Dear colleagues and friends,
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 4, 2016 and there is no
application fee. Prospective applicants should visit my website
http://bioweb.biology.utah.edu/sekercioglu/
, and make sure to read some of my papers on
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cagan_Sekercioglu
before contacting me. This year, I am especially interested in students
who are interested in conducting macroecology, conservation,
biogeography, life history, and evolutionary meta-analyses of our global
bird database, covering all the world's bird species and updated
continuously.
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/index.php
http://environment.utah.edu/
The Ph.D. students will be expected to undertake conservation,
ecology, biogeography, life history, and evolutionary meta-analyses of
our global bird database, in addition to the possibility of conservation
ecology and ornithology field research in a range of ecosystems in
Ethiopia, Turkey, and Utah. We also study the conservation ecology and
population biology of carnivorous mammals (brown bears, lynx, and wolves)
in eastern Turkey and are working to create and study 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
ecology, conservation biology, ornithology, environmental
science, wildlife biology or related fields.
Thank you and enjoy the holidays
Cagan H. Sekercioglu
University of Utah Department of Biology Salt Lake City, UT 84112
http://bioweb.biology.utah.edu/sekercioglu/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cagan_Sekercioglu/
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Publications:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cagan_Sekercioglu/
Bio:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/cagan-sekercioglu/
Nat Geo photos:
www.natgeocreative.com/photography/CAGANHSEKERCIOGLU
Turkey conservation work:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/24/natural-histories
http://instagram.com/
natgeoexplorer
https://twitter.com/sekercioglu
https://www.facebook.com/conservationecologist
https://www.sekercioglu.org
Please sign our quick petition to save one of Turkey's richest
wetlands and its 258 bird species. Thanks.
http://www.savearas.org/
Doç. Dr. Cagan H. Sekercioglu
University of Utah
Department of Biology
257 S. 1400 E. Rm. 201
Salt Lake City, UT. 84112
*Email: [email protected]*
