Two funded quantitative graduate school positions (1 MS, and 1 PhD) in Pacific Northwest (Oregon State)

[Josh Twining]

Hi everyone,

I am an Asst. Prof in Fisheries , Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at Oregon State University and have funding and am currently recruiting two graduate students, 1 masters and 1 PhD (https://fwcs.oregonstate.edu/). 

Corvallis / Oregon is beautiful, there are mountains, forest, and ocean, a dream place for any ecologist.

Both projects will be hierachical modeling and model development focused (hense posting here, but also with lots of fieldwork live-trapping and camera trapping small mammals, and their predators) so if you like the idea of the combination of being outdoors but also doing cool quantitative work with an applied focus please check these out. 

The masters project is focused on developing non-invasive monitoring methods and models for small mammal populations (https://jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=102411). This project will involve comparing SCR applied to intensive live-trapping data with enclosed camera traps and drones mounted with thermal cameras with model development for both the latter two. 

The PhD project is on how interactions between predators, parasites, and the environment influence the population dynamics of a cyclical endemic vole (https://jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=102410) and will be focused on building integrated population demographic models to test hypotheses (predation, disease, competition, weather, season) about drivers of interannual cycles of gray-tailed voles (an endemic vole here in the Willamette Valley). This will involve data collection (live trapping, camera trapping, biologging etc.) and and model development. 

See links for full job posting and requirements. Positions start in Fall 2025. We will we reviewing applications after Feburary 15th and applications recieved before then will get priority.

Feel free to contact me (joshua....@oregonstate.edu) with any questions,

All the best

Josh