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.
2021 Fund for Student Diversity in Earth and Environmental Sciences: SES is committed to providing dedicated funding and support to serve a wider diversity of graduate students. As part of this year’s admission cycle we are offering supplemental funding for students from backgrounds currently underrepresented in our graduate programs. If you are interested in applying to our graduate programs, talk to any faculty member you are interested in working with, or email the funding coordinator with any questions you have or to get help finding a potential mentor.
To learn more about any of the following projects, 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 | |
| Mueller | x | Valuing springs ecosystem services to inform sustainable rangeland management | ||
| 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 | |
| Souther | x | Conservation and restoration of traditionally used plants KNAU story / inaturalist.org Project Page | ||
| 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 |