The Louis Calder Center, the Biological Field Station of Fordham University, is offering a summer NSF-funded research program for undergraduate students in 2015. Our NSF-REU site  provides paid research opportunities for talented and enthusiastic undergraduate students interested in conducting independent research in ecology, conservation and field biology. This program strongly encourages students from under-represented groups in science to apply.

• 10-week program: June 8 to August 14, 2015.
• $5,000 stipend including housing and travel support
• Application deadline: February 2, 2015

Students will collaborate with faculty mentors to develop an independent research project. A sample of some of the potential student projects for 2015 includes:

• Diversity/abundance of carrion beetles along an urban-to-rural gradient
• Cause of cyanobacterial blooms in a suburban lake
• Bat activity in New York City
• Energy use and seasonality in nymphal deer ticks, Ixodes scapularis
• Role of climate change on the evolution of introduced herbaceous plants
• Molecular ecology of coyotes in the Bronx and Westchester County, NY
• Differentiation of chimpmunks in the northeastern US
• Genetic assessment of multiple microbial infections in blacklegged ticks near New York City
• Examine responses of plants, fungi and microbes to urbanization
• The nutritional role of algae in stream food webs
• Ecology of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Ades albopictus, in southern New York State