Washington State University Vancouver · Washington · graduate assistantship · posted today
We seek a new MS or PhD student to join our lab on the Vancouver campus of Washington State University. Student will be part of a project team with collaborators at UC Davis, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, and others. The position is part of newly funded work broadly in the area of butterfly ecology and habitat management. Our work focuses on at-risk butterflies and their habitats in the Pacific Northwest to address ecological questions to advance conservation on-the-ground. We use a population ecology lens to gain understanding and to fill knowledge gaps which limit our ability to recover at-risk species. We work closely with federal, state and local agencies as well as non-profit organizations to conduct research which is useful and practical for these organizations while building on a strong foundation in ecological theory. Students from our program have secured career positions with many of these organizations. For this new position, thesis research direction will complement and support field aspects of funded research with considerable time in the field. Washington State University Vancouver is a small campus in the WSU system located in Southwest Washington just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. The campus is close to Willamette Valley and South Puget Sound prairies and an hour from the Pacific Coast. Students benefit from outstanding faculty, world-class research, small class sizes and state-of-the-art facilities – including a new Life Sciences building and greenhouse which opened in 2024. Interested students should send a CV/resume, transcripts and a cover letter describing past research experience and future research interests to Dr. Cheryl Schultz, schultzc@wsu.edu We encourage interested students to get in touch to learn more about the program and research in our labs. The admitted graduate student will formally matriculate in Fall 2027 and most new graduate students start as a field technician in the spring/summer prior to starting graduate school (exact start date is negotiable, as early as April 2027). Letters of interest will be reviewed as they are received. More information on our work and about instructions to apply to become a graduate student in our lab, please see https://vancouver.labs.wsu.edu/conservation-biology/
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