Student Opportunities

Specific Opportunities

MSc Position Available (Canadian Students-only)

I am looking to hire an MSc student to work on either of the following two projects.

  1. Big data for studying impacts of outdoor recreation on wildlife
  2. Understanding home-working trends using mobile-phone data

Please send Dr Long an email to express interest in either of these topics.

General Information

We are always interested in recruiting talented and engaged students (all levels) to join the Geospatial lab. Fully funded positions (~30k/year MSc, ~32k/year PhD) are  available for domestic (Canadian) students, and our department will strongly support further scholarship (e.g., SSHRC, NSERC, OGS) applications. Domestic applicants are  encouraged to contact me about positions in the winter months (Nov-Mar) prior to the September start-date to as this is when I try to fill most positions. International students are welcome to apply, especially if they have access to scholarships from their home country, and are required to go through an internal department competition for international student positions. I support a maximum of 1 international applicant to our departmental competition in any year (deadline for application to internal competition is late January, please get in touch in Nov-Dec of the previous year).

I expect all interested students students to have strong quantitative skills (e.g., statistics, GIS, spatial analysis) along with an ability to code (i.e., R or Python).

If you are interested in pursuing a graduate studies (MSc or PhD) in the Geospatial lab, please send me an email with a copy of your CV, unofficial transcripts (or list of relevant courses), and a sample of your written work (Project/Thesis). All graduate positions remain open until filled.

 

Undergraduate Research Internships

Summer research internships in the Geospatial Lab are available for undergraduate students. These positions are FUNDED (~$9000) 16-week posistions that occur between May-August of any given year. To discuss opportunities for undergraduate research positions please email Dr Long with a copy of your CV, unofficial transcripts, and general areas of interest. Deadline to apply is FEBRUARY 28, 2024. More info on the program here: https://www.ssc.uwo.ca/research/usri.html

2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Projects (potential)

  1. Long Point Coyote Project - Fieldwork, supporting camera trap data colleciton and analysis
  2. ParkSeek - using big data to study park accessibility
  3. HomeWork - changes in home-based work before, during, after COVID-19 from big data