[Geo4All] Ph.D. Assistantships in Geospatial Analytics for urban planning, participatory research, environmental justice, forest health, and more

[Helena Mitasova]

Apologies for crossposting, but I would like to share some more specific
information about the projects in our new PhD in Geospatial Analytics
program. The projects will provide great opportunities for development of
open source geospatial software, techniques and applications and the
results will be shared with the osgeo and geoforall community through osgeo
project contributions, open access workshop materials and scientific papers.

Best wishes for the new year 2018 and we hope to welcome some new students
at NCSU next year,

Helena

Twelve fully funded graduate assistantships with $25,000 salary, benefits,
and tuition support are available for Fall 2018 through the Ph.D. program
in Geospatial Analytics (go.ncsu.edu/geospatial-phd) at the Center for
Geospatial Analytics (geospatial.ncsu.edu) at North Carolina State
University. The application deadline is February 1, 2018.

Students in the Geospatial Analytics doctoral program work on a diverse
range of data science frontiers intersecting multiple disciplines, with
funding available from the Ph.D. program as well as from external grants
secured by faculty. The following opportunities are a sample of externally
funded assistantships available for Fall 2018, each fully funded for four
years. Interested students are encouraged to contact Rachel Kasten,
Graduate Services Coordinator (rachelkasten at ncsu.edu or 919-515-2800
<(919)%20515-2800>), with any questions or inquiries about additional
opportunities. Further details and complete application instructions are
available at go.ncsu.edu/geospatial-phd.

• Exploring Urban Planning Scenarios -- Join a geovisualization research
group focused on developing interactive online 3D visualization systems for
innovative public engagement and urban planning in the Research Triangle
Region of NC.

• Natural Resource Management and Ecosystem Services -- Focus on geospatial
analytics for fire and natural resource management in national parks and
protected areas, including modeling fire and ecosystem processes at
landscape levels, forecasting development along park boundaries, and
building decision support systems.

• Sustainability Solutions with Land Change Science -- Join an
interdisciplinary team investigating the dynamics of urbanization and
landscape change in the Southeast US through land-change modeling in
collaboration with the US Geological Survey.

• Outdoor Recreation Decision Support Systems -- Join a research group
focused on built environments and active living, and contribute to
developing new decision support analytics for the Conservation and Outdoor
Recreation Branch of the National Park Service.

• Smart and Connected Communities -- Join a team designing a publicly
available, multi-user, online serious game called TomorrowNow to engage
citizens and decision makers in developing collaborative scenarios of
urbanization and stormwater management, as part of a new grant from the NSF
Smart and Connected Communities program.

• Biological Invasions and Plant Health -- Join the Spatial Analytic
Framework for Advanced Information Systems (SAFARIS) team to develop
spatial models and techniques to forecast movement of invasive pests and
pathogens affecting food security and natural ecosystems.

• Participatory Video and Engaged Environmental Justice -- Use
participatory mapping and video methods to understand how communities
address resource inequities in disaster recovery plans, as part of a larger
research project focused on long-term recovery from Hurricane Matthew in NC.

• Geospatial Social Networks of Environmental Governance -- Examine changes
in watershed governance following disasters with spatially-explicit social
networks in order to understand how and why environmental governance
transitions occur.

• Seasonality from Space -- Join a NASA-funded research project to generate
moderate resolution land surface phenology from Landsat and Sentinel data
fusion.

Funding is available for additional projects, and in all cases students are
encouraged to develop research questions and methods that suit their
interests and career goals.

The Center for Geospatial Analytics at NC State is the foremost
interdisciplinary research and teaching center of its kind in the nation.
We are a collaborative hub for integrative data scientists advancing novel
understanding of spatial phenomena and applying new knowledge to grand
challenges. Students in the Ph.D. program receive multidisciplinary
advising and the opportunity to work with over twenty faculty fellows with
diverse expertise from nearly a dozen departments across NC State. Students
also engage in experiential learning through an off-campus professional
internship.

For more information about the Ph.D. program in Geospatial Analytics or to
start your application, visit go.ncsu.edu/geospatial-phd.

-- 
Helena Mitasova
Professor
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
North Carolina State University
1125 Jordan Hall
NCSU Box 8208
Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hmitaso/
http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/

email: hmitaso at ncsu.edu
ph: 919-513-1327 (no voicemail)
fax 919 515-7802
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