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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">This PhD Studentship info. send by our Newcastle colleagues, might be of interest to those with interest in AgriGIS with programming and open source development skills.<br>
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For more information about this PhD opportunity, please contact Dr James Taylor ( james.taylor6 at newcastle.ac.uk ).<br>
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Please pass this to any interested candidates.<br>
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Suchith <br>
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<div id="divRpF952661" style="direction:ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> Philip James [philip.james@newcastle.ac.uk]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 08, 2016 11:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Suchith Anand<br>
<b>Subject:</b> GIS PhD studentship<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console"">I would be grateful if you would email this opportunity around:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console"">Many thanks</span></p>
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<h1 style="margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:4.8pt; margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:43.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#003965; letter-spacing:-.3pt; font-weight:normal">Fully-funded PhD scholarship is available for a specialty crops research
initiative project</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:17.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">Development of web-based tools to deliver crop-load information to assist with precision viticulture in the US viticulture industry.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">A fully-funded PhD scholarship is available to work on a US Department of Agriculture funded Specialty Crops Research Initiative project. The overall project will develop new sensors
for crop load estimation, develop new tools for data dissemination and decision support and new protocols for differential management in North American vineyards. The project is a multi-actor program lead by Cornell University with collaborations with Carnegie
Mellon University, UC Davis and Fresno State University as well as multiple industry and commercial organisations based in the US. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">The successful candidate will work on spatial decision support structures based around the development of new sensors at Carnegie Mellon and existing off-the-shelf precision viticulture
sensors. The PhD outputs will link directly into variable-rate field trials and protocol validation in vineyards in California (Fresno State Uni) and New York State (Cornell). The candidate will be based at Newcastle University (UK) but will spend 4-6 weeks
per year in the US with project partners.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black"><a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwnclacuk/agriculturefoodandruraldevelopment/files/PhD%20Opportunity.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#663399">PhD opportunity<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></a>or
further enquires please contact <a href="mailto:james.taylor6@newcastle.ac.uk" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#663399">Dr James Taylor</span></b></a>. The project will suit a GIS programmer with an interest in viticulture systems or a viticulturist
with an interest in GIS development and precision viticulture.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">Deadline 14th Feb.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console"">Phil James</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console"">Senior Lecturer in Geographical Information Science</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console"">School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console"">Newcastle University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console"">@geoanorak</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console"">https://github.com/geoanorak</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Console"">Latest publications</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Console"">Calderón, C., James, P., Urquizo, J., & McLoughlin, A. (2015).
<b><span style="color:#4472C4">A GIS domestic building framework to estimate energy end-use demand in UK sub-city areas</span></b>.
<i>Energy and Buildings</i>, <i>96</i>, 236–250. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.03.029</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Console"">Smith L, Liang Q, James P & Lin W,
<b><span style="color:#4472C4">Assessing the utility of social media as a data source for flood risk management using a real-time modelling framework</span></b>, Journal of Flood Risk Management, 2015 (IN PRESS) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12154</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Console"">Geospatial Engineering: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/geospatial/</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Console"">ICA-OSGEO Lab @ Newcastle: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Console"">Geospatial Engineering Blog: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/geospatial/blog/</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Console"">Football tweet map: http://ceg-sense.ncl.ac.uk/footballtweet</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Lucida Console"">City Dashboard: http://ceg-research.ncl.ac.uk/uo/dashboard
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