Hello Geographers and Sustainers,

Find below some opportunities to do research with faculty in our Department. If you want more information on the position please contact the project lead.

Take advantage of these opportunities!
Mayra-

Project Lead Email Brief Project Description General Skills/Knowlege Required
Dr. Nicholas Nagle [log in to unmask]"}" class="ContentPasted0"> [log in to unmask] Basic Statistics of forest and landscape in South Texas. Landscape differences between areas with access and no access. GEOG 415 or similar
Dr. Nicholas Nagle [log in to unmask]"}" class="ContentPasted0"> [log in to unmask] Via Dr. Shefner in Sociology --> Human Geography, social justice, and community organization research opportunities through CURCI.
Dr. Liem Tran [log in to unmask]"}" class="ContentPasted0"> [log in to unmask] Creating Dashboards on opioid-related issues Some GIS knowledge
Dr. Dimitris Herrera (with Hyun Kim) [log in to unmask]"}" class="ContentPasted0"> [log in to unmask] Climate change and transportation infrastructure in Tennessee Basic statistics and programming skills (e.g., Python, R, Matlab)
Dr. Hyun Kim [log in to unmask]"}" class="ContentPasted0"> [log in to unmask] Eviction analysis and modeling GIS / census data/ GEOG 415
Dr. Gabe Schwartzman [log in to unmask]"}" class="ContentPasted0"> [log in to unmask] Political ecology of the collapse of the coal industry --> what happens to environmental reclamation obligations when the coal industry goes bankrupt? human geography, financial geography research, storymapping existing coal mine reclamation liabilities in TN some GIS skills - storymapping familiarly a plus
Dr. Qiusheng Wu [log in to unmask]"}" class="ContentPasted0"> [log in to unmask] Paid research assistantship to working on GIS and remote sensing projects for TennesseeView https://tnview.utk.edu GIS and remote sensing skills. Programming skills would be a plus
Dr. Hannah Herrero [log in to unmask]"}" class="ContentPasted0"> [log in to unmask] Identifying brown fields to be converted to community agriculture plots in Nairobi. GIS and RS skills.


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Mayra A. Román-Rivera, PhD (she/her)

Lecturer 

Department of Geography

The University of Tennessee

Burchfiel Geography Building

 

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