Colorado State University has a graduate student research assistantship available in January 2021 through the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory.
This assistantship will support a doctoral student to study ecosystem processes with modeling approaches. The student will apply cutting edge techniques in model development and calibration to set-up a process-based model application and then use the framework to evaluate future outcomes of agricultural management on soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions.
The faculty in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University conduct scholarly research to improve the sustainability of the world's ecosystems (https://warnercnr.colostate.edu/ess/), and the student will be joining an active ecosystem modeling group led by Dr. Stephen Ogle (https://www.nrel.colostate.edu/investigator/stephen-ogle-homepage/). Dr. Ogle is the technical lead on the US national greenhouse gas inventory for agricultural lands and has conducted a variety of assessments to evaluate agricultural management options. Students with a background in ecology or related fields, along with mathematics and/or statistics are encouraged to apply.
Please contact Dr. Ogle (email: Stephen.Ogle@colostate.edu ) if you are interested in this position.