GIS and Data Visualization Specialist Needed @MIT

https://dusp.mit.edu/sites/dusp.mit.edu/files/attachments/simple/JOB_ANNOUNCEMENT_GIS_data_MIT.pdf Position: Full time multi-year position as a Geoprocessing and Data Visualization Specialist starting July 2017. This is a 12-month appointment that can be extended for at least two additional years after a 6 month probationary period. Description: The Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT is seeking a full-time staff person to assist with various GIS, data visualization and graphics training needs of the department. The staff/specialist will assist faculty and students across the department with GIS, Data Visualization, graphics and media related projects. The Specialist will provide teaching support which includes: …

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#EESpublishes: Check out Dr. Stephanie DeVries dissertation on nitrogen pollution!

Stephanie DeVries dissertation is available on CUNY academic works!  Congratulations Dr. DeVries! Following a comprehensive review of the occurrence and impacts of antibiotics and related pharmaceutical compounds on the terrestrial N-cycle, three experiments were performed to explore the topic of biogeochemistry as a source or a sink for N-pollution. The first of these experiments addresses the question of whether environmentally relevant concentrations of antibiotics (µg·kg-1) have a significant effect on denitrification or N2O production, a question that has not been well addressed in previous studies. Having determined that there is a significant shift, the second study aims to comprehensively follow changes …

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Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Urban Studies Institute @georgiastateu

Postdoctoral Research Associate The newly created Urban Studies Institute at Georgia State University seeks a postdoctoral research associate interested in questions related to housing (affordability/access), neighborhood change, poverty and/or other aspects of the urban form starting in Fall 2017. The urban studies institute conducts top-level urban research from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives; develop an innovative and specialized interdisciplinary curriculum; and engage with stakeholders in metropolitan Atlanta. It will seek close collaborative relations with other academic institutions in the Atlanta region.  The research agenda ranges from local to global scales, from urban theory to policy research, and is …

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Associate Director Opportunity at the Rock Ethics Institute Penn State

Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute (rockethics.psu.edu/)[rockethics.psu.edu] seeks applicants for an Assistant Director. The Rock Ethics Institute is a vibrant center promoting interdisciplinary and engaged ethics research and curricular enhancement, and it supports collaborations across all of the University’s colleges. The Assistant Director position is a full-time, non-tenure line appointment, starting August 2017.  AOS/AOC open, but with a particular interest in ethics, applied philosophy, and public/community engaged philosophy. We especially invite candidates whose work contributes to one of the Institute’s current research initiatives: agricultural and food ethics; bioethics and public health; climate and sustainability ethics; critical philosophy of race; democracy and …

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Horticulture Department Summer 2017 Intern Job Description

BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY HORTICULTURE DEPARTMENT INTERN – SUMMER 2017 Battery Park City Authority manages and maintains Battery Park City, a vibrant model of urban planning. The Summer Internship Program offers students work experience and professional guidance in several areas of the organization. Interns contribute to projects that support departmental work, develop new skills, and gain insight into their career interests. Through weekly group activities, interns explore behind the scenes of Battery Park City Authority’s innovative vision and design, complex public space management, leadership in sustainable practices, and commitment to outstanding public resources.  A summary of BPCA’s structure, mission, and …

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#EESpublishes: @GC_CUNY @CityCollegeNY Alumna Dr @mar_karimi & Prof #RezaKhanbilvardi on Surface T Variations in Urban Settings

Dr. Karimi and Dr. Khanbilvardi coauthored a paper entitled Predicting surface temperature variation in urban settings using real-time weather forecasts in Urban Climate.  Highlight include: •Three months of field campaign data were collected to understand the inverse effect of UHI in Manhattan •Measuring spatial and temporal temperature variation within urban setting of Manhattan •Predicting temperature variability from weather forecast •The lapse rates being the common dependent for both spatial and temporal variations Within Manhattan Abstract: Densely populated cities experience adverse effects of Urban Heat Island (UHI) including higher numbers of emergency hospital admissions and heat related illnesses. Studying UHI effects and temperature …

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Check out @GC_CUNY Prof @dlindo_atichati’s research cruise w/ @csinews women #undergrads!

  Three of EES Professor Lindo Atochati’s CSI undergraduate students are participating on a marine research expedition in the Caribbean that he organized with his collaborators from NOAA and NASA. That research project is important to understand the non-linear motions of seawater and nutrients near the shelf break, and at the same time is critical to manage two marine protected areas in the US Caribbean. One of the students is doing outreach and writing an impressive real time blog entitled Ocean Expedition to the Virgin Islands, Undergraduate Women rocking science! Check out the blog for updates and pictures:  https://morales63lm.wixsite.com/usvi

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#EESpublishes: Prof @MPavlovskaya of @gc_cuny @Hunter_College on #class in the Interntl Encyclopedia of #Geography

Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya of EES and Hunter College authored a book section in The International Encyclopedia of Geography entitled “Class“. Abstract: Class is one of the most important, widely used, and complicated concepts in human geography and the social sciences. It underpins economic geographies and intersects with geographies of gender, race, and sexuality. Different notions of class have been in use, along the spectrum from neoclassical to Marxist economic theories. These theories have also been reworked by feminist, postcolonial, and poststructuralist scholars in order to augment critiques of class-related inequalities and to construct possibilities for imagining and producing progressive geographies …

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ARC Student Research Praxis Awards 2017-2018 deadline 3/31!

As part of its effort to encourage student research, the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) will be offering a number of Research Praxis Fellowships for the coming academic year 2017-2018. The Awards are valued at $4,000 each and are for one semester only. To be eligible, you must be a full time registered doctoral student who has completed the First Exam but not yet completed the Second at the time of the tenure of the award. Preference will be given to those who have been enrolled for no more than three years and who are in the early stages of the …

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Deer Season job with @NYCParks $24.00/hr!

(Picture: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/nyregion/a-plague-of-bucks-and-does-on-staten-island.html?_r=0) NYC Parks is the steward of nearly 30,000 acres of land — 14 percent of New York City — including more than 5,000 individual properties ranging from Coney Island Beach and Central Park to community gardens and Greenstreets. We operate more than 800 athletic fields and nearly 1,000 playgrounds, 1,800 basketball courts, 550 tennis courts, 67 public pools, 51 recreational facilities, 15 nature centers, 14 golf courses, and 14 miles of beaches. We care for 1,200 monuments and 23 historic house museums. We look after 600,000 street trees, and two million more in parks. We are New York City’s …

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