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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Graduate Assistantships in Watershed Science, Fluvial Geomorphology, and GIS</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Missouri State University</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">. Assistantships including stipend and full tuition waiver are available for students in the
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Master’s degree program in Geospatial Science</span></strong> in the fields of physical geography (geomorphology, hydrology, and soils), environmental geology (geochemistry and karst), and GIS/remote sensing
at <a href="http://geosciences.missouristate.edu/" title="http://geosciences.missouristate.edu/">
http://geosciences.missouristate.edu/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute</span></strong> and
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Department of Geography, Geology, and Planning</span></strong> have openings for teaching and research assistants for Fall 2016 to complete the following projects (<a href="http://oewri.missouristate.edu/" title="http://oewri.missouristate.edu/">http://oewri.missouristate.edu/</a>):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">1) Assessment of engineered large wood structures to mitigate channel instability in Ozarks Rivers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2) Effect of forest management and prescribed burning on hydrologic processes, sedimentation, and channel morphology in Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri Ozarks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3) Water quality monitoring and BMP load reduction assessments for nutrients, bacteria, sediment, and other nonpoint pollutants in urban and mixed use watersheds using SWAT modeling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">4) Spatial and geostatistical analysis of sediment/geochemical properties on urban- and mining-contaminated floodplains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">5) Ozarks water atlas project- development and analysis of historical imaging data sets to evaluate land use and management effects on hydrological networks and water resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Interested students should contact:
</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bob Pavlowsky, physical geography & fluvial geomorphology: <a href="mailto:Bobpavlowsky@Missouristate.edu" title="mailto:Bobpavlowsky@Missouristate.edu">Bobpavlowsky@Missouristate.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Xiaomin Qiu, GIS & geostatistics: <a href="mailto:Qiu@missouristate.edu" title="mailto:Qiu@missouristate.edu">Qiu@missouristate.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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