| Dear colleagues and friends, I am accepting applications from highly-motivated Ph.D. students interested in joining my lab at the University of Utah Department of Biology. Our application deadline is January 6, 2014 and there is no application fee. Prospective applicants should visit my website: <http://bioweb.biolog...du/sekercioglu/> This year, I am especially interested in students who are interested in: 1) using mark-recapture models to undertake ecological analyses of long-term bird banding data from Ethiopia, Turkey and Utah. 2) conducting conservation, ecology, biogeography, life history, and evolutionary meta-analyses of our global bird database, covering all the world's bird species and updated continuously. The University of Utah Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology program provides 5 years of Ph.D. funding and has strengths in various fields. Our Global Change & Ecosystem Center provides opportunities for broad interdisciplinary research, education and outreach. <http://www.biology.u.../graduate/eeob/> http://www.biology.u.../graduate/eeob/ http://environment.utah.edu/ In my lab, in addition to the possibility of conservation ecology field research in a range of ecosystems in Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Turkey, and Utah, Ph.D. students can undertake conservation, ecology, biogeography, life history, and evolutionary meta-analyses of our global bird database, covering all the world's bird species and updated continuously. Besides conducting long-term bird banding and telemetry projects, we also study the conservation ecology and population biology of carnivores (brown bears, lynx, and wolves) in eastern Turkey and are working to create and monitor Turkey's first wildlife corridor. Highly-motivated students with interest in other taxa and prepared to take initiative should note that past collaborations included taxa ranging from plants to bird lice to amphibians. Students are encouraged to seek external Ph.D. funding opportunities such as NSF Graduate Fellowships or EPA-STAR Fellowships, and will have much better chances of acceptance with one. I will appreciate if you can spread the word, especially to your best students and other good candidates interested in doing a Ph.D. in conservation ecology, environmental science, wildlife biology, ornithology, or related fields. Thank you and enjoy the holidays Cagan H. Sekercioglu University of Utah Department of Biology Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Twitter: @sekercioglu <http://bioweb.biolog...du/sekercioglu/>http://bioweb.biolog...du/sekercioglu/ |