10 DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Doctoral positions starting October 2008

Munich Graduate School of Economics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Germany)

UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH
MUNICH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

Graduate Program
Research Training Group
”Markets, Institutions, and the Scope of Government”

Department of Economics

The Munich Graduate School of Economics (MGSE) offers a distinguished three-year Ph.D. program in Economics to outstanding young graduates. We offer:


10 DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS
The program provides advanced training for in-depth research into global market integration, its consequences for institutional change, and its impact on the role of governments in the organization of economic activity. These themes are widely conceived and allow for applications in any field of economics. We offer a wide range of Ph.D. courses, all taught in English. The German Research Foundation (DFG) supports excellent doctoral students with a three-year scholarship in our Research Training Group.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Applications for doctoral scholarships are welcome from graduates who hold a Master’s degree or a German university Diploma in economics or a closely related field, passed with distinction. Candidates with a degree in statistics, mathematics or physics are also encouraged to apply. Graduates need to prove a strong quantitative background as well as interest and ability to conduct independent research.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
For further details on the research and teaching program, its participating faculty and the application procedure, please consult our website www.mgse.vwl.lmu.de.

Please note that we select our students on a strictly competitive basis.

Application deadline is 15 April 2008.

CONTACT:
Munich Graduate School of Economics
Ms. Gabriella Szantone Sturm
MAIL TO: mgse[ at ]lmu.de

NSF "GK-12" Fellowships in Aquatic Ecology

"GK-12" Graduate Fellowships Available in Aquatic Science at Washington State University Vancouver

The Aquatic Ecology Laboratory at Washington State University Vancouver, directed by Dr. Stephen Bollens and Dr. Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens, has paid assistantships available for new graduate students to contribute to a growing and dynamic program in environmental sciences.

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Research Areas: Current and future research projects span a wide range of taxa, from plankton (both protozoan and metazoan) to fish, in habitats ranging from lakes to estuaries to the coastal ocean. Projects address both basic and applied questions (e.g. invasion biology, restoration ecology, fisheries biology) and span several sub-disciplines, including behavior, population biology, community ecology and ecosystem dynamics.

WSU Vancouver is located in Washington State across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon, and is close to the Cascades, Puget Sound, and the Pacific ocean, and thus offers significant opportunities for research, a variety of neighboring institutions and agencies for collaboration, and an excellent quality of life. Degree programs are offered across all WSU campuses and students in Vancouver may participate in activities in Pullman.

Priority applications are due January 10, 2008. Applications received after January 10 will be considered on a rolling basis.

For more information please visit the WSUV Aquatic Ecology Laboratory website
(http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/programs/sci/aquatic-eco/home.htm), or the WSU Vancouver Science Programs website (http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/programs/sci/), or
contact us directly:

Dr. Stephen M. Bollens (bollens@vancouver.wsu.edu)
Dr. Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens (rollboll@vancouver.wsu.edu)
Washington State University Vancouver
14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue
Vancouver, WA
98686-9600
USA

Graduate Student Assistantship, Microbial Ecology

Graduate Research Assistantship in Microbial Ecology / Biogeochemistry at Environmental Sciences Institute (http://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?a=environmentalscience), Florida A&M University. Project Title and Description: Tracing Carbon Flow in Apalachicola Bay, Florida (http://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?a=hbcurise&p=drchauhan). Carbon plays a fundamental role in regulating Earth’s climate and it is generally accepted that accelerated human-induced CO2 emissions over the last century have significantly contributed to recent documented warming trends. Our predictive understanding of the extent to which the resultant increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations will impact climate change is dependent on the accuracy of global carbon flux models. However, to date there remains a paucity of information with respect to how carbon cycles in the environment- particularly in coastal subtropical systems. Studies are therefore needed to understand basic biogeochemical cycling as applicable to these and all coastal ecosystems. The overall goal of this research is to evaluate carbon cycling in Apalachicola Bay, a shallow bar-built sub-tropical estuary located in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. This work is a collaborative effort being carried out by an interdisciplinary team of biogeochemists, ecologists, molecular biologists, and modelers. This team will integrate their skills and areas of expertise to characterize the sources, transformations and fate of carbon within the Apalachicola Bay estuary. Laboratories of Drs. Chauhan and Williams utilize a biphasic approach; using culture based tools such as most probable number estimates (MPNs) and community level physiological profiling (CLPP) coupled to molecular tools based on the SSU rDNA analyses such as molecular cloning, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and stable isotope probing (SIP) tools to link the structure to function of carbon cycling autochthonous and allochthonous bacterial guilds in Apalachicola Bay. Another important emphasis of this proposal is the training of graduate students and postdoctoral associates in multidisciplinary research on carbon cycling, and in communicating the knowledge gained from this and other research to students in the classroom making them better teachers and mentors.
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Master Scholarships in Economics and Finance, CEMFI, Madrid

