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Graduate Student Research Opportunities

Admissions for Fall 2022 are complete. If you are interested in beginning graduate school in Fall 2023, please start by reaching out to individual faculty about your specific research interests. It is a good idea to be in touch with potential advisors a few months before the January 1 application deadline. 

Join the School of Earth & Sustainability for your graduate school experience! Here is a list of projects/research foci available for students starting Fall 2022 in a thesis-based Master’s program (MS Geology or MS Environmental Sciences & Policy) or in our PhD Program in Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability.

If you are interested in applying to our graduate programs, talk to any faculty member you are interested in working with about whether they are accepting new students and whether they have funding available to support you and your research. Some funding is also available via Teaching Assistantships. All funding decisions are made as part of the standard admissions process, which starts after the January 1st deadline. SES is committed to providing funding and support to serve a diverse and inclusive student body in our programs.

To learn more about any of the following projects, follow the link or email the faculty member (PI).

PIMS GLGMS ES&PPhDTopic
Aslanx Pollinator response to energy rights-of-way
BestxxMaintaining aquatic biodiversity across climate gradients using natural vs. anthropogenic habitats
BestxEcology and evolution of plasticity in riparian trees and the ecosystems they support
HuntzingerxxLand-atmosphere carbon exchange and how the terrestrial carbon cycle impacts and is influenced by climate
JohnsonxxMycorrhizal microbiomes of biofuel sorghum
KaufmanxxxClimate controls on carbon accumulation in upland permafrost at millennial scales, Alaska
KaufmanxxAmino acid geochronology: methods and applications
McKay, Kaufman, ErbxCollaborative Research: Patterns and processes of abrupt Arctic warming based on paleoclimate observations and models
MuellerxValuing springs ecosystem services to inform sustainable rangeland management
Mueller and LittlexDisplacing wood use with electric thermal storage heating to improve ambient air quality storage heating to improve ambient air quality
PorterxSeismic Monitoring of Debris Flow Associated with the Museum Fire
PorterxEarth Analogues of Planetary Geophysical Exploration
PorterxThermal and Compositional State of the Western US from Seismic Imaging
RegallaxLate Holocene paleoseismicity in the Eastern California Shear Zone
RegallaxFault slip histories in the Cascadia, Nankai, and Japan subduction forearcs
RegallaxxNear trench deforamtion in the region of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Northeast Japan subduction zone
RowexRestoration in the Sonoran Desert - testing seed mixes and site treatments (RestoreNet)
RowexxAssessing global conservation status of priority Sonoran Desert plant species (IUCN)
RowexBiodiversity monitoring on public lands: how do we decide what to survey and what to skip?
Ruddell
xPowell Synthesis Center
RuddellxxxStreamCLIMES ephemeral/drying stream data science and outreach
RuddellxFloodAware urban flood sensors and hydrology
RuddellxSNOWPACS: Western snowmelt fed agricultural community water resources
SankeyxUAV remote sensing of riparian vegetation and invasive species
ShillingtonxxExamining the subduction zone offshore Mexico with marine seismic reflection and refraction data
ShillingtonxxQuantifying synrift sediment properties and fault slip in the Gulf of Corinth from seismic waveform inversion
ShillingtonxxCrustal thinning in the Malawi Rift, East Africa, from 3D seismic refraction modeling
SoutherxConservation and restoration of traditionally used plants KNAU story / inaturalist.org Project Page
SpringerxxAssessing hydrological responses of land management practices
SpringerxKarst hydrogeology projects in the Greater Grand Canyon region and the Southern Colorado Plateau
SpringerxRestoration, management and sustainability of springs ecosystems
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