I am currently recruiting MSc and/or PhD students to join my lab group in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, BC. My lab aims to understand the causes and consequences of disturbance and extreme events in tropical forest landscapes. We answer questions about the influence of landscape configuration, land use, topography, and other landscape factors on vulnerability to disturbance and climate extremes, forest successional processes, and responses to climate variability. We work at scales ranging from individual to landscape and use a variety of tools to address these questions, including remote sensing and GIS, forest dynamics plots, functional traits, socio-economic surveys, and statistical models.
We are starting new research focusing on fire ecology in deciduous dipterocarp forests in northern Cambodia, and students could work on a variety of questions related to the lab objectives in this landscape. There is also room for students to develop their own research projects related to the broader lab objectives in other regions. For more information about me and my research, visit my website: https://naomibschwartz.weebly.com. Information about the graduate programs at UBC Geography is available here: https://www.geog.ubc.ca/graduate/. All graduate students in the department receive stable and consistent funding through a combination of teaching and research assistantships and/or departmental fellowships. PhD applicants must already hold a master’s degree. The application deadline for the master’s program is December 15, 2018, and for the PhD program it is January 1, 2019. If you are interested in applying, please contact me before the application deadline with your CV and a description of your research interests. I will be attending ESA in New Orleans and am happy to meet with interested individuals there as well.
