The Ecology Graduate Program at Penn State is a University-wide graduate program that seeks excellent students from all disciplines in Ecology (http://www.huck.psu.edu/content/graduate-programs/ecology). Students are fully supported with competitive stipends for the duration of their graduate program, including tuition and fees. There are also competitive awards given to support travel to both domestic and international meetings as well as research grants to support individual projects. Please contact faculty directly if you are interested in a particular research program. Some of the specific labs seeking students are:
Kaye biogeochemistry lab (http://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/labs/kaye) for a project in the area of agroecology, specifically, applying biodiversity-ecosystem function theory to nutrient cycling. Sheriff lab (http://michaeljsheriff.weebly.com/) for a project investigating the interaction of fear and fire. Miller/Diefenbach labs (http://ecosystems.psu.edu/directory/drd11) (http://appliedpopecol.weebly.com) for a predator-prey ecology study looking at the distribution of several predator species and how that is related to the survival of white-tailed deer fawns. Hudson lab (http://bio.psu.edu/directory/pjh18) for a project examining disease trophic cascades in Yellowstone National Park Eissenstat root ecology lab (http://rootecology.psu.edu) for projects examining the influence of temperature on root phenology in boreal forests and topographical influences on belowground carbon processes Baums lab (http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/baums/) for a project studying the hybridization genomics and evolutionary ecology of Caribbean corals Cattadori group (http://www.cattadorigroup.com/) for projects examining the dynamics of co-infection within hosts and at the host population level. David Eissenstat Professor of Woody Plant Physiology Chair of the Ecology Graduate Program Penn State University Department of Ecosystem Science and Management 201 Forest Resources Building University Park, PA 16802 http://rootecology.psu.edu
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