Ph.D. Level Graduate Research Assistantship – We seek an advanced
graduate student with strong interdisciplinary interests in
biogeography, ecology and evolution to join us in an NSF-funded
project studying body size of mammals that inhabit islands. This
project will be conducted collaboratively with Drs. Mark V. Lomolino
– College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA
(biogeographer and community ecologist), Dov F. Sax – Brown
University, Providence, RI, USA (an invasion biologist) and Dr. Maria
R. Palombo - Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” – Roma, Italy (a
vertebrate paleontologist) to examine a diverse array of evidence for
changes in body size that occur following colonization of islands by
mammals. The position will involve significant travel, but will be
based in the research lab of Dr. Lomolino in Syracuse, NY. The
position is available beginning January, 2011, or earlier depending
on availability of applicant. Please send a curriculum vitae and
letter of inquiry as email attachments to Professor Lomolino at
isl...@esf.edu; please fill in the subject line as “Island GRA”.
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Matthew Heard
Brown University
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Box G-W
Providence, RI 02912
hear...@gmail.com
401-863-2789
www.mattheard.com