Opportunity in Fire Effects and Landscape Ecology, Department of Geography, Penn State

Penn State is seeking a doctoral or master’s degree student to work as a research assistant on projects evaluating the effects, spatial patterns, and drivers of recent wildland fires in the southern Cascades and Klamath Mountains of California. The research and graduate program will be supervised by Alan Taylor, professor of geography and director of the Vegetation Dynamics laboratory.

Applicants should have experience with field measurements of vegetation and site conditions, GIS and remote sensing, and previous research experience and background in ecology, geography, landscape ecology or related fields are a plus. Research work will include field work supervising undergraduate field technicians and geospatial and statistical analysis. Applicants may also have an interest in participating in a Landscape-U, a new NSF Research Traineeship in Landscape Science at Penn State.

To apply, please send your Curriculum Vitae (resume), a statement about your research interests, transcripts, a statement about your career goals and the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of two references to Alan Taylor, Department of Geography, Penn State aht1@psu.edu. Students will also need to formally apply to the Graduate Program for the Department of Geography at Penn State which has an application deadline of December 13, 2019. The application date is sooner, November 22, 2019, for students who would like to be considered for fellowship funding from the university.