Graduate Research Assistantship
I seek a doctoral student to participate in a tundra-fire ecology project at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), starting in summer 2007. The main goal of the project is to provide fire managers with quantitative estimates of fire frequency for classifying tundra fire regimes and for understanding their historic range of variability. We will use charcoal records from lake sediments to reconstruct fire regimes of the past several millennia on the Seward Peninsula and along the Noatak River in northwestern Alaska. The successful candidate will participate in fieldwork in remote areas and have the opportunity to design his/her own research within the broad scope of the project. The student will interact with scientists at several universities and fire managers of the National Park Service. She/he will join an interdisciplinary laboratory (www.life.uiuc.edu/hu) with students and scientists working on a diverse array of research topics. For more information, contact Dr. Feng Sheng Hu, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 217-244-2982
