Quantitative Human Dimensions of Wildlife – Determining use, economic impacts and value of Game Lands in North Carolina: NC State University.

School: NC State University

Location: Raleigh, NC

Job Category: Graduate Assistantships

Salary: ~$20,000/yr, tuition, health insurance

Start Date: 08/15/2017

Last Date to Apply: 10/31/2016

 

Description:

    The Ph.D. student will lead a unique state wide project to estimate and evaluate the use and value of Game Lands in North Carolina. The student will integrate multiple data sources (e.g., camera traps, in-person surveys, online surveys) to estimate game land use while working closely with state agency and interdisciplinary team of researchers (e.g., biologists, economists, sociologists, statisticians) to understand the overall market and non-market value of game lands. Primary advisors will be Drs. Peterson and Pacifici in the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation, Biology Program. The student will have opportunities to explore their own research questions in conjunction with the project.

 

Qualifications:

    M.S. degree in Wildlife Biology, Sociology, Statistics or related fields. Strong quantitative skills, interests in hierarchical modeling, strong interpersonal skills. Experience with R and BUGS (i.e. WinBUGS, OpenBUGS, JAGS) programming languages preferred. For more information please contact: Nils Peterson (nils_peterson@ncsu.edu).