Graduate Student Opportunities 2020
Join the School of Earth & Sustainability for your graduate school experience! Here is a list of projects/research foci available for students starting Fall 2020 in a Master’s program (MS: Geology or MS: Environmental Sciences & Policy) or in our PhD Program in Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability.
To learn more, follow the link or email the faculty member (PI).
| PI | MS: GLG | MS: ES&P | PhD | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best | x | x | Maintaining aquatic biodiversity across climate gradients using natural vs. anthropogenic habitats | |
| Best | x | x | Ecology and evolution of plasticity in riparian trees and the ecosystems they support | |
| Buscombe | x | Acoustic detection of Dreissenids (freshwater mussels) in the Great Lakes | ||
| Huntzinger | x | x | Land-atmosphere carbon exchange and how the terrestrial carbon cycle impacts and is influenced by climate | |
| Kaufman | x | x | x | Climate controls on carbon accumulation in upland permafrost at millennial scales, Alaska |
| Kaufman | x | x | Amino acid geochronology: methods and applications | |
| McKay and Kaufman | x | x | x | Abrupt Change in Climate and Ecosystems: Where are the Tipping Points? |
| McKay and Routson | x | x | x | Synthesizing regional Holocene dust flux in southern Colorado |
| Mitchell | x | x | Linking trait-based regeneration and ecosystem function after fire | |
| Mitchell | x | x | Nutrient Network | |
| Mitchell | x | x | Exploring intraspecific trait variation in community asesmbly and biodiversity maintenance | |
| Ort | x | Physical volcanology - phreatomagmatism, pyroclastic deposits, scoria cones, etc. | ||
| Porter | x | Seismic Monitoring of Debris Flow Associated with the Museum Fire | ||
| Porter | x | Earth Analogues of Planetary Geophysical Exploration | ||
| Porter | x | Thermal and Compositional State of the Western US from Seismic Imaging | ||
| Regalla | x | Spatio temporal clustering of late Holocene paleoseismicity in the Eastern California Shear Zone | ||
| Regalla | x | Constraining sub surface fault geometery and kinematics of the Eocene Beaufort Range fault, Vancouver Island | ||
| Regalla | x | Mass balance and deformation of the frontal prism, Northeast Japan subduction zone | ||
| Riggs | x | Permian-Triassic tectonics of southwest North America supported by zircon-geochronology studies | ||
| Riggs | x | Volcanic signature of Permo-Triassic arc initiation along the west coast of North America | ||
| Rowe | x | Restoration in the Sonoran Desert - testing seed mixes and site treatments (RestoreNet) | ||
| Rowe | x | x | Assessing global conservation status of priority Sonoran Desert plant species (IUCN) | |
| Smith | x | x | Lacustrine and fluvial environmental response to climate change in Eocene Wyoming |