PhD Positions in the Jetz Lab Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Yale University
1-2 fully-funded PhD positions are available in our research group starting fall 2012. We are interested in students with strong research experience who are excited about interdisciplinary work spanning a range of ecological scales. Applicants should have a strong interest in combining theory, data analysis, modeling, and potentially fieldwork to address questions in macroecology, comparative community ecology, community phylogenetics, macroevolution, comparative phylogeography, movement ecology, biodiversity informatics and/or global change ecology. Our preferred study system is terrestrial vertebrates, but work on other groups (including plants) is possible. For ongoing or planned projects in East Africa and Central/South America there are particular opportunities for someone with strong fieldwork experience in birds. There are also opportunities for macroevolutionary and phylogeographic work, connected with the Labs of e.g. Tom Near, Micahel Donoghue and Gisela Caccone. The student will be integrated in the departments thriving graduate program in ecology and evolution and will be able to interact closely with related programs in the neighboring Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. RESEARCH GROUP: For further information about the Jetz Lab, see http://www.yale.edu/jetz. There are excellent additional training opportunities in the EEB Department, the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (http://www.yale.edu/yibs), the Peabody Museum (both physically connected to the EEB Department), and the Yale Forestry & Environment School - e.g. in GIS and remote sensing, phylogenetics, phylogeography, landscape genetics, climate change science, and more. APPLICATIONS: For further information see http://www.yale.edu/eeb/grad/index.htm and http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/admissions/index.html. Applications are due Dec 15, 2011.
