<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">From: "Billings, Sharon A" <</span><a href="mailto:sharonb@KU.EDU" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">sharonb@KU.EDU</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subject: Ph.D. positions at the University of Kansas</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Colleagues,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Billings lab at the University of Kansas is seeking two Ph.D. students =</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">interested in pursuing biogeochemical questions in terrestrial ecosystem ec=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ology. We seek 1) a student interested in exploring how historic land use =</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">change and climate interact to drive soil carbon and nitrogen fluxes in for=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ests in the southeastern U.S., at the new Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> (</span><a href="http://criticalzone.org/calhoun/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://criticalzone.org/calhoun/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) and 2) a student to investigate the inf=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">luence of native and manipulated temperature regime on soil CO2 and N2O flu=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">xes along a boreal forest latitudinal transect in eastern Canada (</span><a href="http://pu/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://pu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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a/collections/collection_2014/rncan-nrcan/Fo104-2-2013-eng.pdf</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> (you must cl=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ick the 'Continue to PDF' link for the relevant information)).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Both positions require the implementation of controlled laboratory studies =</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">as well as field experiments. For details, please contact me, after visiti=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ng the lab web page below. Instructions are there for how best to express =</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">interest in my lab.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Best wishes,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sharon Billings</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">*********</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dr. Sharon Billings</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kansas Biological Survey</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">University of Kansas</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Lawrence, KS 66047</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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