Florida International University, Miami, Florida A M.S. or Ph.D. Graduate Assistantship is available in the Department of Biological Sciences to work on an interdisciplinary project on cold-season plant ecology based at Toolik Lake Arctic Research Station beginning in Spring or Summer of 2009. The candidate’s research interests should include plant ecophysiology, ecosystem physiology, or plant ecology. The project will focus on understanding of winter and transition-season physiological processes and survival of plants in two tundra ecosystems. Work will involve both field studies at Toolik Lake Field Station and controlled environment work at Florida International University. The student will be working closely with scientists from the University of Alabama and the Arctic LTER. Familiarity with plant water relation techniques and LI-COR gas exchange instrumentation is a plus. To learn more about Toolik visit: http://www.uaf.edu/toolik.
Florida International University is the public research university in Miami with a highly diverse, vibrant, and growing student body located near the edge of the Florida Everglades. The Department of Biological Sciences has strengths in Everglade, Arctic, and Tropical Ecology. To learn more about the Department of Biology at FIU visit (http://www.fiu.edu/~biology) This is a fully-funded assistantship that includes: stipend, travel and living accommodations during the research work at Toolik Lake. Interested students should email pdfs of 1) a current Curriculum Vita, 2) statement of research interest, 3) unofficial copy of transcripts, and names of three references. For more information contact Steve Oberbauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.fiu.edu/~oberbaue.
