Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Economics and Trade Policy California Institute of Technology in United States

Cornell University’s Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment is recruiting a Postdoctoral Associate for the multi-institutional Grassland Futures project. This postdoctoral role focuses on the synthesis and pathways component of a North American initiative studying the drivers of grassland conversion across the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. The successful candidate will work with an interdisciplinary team spanning academia, NGOs, and practitioner organizations suc...

North Carolina State University is advertising a fully funded PhD Research Assistantship in Spatial Modeling of Forest Growth & Resource Economics within the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. The project sits at the intersection of quantitative forestry , forest biometrics , remote sensing , GIS , resource economics , and spatial modeling . The selected student will study how site-specific silvicultural interventions—especially fertilization and understory vegetation control—af...

PhD opportunity in Data Centers and the Southern Energy Buildout at the Department of Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA). The project examines data center expansion, electricity cost, energy transition, and energy justice in Central Appalachia and the Tennessee Valley Authority service territory. The student will work as a graduate research assistant with Dr. Gabe Schwartzman and Dr. Nikki Luke , in collaboration with Dr. Kristin Phillips and Dr. Jola Ajibade ...

#MS or #PhD opportunity at the University of Washington , School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS), Seattle, USA, in the Seafood Globalization Lab . The project focuses on aquatic food trade , trade policy , and detecting/deterring IUU (illegal, unreported, and unregulated) fishery imports . The student will work on seafood trade data, supply chain risk, and the effectiveness of import-control policies, including the U.S. Seafood Import Monitoring Program. This opening emphasizes quantitati...

Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowships in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley support advanced research for the 2027–2028 academic year. The fellowship is designed for scholars working on natural resource economics , political economy , and related areas of environmental resources . The program welcomes applicants from any social science discipline, as well as related professional fields such as law and planning . The strongest proposals a...