Ph.D. Research Assistantship (fwd)

[Phil Hurvitz]

This looks like a great opportunity for a student interested in pursuing a
PhD in wildlife/GIS.

-P.

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:53:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jianguo Liu <liuji at pilot.msu.edu>
To: UCGIS Community <all at ucgis.org>
Subject: Ph.D. Research Assistantship

Dear Colleague:

Please distribute the following announcement to potential applicants.
Thank you for your assistance.

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A Ph.D. student is wanted to work on an NSF-funded project assessing
effects of human population and human activities on the well-known
endangered Giant Pandas in a large nature reserve (China). (See
two recent papers listed at the end of this message for some background
information related to this project.) The candidates should have a strong
quantitative background, good skills in one or more advanced
technologies (e.g., geographic information systems, global positioning
systems, remote sensing, modeling, and/or computer simulation), and
interest in collaborating with an interdisciplinary and international team
of scientists and reserve managers towards the integration of
landscape/forest/wildlife ecology, human demography, sociology, and
economics. Excellent benefits include annual stipend, tuition waiver,
health insurance, support for attending professional meetings, and
international research opportunities.

Applications will be accepted until December 10 (1999) or until the
position is filled. Interested students should send (1) letter of
interest, (2) transcripts and GRE scores (unofficial ones are OK
initially), (3) statement of professional goals, (4) resume, and (5) names
of three references to:

Dr. Jianguo (Jack) Liu
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Michigan State University
13 Natural Resources Building
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-355-1810
Fax:   517-432-1699
Email: JLIU at PERM3.FW.MSU.EDU

*Some background information related to the project can be found in two
recent papers:

Liu, J. et al. 1999. Changes in human population structure and
implications for biodiversity conservation. Population and Environment
21(1):45-58 (reprinted by the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) as Occasional Paper #2 on Population and Sustainable
Development).

Liu, J. et al.  1999. A framework for evaluating the effects of human
factors on wildlife habitats: the case of giant pandas. Conservation
Biology 13(6):1360-1370 (December issue).