We seek motivated students to pursue a Ph.D. or M.S. degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University, Vancouver, as part of an interdisciplinary, National Science Foundation-funded research project focused on understanding linkages between water management and aquatic ecosystem function in freshwater reservoirs.
Our “Dams and Adaptive Management Systems” (DAMS) project is a collaboration between ecologists, economists, and engineers, and will use reservoir water management as a test-case to understand how the environment, society, and new knowledge interact to shape rule-following, rule-bending and rule-reformulation behaviors in dam/reservoir management, and how, in-turn, these behaviors affect reservoir ecosystem responses.
For more information, visit our website (https://labs.wsu.edu/dises/) and read a recent news article https://news.wsu.edu/news/2021/10/11/nsf-funded-research-examines-socio-....
Each successful applicant working on biophysical components of the project will be expected to develop a research focus in one of the following areas. Please contact the Principal Investigator leading the research area you are interested in to discuss opportunities in their lab:
• aquatic greenhouse gas emissions (contact Dr. John Harrison: john_harrison@wsu.edu)
• water quality (contact Dr. John Harrison: john_harrison@wsu.edu)
• harmful algal blooms (contact Dr. Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens: rollboll@wsu.edu)
• aquatic invasive species (contact Dr. Stephen Bollens: sbollens@wsu.edu)
Admission requirements and application materials for the M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Natural Resources at WSU Vancouver are available at https://cas.vancouver.wsu.edu/science-graduate-programs.
Students will most likely be supported by a combination of research and teaching assistantships, including tuition waivers; a range of internal (WSU) graduate fellowships are also available.
Washington State University Vancouver is a vibrant, rapidly growing research-intensive institution located within the greater Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area, near the Columbia River, Cascade Mountains and Pacific Ocean, and offers an exceptional quality of life.