Graduate Position in Urban Resilience to Climate Change at Florida International University
Florida International University, Miami, Florida Two PhD graduate fellowships are available in the Department of Biological Sciences (http://biology.fiu.edu/) at Florida International University (FIU) to conduct research on urban resilience to extreme events in South Florida, beginning fall 2016. This position is part of the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (https://sustainability.asu.edu/urbanresilience/) which is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary research team working on cutting-edge science, knowledge exchange, and adaptation to extreme events affecting cities. Fellows in the UREx SRN will participate in distributed seminars and student-led journal clubs, develop independent yet networked doctoral research plans, and have opportunities to be active members in research working groups, scenario-building workshops with practitioners, and design studios for resilient urban infrastructure. Graduate fellows will be full participants in annual All-Hands meetings, receive training in science communication, attend a computation and visualization summer institute, and lead the development of research products. The goal of this training program is to provide an environment and programs in which diverse people (in terms of career stage, sector, ethnicity, culture, and discipline) may collaboratively learn about the impacts of extreme events on urban areas and how to promote the resilience of urban social, ecological and technical system infrastructure. FIU is a public research university in Miami with a highly diverse, vibrant, and growing student body located near the eastern boundary of the Everglades. The Department of Biological Sciences has strengths in Ecology, Marine Biology, Botany, Microbiology, Evolution, and Cellular/Molecular Biology. FIU is home to the Sea Level Solutions Center (http://slsc.fiu.edu/), which will provide a collaborative, multi-disciplinary framework for studying exposure and adaptation of South Florida to climate change. Fellows will also be invited to participate in the Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research program (http://fcelter.fiu.edu/), based at FIU, which includes a very active student organization of over 70 students from multiple departments and institutions who conduct integrative, multidisciplinary, long-term research. To be eligible for positions, students must meet FIU graduate admission requirements and complete the application procedure for the graduate program (http://biology.fiu.edu/graduate/). The deadline for graduate applications is January 05, 2016, but early submission (December 2015) is highly encouraged. The candidate’s research interests should include global environmental change, socio-ecological science, coastal ecology, and ecosystem ecology. Students should select one or more of the mentors among the three principal investigators of the project: Dr. John Kominoski ([email protected]; https://kominoskilab.wordpress.com/), Dr. Tiffany Troxler ([email protected], http://wetland.fiu.edu/tiffany-troxler) and Dr. Evelyn Gaiser ([email protected]; http://algae.fiu.edu/), and send an email providing a CV and message of interest in the program and fellowship.
