Position Description: The Waterfowl and Wetland Bird Lab (http://www.bartballardlab.com) of the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville invites applications from highly motivated individuals to pursue a PhD degree within our collaborative lab.
The student will work directly with state waterfowl biologists…
[ Read More ]Position Description: We are recruiting one Ph.D. student to conduct research in South Texas to evaluate the effects of guineagrass, an invasive bunchgrass on Northern Bobwhite ecology during the breeding season via a mechanistic approach. Specifically, we aim to assess the effects of guineagrass on the breeding success (e.g., clutch size, hatching success, brood survival) of bobwhite, and on the potential mechanisms underscoring such changes including (1) food availability, (2) predation risk, and…
[ Read More ]Position Description: We are recruiting one Ph.D. student to contribute to ongoing research in South Texas on the effects of guineagrass,…
[ Read More ]Position Description: We are recruiting one M.S. student and one Ph.D. student to conduct research which aims to investigate movement, resource selection, and breeding ecology of White-winged Doves (Zenaida asiatica) across urban-rural gradients in Texas. Here, White-winged Doves currently breed in ~200 counties versus <10 in 1980 and only 16% of the white-winged dove breeding population in Texas occurs in the traditional breeding sites in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Outside of the historic range, white-winged…
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Tenure-track faculty position (rank depending on qualifications) with the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute (CKWRI) and the Department of Rangeland and Wildlife Sciences (RWSC) in the Dick and Mary Lewis Kleberg College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK). The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for managing the CKWRI Ocelot Conservation Facility, a 30,000 square-foot state-of-the-art complex which is currently under construction on the TAMUK campus. Scheduled for completion in May…
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