Weed Ecology Graduate Assistantship - funding is available for a self-motivated PhD student to develop a project focused on the effects of cover crop diversity on weed dynamics within agroecosystems.
The graduate student will work on an interdisciplinary research project that seeks to determine the agronomic, environmental, and economic benefits and costs of using cover crop mixtures of varying diversity in an organic crop production system. The project includes field experiments at a university research station, collaboration with farmer learning networks, and research and demonstrations on organic farms. The student will join a diverse team of scientists at Penn State with expertise in entomology, plant genetics, weed ecology, economics, and biogeochemistry. The PhD at Penn State University can be awarded in Ecology or Plant and Soil Sciences. Contact David Mortensen (dmorten...@psu.edu) or Meagan Schipanski (mschipan...@psu.edu) for more information about the project. For more information about our lab group, visit: weedecology.psu.edu. Meagan Schipanski Postdoctoral Researcher Dept of Crop and Soil Sciences The Pennsylvania State University 116 ASI Building University Park, PA 16802 (814) 863-7643 mschipan...@psu.edu
