The International NGO, Panthera, will be funding a post-doctoral
position at Peking University in the lab of Dr. Lu Zhi. The
Post-Doctoral Fellow will become an integral member of the research
team made up of Panthera, Shan Shui and Peking University staff and
students who are studying the diverse carnivore community of the
Tibetan Plateau. Research themes are particularly focused on the
community ecology and interspecies relationships of carnivores with
overlapping distributions. These include Tibetan Fox, Red Fox,
Pallas's Cat, Wolves, Tibetan Brown Bear and Snow Leopard. The Fellow
will design their own research project within this system as well as
collaborate with graduate students and NGO staff. Projects will
emphasize the conservation implications of endangered and threatened
species in human impacted landscapes, particularly those that relate
to human-carnivore conflict and climate change. The primary
investigators, Dr. Liu Yanlin and Dr. Byron Weckworth, will oversee
project development and help direct field-based activities. Fellows
will be acknowledged as Panthera affiliates, but will also be working
closely, and on a day to day basis, with Chinese NGO, Shan Shui. This
is a great opportunity to do cutting edge science and to work with
leading conservation organizations.
Field work opportunities may include capture and collaring of target
species, tracking animal movements, cluster searches, setting and
maintaining camera traps, sign surveys, scat collection and household
surveys of herders.
Start date is July 1st, 2014. Fellow must be selected in time to
submit post-doctoral application by May 31st.
Minimum Qualifications:
PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. ecology, animal behavior, etc.)
Excellent spoken and written English language skills
Experience in writing scientific papers and reports
Desire to work in remote field conditions without running water or electricity
Ability to hike in rugged mountain environments at elevations above 4000m
Competency in GIS, statistics and other analytical tools and methods
to translate raw data into meaningful biological information
Additional useful, but not initially necessary skills:
Animal capture and handling experience
Experience archiving and analyzing camera trap data
Skilled in the use of pertinent field equipment (e.g., camera traps,
GPS, telemetry equipment)
For additional information, please e-mail/phone Dr. Liu Yanlin
<http://[email protected]/13810772529>[email protected]/13810772529
or Dr. Byron Weckworth
<http://[email protected]/15910740478>[email protected]/15910740478.
If interested in applying, please send CV and maximum one page cover
letter to either Dr. Liu or Dr. Weckworth, and Ms. Wang Yan
<http://[email protected]/13701240945>[email protected]/13701240945.
Xiaoli Shen <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
