Opportunities for students interested in M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences and/or Geosciences

University - Geosciences
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Stage
Master of Science
Duration
24 month
Fund
20000 USD
Fee
40 USD
Deadline
Dec 01, 2024
Start
Dec 01, 2025

About the position

Opportunities for students interested in M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences and/or Geosciences. More details are here: https://lnkd.in/gueaRnAe. Students should have a B.S. or B.A. in geosciences or related disciplines with a satisfactory overall GPA of at least 3.00. An IELTS score of 6 is required but GRE is not required. General information about the graduate program and application process is here: https://lnkd.in/g6g9SM-a.

Exam Requirements

IELTS
Listening
6
Reading
6
Writing
6
Speaking
6
Overall
6
TOEFL
Listening
20
Reading
20
Writing
20
Speaking
20
Overall
80

Research Interests

  • Hydrogeology
  • Geological Modelling
  • Remote Sensing
  • Data Assimilation
  • Ecological Modelling

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Students should have a B.S. or B.A. in geosciences or related disciplines with a satisfactory overall GPA of at least 3.00.
  • An IELTS score of 6 is required but GRE is not required
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Dr. Kashif Mahmud

Assistant Professor
Bio

I am an Assistant Professor at Kimbell School of Geosciences and the primary investigator of the "Remote Sensing and Modeling" Lab at Midwestern State University. As a researcher, I describe myself as a modeler and remote sensing expert with both hydrogeology and terrestrial carbon cycle background. I love coding and am passionate about research. I apply a diversity of approaches for the characterization of complex environmental systems. I perform intensive research and analyzed information about the complex hydrogeological behavior of aquifers including heterogeneity, uncertainty, connectivity, flow, and transport processes. I am very enthusiastic to see the data assimilation approach I developed in collaboration with other colleagues from Western Sydney University Australia being applied to other plant manipulative experiments to untangle the impacts of all physiological and biochemical processes on plant growth due to various environmental changes. This would help us to understand how forest ecosystems respond to climate change and human activities. I am also interested to understand the response of the carbon cycle and terrestrial ecosystems to climate and environmental changes. In a recent project, I use data assimilation methods to constrain global carbon cycle sink projections and model carbon-climate feedback. I am also performing geospatial modeling using both satellite and airborne remote sensing data to understand topographic and environmental drivers of vegetation distribution. I plan to use unmanned aircraft system (UAS) remote sensing data to map earth surface features to characterize its properties or understand the changes in ecosystems, hydrology, forestry, and so on. The work would address scientific questions using remote sensing data targeting the dynamics of earth systems due to unexpected disturbances or gradual changes. Moreover, I focus on solving various challenges in remote sensing data by applying stochastic image analysis and geostatistical methods.