Graduate Research Opportunities

The Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability in the Warner College of Natural Resources is committed to inclusion in our instruction, research, service, and outreach. Warner College and ESS members hold themselves accountable for fostering a college community rooted in inclusive mindedness.  Warner and ESS students, faculty, and staff uphold and embrace CSU’s principles of community: respect, inclusion, integrity, social justice and service.  Everyone is welcomed. The Warner and ESS communities recognize the disparities that exist within the field of natural resources and therefore call on individuals whose passions and work align with our college’s effort to make change. Warner College and ESS supports an environment where identities, cultures, experiences, and ideas are recognized, valued, and appreciated.

We are currently recruiting for the following positions:

Dr. Tamee Albrecht and Dr. Jessica O’Connell of CSU’s Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability seek a PhD-level graduate student for Fall 2024 to help with an interdisciplinary project that combines remote sensing analysis of transboundary wetland hydrodynamics with integrated policy analysis. The PhD student will be supported for the first three years of the project by the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

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Dr. Ed Hall and Dr. Andrea Baudoin Farah in CSU’s Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability within the Warner College of Natural Resources are recruiting a PhD student to conduct original research on a transdisciplinary project centered on social-ecological systems and sustainable livelihoods in and around Lake Yojoa in Honduras. The PhD student will be supported for the first three years of the project by the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. The position will be based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with expected extended fieldwork in Honduras within the Lake Yojoa watershed.

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Dr. Randall Boone in CSU’s Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability within the Warner College of Natural Resources is recruiting a PhD student to conduct original research in ecosystem and agent-based modeling in New York state. The PhD student will work in collaboration with colleagues at Columbia University, as well as CSU’s Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics. The position will be supported by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture.

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Dr. Tamee Albrecht in CSU’s Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability is recruiting a MS student to help with a collaborative research project that combines wildfire, social science and geospatial research methods starting in Fall 2024 at Colorado State University.

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Dr. Danica Lombardozzi in CSU’s Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and Dr. David Barnard of the USDA Agricultural Research Service are recruiting a PhD student to work on plant-water relations and ecohydrology in Earth system models starting in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 at Colorado State University.

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