Graduate student opportunities in plant ecology – U. of British Columbia Jennifer L. Williams Department of Geography & Biodiversity Research Centre University of British Columbia, Vancouver
I am looking for one or more MSc or Phd students to join my growing lab group. The main goals of the lab are to understand how environmental fluctuations and species interactions influence the ecological and evolutionary processes that regulate species abundance and population persistence. We take a variety of approaches to address these goals, including experiments in the field and greenhouse and quantitative models. Current projects in the lab focus on how contemporary evolution influences life history strategies and rates of spread of plants in changing environments. We are starting new experimental work investigating spread in native and introduced species in the Garry Oak savanna ecosystem that extends from Vancouver Island south into central Oregon. There is also the potential to work on a variety of questions in grasslands of interior BC, especially on the spread and control of invasive plants, and scope for students to develop their own projects related to the broader lab objectives. Please see my lab website for more information: http://williamslabubc.weebly.com/ and find information about applying to UBC Geography here: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/graduate/. All students admitted to Geography are guaranteed a stable minimum income that comes from a combination of teaching assistantships and UBC fellowships. Applications are due on January 10 (MSc) and January 17 (PhD), but if you are interested in applying, please contact me sooner. Please send an inquiry email ([email protected]), including a brief statement of your research interests, how those overlap with those in the lab, and why you are interested in graduate school, and attach your CV and an unofficial transcript.
