Graduate Assistantships Available:
Graduate study in Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions
University of Minnesota
For more information please see:
http://bioatmos.umn.edu
Graduate assistantships are available for highly qualified students
interested in M.S. or Ph.D. level graduate study in biosphere-atmosphere
interactions at the University of Minnesota. Research and Teaching
Assistantships with full tuition waiver and stipend are awarded on a
competitive basis. Faculty who study biosphere-atmosphere interactions
at the University of Minnesota work on a broad range of research topics,
including:
Terrestrial carbon storage
Carbon and water cycles of natural and managed ecosystems
Canopy-scale turbulent transport and fluid dynamics
Land-cover change effects on regional carbon and water fluxes
Isotopic composition of land-atmosphere exchange
Nitrogen and mercury biogeochemistry
Trace gas exchange
Research projects are located in natural, agricultural, and urban
ecosystems. Students have the opportunity to work with one or more
members of an interdisciplinary group of faculty in the departments of
Civil Engineering; Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Forest Resources;
and Soil, Water, and Climate. For more information about programs of
study and research opportunities, please see http://bioatmos.umn.edu