New subject: Graduate Assistantship in Industrial Ecology and LifeCycle Assessment in Forest Biorefinery

4 Dec 2008

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

Graduate Assistantship in Industrial Ecology and Life Cycle Assessment in Forest Biorefinery