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The University of Essex in the UK is offering a Postgraduate Research Studentship entitled: Environmental Mathematics: Remote Sensing of Ocean Productivity. A description of the studentship and how to apply can be found on the University of Essex homepage at http://www.essex.ac.uk/bs/pgrad/currentsships.htm The work in this project will involve a mixture of computer programming, maths, statistics and biology. The student, a competent mathematician/statistician, will obtain relevant background knowledge by attending courses at Essex on Aquatic Ecology and The Open Sea. By the end of the three years the student will have experience in modeling oceanographic processes and manipulating oceanographic data sets. Although based in the Departments of Mathematics and Biological Sciences at the University of Essex, the student will spend six weeks, in each of years 1 and 2, working at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The research will be supervised by Prof. Richard Geider (Biological Sciences at Essex) and Dr Graham Upton (Maths at Essex). It will be co-supervised by Prof. Trevor Platt (FRS) and Prof. Shubha Sathyendranath, both at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. There will also be an opportunity for the student to participate on an oceanographic research cruise, although such participation is not a requirement of the studentship. For further information contact Richard Geider at geider@essex.ac.uk or Graham Upton at gupton@essex.ac.uk |
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