PPS Arctic Canada

PPS Arctic Canada Opportunities

Current opportunities (Scroll down for more details):
1) New graduate student opportunity at the School for Resource and Environmental Studies (SRES), Dalhousie University.  START DATE SPRING, SUMMER, or FALL 2008  FILLED

2) M.Sc. opportunity: climate change and soil ecology

3) Summer ecology research assistant opportunity: Climate change and treeline in Labrador  FILLED

New graduate student opportunity at the School for Resource and Environmental Studies (SRES), Dalhousie University.  START DATE SPRING, SUMMER, or FALL 2008
Post date 9 November 2007

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to start a graduate thesis focused on developing teaching modules that incorporate the results of a larger International Polar Year project on the causes and consequences of treeline movement. The successful applicant would receive full funding to start a Masters of Environmental Studies program in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University in September, 2008, supervised by Drs. Karen Harper and Tarah Wright.  The student would also receive funding to travel to three northern communities as part of the project.

The student will be responsible for soliciting input from teachers and elders in northern communities for developing teaching modules focusing on K-12 students in northern communities.  Interested individuals should contact Karen Harper at Karen.Harper@Dal.ca. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, though applicants must apply to SRES at Dalhousie by the school's deadline (1 Feburary 2008).  Excellent applicants may apply and be accepted to the program before this date.  Preference will be given to an individual who applies from a northern community near treeline.

M.Sc. opportunity: climate change and soil ecology

As part of the International Polar Year (http://www.ipycanada.ca), funding is available for an M.Sc. student to investigate the importance of symbiotic (mycorrhizal) fungi in the establishment of tree seedlings in tundra habitats. Field work will be conducted in Labrador in conjunction with PPS Artic Canada (www.dal.ca/ppscanada) and the Labrador Highlands Research group (http://www.mun.ca/geog/lhrg). The successful applicants will have an interest/background in soil biology, plant biology or microbiology and can enroll in either the Biology Department at Memorial University, St. John’s, NF (http://www.mun.ca/biology/Home) or the Applied Science Program at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS (http://fgsr.smu.ca/grad_pro_app.html).
For further information, please contact Dr. Gavin Kernaghan 
(gavin.kernaghan@MSVU.ca).

Summer ecology research assistant opportunity: Climate change and treeline in Labrador

We are looking for highly motivated students to assist with studies of the effects of climate change on treeline position and community structure in the Mealy Mountains of Labrador or in Churchill, Manitoba.  If you are interested in formulating and testing ecological theory, designing field experiments, and learning ecological methods in a remote field camp, you should contact us.  Candidates expecting to do an Honour’s thesis on the summer fieldwork out of the Department of Biology or Environmental Programmes are preferred. The position has an anticipated start date of 1 June, and will run to 31 August 2008.



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