<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:53:57 -0400</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">From: =?windows-1252?Q?Alex_Huryn?= <</span><a href="mailto:huryn@BAMA.UA.EDU" style="font-size:12.8px">huryn@BAMA.UA.EDU</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Subject: Ph.D. Research Assistantships - Stream Ecosystems and Climate Change</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">PhD Assistantships Responses to Stream Warming: Food Webs (University </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">of </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Alabama); Carbon Dynamics (University of Georgia); and Metabolism and Car</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">bon </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Emissions (Virginia Tech), starting spring or fall 2018</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We are seeking enthusiastic and qualified applicants to join our research </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">team investigating the effects of climate warming on macroinvertebrate </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">communities, stream carbon dynamics and ecosystem metabolism/carbon </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">emissions in a new project funded by the National Science Foundation. The </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">larger scope of the project includes microbial to whole-stream reach</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">responses to temperature that will be used to predict future network-scal</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">e</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">fates of carbon, using a multi-scale design that includes a paired-catchm</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">ent</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">whole-stream warming experiment, an array of warmed streamside channels,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">laboratory studies of aquatic microbes, and reach- and network-scale</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">modeling. Fieldwork will take place in the Southern Appalachians at the U</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">SDA</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Forest Service Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina. Students wi</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">ll</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">engage in multiple aspects of research and will also develop their own</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">research questions under the overall theme of global change and thermal</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">effects in stream ecosystems.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Prospective students interested in the Food Web position should contact D</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">r.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Jon Benstead (</span><a href="mailto:jbenstead@ua.edu" style="font-size:12.8px">jbenstead@ua.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">) at the University of Alabama. Those</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">interested in the Carbon Dynamics position should contact Dr. Amy Rosemon</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">d </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">(</span><a href="mailto:rosemond@uga.edu" style="font-size:12.8px">rosemond@uga.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">) at the University of Georgia, and prospective students</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">interested in the Metabolism and Carbon Emissions position should contact </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Erin Hotchkiss (</span><a href="mailto:ehotchkiss@vt.edu" style="font-size:12.8px">ehotchkiss@vt.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">).</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Please send an email with 1) a CV and 2) a letter of interest by December </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">1</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">for full consideration. Include a description of your education, research </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">and work experience and perceived fit for the position. These positions a</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">re</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">open until filled; desired start date is on or before </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="gmail-aQJ">August 1, 2018</span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">. Eac</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">h</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">position includes a competitive stipend, health insurance and tuition wai</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">ver.</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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