Doctoral student in Forest Planning with focus on uncertainty

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Department of Forest Resource Management at SLU, Umeå
The Department conducts research and teaching within the areas of Forest Planning, Forest Remote Sensing, Forest Inventory and Sampling, Mathematical Statistics Applied to Forest Sciences and Landscape Studies. The Department is responsible for several environmental monitoring and assessment programs including the Swedish National Forest Inventory, National Inventory of Landscapes in Sweden, Terrestrial Habitat Monitoring and the Butterfly and Bumblebee Inventory. Research at the Department is focused on multilateral cooperation combining expertise from our many research groups. This gives unique possibilities for creating holistic solutions for the sustainable use of natural resources. The Department has approximately 100 employees. For more information visit www.slu.se/srh

Duties
We are looking for a person that within the context of a PhD project will develop methods for forest planning, including how to handle different aspects of uncertainty in the forest planning process. Forest planning is the process towards decisions how to treat the forest so that the management goals of the forest owner, stake holder or society are obtained. The information normally available for planning, like for instance information on the condition of the forest or the resources required for different actions, is often not known with full certainty. Yet decisions have to be made how to manage the forest, both from a short term perspective as well as how to obtain strategic sustainable goals. The aim of the project is to develop new methods how to handle uncertainty in the forest planning and decision processes, for example the uncertainty in the information that has been collected during forest inventories or remote sensing. These new methods are to be implemented in the Heureka system, which is a leading decision support system for forest management planning. This project will be conducted in cooperation with Holmen Forest.

Qualifications
You should have a Master degree in Forestry, alternatively a Master degree in mathematics and/or statistics with a high interest for forest research. You should also be interested in, and preferably have experience of, forest planning, optimization methods as well as decision support system. Experience in computer programming is a merit. Focus is given to your analytical and problem solving abilities, your ability to work independently and your personal characteristics. You should have good skills in expressing yourself in Swedish and English both orally and in writing.

Place of work
Umeå

Form of employment
Employment 4 years at SLU and 1 year at Holmen Forest

Extent
100%

Starting date
According to agreement

Application
We welcome your application no later than 2019-03-06 use the button below.

Union representatives
https://internt.slu.se/min-anstallning/facket/kontaktpersoner/

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) develops the understanding and sustainable use and management of biological natural resources. The university ranks well internationally within its subject areas. SLU is a research-intensive university that also offers unique degree programmes in for example rural development and natural resource management, environmental economics, animal science and landscape architecture.

SLU has just over 3,000 employees, 5,000 students and a turnover of SEK 3 billion. The university has invested heavily in a modern, attractive environment on its campuses in Alnarp, Umeå and Uppsala.

www.slu.se

SLU is an equal opportunity employer.

Varaktighet, arbetstid
Heltid/ Ej specificerat

Publiceringsdatum
2019-02-13

Ersättning
Fast lön

Så ansöker du
Sista dag att ansöka är 2019-03-06
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Kontakt
Karin Öhman, Professor karin.ohman@slu.se 090-786 85 88
Dianne Staal Wästerlund, Head of Division dianne.wasterlund@slu.se 090-786 84 50
Tomas Lämås, Docent tomas.lamas@slu.se 090-786 84 05

Företag
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

Adress
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Institutionen för skoglig resurshushållning, SLU
90183 Umeå

Kontorsadress
Skogsmarksgränd, Umeå

Jobbnummer
4611818

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Doctoral student in Forest Planning with focus on uncertainty

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