One Ph.D. graduate assistantship is available to conduct research in the Miami area, beginning Fall 2017. This position is affiliated with the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN) program (http://slsc.fiu.edu/research-projects/) focused on generating the knowledge and promoting actions that will ensure resilience of cities in the face of extreme events. The candidate will include integrative experimental research approaches, public outreach and work with an interdisciplinary network of faculty and practitioners affiliated with the Sea Level Solutions Center. Interests focused in the area of green infrastructure are desirable. The student will be co- mentored by faculty members in 2 or more areas including ecology, engineering, architecture, policy, social science or economics and expected to develop research that is highly interdisciplinary. Primary appointment can be affiliated in a number of departments including the Department of Biological Sciences (http://biology.fiu.edu).
The candidate will join a cohort of graduate fellows in the UREx SRN program and have an opportunity to join a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary research team working on cutting-edge science, knowledge exchange, and adaptation to extreme events affecting cities. As part of the program, fellows will participate in distributed seminars and student-led journal clubs with their cohort across institutions, develop independent yet networked doctoral research plans, and have opportunities to be active members research working groups, scenario-building workshops with practitioners, and design studios for resilient urban infrastructure. FIU is a public research university in Miami with a highly diverse, vibrant, and growing student body located in between the eastern boundary of the Everglades and a dense urban population center of reaching 9 million by 2030. Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a R1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity and recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers 196 bachelors, masters and doctoral programs in fields including engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Floridas anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. The students work will contribute to interdisciplinary research of the FIU Sea Level Solutions Center (http://slsc.fiu.edu/). The FCE LTER student organization (http://fcelter.fiu.edu/students/), based at FIU, is a very active community of over 70 students from multiple departments and institutions who conduct integrative, multidisciplinary, long-term research. To be eligible for positions, students must meet FIU graduate admission requirements and for the department in which they are applying. For a list of graduate programs in the relevant fields, visit https://gradschool.fiu.edu/admissions.shtml. The deadline for graduate applications to the Department of Biological Sciences is January 05, 2017. Interested applicants should contact Dr. Evelyn Gaiser ([email protected]), Dr. Tiffany Troxler ([email protected]), Dr. John Kominoski ([email protected]), or Dr. Kevin Grove ([email protected]) before applying.
