I am interested in recruiting 1 resourceful and keen PhD student to start May 2018. I prefer developing research proposals in collaboration with the student. Applicants are encouraged to view the lab's published research to get an idea of our interests and expertise. We are a generalist lab, so the possible research avenues are diverse... some ideas are provided below.
If you are interested in pursuing graduate research in our lab, please email me your CV, a brief blurb about yourself and your interests, and which project(s) interests you.
General guidelines for prospective students:
I expect prospective students to have consulted the general information provided at the Biology Graduate program webpage prior to contacting me. Students in my lab gain valuable experience in quantitative methods, data management / analysis, GIS, field and lab work. These skills and experiences have helped former students find full time employment and / or further their graduate studies.
Students are expected to seek their own sources of external funding (e.g. NSERC), and to be competitive for internal grants available at UBC.
General information about grad studies at the campus and in biology:
UBC Okanagan Biology graduate program
Graduate School at UBC Okanagan
Potential research areas:
Identifying regional and historical influences over beta diversity patterns
- using both published and potentially new (to be collected) data from existing forest plots (“BEC” plots) throughout BC, with potential to include additional taxa, such as mycorrhizal fungi
Freshwater diatoms: diversity and dispersal
- using field container experiments to directly assess diatom dispersal, and using geospatial analyses and existing datasets to infer the influences of dispersal on diversity patterns
Modern ecological theory and the paleolimnological method
- this topic provides for a rich variety of potential lines of investigation, including, for example, determining the extent to which diatom-based paleolimnological calibration models and reconstructions are influenced by stochastic ecological processes, and by generalist versus specialist taxa
Ectomycorrhizal fungi diversity in time and space
- in collaboration with Dr. Brian Pickles, I am starting new research that examines diversity patterns through time and space. Early stages yet, but on the horizon...
If you are interested in pursuing graduate research in our lab, please email me your CV, a brief blurb about yourself and your interests, and which project(s) interests you.
General guidelines for prospective students:
I expect prospective students to have consulted the general information provided at the Biology Graduate program webpage prior to contacting me. Students in my lab gain valuable experience in quantitative methods, data management / analysis, GIS, field and lab work. These skills and experiences have helped former students find full time employment and / or further their graduate studies.
Students are expected to seek their own sources of external funding (e.g. NSERC), and to be competitive for internal grants available at UBC.
General information about grad studies at the campus and in biology:
UBC Okanagan Biology graduate program
Graduate School at UBC Okanagan
Potential research areas:
Identifying regional and historical influences over beta diversity patterns
- using both published and potentially new (to be collected) data from existing forest plots (“BEC” plots) throughout BC, with potential to include additional taxa, such as mycorrhizal fungi
Freshwater diatoms: diversity and dispersal
- using field container experiments to directly assess diatom dispersal, and using geospatial analyses and existing datasets to infer the influences of dispersal on diversity patterns
Modern ecological theory and the paleolimnological method
- this topic provides for a rich variety of potential lines of investigation, including, for example, determining the extent to which diatom-based paleolimnological calibration models and reconstructions are influenced by stochastic ecological processes, and by generalist versus specialist taxa
Ectomycorrhizal fungi diversity in time and space
- in collaboration with Dr. Brian Pickles, I am starting new research that examines diversity patterns through time and space. Early stages yet, but on the horizon...
