nancy Turner (University of Victoria) past president of the Society, recently received two prestigious awards. She received the William L. Brown Award for Excellence in Genetic Resource Conservation and is also one of 10 Canadian researchers awarded the prestigious Killam Research Fellowship for 2007. This is a two year award in which she is going to write a major book on ethnobotany, bringing together 40 years of ethnobotanical research in Canada and worldwide. To find out more about this project, visit http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=797. Find out more about the William L. Brown award here http://www.wlbcenter.org/award_fellowship.htm.

Society Members Publish New Books

Margaret Scarry (University of North Carolina), our Secretary-Treasurer for the past six years, along with member Elizabeth Reitz (University of Georgia),and Sylvia Scudder, have just published a new book entitled, Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology. Learn more about this book here http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/anthropology+&+archaeology/book/978-0-387-71302-1

Jan Timbrook (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History) past President of the Society, recently published Chumash Ethnobotany – a beautiful compendium of this southern Californian groups vast ethnobotanical knowledge.

Gene Hunn (University of Washington), past president of the Society, brings together many years of ethobiological research with the Zapotec in A Zapotec Natural History Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbëë. Visit http://galley.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid1957.htm.

See Sandra Peacock on the Knowledge Network

The Knowledge Network is doing a short documentary on the research of our Board member, Sandra Peacock (University of British Columbia, Okanagan). The piece will be aired in the series The Leading Edge: Innovation in BC. It features archaeological research on ancient earth ovens at the White Rock Springs site, a 2000 year old root collecting and processing locale in the Hat Creek Valley, B.C. The work was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Brian Kooyman, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary and Dr. David Pokotylo, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

The show times are as follows:

Feb 25 @ 7:00 pm
Feb 27 @ 1:30 pm
Feb 29 @ 12:30 pm
Mar 2 @ 11 pm

Once the documentary has aired, it will be available on the Knowledge Network website at: http://www.knowledgenetwork.ca/leadingedge/2008/index.html

The documentary was filmed last August after researchers at the Knowledge Network read a short article about Sandra's work in UBC Reports in 2006. The link to the UBC Reports story is: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2006/06sep12/blackholes.html

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