Training
ASU Courses
- SOS 512: Sustainable resource allocation
- SOS 535/BIO 598: Biodiversity and ecosystem services
- SOS 594/BIO 598: Valuation of Ecosystem Services
PhD Prospective Students
The ecoSERVICES Group at Arizona State University (www.ecoservices.asu.edu) welcomes applications from prospective PhD students interested in the resilience and sustainability of coupled human-ecological systems, the economics of (renewable) natural resource management and decision-theoretic approaches to the management and valuation of ecosystem services. This is an opportunity for students to develop competence across applied ecology, economics, and systems modeling. Funding is available for research in fishery management (Abbott, Fenichel), management of wildlife and zoonotic diseases (Fenichel), international trade and the dispersal of potentially harmful species (Perrings), resilience of urban infrastructures (Perrings), conservation of ecosystem services (Kinzig).
Preliminary inquiries may be made to individual faculty, but applications need to be submitted through either the School of Life Sciences (http://sols.asu.edu/grad/index.php) or the School of Sustainability (http://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/degrees/program_PhD.php). The deadline for applications is 15 December 2008.
Preferred qualifications:
M.S. in applied ecology, economics or related field, though highly qualified B.S./B.A. students will be considered.
Comfort with mathematics, statistics and/or econometrics: students will be expected to develop mathematical and/or statistical models.
Strong communication and writing skills, GPA, and GRE scores.