{"id":23420,"date":"2018-06-21T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T17:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=23420"},"modified":"2018-06-21T14:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T18:18:01","slug":"joshua-lambert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/joshua-lambert\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Research Position Secured by Ph.D. Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23421 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/06\/REIGN-Democracies-1024x478.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/06\/REIGN-Democracies-1024x478.png 1024w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/06\/REIGN-Democracies-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/06\/REIGN-Democracies-768x359.png 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/06\/REIGN-Democracies-299x140.png 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/06\/REIGN-Democracies.png 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/>Ph.D. student Joshua Lambert recently accepted a summer research position at <a href=\"http:\/\/oneearthfuture.org\/\">One Earth Future (OEF)<\/a> to help build a Fisheries Conflict event database with the organization\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/securefisheries.org\/\"><em>Secure Fisheries<\/em><\/a> department. He joins Clayton Besaw, a security studies Ph.D. alumnus and fellow UCF Knight, at the Colorado-based think tank. Lambert will enter his Ph.D. candidacy when he returns in the fall, with a dissertation focus on the diffusive properties of coups d\u2019\u00e9tat.<\/p>\n<p>At OEF, Lambert aids a data collection project that focuses exclusively on disputes surrounding fisheries resources in Eastern Africa. The project will culminate with a data set that will be used by scholars and policy analysts to investigate sub-national drivers of fisheries conflict and their impact on organized political violence. The project includes both machine and human-coded data, and is geo-located for sub-national level spatial analysis.<\/p>\n<p>OEF is a think tank whose vision is \u201cpeace through governance.\u201d They are involved in empirical research and local engagement, particularly in countries like Somalia and Colombia. The organization also houses a number of other initiatives, which focus on topics including gender and security, local business development and investment, as well as a series of data sets employed by a variety of researchers. One notable data set, <a href=\"https:\/\/oefdatascience.github.io\/REIGN.github.io\/\">Rulers, Elections and Irregular Governance<\/a>, speaks directly to Lambert\u2019s dissertation project. In addition, Lambert and Besaw have collaborated to illustrate some of the important features of this data, which can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/oefresearch.org\/news\/rulers-elections-and-irregular-governance\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert uses skills from UCF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/graduate.ucf.edu\/GIS\">GIS<\/a> Certificate program to gather remote-sensing data and employ spatial modeling to better forecast political stability or instability. He applies machine learning to understand the impact migration, conflict and climatic factors have on regime change. Lambert is also affiliated with UCF\u2019s Intelligence Community Center For Academic Excellence (<a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/politicalscience\/iccae\/\">ICCAE<\/a>) as a visiting fellow and graduate research assistant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUCF\u2019s Security Studies program and the ICCAE have provided me with great opportunities to improve computational skills and develop expertise in environmental security, conflict and political stability,\u201d Lambert said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D. student Joshua Lambert recently accepted a summer research position at One Earth Future (OEF) to help build a Fisheries Conflict event database with the organization\u2019s Secure Fisheries department. He joins Clayton Besaw, a security studies Ph.D. alumnus and fellow UCF Knight, at the Colorado-based think tank. Lambert will enter his Ph.D. candidacy when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":23421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[691,5813,1600,1648,4760,2541,5812,4933],"class_list":["post-23420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-science-departments","tag-clayton-besaw","tag-gis-certificate","tag-iccae","tag-intelligence-community-center-for-academic-excellence","tag-joshua-lambert","tag-one-earth-future","tag-secure-fisheries","tag-security-studies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Summer Research Position Secured by Ph.D. Student - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/joshua-lambert\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Summer Research Position Secured by Ph.D. Student - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ph.D. student Joshua Lambert recently accepted a summer research position at One Earth Future (OEF) to help build a Fisheries Conflict event database with the organization\u2019s Secure Fisheries department. 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