Projects available for applications in 2023
Project 1: Spatio-Temporal Evolution of People and Place in the Hokianga, Aotearoa New Zealand
Main supervisor: Matthew Hughes (Civil and Natural Resources Engineering)
Project 2: Spatially-explicit population ecology of kororā in a New Zealand marine reserve
Main supervisors: Associate Professor Michelle LaRue (School of Earth and Environment) and Dr Sarah Flanagan (School of Biological Sciences).
Project 3: Towards a machine learning driven framework for quantifying regional scale rock glacier change in mountain regions
Main supervisor: Shelley MacDonell (School of Earth and Environment)
Project 4: Spatially calibrated models for transmission and control of infectious diseases in Aotearoa New Zealand
Main supervisor: Michael Plank (Mathematics and Statistics)
Detailed information can be found here: https://geospatial.ac.nz/jobs-and-scholarships/
Key qualifications and skills
Prospective PhD student applications must include the following five items:
• Application form (available here)
• Cover letter explaining motivation for doing a PhD outlining interest and experience in geospatial methods and analysis (maximum two pages)
• Curriculum Vitae including a list of any prior publications.
• Contact details of at least two academic or professional referees.
• A GPA report obtained from https://support.scholaro.com/portal/kb/articles/canterbury (those with New Zealand or United States qualifications are not required to use Scholaro).
Does the project come with funding
Yes - NZ$35,000/year,plus fees and $2000 expenses
Final date for receiving applications
30 June 2023, 17:00 pm NZ Time
Keywords
Geospatial
