Graduate Student Position: Cornell University Field of Natural Resources We are seeking a graduate student to study early life ecology of fish in rivers and estuaries. The research will be highly quantitative, field oriented, and relevant to a prominent conservation challenge. Support will include funding for a full year assistantship, technicians, equipment, travel, tuition, fees, and insurance.
Qualifications: We seek student applications with a experiences and interests in aquatic ecology, fish, plankton, habitat, and quantitative skills (statistics, modeling, large data sets). Competitive applicants will have an excellent academic record, research experiences, top GRE scores, and a background in environmental biology. Applicants that have an MS degree are preferred, but highly competitive new BS graduates will be considered. Next step: Evaluation of candidates is underway but will extend through early 2009. Email (no phone calls) a brief description of your career aims with a resume, course and grade history (unofficial fine), and GRE scores to Mark Bain ([email protected]). This material will be reviewed and only a small group of competitive applicants will be asked to submit a formal application. More specific information will be sent to leading applicants, and general information can be found at these web sites: http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/ http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/people/faculty/profiles/bain.html http://www.markbain.name/
