Congratulations to Aaron on the successful defense of his dissertation on October 20, 2023! Aaron has also accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at the University of Minnesota Crookston, in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Department. He will be teaching courses about forestry, woody plant identification and biostatistics, while also continuing his research in forest ecology and dendrochronology. We wish you all the best in your new position!
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Congratulations to Tyler on the successful defense of his thesis on July 11, 2023!
(my apologies, for posting this 4 months after the fact ... although I am getting faster - see Taylor's annoucement below). Congratulations to Taylor on the successful defense of her thesis on September 24, 2021!
(my apologies, for posting this 6 months after the fact). The Snell lab in the department of Environmental and Plant Biology at Ohio University is currently recruiting highly qualified and motivated graduate students (MSc or PhD) to start in the Spring or Fall semester of 2019. Please read my website to find out more about the current research interests of the group (Research and Publications).
Qualifications Applicants should have a background in ecology, plant biology, environmental science, forestry or a related discipline, previous research experience, and evidence of strong communication and quantitative skills. Experience with R and/or other computer programming languages is preferred. Application Please check out the the Environmental and Plant Biology site for application instructions (https://www.ohio.edu/cas/plantbio/grad/index.cfm). Students interested in a Spring semester start, should apply by October 31 2018. Students interested in a Fall semester start should apply by January 15 2019. However, I strongly encourage interested students to contact Dr. Snell ([email protected]) well before these dates, to allow enough time for discussing potential research projects. Please email Dr. Snell ([email protected]) your CV, GRE scores (if you have them), unofficial transcripts, and a letter of interest, outlining your previous research experience and the research topics that you are interested in pursuing during your graduate degree (i.e., why do you want to join my lab?). International students should also include their TOEFL scores, if appropriate. Qualified individuals will be invited to apply to Ohio University’s Graduate College. Congratulations to Laura Schuler for the successful defense of her PhD on May 17, titled "The role of tree species diversity for maintaining ecosystem services under multiple disturbances and climate change". My virtual presence was there: But I missed out on the festivities afterwards.
What an amazing PhD hat! Congratulations Laura! The Snell lab in the department of Environmental and Plant Biology at Ohio University is currently recruiting highly qualified and motivated graduate students (MSc or PhD) to start in the 2017 academic year. Our group studies the processes and interactions that shape plant communities, from the stand, to landscape and regional scale. These processes are integrated into dynamic vegetation models, to improve our understanding of how plants will respond to future climate change and to quantify climate change impacts. Graduate students are encouraged to develop independent research projects related to the broader objectives of the lab. Ongoing research includes, 1) The influence of climate on plant demographic processes and resulting range shifts, 2) The provisioning of ecosystem services under current and future climate, 3) The importance of spatial and temporal variability for determining plant responses to climate change.
Qualifications Applicants should have a background in ecology, plant biology, environmental science, forestry or a related discipline, previous research experience, and evidence of strong communication and quantitative skills. Experience with R and/or other computer programming languages is preferred. Want to know more? Please check out the lab website for more information (http://rebeccasnell.weebly.com/) and the Environmental and Plant Biology site for application instructions (https://www.ohio.edu/cas/plantbio/grad/index.cfm). Application The deadline to apply to Ohio University’s Graduate College is January 15 2017. However, I strongly encourage interested students to contact Dr. Snell ([email protected]) well before this date, to allow enough time for discussing potential research projects. Please email Dr. Snell ([email protected]) your CV, GRE scores, unofficial transcripts, and a letter of interest, outlining your previous research experience and the research topics that you are interested in pursuing during your graduate degree (i.e., why do you want to join my lab?). International students should also include their TOEFL scores, if appropriate. Qualified individuals will be invited to apply to Ohio University’s Graduate College. We are planning on submitting an Organized Oral Session Proposal for the 2017 ESA meeting in Portland, on the topic of “Consequences of individual variation in dispersal for recruitment, populations, and communities”. A short description is included below. We have several speakers confirmed, however we are looking for a few more people to round out the session. If your research falls under this topic and you are planning on attending the 2017 ESA meeting, please contact us! In addition to an exciting and interesting set of talks, we also plan to invite all of the participants to write a short perspectives piece supporting the idea that we need a better understanding of the variation in dispersal and related traits for predicting responses to climate change.
Each talk will be 20 minutes long, and there is no financial compensation for the invited speakers. If you have any questions or to indicate your interest, please send me an email ([email protected]) BEFORE September 13. Kind regards on behalf of the organizing committee, Noelle Beckman, Utah State University Evan Fricke, Iowa State University Bette Loiselle, University of Florida Rebecca Snell, Ohio University A short description of the session: Dispersal is a poorly understood phenomenon of great conservation importance, since it is both affected by global change and affects the ability of organisms to respond to global change. For plants or other sessile organisms, movement of individual propagules provides the single opportunity in their life cycle to change geographic locations. Dispersal has an important impact on fitness, species distributions, and patterns of biodiversity by mediating population- and community-level dynamics. However, models that predict extinction risk of species, range shifts, and biodiversity loss rarely incorporate realistic dispersal mechanisms and tend to rely on the mean value of parameters due to the challenges of incorporating processes occurring over multiple scales and in heterogeneous environments. By focusing on the mean population value, variation among individuals or the complex spatial and temporal dynamics in which these interactions take place are ignored. Improving our understanding about the importance of variability in dispersal among individuals will increase our ability to predict the relative role of dispersal for populations and communities, and improve conservation and management strategies. However, the sources, magnitude, and outcomes of intraspecific variation in dispersal are poorly characterized, limiting our understanding of the role of dispersal in mediating the dynamics of communities and their response to global change. The objectives of this organized oral session are to examine the importance of individual variation in dispersal to fitness, populations, and communities from a variety of perspectives in order to advance our ability to model outcomes of dispersal and manage systems under changing conditions. |
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