Ph.D. Position – Agriculture and ecosystem services in the western U.S. A Ph.D. position is available to join a trans-disciplinary team studying how agricultural lands contribute to biodiversity and ecosystem services in the American West. In particular, the student will use remote sensing to measure land use change and intensification, and a variety of modeling techniques to measure ecosystem services provisioning from different land uses and the trade-offs among ecosystem services. One particular area of emphasis will be mesic resources, i.e. wetlands, riparian zones and wet meadows, because these are critical keystone resources for agricultural production, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in the West. Another potential area of emphasis will be to develop new metrics from remote sensing and other data sources (U.S. census, stream gauges, biodiversity data, or social science surveys) to measure the outcomes of agricultural easements in terms of protecting farmlands and the ecosystem services that they provide.
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