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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues, </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please help me distribute this through your channels – I’m
recruiting for a Ph.D. student position for my group, at the University of
Arkansas’s Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering: </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Biological Engineering/Science PhD students wanted</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am recruiting a PhD and/or exceptional MS student to join the
Landscape Flux Group within the Department of Biological and Agricultural
Engineering at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The
research projects will be based in rice agricultural systems in Arkansas, where
we are working with farmers to modify irrigation practices to reduce methane
production while saving water. The projects use flux budgeting methods to
understand the landscape’s ecological and hydrological functioning. This
research will connect between site dynamics and climate drivers with the goal
of creating simplified process representations used at the scale of the global
climate model. Resources are available for travel, equipment and international
collaboration. The projects are in collaboration with research scientists from
the USDA-ARS office in Jonesboro, AR. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">These positions can start immediately, in January 2018, or
in summer or fall of 2018. Students should have a background in one or more of
the following disciplines: environmental or biological engineering, wetland
ecology, biogeochemistry, biometeorology, watershed or surface-water hydrology,
agricultural sciences or engineering. Some ability to code in Matlab or a
related language is beneficial, as is experience in gas flux measurements using
either chamber-based or eddy covariance methods. These positions will require
(eventually) a valid US driver’s license.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My research group develops budgets of water, energy, and
carbon in different wetland ecosystems. This research uses micrometeorological
techniques to evaluate land-atmosphere fluxes of water vapor, carbon dioxide,
methane and heat. For example, the eddy covariance technique is used to
determine the turbulent flux within atmospheric boundary layers, whereas
hydrological methods are used to estimate the horizontal fluxes of dissolved
carbon in surface and subsurface waterways. Together these methods quantify
major environmental fluxes that serve as inputs for process-based predictive
modeling and landscape management. More information on my group is available on
my website (<a href="http://you.uark.edu/brrunkle/">http://you.uark.edu/brrunkle/</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal">Additional information about graduate admission
requirements, possible supplemental fellowships, and material about the
department may be found here: <a href="http://bio-ag-engineering.uark.edu/Academic/Graduate_Program/index.php">http://bio-ag-engineering.uark.edu/Academic/Graduate_Program/index.php</a>.
A non-engineering pathway for a Ph.D. is possible through the U of A’s
Environmental Dynamics program (<a href="http://environmental-dynamics.uark.edu/index.php">http://environmental-dynamics.uark.edu/index.php</a>).
Information about the university and its land grant mission may be found here: <a href="http://arkansas.edu/about/index.php">http://arkansas.edu/about/index.php</a>.
Furthermore, the university offers competitive Doctoral Academy and
Distinguished Doctoral Fellowships, which are significant awards over and above
the departmental stipend. Details on these opportunities are available here: <a href="http://graduate-recruitment.uark.edu/funding-degree/fellowships.php">http://graduate-recruitment.uark.edu/funding-degree/fellowships.php</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The University of Arkansas is in the middle of a significant
period of growth in both its student numbers and in raising its profile in
research and innovation. There are significant opportunities here for
collaborations on-campus in water, soil, nanotech, and other laboratories.
Fayetteville, Arkansas is a beautiful and culturally vibrant college town
amidst the Ozark Mountain Range, and it is regularly highly ranked on surveys
of the Best Places to Live. There are plentiful outdoor recreational
activities, good restaurants, and proximity to the world-class art collection
of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please email me, Dr. Benjamin Runkle (<a href="mailto:brrunkle@uark.edu">brrunkle@uark.edu</a>), with a CV, GRE scores,
TOEFL if relevant, unofficial transcript, the names of two references, a sample
of your scientific writing, and a description of your research interests. I am
committed to EO/AA principles and a diverse workplace. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Benjamin R. K. Runkle</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Assistant Professor, Department of Biological and Agricultural
Engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville AR 72701 </span></p>
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