The Integrative Ecology Lab at Temple University has a PhD graduate student position available for Fall 2025 with Dr. Jocelyn Behm. The PhD student will work on the Multifunctional Urban Landscapes, exploring how local and landscape-scale drivers affect bird diversity and the ecosystem services and multifunctionality birds provide along an urban to rural gradient in southeastern Pennsylvania. The student will be supported in developing their own research project based on their interests within the context of the larger Multifunctional Urban Landscapes research theme.
Activities Performed May Include:
- field biodiversity surveys
- field and lab ecosystem service strength experiments
- analyses of large datasets
- quantitative method development
- GIS
- mentoring undergraduate research assistants
Qualifications:
- Must have prior research experience and a bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in biology, environmental science, or other quantitative field.
- Prior ecological fieldwork experience plus familiarity GIS, statistics, and R.
- Well-organized, able to work both independently and in a team setting, and motivated to learn.
Application Process:
- Full applications are due to Temple’s Graduate School on December 15 (November 15 for international applicants). However, interested applicants should initially contact Dr. Behm (jebehm@temple.edu) by October 15, for priority consideration.
- Include in the initial contact with your CV, unofficial transcript, and a brief statement of interest that describes your relevant background experiences, why you are interested in the position, and questions you have about the research, etc.
- Applicants are strongly encouraged to first peruse the iEcolab website and publications prior to contact.
Why Temple University?
The Integrative Ecology Lab is located within Temple’s Center for Biodiversity and housed in a new LEED-Gold certified building on Temple’s main campus in historic Philadelphia. Temple University, founded in 1884, is a public R1 university with a diverse student body of ca. 30,000 students.
Philadelphia is the birthplace of the United States, filled with numerous attractions(e.g., Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Zoo, Academy of Natural Sciences), amazing food, and a quick train ride to New York City and Washington DC. Philadelphia is nestled within an extensive national/state trail and park system, and is very close to Valley Forge National Park, the Pocono Mountains, the unique New Jersey Pine Barren ecosystem, and the beaches of the Delaware and New Jersey shores.
Temple University is an equal opportunity, equal access, affirmative action employer committed to achieving a diverse community.
