The Vienna Graduate School of Finance – a joint initiative of the University of Vienna, the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration – invites applications for the course starting in September 2007 for its doctoral program. Upon admission, applicants can expect to obtain a top-quality education for [...]
Programme content: The growing awareness of the impact of human activities on the environment and the resulting threat to both nature and humanity has convinced most governments of the need to include prevention of air, water and soil pollution as well as the sanitation of polluted sites in their priority action programmes. Since relatively few [...]
Programme content: This programme provides courses at university level on the most important aspects of aquaculture, for both marine and freshwater organisms. The programme takes a multidisciplinary, interuniversity approach. The programme runs in parallel with the European Master of Science in Aquaculture and Fisheries organised by seven European universities (www.MAqFish.com). The study programme comprises a [...]
-Major in Soil Science-Major in Engineering GeologyProgramme content:
A country’s physical land resources are a fundamental pillar of support for human life and welfare. Worldwide population pressure and severe degradation, pollution and desertification problems are threatening this natural resource, which is relatively scarce for several countries,leading to competition between agricultural and industrial purposes, urban planning and [...]
From a forwarded email of job openings from developmentjobs.org.
Protected Areas System SpecialistMinistry of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources / UNDP, GEFLocation: Republic of ZambiaLast Date: December 8, 2006http://216.197. 119.113/jobman/ publish/article_ 30042.shtml
Natural Resource EconomistMinistry of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources / UNDP, GEFLocation: Republic of ZambiaLast Date: December 8, 2006http://216.197. 119.113/jobman/ publish/article_ 30039.shtml
Finance & Administration DelegateSwiss [...]
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This two-year programme provides sound training in modern statistical methodology with a focus on the design and analysis of biomedical and epidemiological studies. The following compulsory courses are taught as part of this international programme: Concepts of Probability and Statistics; Regression; Analysis of Variance; Nonparametric Methods; Correlated and Multivariate Methods; Principles of Statistical Inference; [...]
University of Windsor/University of British Columbia and UQUARGraduate students are sought to work on Ph D projects investigating the factors affecting the establishment, distribution, abundance and food web relationships of marine invasive species. Study sites are specific harbours on the east and west coasts, characterized by gradients in potential propagule pressure. A candidate is required [...]
University of Windsor/University of British Columbia and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo BC, Canada
We seek applications for two openings in invasion biology. These positions are at the PhD level. The projects are part of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network (CAISN) research program funded by NSERC to examine vectors and pathways delivering [...]
Graduate research assistantships in environmental fluid dynamics are available at the Physics Department at the University of Toronto for students beginning in August 2007. We are looking for highly motivated graduate students for projects involving laboratory, field and computational studies of environmental fluid dynamics. Possible projects involve the dispersion of fish larvae and invasive species [...]
A Graduate Research Fellowship (Ph. D.) is available at the Lake Superior Ecosystem Research Center, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan. The appointment will be in the Department of Biological Sciences with field studies in southern Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. The southern Lake Michigan project deals with the “doughnut”, a late-winter productivity pulse in offshore [...]