School of Earth & Sustainability
Graduate Student Opportunities 2021
Join the School of Earth & Sustainability for your graduate school experience! Here is a list of projects/research foci available for students starting Fall 2021 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aslan | x | Pollinator response to energy rights-of-way | ||
| 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 | |
| Best | x | Control of invasive crayfish in Arizona's aquatic habitats (collaboration with David Ward, USGS) | ||
| Huntzinger | x | x | Land-atmosphere carbon exchange and how the terrestrial carbon cycle impacts and is influenced by climate | |
| Johnson | x | x | Mycorrhizal microbiomes of biofuel sorghum | |
| 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, Kaufman, Erb | x | Collaborative Research: Patterns and processes of abrupt Arctic warming based on paleoclimate observations and models | ||
| 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 assembly 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 | Spatiotemporal clustering of late Holocene paleoseismicity in the Eastern California Shear Zone | ||
| Regalla | x | Constraining sub surface fault geometry 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 Permian-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) | |
| Rowe | x | Biodiversity monitoring on public lands: how do we decide what to survey and what to skip? | ||
| Ruddell | x | Powell Synthesis Center | ||
| Ruddell | x | x | x | StreamCLIMES ephemeral/drying stream data science and outreach |
| Ruddell | x | FloodAware urban flood sensors and hydrology | ||
| Ruddell | x | SNOWPACS: Western snowmelt fed agricultural community water resources | ||
| Sankey | x | UAV remote sensing of riparian vegetation and invasive species | ||
| Shillington | x | x | Examining the subduction zone offshore Mexico with marine seismic reflection and refraction data | |
| Shillington | x | x | Quantifying synrift sediment properties and fault slip in the Gulf of Corinth from seismic waveform inversion | |
| Shillington | x | x | Crustal thinning in the Malawi Rift, East Africa, from 3D seismic refraction modeling | |
| Springer | x | x | Assessing hydrological responses of land management practices | |
| Springer | x | Karst hydrogeology projects in the Greater Grand Canyon region and the Southern Colorado Plateau | ||
| Springer | x | Restoration, management and sustainability of springs ecosystems |