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<b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria;">Graduate Assistantships<br class="">
</span></b><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria;">Northern Arizona University:</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria;"> PhD and MS positions in <b class="">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 class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(47, 47, 47);">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 class="" style="font-size: 11pt; 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 class="">Michelle </b></span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria;">Mack, Ted
Schuur</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(47, 47, 47);"> / </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: 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="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Bruce</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white;"> </span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Hungate,
Paul Dijkstra, Egbert Schwartz </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(47, 47, 47);">/ </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria;">Freshwater ecology, including the science of river restoration
and dam removal, terrestrial aquatic interactions and food web ecology. <b class="">Jane Marks</b></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(47, 47, 47);"> / </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; 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 class="">. </i></span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria;">George
Koch</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(47, 47, 47);"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(47, 47, 47);">/ </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(47, 47, 47); background-color: white;">Data-driven
modeling and forecasting carbon and nitrogen cycles to global change at ecosystem, regional and global scales.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(47, 47, 47);"> </span></span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(47, 47, 47);">Yiqi
Luo </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria; color: rgb(47, 47, 47);">/ </span><span class="" 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 class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria;">Mariah Carbone, Andrew Richardson</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; 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" class="">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 class="">January 15, 2018</b> after communicating with faculty member. </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria;">Applications received by November 1 may be considered for a prestigious NAU Presidential Fellowship</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria;">. </span>
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