[Pollinator] Fwd: a posting for Pollinator

[Kelly Rourke]

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From: Ralph Cartar <ralphcartar at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:10 PM
Subject: a posting for Pollinator
To: pollinator-owner at lists.sonic.net

*PhD position available to study spatial ecology of bumble bee pollinators
of blueberry in Canada*

We are seeking a graduate student to begin work on a PhD in January 2018,
to join the labs of Paul Galpern and Ralph Cartar at the University of
Calgary, in a biology department with considerable expertise in pollination
and pollinator ecology, and beneficial insects.

The funded research will involve landscape-scale study of wild-nesting
bumble bee pollinators of blueberries in the Fraser Valley, British
Columbia.  It will examine landscape context, off-crop foraging
alternatives, distance-based foraging, foraging competitors, and
reproductive success of bumble bee colonies in the context of wild bumble
bees providing ecosystem pollination services to blueberry crops.  The
project will involve an integration of landscape ecology, behavioural
ecology, and chemical ecology, and will span basic and applied ecology.

Applications are welcome immediately, and selection of a candidate will
likely happen before 31 October 2017. Canadian applicants already holding
an MSc would best fit the short timeline for entry into the program by
January 2018. Salary stipend is $23,000 per year, some of which would
obtain from TAing a course in the Fall term.

To apply, please email a statement of interest, a CV, and the names of 3
referees to:  Paul Galpern <paul.galpern at ucalgary.ca> or Ralph Cartar <
cartar at ucalgary.ca>



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Kelly Rourke

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