Master’s Opportunities in Spatial Analysis in Portugal

This appointment is hosted by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), a multidisciplinary research environment focused on ocean, estuarine, riverine, and watershed systems in support of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of Defense. The project centers on optimizing the Corps Shoaling Analysis Tool (CSAT), a geospatial application that uses a large archive of hydrographic surveys to quantify sediment accumulation acros...

The LEGASYS Lab at Utah State University is recruiting motivated MS and PhD students for a UtahView-funded graduate research project on historical land-use and landscape changes across Utah. The project brings together remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) . Students will work with historical aerial photography and satellite imagery, applying geospatial programming and spatial analysis to investigate how landscapes have changed over ...

This ORISE opportunity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention places a participant in the Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Atlanta, Georgia. The project focuses on CDC’s suite of online GIS and mapping tools for chronic disease surveillance, including the Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke , Local Trends Dashboard , Map Widget , Quick Maps , Map ...

This fellowship places a student within the U.S. Geological Survey’s Conventional Geothermal Assessments Task, part of the Energy Resources Program and affiliated with the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center. The work is based in a multidisciplinary USGS research environment connected to offices in multiple western U.S. locations, with the center headquartered at Moffett Field, California. The project focuses on compiling and analyzing spatial datasets to support mapping and...

Illinois State University is seeking graduate students for research in urban animal cognition, wildlife behavior, movement ecology, and human-wildlife interactions . The research group led by Dr. Lauren Stanton examines how animals perceive, learn about, and respond to human-altered environments, with particular interest in individual differences, early-life experience, social learning, cultural transmission, and strategies for coexistence between people and urban wildlife. Both openings are con...

This research opportunity focuses on New World Screwworm modeling and surveillance within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in Fort Collins, Colorado. The project brings students into a collaborative environment with veterinary medical officers, statisticians, economists, entomologists, and ecologists working across epidemiology, risk analysis, disease modeling, economic evaluation, and surveillance. The selected participant will contribute t...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Fire Protection Engineering Department is seeking a temporary graduate research assistant to join a research team working on probabilistic fire risk assessment . The project focuses on developing a Probabilistic Framework for Fire Risk Assessment using fire spread models in FireBench , with an emphasis on wildfire risk modeling, uncertainty-aware analysis, and computational methods for understanding fire behavior. The role is research-oriented and technical, bri...