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Starting in autumn 2024, our working group of dendroecology in Prague, Czech Republic (https://web.natur.cuni.cz/physgeo/dendro/) is offering four fully funded PhD positions. The candidates will join diverse teams of projects funded by the research excellence programme and the Czech Science Foundation. Individual PhD topics aim to understand the response of forest ecosystems to ongoing climate change by combining dendrochronological methods, process-based models of wood formation, dendrometers, and quantitative wood anatomy. The application deadline is 13.03.2024. Applications need to be submitted through the university web interface: https://stars-natur.cz/phd-positions/geography. You can find details about each position through the links below or in the attached flyer. Position 1: Disentangling environmental drivers of boreal forest growth (main supervisor Dr. Jelena Lange) https://stars-natur.cz/phd-positions/geography/disentangling-environmental-drivers-of-boreal-forest-growth?back=0ucuo Position 2: Predicting tree growth into future – a space for time substitution approach (main supervisor Dr. Václav Treml) https://stars-natur.cz/phd-positions/geography/predicting-tree-growth-into-future-a-space-for-time-substitution-approach?back=qqd4j Position 3: Quantifying the importance of phenology, growth rate, and growth occurrence for annual wood production (main supervisor Dr. Jan Tumajer) https://stars-natur.cz/phd-positions/geography/quantifying-the-importance-of-phenology-growth-rate-and-growth-occurrence-for-annual-wood?back=yihik Position 4: Using a process-based model of wood formation to unravel regional gradients and temporal changes in growth kinetics and phenology of forest tree species (main supervisor Dr. Jan Tumajer) https://stars-natur.cz/phd-positions/geography/using-a-process-based-model-of-wood-formation-to-unravel-regional-gradients-and-temporal-changes-in-growth-kinetics-and-phenology-of-forest-tree-species?back=sje7w

We are pleased to announce a new PhD position at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. The position is a part of the project “Joint effects of climate, atmospheric deposition, soil properties and tree nutrition on growth and forest health“. The goal of the project is to separate the effects of increased resource availability and climatic factors on trends in tree water-use efficiency and stem growth. Please see the attachment for further details. The application deadline is December 3rd. Please feel free to share this position widely. Best regards, Vaclav

Hello all! I'm a graduate student, and I have the opportunity to do some dendro work in Peru this winter. I've been trying to figure out how to bring my tree cores back into the US but the dept of agriculture permits are kinda vague. Does anyone have a person story about how they brout tree core sample into the US for research and what that process was like? Thank you so much!