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Objet : Graduate student positions
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Opportunity in Fire Effects and Landscape Ecology, Department of Geography
Penn State University
Penn State is seeking MS or PhD students to work as a research assistant on
projects evaluating the effects, spatial patterns, and drivers of recent
wildland fires in the southern Cascades and Klamath Mountains of California.
The research and graduate program will be supervised by Dr. Alan Taylor.
Applicants should have experience with field measurements of vegetation and
site conditions, GIS and remote sensing, and previous research experience
and background in ecology, geography, landscape ecology or related fields
are a plus. Research work will include field work supervising undergraduate
field technicians and geospatial and statistical analysis. Applicants may
also have an interest in participating in a Landscape-U, a new NSF Research
Traineeship in Landscape Science at Penn State.
To apply, please send your Curriculum Vitae (resume) a statement about your
research interests, transcripts, a statement about your career goals and the
names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of 2 references to Alan
Taylor, Department of Geography, Penn State University
aht1@psu.edu<mailto:aht1@psu.edu>. Students will also need to formally apply
to the Graduate Program for the Department of Geography at Penn State which
has an application deadline of December 13, 2019. The application date is
sooner, November 22, 2019, for students who would like to be considered for
fellowship funding from the university.
Alan H. Taylor
Professor of Geography and Ecology
Associate Earth and Environmental Systems Institute