Special opportunity for PhD students applying in 2010
I am specifically seeking to recruit a new PhD student to work on the population biology and spatial ecology of stream salamanders. This is a collaboration with Dr. Evan Grant of the the US Geological Survey. Prior field experience with amphibians is required. External funding for stipend and research support already exist for at least one and probably two years.
General opportunities for prospective graduate students
Openings for graduate students are available in the areas of 1) Spatial Ecology and 2) Eco-informatics. In many cases I would be able to provide RA support, though my students have been unusually successful in obtaining their own stipend and research support. I am willing to consider PhD applicants through the BEES (Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics) graduate program, the MEES (Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences) graduate program, and the BIOL (Biology) graduate program. In addition I can accept both Masters and PhD applicants through the AMSC (Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing) graduate program.
To date, I have enjoyed working with botanists, entomologists, mammalogists, ornithologists, herpetologists and mathematicians, among others, so I would welcome into my lab students asking a wide range of interesting questions in a variety of systems. Priority areas for the coming year include students with skills in GIS and computational approaches. In general, I insist that my students develop some familiarity with modeling or quantitative techniques and consider, as a part of their research, some potentially applied problem.
