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<div><b>From:</b> Paul Fine <<a href="mailto:paulfine23@yahoo.com">paulfine23@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> March 3, 2014 at 3:20:10 PM MST<br>
<b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:ecomaillist@lists.berkeley.edu">ecomaillist@lists.berkeley.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:ecomaillist@lists.berkeley.edu">ecomaillist@lists.berkeley.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>Ecomail--> field assistant position in Ecuador</b><br>
<b>Reply-To:</b> Paul Fine <<a href="mailto:paulfine23@yahoo.com">paulfine23@yahoo.com</a>><br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Assistantship in Plant/Herbivore Interactions in the Ecuadorian Amazon<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Tom Kursar and Lissy Coley, Department of Biology, University of Utah</span><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">We are looking for a highly motivated and capable student who has recently completed a Bachelor’s degree and wants to gain research experience.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Students with expertise in ecology, botany, entomology and other fields of ecology and evolution are encouraged to apply. The work would be as an assistant in a study of the ecology of plant/herbivore interactions.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The field site is Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador. The position is for ~10 weeks (July 22-Sept 25) 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>We will be at the field site full time and we work 6 days per week. The team also will include T. Kursar, L. Coley, and an Ecuadorian assistant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The aim of the project is to understand the ecology and evolution of plant defenses against herbivores. We are focusing on a speciose Neotropical tree genus,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Inga</i>, which is defended by ants visiting extra-floral nectaries as well as an extremely diverse set of secondary metabolites. Our collaborators in Edinburgh and Brazil are constructing phylogenies of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Inga</i> and the herbivores. We will address questions such as whether shared defensive traits of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Inga</i> are due to common ancestry or to convergence and whether or not herbivores and plants have co-evolved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Responsibilities include learning to identify about 40 species of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Inga</i>, collection of herbivores, botanical voucher specimens, and young leaves for chemical analysis, field measurements of herbivory, phenology of leaf production, rate of leaf expansion, ant visitation, photographing
plants and herbivores, and drying of leaves for chemical analysis. The ability to pay attention to detail in data entry and data management is critical. In addition to field and lab work, the assistant should be familiar with simple graphics and data analysis.
More information about our research can be found on <a href="http://www.biology.utah.edu/coley/">
www.biology.utah.edu/coley/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">This is an excellent learning experience for someone interested in continuing their studies for the MS or PhD. We cover travel, room, board and a salary of $500/month. Knowledge of Spanish is
not required, but useful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Please e-mail a CV, plus the names, email addresses and telephone numbers of three people who can recommend you. Also send a statement describing your education, research background, and career
goals. Review of applications will start March 15, 2014. Please send to Dr. Lissy Coley at
<a href="mailto:coley@biology.utah.edu">coley@biology.utah.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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