<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Graduate Assistantships</span></b><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Northern Arizona University:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria"> PhD and MS positions in
<b>Ecosystem Ecology</b> are available in the Center for Ecosystem Science in Society (Ecoss) at Northern Arizona University. The Ecoss mission is to
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#2f2f2f">conduct high-impact, innovative research on ecosystems and how they respond to and shape environmental change, to train next-gen scientists,
 and to communicate discovery and its relevance to people. Research opportunities are available in the following areas linked to specific Ecoss faculty:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria">The impact of climate change on Alaskan ecosystems, including effects of changing fire and permafrost on plants, soils, and ecosystem services.
<b>Michelle </b></span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Mack, Ted Schuur</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#2f2f2f">
 / </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#212121;background:white">How microorganisms shape the ecology of planet Earth, from soils to rivers to hot springs to humans, pushing science
 at the frontiers of molecular biology and ecosystem science, quantitative ecological synthesis, and ecosystem responses to environmental change.<span class="m_2926081996913918668m_1868283125627220289apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#212121">Bruce</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#212121;background:white"> </span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#212121">Hungate,
 Paul Dijkstra, Egbert Schwartz </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#2f2f2f">/
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Freshwater ecology, including the science of river restoration and dam removal, terrestrial aquatic interactions and food web ecology. <b>Jane Marks</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#2f2f2f">
 / </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Exploring the interaction of water and carbon metabolism in diverse studies ranging from the limits to height growth of the world's tallest trees to drought responses
 of soil microorganisms<i>. </i></span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria">George Koch</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#2f2f2f">
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#2f2f2f;background:white">Data-driven modeling and forecasting carbon and nitrogen cycles to global change at ecosystem, regional and global
 scales.</span><span class="m_2926081996913918668m_1868283125627220289apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#2f2f2f">
</span></span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#2f2f2f">Yiqi Luo
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria;color:#2f2f2f">/
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Terrestrial ecosystems and global change: above and below ground processes, plant carbon allocation, biosphere-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks, and phenology</span>.
<b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Mariah Carbone, Andrew Richardson</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Graduate student benefits include stipend (TA or RA), tuition waiver, health insurance, support for summer fieldwork in a variety of beautiful ecosystems, and winter in the peaks of sunny Flagstaff,
 AZ. Candidates should explore the Ecoss website (<a href="http://ecoss.nau.edu" target="_blank">ecoss.nau.edu</a>) and contact the professor whose interests align most closely. Please include a cover letter describing background, research interests, and qualifications,
 as well as a current resume. Program applications can be submitted to the Department of Biological Sciences, due
<b>January 15, 2018</b> after communicating with faculty member. </span>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Applications received by November 1 may be considered for a prestigious NAU Presidential Fellowship</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Cambria">.
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Center for Ecosystem Science and Society<br>
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