Scholarships for the Graduate Program in Economics and Finance CEMFI, Madrid (Spain)

The basic graduate offering at CEMFI consists of its Master in Economics and Finance and its PhD program in Economics. Unlike many Master programs in the US and elsewhere, ours is self-contained and offers a well respected qualification.

CEMFI grants a subset of its Master students exemptions from the tuition fee and/or scholarships for living expenses amounting up to EUR 10,000 per year. They are granted according to academic merit. Also, the Fundación Carolina, in cooperation with the Fundación BBVA, has endowed four scholarships for Latin American students of the Master. These scholarships amount to 1,200 euros per month for housing and subsistence, over 19 months, plus 2 additional months for students who participate in a Summer internship program. They also cover the Master’s tuition, travel expenses and medical insurance.


An important distinguishing feature of our Master is that it lasts for two years, the second being essential for shaping the skills of our graduates, as follows. First year: Basic graduate course work and some optional subjects. Second year: Specialized courses and research training through a Master thesis. Our ratio of students to faculty is between four and five. Thus we can devote a lot of attention to each student. This is particularly important for the Master thesis, where the faculty provides guidance to a unique degree.

Members of CEMFI’s faculty publish in top journals and are research leaders in their fields. They also edit prestigious journals and are key players at leading learned societies such as the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society.

Our Master students get very good jobs as economists. For example, in positions dealing with portfolio and risk management, macroeconomic forecasting, policy evaluation, or microeconomic consultancy. Our reputation is 20 years old and CEMFI provides a strong signal of quality, regularly confirmed by the market. Moreover, we run an experienced and efficient job placement service.

Students interested in furthering their research training, either because they aim at a professional career with a stronger research content or because they aim at an academic position, will continue to develop their research skills for another three years and complete the PhD program. Papers from CEMFI’s dissertations have been published in top journals and we have an excellent record in the PhD job market.

Admission to PhD dissertation work at CEMFI is through the Master. All students admitted to the PhD program obtain a scholarship, either from an external source or from CEMFI.

For more information on admission and scholarship applications, please visit: http://www.cemfi.es. For any queries, feel free to contact: admissions[ at ]cemfi.es.

Application has to be received by 7. April 2008.

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PhD SCHOLARSHIP CO-SPONSORED BY SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND WOODSIDE ENERGY LTD.: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

TITLE: Wave Modelling within Extreme Tropical Cyclones

BACKGROUND:
Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) and Woodside Energy Ltd (WEL) are seeking a suitably qualified student to undertake post-graduate study to develop a wave forecast model suitable for extreme tropical cyclone conditions.


About Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne University of Technology is a large multi-sectoral and multi-campus institution with a stated mission to be a pre-eminent entrepreneurial university from the Asia-Pacific, thriving on new ideas and knowledge and exploiting its intersectoral heritage to create value for its stakeholders.

The Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences is host to most of the engineering activities at Swinburne as well as key programs in aviation and photonics. The Coastal Engineering and Physical Oceanography group of the Faculty specialises in research of deep-water and finite-depth wave dynamics, spectral modelling of wind-generated waves, wave breaking and dissipation, air-sea interaction, wave-bottom interaction and turbulence.

About Woodside Energy Ltd
Woodside Energy Ltd. (WEL) is Australia’s largest offshore oil and gas producer and operator of the North West Shelf project. Over a period of 20 years, WEL has been conducting and sponsoring applied and fundamental oceanographic research. The issue of enhancing understanding of extreme tropical cyclones, and in particular improving the wave forecast under such conditions, is among the current priorities of the research sponsored by the company.

PROJECT ABSTRACT:
Accurate wind wave models are essential for all elements of extreme air-sea interaction, including loads on structures, upper-ocean mixing and bottom boundary layer formation. At present, physics of such models is mostly based on theory and experiments applicable to moderate wind/wave situations, which physics is then extrapolated to extreme conditions. Since air-sea interaction at such tropical cyclones is known to be different, the models manifest inconsistent results. This is a major concern for engineering design applications. The project is intended to produce, parameterise, implement and test new energy source/.sink functions for the wave forecast models, based on direct measurements in the extreme tropical cyclones and on recent theoretical advances in this field.

