MS in Geoscience Program at UNCW

The Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of North Carolina Wilmington is recruiting students to enroll in the MS in Geoscience program for Fall 2018. The MS Geoscience is an exciting, applied research program with three tracks (geology, earth processes, and geospatial science) and opportunities for personalizing the program to suit your career goals and research interests. The program focuses on linking classroom experience with hands-on fieldwork in a multitude of geographic settings and sub-disciplinary or interdisciplinary frameworks. This program has significant community engagement and collaborations including a thriving Internship Program with local, regional and federal partners where you can gain experience and apply your academic training. UNCW's MS in Geoscience is intellectually challenging and rewarding, with collaborative projects among students, faculty and community partners. Being on the Atlantic coast, there is plenty of opportunity to study coastal environments and resilience issues, yet our diverse faculty conduct research around the world!

Competitive funding in the form of graduate teaching or research assistantships are available. Applications are evaluated as soon as they are submitted so applicants are encouraged to apply by March 1^st with a final deadline of April 15^th deadline. Information about the MS Geoscience program can be found here: https://uncw.edu//msgeoscience/index.html 

For more information about UNCW, feel free to peruse our web site: www.uncw.edu. For questions or additional information, please feel free to contact Dr. Joanne Halls, Graduate Coordinator, at hallsj@uncw.edu

UndocuTERP Student Training

MSEC Summer Study Abroad

Maryland Social Entrepreneur Corps

Empowering Communities through Social Innovation

Looking for a meaningful way to spend your summer living and working in another country? Interested in becoming a changemaker and discovering how social entrepreneurship can bring lasting improvement to people’s lives?

Join the 2018 Maryland Social Entrepreneur Corps (MSEC), a unique study and internship program abroad for undergraduate and graduate students where you will spend your summer in a Latin American country observing, creating and implementing sustainable business solutions to poverty-related challenges. Prior to departure, you will participate in a spring course at UMD (meets once a week from late March through early May) that introduces you to the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship and its potential to transform communities while preparing you for your summer fieldwork. You will then spend eight weeks immersed in your destination country while learning about social entrepreneurship through consulting with local businesses and implementing development projects with rural populations. Upon returning to campus, you’ll complete a reflection course to apply the skills learned abroad to your future coursework, career and your own entrepreneurial ideas.

Program Highlights:

• Eight-week Social Entrepreneurship Summer Internship Abroad
• Choose From Two Beautiful Locations:
• Ecuador (May 27 - July 20, 2018)
• Guatemala (May 20 - July 13, 2018)
• Earn 9 UMD Credits!
• Open to All Majors
• Undergraduate and Graduate Students Welcome
• Scholarships Available for Every Participant!
• Learn Adaptive Leadership, Collaborative Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation Design and Consulting Skills
• Make a Direct and Measurable Contribution to Rural Development Work in Latin America Focused on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Develop Lasting Connections with Homestay Families
• Learn or Improve your Spanish Language Skills

Application Deadline: March 1st 2018

MSEC Information Sessions:

February 13th: 4:00 - 5:00 pm: Education Abroad (1102 HJ Patterson Hall)

February 19th: 1:00 - 2:00 pm: Career Center (3100 Hornbake, Southwing)

February 22nd: 5:00 - 6:00 pm: Education Abroad (1st Floor Atrium, HJ Patterson Hall)

February 28th: 5:00 - 6:00 pm: Education Abroad (1102 HJ Patterson Hall)

Check out TedTalk by Greg Van Kirk, co-founder of Community Empowerment Solutions, UMD’s partner organization for MSEC program

Learn more about the development projects you will be working on while abroad

Questions? Contact Jennifer Precht (jprecht@umd.edu (301) 405-5747 ) or Rose Malone rmalone3@umd.edu or visit http://ter.ps/msec

Scholarship for GIS or Geography Student!

The School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation is offering one $1000 scholarship to a Geography or GIS student interested in attending ARCH483: Archaeology and Architecture in the Shadow of Vesuvius, this summer in Italy. The course uses LiDAR technology in archaeology and would be a great supporting sequence option for any of our majors.

