Dr. Rinku Roy Chowdhury at thee Department of Geography at Indiana University is seeking motivated M.S. and Ph.D. students with interests in spatial analysis and modelling of urban land management land cover dynamics and/or hydrological impacts. Full funding is available through two open research assistantships and supplemental teaching assistantships, and includes a monthly stipend tuition waiver, health benefits, and travel funds for fieldwork and conference presentations. The graduate assistantships are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) and Macrosystems Biology programs, and entail research on the following substantive and methodological themes:
- Integrated Climate and Disturbance Legacies, Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE-LTER)
- High-ressolution social-ecological analysis of urban residential landscapess