Announcing an opening for a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology at Penn State University (www.bio.psu.edu) beginning Fall 2009 to study population and community dynamics of plants and vertebrate herbivores in relation to climate change.
The student will have the opportunity to develop an independent research project building upon existing multi-annual data on ecological responses to observed climate change at multiple trophic levels from two arctic field sites in Greenland: a low-Arctic site at Kangerlussuaq, on the west coast; and a high-Arctic site on the east coast, Zackenberg. The student will have the opportunity to conduct fieldwork at either or both remote sites, as well as to interact with colleagues within the Department of Biology at Penn State and the Department of Arctic Environment at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. A major emphasis of this research is to understand how responses to climate change at one trophic level in simple arctic ecosystems influence responses to climate change at the adjacent trophic level, with focus on muskoxen and their forage plants. Please visit the PI's websites for publications and information on related research: http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/post/homepage.htm http://www2.dmu.dk/1_Om_DMU/2_Medarbejdere/cv/employee2_NH.asp?PersonID=MCF A Master's degree is desired, but not required. Please contact Dr. Eric Post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to express interest or for additional information.
