Graduate Research Assistantship in Public Policy

Location: This position will be located in Anchorage, Alaska, at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Description and responsibilities: The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting research to understand sustainability and resilience of arctic urban and rural social-ecological systems. There are several research opportunities available, and we will match candidates’ skills and interests with the appropriate research topic. These Alaska based topics include:
• retaining STEM teachers
• modeling social-ecological connections
• assessing climate-related environmental hazards
• designing fuel treatments to reduce wildfire risk
• building community resilience to wildfire
• measuring sustainability for arctic cities