“Be empowered. Empower yourself with a good education. Then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.”
- Michelle Obama
I am recruiting a PhD student to start in Summer or Fall 2026! To be eligible, you must be a US Citizen, National or green-card holder and have received an Honorable Mention Award on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship no earlier than Spring 2022. If you’re eligible for this program, email me and check out the EMERGE Alaska website for more details.
Stay tuned for additional specific student recruitment announcements. I am always looking for motivated students and postdocs. Please contact me if you have an interest in joining the lab.
Is graduate school right for you? Check out this helpful blog post by Yale Biology professor, Casey Dunn.
How do you apply to a MS or PhD program? Here’s a helpful blog post by University of Maine professor, Jacquelyn Gill
How to get in touch with a potential advisor? Tips on writing an email of interest by the Evans Lab at Michigan State.
Undergraduate Jennifer Tusten extracting eDNA samples for the NSF Alaska EPSCoR Fire and Ice Project
Undergraduate Rory Claussen deploying passive eDNA sampling devices looking for Pacific Sleeper Sharks in Prince William Sound
Undergraduates Andrew Wilson (L) and George Deal (R) presented a poster on their passive eDNA sampling device to the Alaska Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Meeting in March 2023.