Type: MS Graduate Program, On-site
Location: Corvallis, OR
Deadline: 11/15/2024
Graduate Program Start: Fall 2025
Preferred start date to lead field season and familiarize with project context: mid-June 2025
Oregon State University is excited to be recruiting for a new MS project focused on restoration ecology in dry forest ecosystems, working with Dr. Harold Zald and Dr. Meg Krawchuk.
The project:
We are recruiting a new MS student for funded research project focused on “Vegetation and surface fuel responses to operational-scale thinning and prescribed burning in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests in the eastern Oregon Cascades”, with field site located at the USFS Pringle Falls Experimental Forest. The MS student will be co-supervised by Drs. Meg Krawchuk (OSU) and Harold Zald (USFS). The successful candidate will enroll in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society (FES) in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. The MS would begin Fall 2025. Preferred start date for the successful candidate is mid-June 2025 so they can serve as crew lead for field data collection during the summer of 2025 and gain familiarity with the project, site, and data. The successful candidate will also lead a second field season in summer 2026. The MS student will collaborate with Drs. Krawchuk and Zald to improve our understanding of long-term changes in forest composition, structure, and fuels after large operational-scale fuel reduction and restoration treatments. The broad structure of the research program is established, but the MS student will have leeway in identifying their own nested research questions and ideas within this overall program.
