Prospective Graduate Students
I
am actively seeking graduate students at the MS or PhD level who are
interested in answering questions about the susceptibility of marine
invertebrate taxa to physiological stresses during background global
change such as the late Paleozoic ice age, minor extinction crises such
as the Guadalupian or Toarcian extinctions, or mass extinctions such as
the end-Permian or end-Triassic extinctions. These crises provide
ancient analogues for ongoing climate warming, ocean acidification, and
spreading hypoxic dead zones.
Potential research projects could investigate the community-level
response or the role of individual-level traits, including
physiology, shell mineralogy, life position, motility, or body size, during physiological
extinctions, using field study or database analysis. I am happy
to discuss potential projects in more detail, especially if you have
your own research ideas, so feel free to contact me. The deadline
for application is typically at the beginning of January; see the Earth
and Planetary Science website for more information. |
