Full funding support is available for four years for a PhD position in the lab of Dr. Andrew MacDougall - University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. I seek a highly-motivated PhD candidate with a theoretical or empirical background at the MSc or undergraduate level, ideally with training in plant ecology or plant evolution. The research will explore long-term responses in plant performance (leafing, flowering, senescence) to climate change in the high arctic mountains of northern Scandinavia. The work will be based off a globally unprecedented century-long data set initiated in 1917, tracking seasonal and annual variations in the timing and extent of plant performance for 140+ vascular plant species. The student is expected to generate their own research projects, based on these data and their own interests. The projects can involve field work and/or big data analysis, with ecological and/or evolutionary emphases. The student will be based out of the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph. The project is coordinated from the Abisko Scientific Research Station (Abisko, Sweden), in collaboration with Umeå University, Queens College -Belfast, and Imperial College – London. The student is encouraged to collaborate with researchers at one or more of these institutions, depending on the research emphases they chose to follow. Please e-mail a brief statement of research interest, your CV, an unofficial transcript, and the names of two academic referees to a...@uoguelph.ca. The position starts fall 2019, although summer 2019 is negotiable.
Department of Integrative Biology https://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/ University of Guelph https://www.uoguelph.ca/ Abisko Scientific Research Station https://polar.se/en/research-in-abisko/ Umeå University http://www.emg.umu.se/english/ Queens College Belfast https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofBiologicalSciences/ Imperial College London http://www.imperial.ac.uk/life-sciences/research/research-themes/ecosystems-and-the-environment/
