The Echeverri Lab provides identity-minded mentorship and training and recognizes the importance of an inclusive and welcoming community in training students and postdocs. Applicants who self-identify as individuals from systemically, persistently, and historically marginalized groups in conservation science are particularly encouraged to apply. All lab members contribute to an inclusive and antiracist lab group.Echeverri Lab graduate students and postdocs are part of the
ESPM graduate program at UC Berkeley. It is a vibrant community with ~75 faculty members, and over 140 PhD students spanning across all disciplines associated with environmental sciences: from environmental history to conservation biology. Moreover, students and postdocs will also be part of the
UC Berkeley Wildlife community: a research community that focuses on wildlife conservation, with many interests overlapping environmental justice, Indigenous stewardship, and wildlife policy.
The University of California Berkeley is a research-intensive university located in Berkeley, California. About 1 hour away from San Francisco, and with beautiful surroundings that include wildlife refuges, national parks, and great communities. We are 2 hours away from kayaking tours where you can find sea otters, and 5 hours away from Yosemite National Park, where you can find bears.
PhD Students
We are looking for 1-2 PhD students to join the lab beginning Fall 2024! Students will develop an independent research trajectory related to these research topics: 1) Biocultural diversity and conservation: including the role of Indigenous stewardship in wildlife conservation, and studying the relationship between nature and culture 2) Human dimensions of wildlife (including testing the role of games, documentaries, and messages in conservation campaigns, and public perception of wildlife) 3) Neotropical ornithology and environmental policy: including the role of private sector certifications as filters for community composition 4) Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in conservation science and academia.
ESPM’s PhD program guarantees a minimum annual income to PhD students for at least five years. What this really means is that ESPM guarantees there will be opportunities to earn the minimum annual income with a combination of teaching, research, and fellowship funding. For 2022-2023, the minimum annual income is $31,000. Detailed rules and expectations for the system of minimum annual income are here. When the ESPM graduate program gives supplemental funds to a PhD student to ensure they reach the minimum annual income beyond their other sources of support, it is called a “top-up” or “top-off” award. This is done automatically for students with teaching appointments (TA), and rarely otherwise.
Prospective students should apply to the
ESPM Graduate Admissions website, and only online applications are considered.
Postdoctoral ResearchersWe are looking for 1-2 postdocs to join the lab beginning in Spring, Summer or Fall 2024! Prospective postdocs are encouraged to contact me by filling out the form so we can discuss potential projects. I encourage prospective postdocs to explore independent funding sources and am happy to discuss ideas for proposals. External sources include the
Smith Fellows, Schmidt Science Fellowship, NSF PRFB, USDA-NIFA, Ford Fellowships, and many more. If you are an international postdoc, please check the available funding sources from your countries and eligibility to bring such fellowships to my group in California (e.g., Canada, European Union, etc) and other funders. UC Berkeley also funds postdocs through the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Chancellor's postdoctoral fellowship program among others.
I will also be recruiting a postdoc in Spring 2023 to lead work on environmental psychology under our CONVEI consortium funded by NASA, NOAA, USGS (Read more). Scientists with a background in psychology who would be interested in running online experiments, perception studies, and data science collaborations are encouraged to apply. We'd love to work with someone who wants to publish, but also do really applied work in collaboration with NASA, NOAA, USGS and all the members of our consortium. 