Job Announcement The Advocate Editor-in-Chief DSC Student Newspaper Applications due: May 15th, 2013 The Doctoral Students’ Council seeks candidates for the open position of editor-in-chief of The Advocate student newspaper. The editor-in-chief shall determine editorial policies while respecting the following priority: The Advocate shall primarily serve CUNY graduate students as their general forum and as a source of news and information pertaining to their rights and educational, cultural, and professional interests. The editor-in-chief independently determines editorial policy. The new editor-in-chief will serve from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014, with the possibility of reappointment, and will be paid upon …

NYC URBAN FIELD STATION A partnership between the USDA Forest Service and the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation with the NYC Natural Areas Conservancy   FIELD RESEARCH SUPERVISOR Jamaica Bay Social and Site Assessment New York, NY PROJECT BACKGROUND The New York City Urban Field Station, a partnership between the USDA Forest Service and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, seeks to improve the quality of life in urban areas by conducting and supporting research about social-ecological systems and natural resource management. Efforts focus on promoting natural resource stewardship and ecological literacy within New York City, as well …

Postdoctoral Research Position. The Department of Geography, at the University of California Santa Barbara seeks a qualified candidate for a post-doctoral research position. Qualified applicants must have a strong background in remote sensing, with expertise in thermal remote sensing preferred. Geostatistical training is also a plus. The qualified candidate will work with a multidisciplinary team on the problem of scaling temperature observations from leaves, to canopies and images. The candidate will work closely with UCSB PIs Dr. Dar Roberts and Phaedon Kyriakidis to conduct multiscale research using a thermal imaging camera in the field and MASTER and MODIS image data …

Job Announcement Doctoral Students’ Council’s OpenCUNY opencuny.org Applications due: May 7th, 2013 The DSC seeks candidates for the following open positions at OpenCUNY: • Coordinator for Planning & Development • Coordinator for Organizing & Action OpenCUNY advocates on behalf of and provides Graduate Center students access to free and open source digital media, with attention given to the CUNY-wide free and open source digital media situation and its relations with Graduate Center students. Each new coordinator will serve from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014, with the possibility of reappointment, and be paid an annual stipend of approximately $6300, …

The deadline for the 2014-2015 American Institute of Indian Studies’ Fellowship Competition is 1 July 2013. Applications to conduct research in India may be made in the following categories: http://www.indiastudies.org/research-fellowship-programs/categories-of-fellowship/

The Sociology Students Association, Doctoral Students Council, and the CUNY Space Time Research Collective are pleased to announce that registration is now open to the first in a series of computer assisted data analysis workshops. The upcoming workshop, which will be led by Dr. Denise Milstein (Department of Sociology, Columbia University), will focus on Atlas.ti. Atlas.ti is used to analyze primary and secondary data, and is a useful skill to learn for researchers who are seeking to expand their ‘methodological toolbox’. The workshop will include an introduction to qualitative data analysis using Atlas.ti, hands-on practice with real data, a focus …

Apply for this job online Email this job to a friend More information about this job: Overview: Now in its second century, Audubon is dedicated to protecting birds and other wildlife and the habitat that supports them. Audubon’s mission is engaging people in bird conservation on a hemispheric scale through science, policy, education and on-the-ground conservation action.  By mobilizing and aligning its network of Chapters, Centers, State and Important Bird Area programs in the four major migratory flyways in the Americas, the organization will bring the full power of Audubon to bear on protecting common and threatened bird species and …