I will be recruiting one new graduate student (likely Ph.D., though potentially M.S.) to start summer/fall 2015 to work on questions related to how landscape corridors affect plant populations and/or communities, within the Savannah River Site Corridor experiment (http://brudviglab.plantbiology.msu.edu/?page_id=406). This individual will join Lars Brudvig's Lab at Michigan State University (http://brudviglab.plantbiology.msu.edu/) and the multi-university Corridor Project research group, who is currently supported by the National Science Foundation to understand the long-term impacts of landscape corridors on plant community diversity. Substantial opportunities exist for this student to develop an independent line of research, in context of this experimental system.
Required qualifications include: a Bachelors degree in biology, ecology, or a related discipline, substantial research experience, and a strong desire to conduct ecological research that will help solve pressing environmental issues. Students may be admitted into the Plant Biology Department and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Program, to start in summer/fall 2015. For more information, including application details, please see: http://www.plantbiology.msu.edu/; http://eebb.msu.edu/. Interested individuals should email Lars Brudvig ([email protected]) well in advance of the December 1, 2014 application deadline with a copy of their CV, GRE scores, undergraduate GPA, and a brief description of their past research experience and interests for research in graduate school.
