Graduate Student Opportunities 2019
Join the School of Earth & Sustainability for your graduate school experience! Here is a list of projects/research foci available for students starting Fall 2019 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 and Grimm | x | Working with citizen scientists to investigate seed dispersal and wildlife use of management mosaics in Costa Rica | ||
| Best | x | Maintaining aquatic biodiversity across climate gradients using natural vs. anthropogenic habitats | ||
| Best | x | Genetic diversity in aquatic invertebrates adapting to climate change | ||
| Buscombe | x | Spatial ecology of Gulf sturgeon spawning in Florida panhandle rivers | ||
| 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 | NSF-Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change project: sedimentary records of annual- to millennial-scale Holocene climate in southern Alaska |
| McKay and Routson | x | x | x | Synthesizing regional Holocene dust flux in southern Colorado |
| Ort | x | Physical volcanology - phreatomagmatism, pyroclastic deposits, scoria cones, etc. | ||
| 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 | ||
| Smith | x | x | Lacustrine and fluvial environmental response to climate change in Eocene Wyoming |