The successful candidate will also be expected to enroll as a graduate student in the Department of Oceanography. Master's and Ph.D. options are available but preference will be given to candidates interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in the area of copepod ecology and having either a Master's degree or an equivalent number of years of relevant work experience. D. Graduate Research Assistantship available in Marine Molecular Ecology. Specific focus of this project is on the regulation of key functional genes in the nitrogen cycle with particular emphasis on denitrification and nitrogen fixation in coastal and shelf sediments in the Gulf of Mexico. Work involves research in both geochemistry and molecular ecology.
Research involves both lab and field work with annual cruises in the Gulf of Mexico.
Support is for 3 years and includes a tuition waiver. The Proctor lab currently has four graduate students and three undergraduate students conducting research in a variety of areas including oil bioremediation in marine sediments, molecular regulation of nif gene expression in benthic bacteria, seasonal and environmental control of microbial respiration in coastal sediments and spatial and temporal control of nitrification and denitrification in estuarine sediments.