Remote Sensing and Spatial Modeling of Large Herbivore Populations and Health in Response to Environmental Changes in the Amboseli Ecosystem, Kenya.
Start date: 1 October 2024, Application deadline: 10 July 2024

The research team is seeking a strong early career researcher for an open PhD position. The successful candidate will utilize Earth Observation data to model landscape usage by large herbivore populations, including buffalo, elephant, cattle, zebra, and wildebeest. This research aims to better characterize the impacts of environmental changes—such as climate change, extreme climatic events, and land cover changes—on animal population dynamics and health. The study area is the Amboseli ecosystem in Southern Kenya, where long-term monitoring surveys have been conducted for decades as part of ecological research (Mose, Western,
and Tyrrell 2018; Mose et al. 2012; 2013).