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From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
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Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 4:01 PM
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Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Graduate student position for research in northeastern
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Funded Research Seeking Graduate Students Interested in Human-Environment
Interactions
The University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH invites applications for a
highly-motivated graduate student interested in linking human dimensions to
ecosystem change to work on a new interdisciplinary project in northeastern
Oregon. This project, “Community and Forest:
Linked Human-Ecosystem Responses to Natural Disturbances in Oregon” is
funded through the USDA’s Disaster Resilience for Rural Communities
Program. In addition to thesis/dissertation research, this student will
work closely with project directors in designing, implementing, and
analyzing a household survey, will conduct field work in northeastern
Oregon, and will work alongside other graduate students and community and
agency partners in providing appropriate deliverables throughout the project
(e.g., extension publications, briefs, conference papers, community
presentations, refereed articles). Funding is available – 2 years funding
for a MS student and 3 years funding for a PhD student.
Project synopsis:
Forests in the Wallowa-Whitman Ecosystem (WWE) are threatened by the risk of
catastrophic insect outbreaks and wildfire. Forecasted growth in these
natural hazards implies dramatic socio-economic costs to communities that
are dependent on forests and their ecosystems.
Coupled with that risk is ongoing ecological deterioration concurrent with
declining commodity timber-production and changing management goals on
public lands, all of which has completely transformed the ways that forests
are perceived, valued, and managed. This research uses a multi-scalar,
multi-disciplinary approach to examine risk perceptions and behavioral
reactions to forest management with implications on land use and
housing. Further, this work focuses on the dynamic feedbacks between
landscape changes, land use conversion, parcelization, and the strategies
people use to respond to risk in the WWE.
Application procedure:
Application is open to students from social science disciplines (e.g.,
sociology, geography), natural resources, landscape ecology, and related
professional fields who will make significant contributions to linking
social dynamics of land management and risk perception with ecological
change the research project in the form of a master’s thesis or PhD
dissertation. Preference will be given to individuals who have experience
in statistics and GIS. Optional qualifications include an interest in
working in rural communities of the US West, rural sociology, landscape
ecology, experience in satellite imagery analysis, and modeling.
Potential PhD students can apply to either to the Natural Resources and
Earth Systems Science (www.unh.edu/nressphd/) or Sociology
(www.unh.edu/sociology/) and potential MS students can apply to either the
Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
(http://www.nre.unh.edu/) or Sociology at UNH. The student has the option
to begin study in late January 2011 or September 2011.
Graduate students will also work closely with the Carsey Institute
(www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/) while at UNH.
Send a CV and letter of application by December 15, 2010 to:
Joel Hartter
Department of Geography
University of New Hampshire
102 Huddleston Hall
73 Main Street
Durham, NH 03824 USA
Tel: 603-862-7052
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