Graduate Assistantship in Industrial Ecology and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Forest Bioproducts, University of Maine, USA
Graduate Research Assistantship in Industrial Ecology and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Forest Bioproducts Beginning Sept. 2009
Location: University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
Source: Research Assistantship with annual stipend is available at the School of Forest Resources of the University of Maine for a student of any academic background (e.g. natural science, forestry, agriculture or chemical or environmental engineering or economics, industrial and systems engineering ). This is only open to students who are interested to pursue graduate studies at masters or PhD level in the area of environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and industrial ecology of forest bio-products (e.g. bio-fuels, bio-chemicals). A background in LCA, materials flow analysis (MFA) or industrial ecology is not required, but applicant should be willing to learn the fundamental concepts/principles to pursue this challenging research in sustainability science. Applicant should have or develop good analytical and, database skills, knowledge of basic statistics and probability and be willing to learn new software packages (e.g. SIMAPRO, GABI, STELLA, Powersim). It is also desirable that he/she has taken or will take a course in systems dynamics, modeling and simulation.
