California poppies blooming in the Santa Ynez Valley, CA. Photo: AJ MacDonald.
General Information for Prospective Students and Postdocs:
Thank you for your interest! Below is some useful information for prospective students, postdocs and specific opportunities in the lab.
Master’s degrees: The Bren School offers professional Master’s degrees in Environmental Science & Management and Environmental Data Science that are course-work and group project based. If you are interested in the Master’s programs, please see here . If you are currently a Bren MESM or MEDS student interested in doing research as an independent study or summer RA, please email me.
Prospective PhD students:
If you are interested in pursuing a PhD at the Bren School, please contact me early (summer, early fall) with your cv and a short description (<1 page) of your research interests, professional goals and why this lab is a good fit. My work is focused broadly on environmental change and its impacts on human health and the ecology of infectious disease; I am seeking to recruit creative students with strong backgrounds in both field and lab-based disease ecology, as well as in computational, GIS, or statistical, data-driven approaches and/or interests.
Funding: I will work diligently to secure funding for PhD research, and I expect students to do the same. With that in mind, to be a strong candidate for my lab requires students apply for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (due early October) and/or other funding as relevant to their interests and eligibility (e.g. EPA STAR, NDSEG, NIH, Ford Fellowship). I am happy to work with prospective students to develop a strong proposal, so please email me early.
Postdocs:
If you are interested in working with the MacDonald lab as a postdoc, please email me your CV and brief statement of interests.
Undergraduates:
If you are a UCSB undergraduate interested in gaining research experience in the lab, please email me with information about your academic background, experience conducting research and interests in the lab.
Thanks for your interest and I look forward to hearing from you!
Master’s degrees: The Bren School offers professional Master’s degrees in Environmental Science & Management and Environmental Data Science that are course-work and group project based. If you are interested in the Master’s programs, please see here . If you are currently a Bren MESM or MEDS student interested in doing research as an independent study or summer RA, please email me.
Prospective PhD students:
If you are interested in pursuing a PhD at the Bren School, please contact me early (summer, early fall) with your cv and a short description (<1 page) of your research interests, professional goals and why this lab is a good fit. My work is focused broadly on environmental change and its impacts on human health and the ecology of infectious disease; I am seeking to recruit creative students with strong backgrounds in both field and lab-based disease ecology, as well as in computational, GIS, or statistical, data-driven approaches and/or interests.
Funding: I will work diligently to secure funding for PhD research, and I expect students to do the same. With that in mind, to be a strong candidate for my lab requires students apply for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (due early October) and/or other funding as relevant to their interests and eligibility (e.g. EPA STAR, NDSEG, NIH, Ford Fellowship). I am happy to work with prospective students to develop a strong proposal, so please email me early.
Postdocs:
If you are interested in working with the MacDonald lab as a postdoc, please email me your CV and brief statement of interests.
Undergraduates:
If you are a UCSB undergraduate interested in gaining research experience in the lab, please email me with information about your academic background, experience conducting research and interests in the lab.
Thanks for your interest and I look forward to hearing from you!