Two Graduate Student Positions Available on the Effects of Permafrost Thaw on Forest Dynamics in the Taiga Plains

There are two graduate (MSc or PhD) positions available through Wilfrid Laurier University’s Cold Regions Research Center (CRRC; http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php? grp_id=2500) as part of an ongoing partnership with the Government of the Northwest Territories (http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=12612). We are rapidly expanding our integrative research program to better understand coupled ecological and hydrological responses of permafrost-impacted systems to warming. Our region of focus is the Taiga Plains Ecoregion, which spans the length of the MacKenzie River Valley in the Northwest
Territories, Canada. This ecoregion covers a wide latitudinal range and therefore a wide range of permafrost ecosystem characteristics, including boreal, taiga and tundra systems.

Details of each position can be found in the job announcement.