Past Positions

Posted in 2014

1. Summer Scholars
Three undergraduate students are sought for a summer scholar program as part of the interdisciplinary project “CNH: Sustainability of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Coupled Natural and Human Systems”, which is funded by NSF (PI: Dr. Li An, Department of Geography, San Diego State University). See the position announcement.

2. Post-doctoral research fellow position
One post-doctoral research fellow position is available for Dr. An’s NSF project about payments for ecosystem services (http://complexities.org/pes/). This is a two-year position. See the position announcement.

3. Other Opportunities
Funding opportunities exist for students who want to pursue doctoral degree in the following fields: landscape ecology, space-time analysis and modeling, human-environment interaction, land use and land cover change, geocomputation, and complexity theory. The joint doctoral program between the Department of Geography at SDSU and the Department of Geography at University of California, Santa Barbara will have funding to support a number of doctoral students each year. The admission and financial support are competitive — please contact Dr. An at lan@mail.sdsu.edu before you send your application.

Posted in 2013

1. Summer Scholars
Two undergraduate students are sought for a summer scholar program as part of the interdisciplinary project “CNH: Sustainability of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Coupled Natural and Human Systems”, which is newly funded by NSF (PI: Dr. Li An, Department of Geography, San Diego State University). See the position announcement.

Posted in 2012

1. Doctoral Student in Systems Integration
A doctoral student is sought to join the newly funded project “CNH: Sustainability of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Coupled Natural and Human Systems” (PI: Dr. Li An). The PhD student assistantship position aims to integrate GIScience, landscape ecology, and human socioeconomics for studying the dynamic interactions between payments for ecosystem services and the associated Coupled Natural and Human (CNH) system at Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, China for the endangered Guizhou golden monkey. The student will take a systems approach to examine human-environment-policy interactions over time and space.  See the position announcement.
The selection of doctoral student in Systems Integration has been temporarily closed. We will reopen the recruiting process when ready.

2. Doctoral Student in Systems Integration (Nepal)
A doctoral student is sought to join the newly funded project “CNH: Feedbacks between human community dynamics and socio-ecological vulnerability in a biodiversity hotspot” (Co-PI: Dr. Li An). The PhD student assistantship position aims to integrate GIScience, ecology, and socioeconomics to understand what factors may “lead to vulnerability of community forest socio-ecosystems to the catastrophic effects of rapid environmental change” (quote from the proposal). The student will develop and evaluate an agent-based model that integrates multi-scale and multidisciplinary data for hypothesis testing, scenario envisioning, and policy recommendation. See the position announcement.
The selection of doctoral student in Systems Integration (Nepal) has been temporarily closed. We will reopen the recruiting process when ready.

3. Doctoral Student in Ecology and Remote Sensing
A doctoral student is sought to join the newly funded project “CNH: Sustainability of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Coupled Natural and Human Systems” (PI: Dr. Li An). For this PhD student assistantship position we are seeking a highly qualified student who will integrate remote sensing, landscape ecology or conservation ecology, and wildlife habitat analysis/modeling using data from Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, China. Applicants should have strong interest or background in GIScience (remote sensing and GIS in particular) and forest/wildlife ecology.  See the position announcement.
The selection of doctoral students in Ecology and Remote Sensing has been temporarily closed. We will reopen the recruiting process when ready.

4. Master student
A M.S. student is sought to join the newly funded project “CNH: Sustainability of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Coupled Natural and Human Systems” (PI: Dr. Li An). The M.S. student will work in any one or combination of the following areas: (1) golden monkey habitat analysis and modeling (using camera trapping data); (2) remote sensing of land cover and habitat change; (3) How PES affects the reciprocal relationships among human demography, livelihood, and the environment; and (4) participatory mapping of local people’s resource extraction activities and the associated underlying mechanisms.  See the position announcement.
The selection of master students has been temporarily closed. We will reopen the recruiting process when ready.