We have an exciting funded PhD studentship available to research the effects of
environmental change on phytoplankton communities with Dr. Etienne Low-Décarie
with the co-
supervision of Professor Richard Geider in the School of Biological Sciences of
the University of
Essex
The PhD student will investigate how phytoplankton communities change
in response to
changes in their environment. Phytoplankton are responsible for half of the
biological uptake of
CO2 from the atmosphere and are the base of most aquatic food webs. In
addition, as they are
small and grow rapidly, they are perfect model organisms from which inferences
can be made for
the response to global change of other primary producers. The project will
study both freshwater
and marine phytoplankton, including strains that have evolved under different
environmental
conditions for hundreds of generations.
More about the position is available at:
http://etiennelowdecarie.org/2015/05/14/phytoplankton-faces-the-future-eco-evolutionary-
response-of-communities-subject-to-environmental-change/
Could you distribute this information to your students or directly to
anyone who may be
interested in applying.
Thank you very much and best regards,
Etienne
Etienne Low-Decarie, PhD
Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, UK
CO4 3SQ
http://etiennelowdecarie.org
