<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear colleagues, </span><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">



















<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Please share this 4 year PhD opportunity with
potentially interested candidates: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(103,94,208)"><a href="https://t.co/5rR2bqgOZ9"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://tinyurl.com/y9yv8oec</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Interested students should lodge an Expression
of Interest by <b>20 July 2018</b>
at the following link: </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/">https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> and pick this project:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/scientia-phd-scholarships/modeling-stepping-stones-cane-toad-invasion-network-analysis">https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/scientia-phd-scholarships/modeling-stepping-stones-cane-toad-invasion-network-analysis</a><span></span></span></u></p>





</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>The project</b>: </font><span style="font-family:Arial">In the face of global environmental change and during Earth’s “sixth mass extinction”, maintaining or enhancing landscape ‘connectivity’- the degree to which the landscape facilitates or impedes movement, has been widely advocated as a key conservation tool. Connectivity is not always beneficial</span><b style="font-family:Arial"> </b><span style="font-family:Arial">as it can also aid in the spread of disease, pollution and invasive species.<span> </span><u>This project will integrate complex network modelling using graph theory and time-series of habitat networks from satellite data to identify which areas have facilitated the infamous cane toad invasion in arid Australia and thus identify areas that should be targeted to prevent further range expansion.</u></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Supervisory team</b>: The project will be supervised by<span> </span><a href="http://www.mirela-tulbure.com/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Dr Mirela Tulbure</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.ecosystem.unsw.edu.au/people/david-keith" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Professor David Keith</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/mike-letnic" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Associate Professor Mike Letnic</a>. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif"><b>The candidate</b>:</font><font face="Arial"><font style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px"> </font><font color="#222222" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px">We are looking for an outstanding graduate with a strong academic record including Honours Class I or equivalent. </font></font><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Domestic or international candidates</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial"> with a background in modelling and analysing large, spatially explicit data sets a</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial">nd</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial"><span> </span>coding skills in Python and/or R<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial">are</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial">encouraged to apply</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial">.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style="font-family:Arial">Scholarship and application process</b><font color="#222222" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:13px">: The project is funded through a prestigious Sciential PhD Scholarship at the University of New South Wales, one of Australia’s leading research universities. This includes </span></font><font color="#222222" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:13px">a stipend of<span> </span><b>$40,000 per year for four years and up to $10,000 each year for career development</b>, as well as mentoring, several research opportunities and parental leave. </span></font><font color="#222222" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:13px">For more information about the scholarship, please see</span></font><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span><a href="https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial">https://www.2025.unsw.edu.<wbr>au/apply</a><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial">and the FAQ page (</span><a href="https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/unsw-scientia-phd-scholarships-faqs" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial">https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/<wbr>apply/unsw-scientia-phd-<wbr>scholarships-faqs</a><span style="font-family:Arial">). You would be based at UNSW Kensington campus, in the eastern suburbs of beautiful Sydney.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">More information</b><font color="#222222">: Interested candidates should contact Dr. Mirela Tulbure (</font><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:Mirela.Tulbure@unsw.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Mirela.Tulbure@unsw.edu</a><u>.au</u></font><font color="#222222">)</font></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div>