[IUFRO Div 5] Graduate Assistantship in Industrial Ecology and Life Cycle Assessment in Forest Biorefinery

Dear Colleagues, Please inform your students and colleagues who are interested to pursue graduate studies at the University of Maine. Details are shown below. How can I upload this in Job Announcement in IUFRO? Thanks, Anthony Graduate Assistantship in Industrial Ecology and Life Cycle Assessment in Forest Biorefinery, School of Forest Resources, University of Maine Location: Orono, Maine Country: USA Description: Research Assistantship is available at the School of Forest Resources of the University of Maine. This interdisciplinary research investigates the economic, social and environmental impacts of harnessing the forest resources as a source of bio-fuels, bio-chemicals, bio-plastics, and bio-materials. This research involves close collaboration with forest resource based industries, government agencies, and the other departments at the University of Maine. Further information regarding research interests or topics can be accessed at http://www.forest.umaine.edu/facstaff/facstaff_pages/halog/index.html Qualifications: Applicants can have any academic background (particularly, natural science, forestry, agriculture or chemical or environmental engineering or economics, industrial and systems engineering ). The applicant should be interested to pursue interdisciplinary research/graduate studies at masters or PhD level in the area of environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and industrial ecology of forest bio-products (e.g. bio-fuels, bio-chemicals). A background in LCA, materials flow analysis (MFA) or industrial ecology is not required, but applicant should be willing to learn the fundamental concepts/principles to pursue this challenging research in sustainability science. Applicant should have or develop good analytical and, database skills, knowledge of basic statistics and probability and be willing to learn new software packages (e.g. SIMAPRO). It is also desirable that he/she has taken or will take a course in systems dynamics, modeling and simulation. If you are an international student, in addition to Graduate Record Examination (GRE) results, you should also have TOEFL (Test of English as Foreign Language) results for admission purposes. Application due date: April 30, 2009. For more information, please contact: To apply for this research assistantship position or for further information, contact Anthony Halog at anthony.halog(a)maine.edu , (207) 581-2944 (tel.) or (207) 581-2875 (fax). Anthony Halog, Ph.D., MBA LCA Certified Professional Assistant Professor of Industrial Ecology and LCA Forest Bio-products Research Initiative/ School of Forest Resources University of Maine, Orono, 04469-5775 Tel. 207-581-2944 Fax: 207-581-2875 email: anthony.halog(a)maine.edu Website: http://www.forest.umaine.edu/facstaff/facstaff_pages/halog/index.html