swarm-based assistantships at Utah State

[Paul Box]

Hello List

I am looking for graduate students to work on two projects that I have funded 
at Utah State University.  One is for a Ph.D. student, fully funded for four 
years, and will involve modeling of grazing animals, diet selection, and plant 
succession in a GIS-based environment.  I have a dual appointment, and could 
direct a student through an  ecology, earth systems science, or human 
geography degree (human dimensions in natrual resources), depending on the 
interests of the student and the potential contribution to the project.

I also have funding for at least one masters student, to work on one of 
several other projects (tratiditional fisheries in the Aleutian Islands, 
insect infestations of vinyards, recreational management in the Caribbean, 
invasive weed spreading), again depending on the interests and abilities of 
the potential applicant.

Both projects will require use of swarm to support modeling efforts, with a 
heavy emphasis on GIS.  There is a wide range of tasks to be completed in 
these projects, and a wide variety of skills which could be used in completing 
them.

At USU we have a state of the art remote sensing GIS lab, with over 100 Sun 
workstations, several terrabytes of data storage, and licences for most of the 
current RS/GIS software.  Logan is a small rural community some 100km north of 
Salt Lake City, nicely isolated from all the chaos of the olympics.  There is 
great opportunity for winter and summer outdoor recreation. USU is Utah's land 
grant college, a Carnegie 1 institution, with a strong tradition in range 
management, wildlife ecology, forest managemnt, and irrigation engineerning.

If you know anyone who is interested in an assistantship here, please contact 
me at address@hidden .  I will also be attending this year's swarmfest, 
and will be very eager to talk with anyone who is interested.

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// Paul Box
// Geography and Earth Resources
// Utah State University



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