Graduate Assistantships available at NC State University
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The Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management (PRTM) at North Carolina State University invites applications for a doctoral research assistantship beginning in Fall 2018. The successful applicant will work under the supervision of Dr. Lincoln Larson on a study evaluating college students’ beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors related to hunting and wildlife conservation. This research project is sponsored by the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies’ Multistate Conservation Grant Program (AFWA) as part of the organization’s ongoing efforts to enhance hunter recruitment/retention and conservation. Working with collaborators at NC State, the candidate will have a unique opportunity to help coordinate a team of established researchers and practitioners from 26 public universities and state wildlife agencies across all regions of the United States. Click here for more information about the project and collaborators.
The College of Natural Resources (CNR) at North Carolina State University invites applications for 1 M.S.-level and 1 Ph.D. assistantship beginning in Fall 2018 (start dates are negotiable). The successful applicants will work under the supervision of Dr. Caren Cooper (Dept. of Foresty and Environmental Resources & NC Museum of Natural Sciences) and Dr. Lincoln Larson (Dept. of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management) to pursue degrees in Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Biology, Natural Resources, or related field. Assistantships are supported by an NSF-AISL project investigating participant dynamics, coordinated volunteer management, and associated outcomes across a broad landscape of citizen science projects. The 5-year study will focus on SciStarter, the largest repository of citizen science projects in the world, using embedded assessments and other techniques to increase the capacity of citizen science projects to achieve scientific, learning, and conservation goals. Project outputs will advance citizen science as a coordinated and collaborative discipline and will help to foster optimal recruitment and retention of citizen scientists – including those currently under-represented in the STEM fields.
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