Jobs

GIS Technical Assistant for Spring Course
 
 Wanted: GIS-savvy technical assistant for Spring extension course on Sustainable Tourism (HDCE ENVR E-118B).
 Requires basic competence with ArcInfo or QGIS.
 Import, edit and display maps/databases, perform basic analyses (overlay, select, buffer, recode, etc)
 Some intial work during November and December (before / after Exams) (10-20 hours?);
 Intensive work in January 2018 ( 40-80 hrs? ) in preparation for Jan 23 class start;

Download PDF Announcement  -  The College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a visiting part-time faculty position to teach one course, ENVS 247 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, during the Spring 2018 semester to begin in January 2018. This course is an essential component of the multidisciplinary Environmental Studies (ENVS) major and minor curriculum.

The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health invites applications for a Postdoctoral Data Scientist position to work on large scale environmental health and mobile health geospatial data. The position will involve close scientific collaboration with Drs. Peter James, Antonella Zanobetti, and Corwin Zigler. There will also be ample opportunities to interact with the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (http://www.gis.harvard.edu/).

We are looking for up to 65 people to help us stay organized throughout the conference and ensure all workshops, presentations, and events run smoothly. Volunteers will be asked to attend a two hour training session and work a minimum of 12 hours throughout the conference. In exchange for their time, volunteers will have their registration fee reduced to $50 dollars (food coverage).

The Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the School of Architecture and Planning, MIT is seeking a full-time staff person to assist with various GIS, data visualization and graphics training needs of the department.  The staff/specialist will assist faculty and students across the department with GIS, Data Visualization, graphics and media related projects.

The Economics Department at Tufts University (Medford, MA) is seeking a short run RA to assist with the development of maps to visualize spatial data on electricity in Africa. Responsibilities will include combining data sources, creating maps to visualize the resulting datasets, formatting maps at different spatial scales. Minimal data manipulation / no data analysis required. The main work will involve map creation from existing data files. Payment will be hourly and the job is expected to last approximately two weeks part time or one week full time between June 12 and June 22.

1947 Partition of British India: Oral Histories Project
Job Description

This summer, the regional NPS archaeology program is offering an internship to interested students through the Geoscientists-in-the Park Program .

The basic details include:

7 weeks during June to August, 2017

The NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center (STC) is looking for 4 - 6 undergraduate research assistants to serve as NSF REU Summer Fellows in 2017. They will potentially work at George Mason University Site (Fairfax, VA), Harvard University site (Cambridge, MA), or University of California, Santa Barbara site (Santa Barbara, CA) depends on funding availability from NSF.

NSF RET Fellow Opportunity

 June, 2017 - July, 2017