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Graduate Research Assistant, M.S./Ph.D. Weed Ecology
University of Maine Sustainable Agriculture Program, Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, Orono, Maine.
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Dir: Student
Salary: $14,357 annually, with potential supplement from extramural funding.
Benefits: 0.5 annual health care; tuition waiver (9 credits
per semester)
Date available: January, June or September 2008.
Current research projects are focused on understanding and
manipulating the population dynamics of annual weeds in organic dairy and
vegetable cropping systems, particularly strategies congruent with growers’
interest in improving soil quality.
Opportunities include studies related to physical weed control for
small-scale (< 2 ha) growers; effects of fall management practices on weed
seed predation and seedbank dynamics; behavior of invertebrate weed seed
predators, with a particular interest in Harpalus rufipes, a ground
beetle; and soil quality effects on weed seed persistence.
Qualifications: Undergraduate degree in agronomy,
agroecology, ecology, biology, or related fields, and strong interest in
ecologically-based weed management for low-external-input cropping
systems.
Contact: Eric
Gallandt, Associate Professor of Weed Ecology and Management, University of
Maine, Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, 5722 Deering Hall,
Orono, ME, 04473-5722. gallandt@maine.edu
For an overview of our research program: click
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