SELECTION CRITERIA
1) Honours degree in Physical or Mathematical Sciences (essential)
2) Strong analytical and mathematical skills (essential)
3) A good working knowledge of programming (desirable)

Commencement Date: March 2008
Scholarship: AU$24815 per annum, tax exempt
Duration: three years

Application deadline: 31st of January, 2008

Contact:
Alexander Babanin
Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218 Hawthorn VIC 3122
Victoria

Telephone: +61-3-9214 8033
Fax: +61-3-9214 8264
Email: ababanin[ at ]swin.edu.au

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The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) invites applications to its Ph.D. and Post-doc program. The program is funded by the German Excellence Initiative and will commence in September 2008. BIGSSS is an inter-university institute of the University of Bremen (UB) and Jacobs University. BIGSSS builds on the experience and institutional structure of both UB‘s Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS) and Jacobs‘ interdisciplinary social-science graduate programs at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) and the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development (JCLL). The program provides close supervision of dissertation work within a demand-tailored education and research framework.

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Global Integration
Integration and Diversity in the New Europe
Social Integration and the Welfare State
Attitude Formation, Value Change, and Intercultural Communication
Life-Course and Lifespan Dynamics.
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REU Fellowships in Coastal Marine Science

NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates 2008

The University of Texas Marine Science Institute
Field Experiences in South Texas Coastal Dynamics
June 2 to August 8, 2008

Ten fellowships will be available for the summer of 2008, for undergraduate students to conduct independent research projects on the causes, effects and consequences of coastal environmental change. Each student will work with a faculty mentor on topics such as:

•Biogeochemistry, organic matter cycling, water column optics
•Watershed processes, land-sea interactions, coastal hydrology
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•Food web relationships, nutrient dynamics
•Zooplankton ecology, phytoplankton physiology and ecology
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•Fish reproductive physiology, environmental toxicology

More information on faculty research interests may be found at http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/people/deptms.htm

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•Eligibility: Students must be undergraduates in their sophomore or junior year, and U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. and its possessions.
•Stipends: Students will receive a summer stipend of $4500 for the 10-week program, full room and board, a research allowance, and a travel allowance.
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•Deadline for applications is February 15, 2008.

Questions about the program may be directed to Dr. Edward Buskey, ed.buskey@mail.utexas.edu or Dr. Deana Erdner, derdner@mail.utexas.edu

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PhD Scholarship in Biostatistics at the Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus MC

PhD Scholarship in Biostatistics at the Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

The Department of Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine) of the Erasmus Medical Center (University of Rotterdam) is recruiting PhD-students in Biostatistics. The candidates should have a Master in Statistics, Biostatistics or Mathematics and a strong curriculum vitae. Next to preparing a PhD, the candidates will also gain practical statistical experience in a variety of small research/consultancy projects and clinical trials. The contract is for four years.

The Department of Biostatistics is known for its applied statistical research in repeated measurements analyses, missing data, survival analysis, Bayesian statistics, different areas in clinical trial topics and epidemiological models. Further, there is an intensive collaboration with the Department of Epidemiology.

If you are interested, please send your CV to:

Professor Emmanuel Lesaffre
Department of Biostatistics
Erasmus Medical Center
PO Box 2040
3000 CA Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Email: e.lesaffre[ at ]erasmusmc.nl

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Research opportunities: Several openings for M.S. and Ph.D. students to conduct fisheries ecology research in Lake Erie or Ohio reservoirs, using field, laboratory, and modeling approaches. General research topics include: 1) using a variety of techniques, including otolith microchemistry, to understand stock structure of Lake Erie fish populations; 2) understanding patterns and implications of seasonal movements of fish in Lake Erie; 3) incorporating watershed effects into our understanding of lake and reservoir food webs; and 4) incorporating habitat availability into our understanding of success of sportfish populations.

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Qualifications: A successful applicant will be creative, motivated, and capable of working well both independently and cooperatively. A degree in biology, ecology, aquatic sciences, or a related field is required. Students must have strong writing and quantitative skills and be interested in applying basic ecological approaches to fisheries management problems.

Salary: ~$1,825/month with some health benefits

Start date: Summer or Fall 2008

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Graduate Student Assistantship, Evolutionary genetics of invasive species

One graduate position is available beginning September 2008.

