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Graduate students are admitted to work with a specific advisor, so the best first step is to find the faculty whose work interests you and write to them. These faculty are recruiting for 2027/28.

Contact advisors before you apply. An email introducing yourself, your research interests, and your background is expected and welcome. Faculty can tell you whether they have funding and whether your interests fit the work they have underway, which is hard to judge from an application alone.

Not seeing a fit here? The full faculty directory lists everyone in the school. Faculty not listed on this page may still consider students in a given year.

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Two MS positions on Olajos-Goslow Fellowships: one on sustainable rangeland management on the Colorado Plateau, one on biodiversity and resilience in the southeastern Arizona borderlands.

Seeking: Two MS students

To apply: Email Dr. Aslan by November 1; program applications are due January 1.

Also advising, with Sara Souther:

A graduate student to join work on Emory oak, a foundational and culturally significant tree of Madrean oak woodlands, within a long-term partnership with Western Apache Nations.

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Restoration EcologyConservation BiologySocial-Ecological SystemsPlant-Animal Interactions

Three funded PhD positions, each on a different project, all starting Spring or Fall 2027: paleoclimate data assimilation, wildfire smoke and aerosols, and AI emulators of lake models.

Seeking: Three funded PhD students

To apply: Contact Dr. McKay directly; early inquiries are encouraged.

PaleoclimatologyData ScienceClimate InformaticsHolocene Climate

Recruiting a student for the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy. Student will be affiliated with the Water, Society, and Policy Lab. Students interested in different aspects of environmental governance and policy are welcome to contact me.

Environmental AnthropologyWater GovernanceUrban Political EcologyClimate Adaptation

Recruiting a student for the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy.

A fuller project description is still to come. Email is the best way to ask what they have in mind.

Environmental Social ScienceWater GovernanceAgricultural ConservationInstitutional Analysis

Recruiting a PhD student for a project run jointly with Donna Shillington. A page with more detail on the opportunity is on the way.

Seeking: One PhD student

Also advising, with Donna Shillington:

Recruiting a PhD student for a project run jointly with Christine Regalla. A page with more detail on the opportunity is on the way.

A fuller project description is still to come. Email is the best way to ask what they have in mind.

Structural GeologyActive TectonicsEarthquake GeologyFault Processes

A graduate student to join work on Emory oak, a foundational and culturally significant tree of Madrean oak woodlands, within a long-term partnership with Western Apache Nations.

Co-advised with Clare Aslan.

Seeking: One student (MS or PhD)

To apply: Email Dr. Souther by November 1; program applications are due January 1.

Conservation BiologyPlant EcologyPopulation EcologyDemographic Modeling

Recruiting a graduate student for the MS in Geosciences.

A fuller project description is still to come. Email is the best way to ask what they have in mind.

VolcanologyPetrologyGeochemistryMineralogy