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    Hi all,<br>
    Jeff Chambers and I are seeking PhD students interested in working
    on tropical forest responses and feedbacks to global change. Please
    circulate prospective applicants. Thanks!<br>
    Lara<br>
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        Student Research Opportunities at UC Berkeley in </span></p>
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        Forests and Global Change </span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
        Geography Department and the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) at
        the University of California, Berkeley, have up to two Graduate
        Student Researcher (GSR) opportunities for PhD students to
        investigate global change impacts on tropical forests. These GSR
        positions will focus on disturbance and recovery dynamics in
        natural and human-impacted tropical forest ecosystems. The
        successful candidates will become part of the </span><a
        href="http://eesa.lbl.gov/ngee-tropics/"
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Next
          Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) Tropics</span></a><span
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        science community, a large, interdisciplinary team collaborating
        to improve Earth system model (ESM) projections of tropical
        forest responses and feedbacks to climate change. Students with
        experience carrying out ecological field research in the
        tropics, and that have utilized tools such as remote sensing,
        GIS or computational modeling of populations, communities or
        ecosystems will be strong candidates for these positions. The
        position is 50% time (20 hours/week) with two years of support,
        and with potential renewal for additional years. Jeff Chambers
        (Geography) and Lara Kueppers (ERG) will serve as advisors for
        the successful candidates. &nbsp;</span></p>
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        graduate applicants should apply for admission to the University
        of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography or ERG through
        the </span><a href="http://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/"
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">online
          graduate application portal</span></a><span
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        and contact Professor Jeff Chambers (</span><a
        href="mailto:jqchambers@berkeley.edu"
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">jqchambers@berkeley.edu</span></a><span
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        or Lara Kueppers (</span><a href="mailto:lmkueppers@lbl.gov"
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">lmkueppers@lbl.gov</span></a><span
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        via email. The application deadline for Geography is December 1,
        2016. The application deadline for ERG is December 2, 2016. </span></p>
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Lara M. Kueppers
Scientist, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab
and Sierra Nevada Research Institute, UC Merced

One Cyclotron Road, 74-316C, Berkeley, CA 94720
510.486.5813 office or 209.579.4466 mobile
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