Dear colleagues and friends, This fall, I am accepting applications from highly-motivated Ph.D. students interested in joining my lab at the University of Utah Department of Biology. Our application deadline is January 6, 2012 and prospective applicants should visit my website:
http://bioweb.biology.utah.edu/sekercioglu/ The University of Utah Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology program provides 5 years of Ph.D. funding and has strengths in various fields. Our Global Change & Ecosystem Center provides opportunities for broad interdisciplinary research, education and outreach. http://www.biology.utah.edu/graduate/eeob/ http://environment.utah.edu/ In my lab, in addition to the possibility of conservation ecology field research in a range of ecosystems in Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Turkey, and Utah, Ph.D. students can undertake conservation, ecology, biogeography, life history, and evolutionary meta-analyses of our global bird database, covering all the world's bird species and updated continuously. Besides conducting long-term bird banding and telemetry projects, we also study the conservation ecology and population biology of carnivores (brown bears, lynx, and wolves) in eastern Turkey and are working to create and monitor Turkey's first wildlife corridor. Highly-motivated students with interest in other taxa and prepared to take initiative should note that past collaborations included taxa ranging from plants to bird lice to amphibians. Students are encouraged to seek external Ph.D. funding opportunities such as NSF Graduate Fellowships or EPA-STAR Fellowships, and will have much better chances of acceptance with one. I will appreciate if you can spread the word, especially to your best students and other good candidates interested in doing a Ph.D. in conservation ecology, environmental science, wildlife biology, ornithology, or related fields. I will be at the Society for Conservation Biology meeting in Auckland next week and can talk to anyone interested in this position. Those of you there should also try to see our symposium that has excellent speakers from all over the world: All By Myself? Increasing the Involvement of Conservation Scientists in Effective Grassroots Conservation Action Worldwide http://birenheide.com/scb2011/schedule/singlesession.php?sessno=SY12 Thank you, Cagan H. Sekercioglu University of Utah Department of Biology Salt Lake City, UT 84112 www.sekercioglu.org
