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Ph.D. Studentships for September 2002
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The University of St Andrews has been awarded two studentships under the
NERC/EPSRC Environmental Mathematics & Statistics (EMS) Thematic Programme
(see www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/interdisciplinary). The stipend for EMS
studentships is subject to a £4,000 per year enhancement on top of the
standard NERC grant.
One studentship will be supervised by Professors John Harwood and Steve
Buckland (St Andrews), and Dr. Bill Amos (Cambridge). It involves the
development of methods to incorporate information on genetic structure into
spatially-explicit, state-space models of the dynamics of the British grey
seal population. The student will be based at the new Centre for Research
into Ecological and Environmental
Modelling (http://www.creem.st-and.ac.uk/) in St Andrews. The project will
involve some fieldwork at grey seal colonies in Orkney and on the east
coast of the UK, and some genetic analysis, which will be conducted in
Cambridge. More information is available from John Harwood
([log in to unmask], 01334-462629).
The other studentship will be supervised by Dr. Andrew Brierley (St
Andrews) and Dr. Steve Gull (Cambridge). It will seek to develop Bayesian,
Maximum Entropy and Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques for the analysis of
fishery acoustic survey data. Training in both acoustic survey and Bayesian
analysis techniques will be provided, and there will be an opportunity for
participation in field work at sea. More information is available from
Andrew Brierley at the Gatty Marine Lab ([log in to unmask], 01334-463458).
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