Iowa State University

Iowa

MS

The most competitive applicant would have experience with population and spatial modeling, molecular genetics, and field ecology. with GPA >3.5 and GRE scores totaling >1300+5.0 will be most competitive for special Graduate Fellowships which often provide higher stipend.

Assistantship

Potential applicants are encouraged to send a brief cover letter and CV as a single attachment to the email address below. The most likely scenario is admission in August 2006. See the instructions for application on the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology h

William R. Clark, Ph.D., Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, 253 Bessey Hall, Ames, IA 50011

We are seeking a graduate student at the Ph.D. level to join an ongoing project on bobcat population dynamics in Iowa, a population that is expanding into formerly occupied landscape that has now been substantially altered. We are presently doing the basic population and habitat ecology. We’d like to examine the genetic linkages with populations from surrounding states, as well as look at how the landscape configuration has affected the spread of the population. Our thoughts include modeling the “spatial spread” in the context of landscape fragmentation using data derived from both genetic and telemetry data. Furthermore, the population could be opened to harvest so that presents another avenue of investigation. The Ph.D. student will be expected to develop ideas under this broad framework. I am a population ecologist, as you'll see from my web page www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/ClarkW/homepage.html. I will be collaborating with ecological and evolutionary geneticists Drs. Anne Bronikowski and Fred Janzen, whose web pages are also on the EEOB department home

The current project is well funded and we expect that we will renew the funding for another 3 years beginning in 2006. Stipend next year will be a minimum of $19,000 per year plus scholarship support for full tuition.

Until filled