Month: February 2016

Internship (and Employment) Opportunities at U.S. Census Bureau

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The Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau has paid internship opportunities for students in geography and related fields. We are looking for well-qualified people with training in geographic information systems, population geography or demography, remote sensing/satellite image analysis, and urban geography, among other specialties.  Interns will work on projects related to international and domestic … Read more

Graduate Assistantship in GIScience at Central Michigan University

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The Department of Geography at Central Michigan University has 1 Research Assistant Position for the M.S. program in Geographic Information Sciences. The deadline for applications is March 15th, 2016. The RA position will provide tuition and stipend for 1 calendar year (12-months), with additional funding possible after 1 year. Several Teaching Assistant Positions (9-month) are … Read more

United Nations internships

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Three new internships with the UN-SPIDER Bonn office. Application deadline is the 4th of March. see: http://www.un-spider.org/about/jobs A good opportunity to better understand the international aid ‘disaster circus’ community and the workings of: http://disasterscharter.org

GIScience 2016 Workshop on Analysis of Movement Data

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The past 10-15 years have seen a dramatic improvement of positioning technologies, which led to massive volumes of tracking data about virtually any object that moves, in a multitude of application domains. Consequently, many new methods for these data have been developed, and computational movement analysis has evolved as an important stream of research in … Read more

TWS Open Position: Cartographic Designer

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The Wilderness Society is looking for Cartographic Designer.  The individual in this position will work closely with our national campaigns, philanthropy and GIS staff. The Cartographic Designer will be responsible for creating public-facing cartographic designs that convey our conservation stories and leading the expansion of this work for the organization. Visual design work will require the integration … Read more

NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center (www.stcenter.net) offers summer fellowship opportunities to undergraduates

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NSF REU Summer Fellow Opportunity 7 weeks during June to August, 2016 The NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center (STC) is looking for six undergraduate research assistants to serve as NSF REU Summer Fellows in 2016. Two students will work at George Mason University Site (Fairfax, VA), two at Harvard University site (Cambridge, MA) and two at … Read more