Missouri River Graduate and Undergraduate Research Opportunities The Missouri River Institute, Department of Biology, and Sustainability Program at the University of South Dakota have three Ph.D. research assistantship positions and a number of undergraduate summer research fellowships available, beginning in the summer and fall of 2017.
Graduate Fellowships The Ph.D. research fellowships will begin in August 2017 and are funded under a grant from the National Science Foundation to examine impacts of movement toward a bioenergy economy for the Upper Missouri River Basin. Ph.D. students will be part of a Graduate Program in Sustainability being developed at USD and will be housed in the Department of Biology. Ph.D. projects will be developed which relate to grant goals, with individual projects focused on impacts of land-use and climate change on water quality, bird & amphibian biodiversity, and cultural ecosystem services & sustainability visioning. Each fellowship provides four years of funding at an annual stipend of $22,000, with teaching or research assistantship funding provided by the department for at least one additional year. Undergraduate Fellowships Ten 11-week undergraduate summer research fellowships<http://www.sustainableriver.org/>, beginning in late May, 2017, are available through a National Science Foundation grant and research projects will examine the functioning and management of the Missouri River as a lens through which to study complex, interdisciplinary systems. Research projects will be conducted in association with faculty members affiliated with the Missouri River Institute and Sustainability Program at USD from various disciplines, including Biology, Earth Sciences, and Anthropology. Student projects will address the general question of how invasive elements in the Missouri River and its uplands affect the sustainability of the river and the humans who depend on it. Summer stipends will be $5,775 each, with additional funding for housing, food, and travel. Additional information is available at http://www.usd.edu/missouri-river-institute, http://www.usd.edu/arts-and-sciences/sustainability, and http://www.usd.edu/arts-and-sciences/biology. Interested candidates may also contact project directors David Swanson (david.swan...@usd.edu<mailto:david.swan...@usd.edu>; http://www.usd.edu/faculty-and-staff/David-Swanson) or Meghann Jarchow (meghann.jarc...@usd.edu<mailto:meghann.jarc...@usd.edu>; http://www.usd.edu/faculty-and-staff/Meghann-Jarchow). Meghann Jarchow Assistant Professor Sustainability Program Coordinator Department of Biology University of South Dakota Churchill-Haines Labs 171E (605)677-3115 (office) (605)659-1889 (cell) http://www.jarchowlab.org/
