FYI
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Dear Colleagues,
I have a PhD position available in my lab. I would very much appreciate your
help in circulating this email to those students that might be interested.
The student will study tropical ecology and conservation with an emphasis on
animals living in the canopy of rainforests. There is flexibility in field
locations but options include Madagascar, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, or
Panama.
The official advert is below. The position will be filled as soon as possible.
Many thanks
Brett Scheffers
Assistant Professor
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
University of Florida/IFAS
Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
email: brett.scheffers@xxxxxxx<mailto:brett.scheffers@xxxxxxx>
office: +01 352-846-0570
Skype: schefbr0
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: Webpage
here<http://www.wec.ufl.edu/faculty/scheffers/>
Google Scholar: Brett Scheffers' Google Scholar
Webpage<http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=4HfsgFUAAAAJ>
PhD position - Tropical Ecology and Conservation - University of Florida
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 PhD position. The
Scheffers lab is a multicultural lab with members currently representing the
USA, UK, Pakistan, Burkina Faso 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/or
mosquitoes. The student will have flexibility in the taxa s/he chooses and the
specific hypotheses that will define his or her thesis. Ongoing themes in our
lab include biogeography, physiological tolerance, habitat loss and
fragmentation, 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 extensive independent research and/or peer-reviewed publications
in high quality journals may also apply. 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
brett.scheffers@xxxxxxx<mailto:brett.scheffers@xxxxxxx>.
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.
