{"id":11,"date":"2019-01-05T17:51:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T01:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:51:38","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<p class=\" wsu-font-size--xlarge\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Welcome to Dr. Jeff Manning&#8217;s<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quantitative Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Lab<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" wsu-font-size--large\">Note: This site is temporarily under content review. Some pages are not available at this time. Please check back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">A cooperating member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coopunits.org\/Washington\/\">Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">and partner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coopunits.org\/Washington\/\">Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit<\/a> <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--halves\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Welcome to Dr. Manning&#8217;s Quantitative Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Lab located at Washington State University\u2019s Pullman Campus. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">This lab is located within WSU&#8217;s School of the Environment.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">You can learn more about me, my lab, and new graduate student opportunities by exploring this website.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I am in the process of building this website, so stay tuned for additional details!<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lab News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Click the &#8216;<strong>Lab News<\/strong>&#8216; link for a running tab of lab accomplishments.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Click on the &#8216;<strong>Prospective Students<\/strong>&#8216; link for a list of graduate, undergraduate, and temporary field research positions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Job\/Student opportunity highlights<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Open &#8212; September 2021 &#8212; <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2 funded graduate positions (Ph.D. and M.S.) in mountain quail ecology and conservation<\/strong> are currently open in the lab to begin Spring (Jan) 2022. The M.S. position is closed, but&nbsp;<em><strong>the Ph.D. position is open until filled<\/strong><\/em>. See details under the &#8216;Prospective Students&#8217; page.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Closed<\/em> &#8212; July 2021 &#8212;<\/strong> <\/span>A <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ph.D. Assistantship position in carnivore ecology<\/strong> is currently open in the lab to begin Fall 2021. Application deadlien is April 20, 2021. See details under the &#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prospective Students&#8217; page.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Closed<\/em> &#8212; April 2020 &#8212;<\/strong> The lab currently has a paid <strong>wildlife research field technician position <\/strong>available this summer to work on a cougar study in the Peninsular Ranges of Southern California. <span style=\"color: #333333;\">For details, see the Prospective Students page<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Closed<\/em> &#8212; <\/span>April 2019 &#8212;<\/strong> The lab currently has a paid <strong>wildlife research field position <\/strong>available this summer in the Southern Sierras of California. <span style=\"color: #333333;\">For details, see the Prospective Students page<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Closed<\/em> &#8211;<\/span>&#8211; January 2019<\/strong> &#8212; There are two&nbsp;<strong>new M.S. Assistantship positions in avian and carnivore ecology<\/strong>&nbsp;open in the lab to begin fall 2019. For details, see the Prospective Students page.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Closed<\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &#8212;<\/span> January 2019<\/strong> &#8212; Through WSU Faculty-led International Programs, I and Dr. Caren Goldberg are offering <strong>a new undergraduate summer course on Wildlife and Plant Ecology in Biosphere Reserves of Baja California, Mexico<\/strong> in May\/June 2019. See the page (to the left) for details on this awesome opportunity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7354,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/manning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}