Please respond directly to the post for YETI Robin To unsubscribe to the mailing list: a. visit http://www.freelists.org/list/meetyeti (you can also invite your friends to join this list with this link) or b. send email to meetyeti-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with “unsubscribe” in the Subject Begin forwarded message: > From: Swapnil Chaudhari <swapsslan@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: February 27, 2012 10:08:32 AM GMT+05:30 > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > Bcc: meet.yeti@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Open call for interns in biodiversity modelling and R programming > > FYI > > Kindly forward it to your peers and students. > > Thanks > > > Swapnil > o__ > _> /__ > (_) \(_)....... live healthy > > We are looking for a visiting researcher to work on various modeling > projects, primarily related with climate change, biodiversity and agriculture. > > Required skills: > > Be enrolled in an undergraduate or masters degree > Experience with species distributions modeling (preferably Maxent) > High proficiency in R!! > Good understanding of GIS, preferably GRASS GIS (and ArcGIS)!! > Basic understanding of SQL > Comfortable with working under Linux OS (Red Hat/CentOS, SuSe Linux) > English: very good written/oral and reading skills > Additional skills > > Good knowledge of PostGIS > Basic knowledge of Spanish (not needed for the job, but some basic level > might be required for living in the city) > We offer a 4-month visiting research position with > > Flights from country of origin and back > 750 USD/month stipend (enough to live in Cali, very comfortably) > Health insurance > Daily transport from Cali to CIAT and the way back > Lunch > If you are interested in this opportunity, please send us a copy of your CV > to jmsigner@xxxxxxxxx, andj.r.villegas@xxxxxxxxx > > For more information, please visit: > > CIAT’s webpage: http://www.ciat.cgiar.org > DAPA’s webpage: http://dapa.ciat.cgiar.org/about-dapa > > > http://dapa.ciat.cgiar.org/open-call-for-internships-in-biodiversity-modelling-and-r-programming/ > > > >