Apologies for cross-postings!
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Hi all,
We have a new four year project starting up here at NCEAS, focused on
understanding thresholds or tipping points in marine ecosystems and
building that understanding into indicators and tools for better marine
resource management decisionmaking. We will be hiring two positions here
at NCEAS to help support the project - a postdoctoral fellow and a
project manager. Full job descriptions for each are available via the
UCSB website - see links below. You can learn more about the project at
http://thresholds.nceas.ucsb.edu/static/. Please feel free to forward
this announcement to anyone you think might be interested.
All the best,
Carrie
*Job #: NCEA1205
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*National Center of Ecological Analysis and Synthesis*
*Assistant Project Scientist*
Project Manager
Ecosystem Thresholds and Indicators for Marine Spatial Planning
Job description
The project manager will be responsible for supporting, coordinating and
helping to manage a large collaborative project involving researchers at
the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and UC Santa
Barbara, the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University,
Environmental Defense Fund, and NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science
Center. This four-year project will explore ecological and
socio-economic thresholds or "tipping points" in marine ecosystems, and
develop tools that help managers use this information to support better
decision-making. The project will involve working groups of global
experts and policy advisors beyond the core project members, synthesis
research, and extensive analytical work in 2-3 case study locations (to
be determined) within the US and/or Canada.
The full-time project manager will be based at NCEAS in Santa Barbara,
California and will help with organization and logistics, meeting
planning, project communication (within and beyond the project team),
data gathering, reporting and other support tasks. Depending on skills,
interest, and time, the project manager could have the opportunity to
contribute substantively to the scientific objectives of the project,
too. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a wide range of
scientists and resource managers to address a challenging problem that
has the potential to transform how marine resource management decisions
are made.
Evaluation Criteria
The Project Manager requires a Master's degree or higher in
environmental, ecological, or related science fields, preferably with a
focus on coastal or marine ecosystems, and demonstrated project
management skills and experience. Qualified candidates should have
excellent organizational and time management skills, and the ability to
deliver on a broad array of tasks, balancing multiple responsibilities
and deadlines effectively and efficiently. S/he should be comfortable
working with a large interdisciplinary team. The candidate should have
excellent communication skills, both in writing and speaking, to
facilitate clear communication within the team and beyond. Experience
conveying complex scientific messages to non-experts/public and writing
and publishing scientific reports and/or journal articles would be very
helpful. Additionally, experience with marine policy, ecosystem based
management, or coastal and marine spatial planning is also desirable,
but not required.
Read more:
http://www.oeosh.ucsb.edu/EOAA/NonSenateJobs/jobbulletin/ncea.2012.09.24.NCEA1205.html
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*Job #: NCEAPOST*
*National Center of Ecological Analysis and Synthesis*
*Postdoctoral Fellow*
Ecosystem Thresholds and Indicators for Marine Spatial Planning
Job description
We seek a postdoctoral fellow to participate in a large collaborative
project involving researchers at the National Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis and UC Santa Barbara, the Center for Ocean
Solutions at Stanford University, Environmental Defense Fund, and NOAA's
Northwest Fisheries Science Center. This four-year project will explore
ecological and socio-economic thresholds or "tipping points" in marine
ecosystems, and develop tools that help managers use this information to
support better decision-making. The project will involve working groups
of global experts and policy advisors beyond the core project members,
synthesis research, and extensive analytical work in 2-3 case study
locations (to be determined) within the US and/or Canada.
The postdoctoral fellow will be charged with leading a meta-analysis of
non-linearities/thresholds in the relationships between single stressors
(e.g. biomass harvest, nutrient input, temperature) and indicators of
ecosystem condition. This foundational work will help lay the groundwork
for the overall project, including subsequent modeling of ecosystem
consequences of management decisions. It will also constitute a valuable
scientific contribution on its own, with one or more publications
anticipated as a result. Depending on skills, interest, and time, the
postdoc would have the opportunity to contribute substantively to other
scientific objectives of the project, too. The postdoc will have the
opportunity to participate in working group meetings of the project team
and of global experts. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a
wide range of scientists and resource managers to address a challenging
problem that has the potential to transform how marine resource
management decisions are made.
Evaluation Criteria
Qualified candidates will possess a doctoral degree in coastal or marine
ecology or a related science field, and demonstrated quantitative and
analytical skills and experience. Experience with meta-analysis,
statistical modeling, and data management are desired. Qualified
candidates should have excellent organizational and time management
skills, and the ability to deliver on a broad array of tasks, balancing
multiple responsibilities and deadlines effectively and efficiently.
S/he should be comfortable working collaboratively with a large
interdisciplinary team, but also able to work independently with little
direction. The candidate should have excellent communication skills,
both in writing and speaking. Experience publishing scientific reports
and/or journal articles is required. Additionally, experience with
marine policy, ecosystem based management, or coastal and marine spatial
planning is desirable, but not required.
Read more:
http://www.oeosh.ucsb.edu/EOAA/NonSenateJobs/jobbulletin/ncea.2012.09.20.POSTNCEA.html
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Carrie V Kappel, PhD
Associate Project Scientist
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
735 State St, Suite 300
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Phone: (831) 869-1503
FAX: (805) 892-2510
www.nceas.ucsb.edu
cmap.msi.ucsb.edu/people/carrie-kappel