The project involves analysis of hierarchical genetic structure of invasive tunicates at different spatial scales and aims to i) characterize spatial and temporal patterns of genetic structure during the establishment and subsequent spread of invasive tunicates; ii) identify potential sources and vectors of invasions; and iii) address taxonomic problems related to color morphospecies.

This work is part of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network (CAISN) which aims to examine vectors and pathways of invasions and to identify factors that affect the successful establishment of aquatic invasive species. http://www.uwindsor.ca/CAISN

Ideal candidates will have prior experience with molecular techniques (e.g. DNA sequencing) but students without prior experience will be considered provided they are interested in using molecular markers to understand species invasion and have the ability to work well in a collaborative research atmosphere.

Interested students should send their CV, a brief statement of research interest, and a list of 3 references to:

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Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario Canada N9B3P4

Phone: 519-253-3000 x 3763
Email: mcris@uwindsor.ca

Ph.D. position, Modelling biogeochemical dynamics

Modelling ocean circulation or biogeochemical dynamics of shelf settings.

A full funded Ph.D. position will be available at the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE), Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

We seek highly motivated geoscientists interested in working with computational geoscience or geochemistry in relation modelling 3D ocean circulation and/or biogeochemical dynamics of shelf settings. In particular we are interested in understanding the shelf – ocean interaction, the development of oxygen oasis as well as anoxic conditions under various conditions through Earth History. Experience with ocean circulation models such as MITgcm or ROMS is an advantage.

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Candidates should hold a MSc degree in geophysics, geology, computational science or engineering, preferably with knowledge of ocean circulation and/or biogechemical dynamics. Good English skills are required.

The salary depends on seniority, as agreed between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations within the range of 23,000-30,000 DKK/month.

Applications should include a curriculum vitae, list of publications, copy of diploma, name of one professional reference, and a short statement on personal research interests. It should be emailed to Associate Professor Christian Bjerrum, from whom further information may also be obtained at cjb@geol.ku.dk.

Closing date is January 18th , 2008.

Any potential applicant is invited to apply irrespective of gender, race, religion or ethnic background.

PhD in Applied Mathematics, Swinburne University of Technology

Full time scholarship (at A$19,616 per annum) leading to a PhD in Applied Mathematics is available to selected applicant. Topics of interest include nonlinear instability theory as it applies to problems in computational biology and geophysical fluid dynamics. The work will involve a combination of analysis and large scale computing. Applicants should have a strong background in Applied Mathematics or Physics with a bachelors or higher degree.

Inquiries and applications should be directed to Prof W R C Phillips at wphillips[ at ]swin.edu.au.

Study subject: Applied Mathematics, Geophysical fluid dynamics, Computational Biology
Provided by: Swinburne University of Technology
Level: Post Graduate (Research)


Availability: This scholarship is offered only once to one person. Open for applications from 1 January 2008 until 29 February 2008.

Payment Information: A$19,616 paid fortnightly for 3 years

Research Information:
Scholarship is for Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics or Computational Biology. Start between March 2008 and 31 December 2008.

Eligibility: At least Honours 1 or equivalent, or Honours 2a or equivalent.

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Professor W.R.C. Phillips,
Mathematics, H38
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, AUSTRALIA
+61-3-9214-8286; wphillips[ at ]swin.edu.au
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Loughborough University International PhD Studentship in Structural Engineering Department of Civil and Building Engineering

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More information may be found at:
http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~cvmr6/Raoofcv.doc

Applicants should complete the standard PhD application form available from this page and submit with supporting documents to: Ms Helen Newbold, Research Administrator, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, Email: H.Newbold[ at ]lboro.ac.uk.

Closing date: Monday, 18th February 2008.

Applicants who previously applied for this research project may re-apply again.

Land Development Design for Corporate & Residential Property

At Riverside Design we understand the difficulties involved in land development design services. The challenges are sometimes overbearing, but our goal is to help you every step of the way. From concepts needed to get your project started, to getting your project permitted and approved, all the way to seeing it through construction. Whether it be a high-end residential project, or a commercial project, when you think of professional design services, think Riverside Design, L.L.C.

As a West Virginia Landscape Architecture Design Firm we offer land design servies for corporate and residential projects. We specialize in Custom Residential Landscape Design, Construction and Maintenance. Riverside Design will work for Homeowners Associations, General Contractors and Land Developers.