Depending on the availability of funding, our Lab might be looking for motivated graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and project scientists to contribute to our research. If such opportunities are available, they will be listed below.
However, we are always looking for enthusiastic high school and undergraduate student interns who are driven by interdisciplinary environmental challenges as well as computational modeling and data analysis. Research opportunities center on developing and using models and conducting data analysis on various global environmental issues such as extreme weather events, air quality and health, agriculture, terrestrial ecosystems, wildfires, and water resources.
When joining the Global Environmental Change Labs, students and research staff are part of a world-class interdisciplinary department with faculty who specialize in atmospheric and climate science, hydrology and water resources, soils and biogeochemistry, sustainable agriculture farming systems, and plant science.
UC Davis ranks 2nd in the world and 1st in the nation in Plant and Animal Science (U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Global Universities for Plant and Animal Science”) and 2nd in the world and 1st in the nation in Agriculture and Forestry research ("QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025: Agriculture & Forestry"). UC Davis also ranks 1st in the nation for launching women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics professions ("The 13 Most Important STEM Universities for Women," Forbes 2016).
For high school and undergraduate students:
Our Lab is working on several projects tackling major environmental change issues that could benefit from motivated students interns. These includes topics like:
- agriculture: join our Lab to develop and use new crop models to examine the impacts of future climate and weather extremes and water availability on crop yield and food production.
- wildfires: join our Lab to develop and use wildfire models and to conduct data analysis to better understand the drivers and impacts of wildfires across California, the United States and the world.
- biogeochemistry: join our Lab to conduct data analysis to better understand the role of terrestrial ecosystems on the global carbon and nitrogen cycles.
- air quality: join our Lab to conduct data analysis to examine the impacts of air pollution on communities across California, the United States and the world.
- extreme weather: join our Lab to conduct data analysis to examine the patterns, magnitude and frequency of extreme weather, including extreme heat, extreme precipitation, and droughts.
For graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and project scientists:
Unfortunately, due to lack of funding and uncertainty in future funding, our Lab is not hiring any new graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, or project scientists.