(Please forward to interested parties)

Dr. Jonathan Greenberg and the Global Environmental Analysis and Remote
Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign are now inviting applications for Doctoral or Master's
work that will start in Fall 2014 for students interested in one or both of
the following topics:

Landscape Level Plant-Climate Interactions: Students should be interested
in applying remote sensing, GIS, and modeling to the following questions at
local to global scales:

- How do plants respond to their climate at multiple scales?
- What will be the future state of vegetated ecosystems under climate
change?
- How do non-climate factors impact the distribution of plants?

Students interested in these topics are encouraged to apply to either the
Department of Geography and GIScience (http://www.geog.illinois.edu/)
and/or the Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology (PEEC,
http://sib.illinois.edu/peec/).  A degree or background in biogeography,
environmental science, ecology, and/or biology is encouraged for
applicants, as well as previous experience in remote sensing and GIS.

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Remote Sensing Science: Students should be interested in developing
advanced remote sensing algorithms, particularly those that leverage high
performance computing and machine learning algorithms.  GEARS is interested
in the following general topics:

- High performance computing applied to remote sensing problems
- Computer vision techniques applied to high spatial resolution remote
sensing imagery
- Fully automated pre-processing techniques including orthorectification
and atmospheric correction
- Radiative transfer modeling and model inversion
- Advanced techniques in hyperspectral, hyperspatial, multitemporal,
thermal, and Lidar data processing

Students interested in these topics are encouraged to apply to either the
Department of Geography and GIScience (http://www.geog.illinois.edu/)
and/or the Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology (PEEC,
http://sib.illinois.edu/peec/).  Previous programming experience and a
background in remote sensing and GIS is highly recommended.

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Prospective graduate students will be expected to develop their own
research goals, and should have curiosity, motivation, and independence.
 Prospective students are encouraged to review the research topics on the
GEARS website (http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/), and email a short
summary of their research interests as well as a CV to Dr. Greenberg
jgrn@illinois.edu before applying to the program. Funding will be available
from a variety of sources, including fellowships, research assistantships,
and teaching assistantships.

-- 
Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
Assistant Professor
Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
259 Computing Applications Building, MC-150
605 East Springfield Avenue
Champaign, IL  61820-6371
Phone: 217-300-1924
http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/
AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn307@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007

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