Jobs & Appointments

The University of Maine has launched the Sustainable Solutions Initiative with a $20 million, five‐year grant from the National Science Foundation’s EPSCOR program (SSI: www.umaine.edu/SustainabilitySolutions). SSI’s mission is to create an integrative research program and strong stakeholder partnerships that generate improved solutions to intersecting ecological, social, and economic challenges in and beyond Maine. SSI is supporting interdisciplinary research of coupled natural‐human […]

The School of Economics (SOE) and the Senator George J. Mitchell Center at the University of Maine invite applications from social scientists for a tenure-track faculty position in SOE at the assistant or associate professor level. The successful candidate will join a new Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI) funded by a 5-year, $20 million NSF EPSCoR grant. The position is one of four new hires supported by SSI, an innovative program in sustainability science. The successful candidate […]

The School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine is seeking a to enroll a student as early as May or June 2010 in the dual masters degree in marine science and policy. The student will study and work on a strongly interdisciplinary research project funded by the Coupled Natural and Human Systems program within NSF. A competitive stipend, tuition, health and student fees will be provided for three years. The project combines the work of social, biological and computer scientists and […]

WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Institute for the Environment and Regional Development Ecological Economics 2 Lectureships in Ecological Economics Submission Deadline: May 13, 2009 Reference number: 129595 Location: Vienna, Austria The Institute for the Environment and Regional Development invites applications for two lecturer / assistant professor positions (fixed-term for 6 years) to begin in the autumn of 2009. We seek candidates with research and teaching […]

Institution: ETH Zurich, Team of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Helbing, Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation Salary or grade: Postdoc or PhD Start date and contract length: March 1st 2009. Up to 4 years contract. Announcement at www.jobs.ethz.ch Description of position: The successful candidate will develop his/her research in collaboration with other members of the Chair of Sociology, in particular Modeling and Simulation (SOMS) at ETH Zurich. SOMS is a young, […]

The Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) in Bremen has been recently elected member of the prestigious Leibniz Association, which is supported by the German Federal and State Governments. Through its research, ZMT contributes to developing science-based strategies for sustainable use of tropical coastal systems. To strengthen its research on the analysis of coastal tropical environments the ZMT is seeking a PhDStudent in ecological modelling. Focus will be on the spatial representation […]

Graduate Research Assistantship in Agent-based Land Market Modeling available with Dr. Dawn Parker at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada A graduate assistantship (minimum of three years of funding) is available for a highly qualified student interesting in developing agent-based models of ex-urban residential land markets. The research assistant will be part of SLUCE II project (Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects), funded through the US National Science Foundation’s […]

The School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan is seeking applications from qualified, motivated, prospective PhD students to work on dissertation research related to the SLUCE II project (Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects.) This is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project involving six faculty members in the area of coupled human-natural systems. The project links agent-based modeling of human behaviors driving land use / land […]