Dear Colleagues, We seek a NSF Graduate Research Fellow (GRF) interested in mapping, modeling or empirical approaches to better understand the environmental factors leading to relict cypress forests across geographical drought and salinity gradients. The study will be supported by long-term data on regeneration and production from a research network across the southeastern United States (northern Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast, Mississippi River Alluvial Valley). The NSF research fellow may choose to use Lidar data, Landsat images or other available data to determine if water dynamics affect regeneration failure in cypress swamps, or if the problem is more directly related to climate and/or landuse change.
NSFs Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP) provides $5000 in travel funds to facilitate interactions between GRFs and U.S. Geological Survey researchers for up to 12 months. GRIP opportunities are made possible by a NSF USGS partnership to support GRF professional development and network expansion at federal facilities. GRFs must submit a GRIP proposal via NSF Fastlane by May 6th, 2016. Interested GRFs should read the descriptions of our internship opportunity (see links below) discuss the opportunity with their advisors, and then schedule a time with us to discuss the internship. Best, Dr. Beth Middleton, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center; [email protected]; 337-266- 8618. A description of my internship opportunity: https://powellcenter.usgs.gov/sites/default/files/GRIP- RelictcypressswampforestacrossdroughtandsalinitygradientsinthenorthernGulfCoast-03-15- 2016.pdf NSFs GRIP site: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505127 USGSs GRIP site: https://powellcenter.usgs.gov/national-science-foundation-graduate-research-internship- program-grip
