The White Lab at Utah State University has an opening for a graduate student with interests in Macroecology, Community Ecology, or Ecological Theory/Modeling. Active areas of research in the White lab include broad scale patterns related to biodiversity, abundance and body size, ecological dynamics, and the use of sensor networks for studying ecological systems. We use computational, mathematical, and advanced statistical methods in much of our work, so students with an interest in these kinds of methods are encouraged to apply. Background in these quantitative techniques is not necessary, only an interest in learning and applying them. While students interested in one of the general areas listed above are preferred, students are encouraged to develop their own research projects related to their interests. The White Lab is part of an interdisciplinary ecology research group (http://weecology.org) whose goal is to facilitate the broad training of ecologists in areas from field work to quantitative methods. Students with broad interests are jointly trained in an interdisciplinary setting. We are looking for students who want a supportive environment in which to pursue their own ideas. Graduate students are funded through a combination of research assistantships, teaching assistantships, and fellowships. Students interested in pursuing a PhD are preferred. Utah State University has an excellent graduate program in ecology with over 50 faculty and 80+ graduate students across campus affiliated with the USU Ecology Center ( http://www.usu.edu/ecology/).
Additional information about the position and Utah State University is available at: http://whitelab.weecology.org/grad-student-opening Interested students can find more information about our group by checking out: Our websites: http://whitelab.weecology.org, http://weecology.org Our code repositories: http://github.com/weecology Our blog: http://jabberwocky.weecology.org And Twitter: http://twitter.com/ethanwhite Interested students should contact Dr. Ethan White ([email protected]) by December 1st, 2012 with their CV, GPA, GRE scores (if available), and a brief statement of research interests.
