Positions
Available
Graduate
Research Assistant, M.S./Ph.D.
University of
Maine Sustainable Agriculture Program, Department of Plant, Soil and
Environmental Sciences, Orono, Maine.
Salary: $14,357
annually, with potential supplement from extramural funding.
Benefits: 0.5 annual health care; tuition waiver (9 credits per
semester)
Date available: January, June or September 2008.
Current research
projects are focused on understanding and manipulating the
population dynamics of annual weeds in organic dairy and vegetable
cropping systems, particularly strategies congruent with growers’
interest in improving soil quality. Opportunities include studies
related to physical weed control for small-scale (< 2 ha) growers;
effects of fall management practices on weed seed predation and
seedbank dynamics; behavior of invertebrate weed seed predators,
with a particular interest in Harpalus rufipes, a ground
beetle; and soil quality effects on weed seed persistence.
Qualifications:
Undergraduate degree in agronomy, agroecology, ecology, biology, or
related fields, and strong interest in ecologically-based weed
management for low-external-input cropping systems.
Contact: Eric
Gallandt, Associate Professor of Weed Ecology and Management,
University of Maine, Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental
Sciences, 5722 Deering Hall, Orono, ME, 04473-5722.
gallandt@maine.edu
For an overview
of our research program:
www.umaine.edu/weedecology
See also:
http://www.umaine.edu/pse/psegradstudy.htm
