PhD student Scaling & Biodiversity
Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group (FNP), Center Landscape, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Vacancy reference: DOW-08-FNP-12-H
The chairgroup:
FNP is active in education and research into forest and nature conservation from a social and policy science perspective. Ongoing research focuses a.o. on the relation between science and policy and the manifestation and impact of governance trends.
Research project:
The project involves cooperation between FNP and the Environmental Policy Group (ENP). It focuses on production and use of biodiversity data in nature conservation. Nature policy and management increasingly rely on biodiversity data and require them to be standardized and reliable. The research will investigate the transformations and meaning changes involved in standardization and reflect on the implications for use and usability of biodiversity data.
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February 16th, 2008
DAAD scholarships for young professionals from developing countries
The “Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst” (DAAD) has selected the MEG programme as postgraduate course with special relevance to developing countries and is offering a limited number of scholarships.
Target group: Young professionals from developing countries with an academic degree far above average and with at least two years of relevant professional experience in public administration, industry or commerce.
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January 7th, 2007
In January 2005 the storm Gudrun caused massive damage to the forests in southern Sweden. Methods to detect, estimate and map storm damage with airborne and space borne sensors are now under development and will bring faster damage assessment for areas that are hit by future storms. The project will be focused on the use of synthetic aperture radars on three new satellites and one airborne system and will involve analysis and modeling of fully polarimetric data from several frequency bands. Possibilities to detect estimate and map other changes in the forest cover, e.g. clear-cuts and thinning, will also be investigated.
The Ph.D. student will work in the Radar Remote Sensing group at the Department of Radio and Space Science of Chalmers University of Technology. Suitable background for candidates is a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, Electrical Engineering or equivalent. Experience of Matlab and radar remote sensing are beneficial.
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December 14th, 2006