An informational meeting will be held Wednesday, February 14th at 1:00-2:00 PM in the Great Space of the Architecture Building. Students who are interested but who cannot make the meeting can contact Dr. Lindley Vann (vann@umd.edu) for a separate appointment or more information.

More about the course: "The curriculum focuses on the use of both the EDM and LiDAR, and the post-processing necessary to produced finished drawings suitable for publication, all of this offered in the setting of the ancient Roman city and the houses and villas of the Vesuvian region.  I should add that the course is only one aspect of a larger archaeological project, RAS (Restoring Ancient Stabiae) that the School has led for the part decade.  It's a very international group with archaeological teams from Russia, Bulgaria, and other American and Canadian universities.  Our faculty for the course are from Maryland, Middlebury, Southwestern, and Cornell."

NOAA Cartographer Positions

If you are graduating this year or have graduated in the past 2 years, NOAA may have some job positions for you!

NOAA's Marine Chart Division (MCD) has announced several cartographer positions that are available for Pathway positions (candidates that will graduate in May, 2018 or have graduated in the past two years) and Career positions (candidates that graduated prior to May, 2016).

Link for R0022377 (Pathways):

 NOS-OCS-2018-0008: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/491178200

Links for R0022399 (Career):

NOS-OCS-2018-0007:  https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/491177400

Paid Undergraduate Research Opportunity

Join the University of Central Florida for the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site "Preparing the Next Generation of Scholars through Community GIS and Citizen Science." This program offers fully funded summer research experiences for at least 8 undergraduate students in Belize for 5 weeks and Orlando for two weeks. The program is open to all U.S. students and runs June 25-August 10, 2018. We are interdisciplinary in nature emphasizing community GIS and citizen science through mixed methods, including sketch mapping, mobile mapping applications, in-depth interviews, GIS, and spatial analysis.

Research opportunities: Students will work in one of three research directions with community partners and mentors from University of Central Florida, University of Belize, Georgia State University, The Hopkins Belize Village Council, and The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems Program:

Research Direction 1: Mapping disparities in flooding & disaster management
Research Direction 2: Mapping marine debris & mitigating impacts on coastal communities
Research Direction 3: Mapping island resiliency with drones and spatial storytelling (new in 2018 with additional NSF funding)

Compensation: Each REU student will receive a competitive funding package, including a $3500 research stipend, a meal allowance, free shared housing in Belize and Orlando, up to $750 in travel support to/from the REU Site, up to $750 for post-REU conference travel, and 2 research methods books.

Application process: The priority application deadline is Friday, March 2nd @ 5 PM EST. Complete program information and application instructions can be found at http://www.citizensciencegis.org/ucf-reu-site/.

Student reflections from the field: "Challenging, emotional, fun, collaborative, thought-provoking, interesting, real-life, and eye-opening." These are some of the words used by students to describe our previous research program. Check out a short video from our REU fieldwork at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5zSFKw7F24&feature=youtu.be

Questions can be directed to:

Dr. Timothy Hawthorne: Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Systems at University of Central Florida
timothy.hawthorne@ucf.edu
phone: 407.823.1030

Dr. Christy Visaggi: Co-Principal Investigator, Lecturer of Geosciences at Georgia State University
cvisaggi@gsu.edu
phone: 404.413.5755

They're hosting a Facebook Live Event "Secrets to an Awesome Citizen Science GIS REU Application" on Tuesday, February 20 @ 2 pm EST. Join Dr. Hawthorne (REU PI), Dr. Hannah Torres (REU Faculty Mentor), and Lain Graham (REU Senior Research Mentor) as they give away the secrets to a successful application to our National Science Foundation (NSF) #REU Site in Orlando and Belize. Join the discussion at https://www.facebook.com/citizensciencegis

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More information can be found these websites!
http://www.citizensciencegis.org/ucf-reu-site
https://www.facebook.com/citizensciencegis
https://twitter.com/citizen_gis
https://vimeo.com/citizensciencegis
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6_1giYaXQ6mcalJH-kMuw

CMNS LEP Info Sessions

Interested in a limited enrollment program (LEP) major within the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS)? Come to one of their information sessions on the following dates:

Feb 28- 2:00 pm

March 13- 11:00 am

March 29- 3:00 pm

April 9- 3:00 pm

All sessions will be held in Symons 2312