GAA | Water security + climate resilience
Overview of duties
We are looking for two motivated graduate students with strong design, representation, modeling, and GIS skills to join an interdisciplinary research team at UBC. Associate Professor Kees Lokman and Professor Ron Kellett are leading a sub-project as part of a larger initiative entitled Community Water Systems: Climate Vulnerabilities and Resilience Opportunities. This work involves collaboration with communities in the Fraser Canyon to address water security and climate resilience challenges.
About the Role
As part of this project, you will:
- Conduct geospatial analysis to better understand land and water systems.
- Map infrastructure networks to assess their role in water security.
- Develop values maps to reflect community priorities and perspectives.
- Collaborate with communities to co-create scenarios exploring the impacts of climate change on water and land systems.
- Design and evaluate interventions to improve system resilience under various climate scenarios.
Qualifications
We are seeking graduate students with:
- Strong skills in design, representation, and GIS.
- Skills in modeling, coding, and simulating water flows.
- Experience working across scales, from regional planning to landscape-based processes and infrastructure systems.
- An understanding of water systems and climate adaptation.
- Experience or interest in working with First Nations communities.
- A collaborative mindset and interest in interdisciplinary research.
Application deadline
How to apply
Please send your CV and a short portfolio of relevant work to klokman@sala.ubc.ca by December 20, 2024.