Two Graduate Opportunities in Arctic Endangered Species Research
For more information on the Graduate Opportunities in Arctic Endangered
Species Research please contact:
Dr. Michael A.D. Ferguson
Nunavut Wildlife Service
Government of Nunavut
Pond Inlet, NU X0A 0S0
Canada
Phone: 867/899-8876
Fax: 867/899-8024
E-mail: baffbio [at] nunanet.com, or
Dr. Paul Treitz
Department of Geography
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
Canada
Phone: 613/533-6448
Fax: 613/533-6122
Email: pt6 [at] qsilver.queensu.ca
Graduate Student Opportunities in Remote Sensing and Indigenous
Knowledge of the Habitats and Population Ecology of an Endangered
Species in the Canadian High Arctic
Dr. Michael A.D. Ferguson of the Nunavut Wildlife Service and Dr. Paul
Treitz of Queen's University are seeking two graduate students to join
an interdisciplinary research program. The primary goal of this program
is to enhance the long-term conservation of endangered Peary caribou and
their habitats on Canada's high Arctic islands. Inuit of Resolute Bay
are active participants in the program.
We are seeking two students to work on this project to start by
September-October 2002 (full registration as students by January 2003):
As part of this interdisciplinary team, each selected student will
concentrate on one of the following areas:
- Remote sensing of winter habitats of Peary caribou at the landscape
scale.
- Inuit qaujimajatuqangit (indigenous knowledge) of historical and
current distributions and ecology of Peary caribou and muskoxen.
Both aspects of this project have interesting challenges and
opportunities for students interested in wildlife habitat and foraging
ecology, Arctic and landscape ecology, scaling issues, global/climate
change, interdisciplinary studies, endangered species conservation and
management, and/or cross-cultural utilization of knowledge.
The candidates will be co-supervised by Drs. M. Ferguson and P. Treitz.
Both students should be mature and highly motivated.
This project is currently funded by the Canadian Wildlife Service's
Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk, Department of
Sustainable Development (DSD) of the Government of Nunavut, and Parks
Canada.
If interested, please send a cover letter, resume, statement of research
interests (1-2 pages), copy of transcripts, confirmation of any
financial awards if any, and names and addresses of three references to:
For further information, please refer to the attached document, or
contact:
Dr. Michael A.D. Ferguson
Nunavut Wildlife Service
Government of Nunavut
Pond Inlet, NU X0A 0S0
Canada
Phone: 867-899-8876
Fax: 867-899-8024
E-mail: baffbio [at] nunanet.com, or
Dr. Paul Treitz
Department of Geography
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6
Canada
Phone: 613-533-6448
Fax: 613-533-6122
Email: pt6 [at] qsilver.queensu.ca
For more information about the Department of Geography and the School of
Graduate Studies and Research at Queen’s University, please refer to the
following:
http://www.geog.queensu.ca
http://www.queensu.ca/sgsr