Dear students looking for doctoral and thesis advisors.. This is not the best way to contact prospective advisors. The best way is to get an issue of ANimal Behavior, Behavioral Ecology, etc. and look at who is doing what. A PHD in behavioral ecology is more than just grabbin a prof. YOu should have an area that interests you then find out who is working in that area. Frankly, if you know the area that interests you, then you should already know who is doing that work. Then you just send them a letter or email introducing yourself and inquiring about opporunities in their lab. This is especially important for the prospective phd student. Afterall, a doctoral advisor wants a student who will complete and one of the best indicators of that is your knowledge of the literature and the researchers in that field! Obviously there are other indicators, but if you say "I'm interested in foraging theory" and you don't know who Stephens, Krebs, or Daviess are there is probably a bad sign! So start reading the literature, see who is currently working on what, and what is of interest to you. Start thinking about questions that interest you and watch for advertisements asking for doctoral students. It really is that that simple. If they have opps, then they will tell you!
Malcolm McCallum On Wed, September 5, 2007 12:31 am, Ali Kat wrote: > Hello Ecologgers, > > I wonder if perhaps you fine folk could help me out with my graduate > school search. I am soliciting names of faculty that I can contact who > may be willing to advise me in my future PhD research. I want to do a > project addressing the topic of ecological influences on cooperative > behavior. I am focused on animals where individuals can alter their > behavior to help others or not (i.e. social mammals such as primates, but > other herd mammals or even birds would do). The kind of project I am > aiming for is field research that will measure some cooperative behavior > (such as supervising the offspring of other individuals) as a response > variable to an ecological constraint (such as food availability). My > strong points are that I graduated from Dartmouth with honors from the Bio > Dept. and have very strong GRE scores, both general and subject. My > less-than-strong area is experience (or lack of same). Please let me know > the names of any researchers you can > think of who may be interested in someone like me and could be a good > research match. Some professors I am already interested in are Jeanne > Altmann at Princeton and Anne Pusey at U of Minnesota. If you are > familiar with this area of study and know people who do research similar > to these two, I'd really appreciate your help! > > Thank you, > > Ali Krzton > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated > for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. > http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow > Malcolm L. McCallum Assistant Professor of Biology Editor Herpetological Conservationa and Biology [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
