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Subject:        PostDoc positions available: USGS Center of Excellence for
Geospatial Information Science
Date:   Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:22:55 -0500
From:   Jane Read <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Angela Cope <[log in to unmask]>



Posted to the UCGIS listserv on behalf of Lynn Usery
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Job announcement:

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center of Excellence for Geospatial
Information Science (CEGIS) has two post doctoral appointments available
in the Rolla, Missouri office. The appointments must be filled through
the National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship program. For
application instructions, forms, and process, interested candidates
should access the NRC web site at:

http://www7.nationalacademies.org/rap/Cover_Page_Application_Information_links.html


The specific opportunity is posted at:

http://nrc58.nas.edu/pgasurvey/data/aobooks/rapbooks.asp?mode=rodetail&roid=42147&pcd=906102



The description of the announcement follows.


USGS is supporting the development of a number of research projects in
geospatial information science through the Center of Excellence for
Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS). Several Research Associates will
be hired to support the CEGIS mission, which includes a series of broad
goals to address specific questions of relevance to the science mission
of the USGS.

GIScience includes the science behind the traditional mapping
disciplines of surveying, aerial photographic interpretation,
photogrammetry, remote sensing, and cartography. It also encompasses a
broader scope of issues related to the modeling and representation of
geographic data, phenomena, and processes; human cognition of geographic
information; the analysis and use of uncertainty; spatial analysis and
modeling, including geographic information systems (GIS); scale
sensitivities; geographic ontologies; visualization; and other similar
topics.

Specific topics currently being investigated by CEGIS researchers
include (1) information fusion, visualization, and ontology for The
National Map, specifically addressing automated data integration and
generalization; (2) analyzing and developing rapid map projection for
large raster datasets over the Web using parallel and grid computing;
and (3) fractal and variogram methods to analyze scale and resolution
effects on geospatial data.

Associates may propose work complementing the currently ongoing research
or address the broader research goals and questions of GIScience. All
areas of this research opportunity will support theoretical and
technical development. The Associate will be responsible for supporting
the principal investigator with the theoretical development and
supervising the computer implementation of the theory by a team of
programmers and technicians. Associates are expected to develop their
own approaches to both theoretical developments and implementation
strategies to provide breadth to the scientific endeavor. Publication of
results in peer-reviewed journals is considered a part of the
responsibilities of the project team including Associates.





E. Lynn Usery
Research Geographer
Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science
U.S. Geological Survey
1400 Independence Rd.
Rolla, MO  65401-2502

Ph.  573-308-3837
Fax 573-308-3652
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