Applications are welcome for a fully funded PhD graduate studentship in the Scheffers lab of Global Change Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida.
Project: I am looking for a motivated student to fill a 4 year PhD position. The Scheffers lab is a multicultural lab with members currently representing the USA, UK, Pakistan, Burkina Fosa and Brazil. The student will be part of a team working on canopy science research in the USA and one of the lab’s field sites in either SE Asia, Madagascar, the Neotropics and/or Australia. The student will conduct research in the canopy of temperate and tropical forests on a diversity of taxa including frogs, lizards, ants, and mosquitoes. The student will have flexibility in the taxa s/he chooses and the specific hypotheses that will define his or her thesis but there will be a requirement to conduct physiological research to better understand animals’ tolerance to future climate change. Ongoing themes in our lab include biogeography, physiological tolerance, species interactions, climate change impacts on biodiversity and microhabitat usage. The PhD student is expected to collaborate with an existing team of 3 students and 1 post-doc as well as international collaborators that are affiliated with our lab. Start date: August 2017 Qualifications: The PhD candidate will devote their time to academic excellence and will be required to spend time away from home in the field (working in the USA and abroad). Candidates with an MSc are preferred, however, applicants with a BSc and have peer-reviewed publications in high quality journals may also apply. Students without prior publications will not be considered for this position. Because of the nature of this research, candidates are expected to be independent with significant experience working in the field. Skills in ecological modeling and analysis are desirable. For more information, please see the Scheffers lab website (http://www.wec.ufl.edu/faculty/scheffers/) or contact, Brett Scheffers, at [email protected]. To receive full consideration, candidates must send a CV, research statement and the names and contact information of three references to the above email address.
