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UI-CATIE IGERT Research Assistantships

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The IGERT: Evaluating resilience of ecological and social systems in changing landscapes of Idaho and Costa Rica is now recruiting 24 doctoral students that will work in interdisciplinary teams in Idaho and Costa Rica beginning in 2010 and 2011.

Students in the program will conduct their dissertation research as part of interdisciplinary teams addressing resilience of social-ecological systems in temperate and tropical settings. Students will be mentored in these efforts by participating faculty from diverse disciplines. The research projects will be conducted in one of six geographic regions with diverse ecology and socio-economic challenges, three in the inland Pacific Northwest (PNW), USA and three in Costa Rica.

Applications are being accepted from December 1, 2009 through January 4, 2010. Earlier applications are highly encouraged.