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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dr. Xiangming Xiao’s group is seeking one highly motivated graduate student to join the interdisciplinary research team at the Center for Earth Observation and Modeling (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue"><a href="http://www.eomf.ou.edu">http://www.eomf.ou.edu</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">),
University of Oklahoma.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The candidates could start in fall semester, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">GRA Position #1<span style="color:black">
</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">(Land Cover and Land Use Change, Agriculture). The candidate will study land cover and land use changes and their impacts on climate, water resources and biogeochemistry
in the Southern Great Plains (Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas), and Louisiana, USA, with a focus on forests, grasslands and croplands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Graduate Program</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
<span style="color:black">Candidates may apply for Ph.D. graduate program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA. See
</span><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://mpbio.ou.edu">http://mpbio.ou.edu</a>
</span><span style="color:black">and </span><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.ou.edu/eeb/">http://www.ou.edu/eeb/</a>
</span><span style="color:black">for more information on the graduate study program.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Qualification: </span>
</b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Candidates need to have a B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in biology, ecology, geography, natural resources, forestry, agriculture, environmental science, Earth System science, statistics,
mathematics, data science, and computer science. Candidates need to have work experience in one or more areas: in-situ data collection, remote sensing, GIS, biogeochemical models, computer programming language (e.g., Python, JavaScript, IDL, C++, C), and statistic
software (e.g., R, Matlab). Good communication and writing skills are needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Financial Support</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:<span style="color:black"> The successful candidates will be supported with a 12-month Graduate Research
Assistantship (GRA) stipend (US$2,305 per month) and annual tuition. The financial support is renewable annually dependent upon the project progress, candidate’s performance and fund availability. These positions are currently supported by research grants
from NSF, NASA and USDA over the period of 2020-2024. We anticipate that candidates with master’s degree will graduate with Ph.D. in four years, and candidates with a bachelor's degree will graduate with Ph.D. in six years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contact Person</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
<span style="color:black">Prof. Xiangming Xiao (</span><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:xiangming.xiao@ou.edu">xiangming.xiao@ou.edu</a></span><span style="color:black">) at the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman,
Oklahoma, 73019, USA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Posted Date</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">: May 5, 2021</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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