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Note to potential grad students<\/h2>\n

I don’t currently have funded positions I’m trying to fill, but I’m open to people expressing interest, where funding might come from fellowships (e.g. if you apply for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship), future grants (I have several in review), and Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs).<\/p>\n

I’m particularly interested in creative and self-motivated people. It’s great if you have research experience or strong quantitative skills. In an email, please briefly describe your research interests and background. Please include a CV or resume. GTAs are competitive, and depend upon grades as well as research and teaching or mentoring experience.<\/p>\n

My approach to advising:<\/strong>
\nI believe that an extremely important part of graduate school is learning to define interesting and feasible questions. I will lead masters level students through this process, but as much as possible given constraints of funding sources, I encourage PhD students to find topics of their own that excite them rather than handing them a previously defined research project. Masters students will usually collaborate with me on a project while PhD students can either collaborate with me or branch out on their own depending on overlap of interests, levels of experience, and funding source. We have lab meeting once each week to discuss papers, bounce around research ideas, and plan out ongoing projects.<\/p>\n

Graduate school is hard work. It can be lots of fun, too, don’t get me wrong. But the pay is low, and the hours are long. It can be more than a full-time job at times. To get through and do a good job, it helps to love science and really crave an answer to the particular question you settle on. That said, throughout the course of getting a degree, questioning specific career paths is normal and completely fine. I put a lot of energy into my students and my lab, and I expect my students to put a lot of energy into making the most of their education and graduate school. For research degrees in the sciences, this means publishing your work. Even for students who seek careers that typically don’t have a publication component (e.g. natural resource management) publication is an expected part of the degree process.<\/p>\n

Logistics:<\/strong>
\nI can accept students either through the Department of Agricultural Biology\u00a0<\/a>or through the\u00a0Graduate Degree Program in Ecology. I am the director of the Ecology program. CSU is a fantastic place for ecology of all sorts, and my brand of evolutionary ecology in particular.<\/p>\n

Fort Collins:
\n<\/strong>This is a fun town close to good hiking and skiing. Here are some useful links:<\/p>\n

Department of Agricultural Biology<\/a>
\nEcology at CSU<\/a>\u00a0– MS and PhD Degrees
\nGraduate School at Colorado State University<\/a>
\nThe City of Fort Collins<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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\n\n Marcel Jardeleza, former PhD student, leading a team including field assistants and PIs on the island of Rota\n <\/p>\n \n\n <\/div>\n \n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-487","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/hufbauer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/hufbauer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/hufbauer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/hufbauer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/hufbauer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/hufbauer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/hufbauer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/hufbauer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}