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 ([email protected] or 919-515-2800), 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.
