PhD or Post-doc opportunity: Global Reef Expedition - Remote Sensing Specialist
Dr. Sam Purkis seeks to hire an outstanding PhD or post-doctoral
researcher into his Remote Sensing and GIS lab (
www.nova.edu/~purkis) at Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center.
The project is collaborative between NSU and the Khaled bin Sultan
Living Oceans Foundation (LOF). The successful candidate will play a
senior role in the planning and execution of remote sensing
operations for the LOF Global Reef Expedition. This ongoing
initiative is visiting remote reefs throughout the Pacific, Indian
Ocean, and Red Sea - globalreefexpedition.org. You will join several
LOF cruises per year aboard the M/Y Golden Shadow, a 67m logistical
support vessel, to collect ground-truth and geophysical data that you
will use to develop high-resolution habitat and bathymetry maps from
Worldview-2 satellite imagery. You will also have the opportunity to
address your own science questions related to this work. The project
is exciting because of its large scale and you will be working with
several tens of thousands of sq. km of imagery per year. The position
will see you visiting little-studied reef sites in the Pacific,
before a shift in focus to the GBR and Coral Sea in 2014, with
subsequent legs of the GRE moving through the Indian Ocean and
finishing in 2016 in the Red Sea. We are looking to develop an
exciting collegial atmosphere with a lot of scientific freedom.
The initial term will be for one year with the potential for renewal
through 2017. The position will be supervised by Sam Purkis at NSU's
"Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Research" facility on
the ocean side of Port Everglades in Hollywood, Florida.
Interested candidates should send to [email protected]: (1) a CV, (2)
details of research interests and possible research projects, and (3)
contact information for three referees. Interviews will commence upon
receipt of application and will continue until the position is filled.
The candidate will be highly numeric and key factors in our hiring
decisions will be creativity, motivation, productivity, and
publication record. The domain of your expertise will be remote
sensing, GIS, and marine spatial planning. SCUBA experience will be
considered favourably. All qualified candidates are encouraged to
apply; however, US Citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.
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Sam Purkis, PhD
National Coral Reef Institute (Assoc. Professor)
Oceanographic Center
Nova Southeastern University
8000 N. Ocean Drive, Dania
FL 33004
USA
(954) 262-3647 (phone office)
(954) 927-1593 (phone home)
(954) 600-9983 (mobile)
http://www.nova.edu/~purkis
Chagos Conservation Trust - U.S.
<http://cctus.org/>http://cctus.org
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