<div dir="ltr"><div><b><span style="font-family:bitter">SESYNC-Microsoft Postdoctoral Fellowship - Big Data
and Socio-Environmental Sustainability</span></b><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:bitter">Microsoft has developed two novel environmental datasets and applicants are expected to propose ideas for a data synthesis or modeling project that addresses an important environmental question that makes use of one or more of these assets:</div><div style="font-family:bitter"><br></div><div style="font-family:bitter"><b>Geospatial Socio-Environmental Research</b></div><div style="font-family:bitter"><br></div><div style="font-family:bitter">New land cover data at high spatial and temporal resolution offers the potential to improve understanding of landscape processes and to empower local planners and managers in identifying risks and prioritizing responses. In collaboration with Microsoft, the Chesapeake Conservancy and the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife have pioneered the production of high accuracy, high-resolution (1 meter) land cover datasets for the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound watersheds. </div><div style="font-family:bitter"><br></div><div style="font-family:bitter">Applications are invited for a project that leverages these high-resolution land cover data to address one or more important socio-environmental research questions.</div><div style="font-family:bitter"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:bitter"><b>Project Premonition and Socio-Environmental Systems </b></div><div style="font-family:bitter"><br></div><div style="font-family:bitter">Working with academic partners, Microsoft’s Project Premonition designed mosquito traps with smart cells that can identify mosquito species based on wing movements and then capture those of interest along with key environmental data including time, temperature and light levels (<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-premonition">www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-premonition</a>).</div><div style="font-family:bitter"><br></div><div style="font-family:bitter">Applications are invited for a project that leverages these data. Particular areas of interest include: exploration of host diversity or population dynamics as they relate to land cover and microclimates, human disturbance gradients, and other factors. </div><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:bitter"><br></div><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:bitter"><span style="font-weight:normal">Please consider applying and share the news! </span></div><div style="font-weight:bold;font-family:bitter"><span style="font-weight:normal">More information is posted online at </span><a style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:bitter"><font color="#0000ff">sesync.us/bigdata</font></span></a><span style="font-weight:normal"><font color="#0000ff">.</font></span></div><div style="font-weight:bold"><br></div></div><div style="font-weight:bold"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:cambria,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:cambria,serif">Emily S. Cassidy<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:cambria,serif">Science Communications Coordinator<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:cambria,serif">National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:cambria,serif">University of Maryland<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:cambria,serif">Email: <a href="mailto:ecassidy@sesync.org">ecassidy@sesync.org</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:cambria,serif">Phone: 410-919-4990<span></span></span></p></div>
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