Jeff Chambers and I are seeking PhD students interested in working on
tropical forest responses and feedbacks to global change. Please
circulate to prospective applicants. Thanks!
Lara
Graduate Student Research Opportunities at UC Berkeley in
Tropical Forests and Global Change
The Geography Department and the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) at the
University of California, Berkeley, have up to two Graduate Student
Researcher (GSR) opportunities for PhD students to investigate global
change impacts on tropical forests. These GSR positions will focus on
disturbance and recovery dynamics in natural and human-impacted tropical
forest ecosystems. The successful candidates will become part of the
Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) Tropics
<http://eesa.lbl.gov/ngee-tropics/>science community, a large,
interdisciplinary team collaborating to improve Earth system model (ESM)
projections of tropical forest responses and feedbacks to climate
change. Students with experience carrying out ecological field research
in the tropics, and that have utilized tools such as remote sensing, GIS
or computational modeling of populations, communities or ecosystems will
be strong candidates for these positions. The position is 50% time (20
hours/week) with two years of support, and with potential renewal for
additional years. Jeff Chambers (Geography) and Lara Kueppers (ERG) will
serve as advisors for the successful candidates.
Interested graduate applicants should apply for admission to the
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography or ERG
through the online graduate application portal
<http://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/>, and contact Professor Jeff
Chambers ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) or
Lara Kueppers ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) via
email. The application deadline for Geography is December 1, 2016. The
application deadline for ERG is December 2, 2016.
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Lara M. Kueppers
Scientist, Climate and Carbon Sciences Program, Berkeley Lab
and Sierra Nevada Research Institute, UC Merced
One Cyclotron Road, 74-316C, Berkeley, CA 94720
510.486.5813 office or 209.579.4466 mobile
[email protected] [email protected]
http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/lkueppers
