<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">From: =?windows-1252?Q?Pamela_</span><span style="font-size:13px">Templer?= <</span><a href="mailto:ptempler@BU.EDU" style="font-size:13px">ptempler@BU.EDU</a><span style="font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Subject: Ph.D. Opportunity in Ecosystem Ecology & Biogeochemistry at Boston University</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">I invite applications for doctoral work in my lab beginning fall 2016 in =</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">the</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">areas of biogeochemistry, forest ecology, global change biology and relat=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">ed</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">fields. Applicants should be independent and highly motivated with academ=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">ic</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">research and/or field experience in plant ecology, soil ecology or nutrie=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">nt</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">cycling. Funding is available to work on a project at Hubbard Brook</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">examining the effects of climate change on forest productivity and nutrie=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">nt</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">dynamics in northern hardwood forests</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">(</span><a href="http://www.hubbardbrook.org/research/climate/templer.shtml" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">www.hubbardbrook.org/research/climate/templer.shtml</a><span style="font-size:13px">). This NSF-funded</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">project aims to better understand how climate change affects biogeochemic=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">al</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">cycling of nitrogen, carbon and water.</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">My research program covers a broad range of topics including human impact=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">s</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">on the global nitrogen cycle, the effects of urbanization on nitrogen and=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">carbon cycling, nutrient inputs from fog to coastal forest ecosystems, an=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">d</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">the role of disturbances in nutrient uptake by trees. Students in my lab</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">participate in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Biogeoscience at</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Boston University (</span><a href="http://www.bu.edu/bio-geo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">www.bu.edu/bio-geo</a><span style="font-size:13px">), which spans many departments</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">including Biology, Earth & Environment, and Archaeology. The Graduate=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> School</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">at Boston University guarantees five years of salary for Ph.D. students.</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">I encourage prospective students to contact me (</span><a href="mailto:ptempler@bu.edu" style="font-size:13px">ptempler@bu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13px">) to discu=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">ss</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">potential projects. Please use =93Prospective Graduate Student=94 in the =</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">subject</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">line. Formal review of applications will begin in our department December=</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> 7,</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">2015, but interested applicants should contact me any time.</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Interested applicants can look at the following web-sites for useful</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">information:</span><br style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://people.bu.edu/ptempler" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">people.bu.edu/ptempler</a><br style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.bu.edu/biology" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">www.bu.edu/biology</a><br style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.bu.edu/bio-geo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">www.bu.edu/bio-geo</a><br style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.bu.edu/cas/prospective-students/graduate-admissions" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">www.bu.edu/cas/prospective-students/graduate-admissions</a><br style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.hubbardbrook.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">www.hubbardbrook.org</a><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Apologies for cross postings.</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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