The studies in southern Illinois need 2 people each year to help with the mammal surveys, primarily running track stations and conducting spotlight surveys. The fieldwork will be mostly in May, June, and July, and there will be opportunities to learn some GIS skills as well as the field skills. I have an MS student working on the bobwhite study to run track stations as well as help with GIS-based analyses, but some studies using artificial nests could be designed to supplement this research. I d like a student that was interested in setting up exclosures for a study of mast predation, or a student to conduct GIS analyses of the IDNR spotlight survey data. Of course, someone could do more than one of these, but any of them would make good MS projects.
Funding is sparse right now for other than research-related expenses.
Thus, I do not currently have funded empty positions to fill. The MS programs are a bit more liberal in their acceptance policies. Again, sorry about the form letter style, but I hope this answers most of your basic questions. Best regards, Ed Heske Assoc.