I am currently looking to accept a bright and motivated graduate student into my laboratory at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana. My primary research interests are linked by a common question: Why do populations fluctuate in time and space? Understanding spatiotemporal population dynamics of organisms is critical to conservation efforts and other applied goals (pest management), and represents an exciting broadening field of study. My lab uses a combination of empirical data analysis and quantitative approaches, working at the interface of theory and application, to address questions that would be impossible to answer via only one of these approaches alone.
A PhD fellowship is available starting in the spring in the Department of Biology at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA. This is a 3-4 year fellowship. The University of Louisiana has built a strong program in Ecology with a diverse group of faculty and graduate students. See http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~pll6743/biogradstudies.htm for more information on the graduate program, and http://biology.louisiana.edu/ for more information on the department and summations of my and the other faculty's research interests. Lafayette is a city of around 100,000 located in the heart of Cajun culture, known for live music, countless festivals, and tasty cuisine. Lafayette has a small town feel with many amenities of a larger city (visit http://www.lafayettetravel.com/ for information on the cultural climate of Lafayette). Lafayette is located near a number of very interesting natural systems (e.g. forests, bayous, coastal habitats) and within a day's drive of more arid habitat in Texas and more mountainous regions in Arkansas and Tennessee). Please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for inquiries. Cheers, Dr. Derek Johnson Derek Marley Johnson Assistant Professor Department of Biology University of Louisiana Lafayette, LA 70504 337-482-6987 office 337-281-3541 cell
