Special Call for Applications for NatureNet Science Fellow at Arizona State University to start in October 2016. Deadline - 1 July 2016
The NatureNet Science Fellows program seeks to bring leading early career scientists and engineers from diverse fields into the realm of problem solving at the interface of climate change, technology, and conservation. Fellows will work with a Nature Conservancy mentor and an interdisciplinary team of ASU's Center for Biodiversity Outcomes-affiliated faculty to develop a research program. The joint mentorship model is unique, and additional training of up to two weeks each year is provided in science communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The NatureNet Fellow will engage in research relevant to climate change risks, impacts or mitigation of impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. In particular: • Research should have an application to multi-stakeholder (including corporations, agencies and policy makers) collaboration, communication and decision making. • Research should advance work to incentivize companies to account for natural capital in business decisions about ecosystem services impacted by climate change and for biodiversity at high risk due to climate change. • Example topics may include (but not limited to) a scoping analysis on how companies in different business sectors impacted by climate change interpret and manage biodiversity and ecosystem services risk; biodiversity big data networking management and tools; inventorying and integrating biodiversity data under the lens of climate change impacts; and, developing analytic approaches to quantify risks in decision-making. For more information, application guidelines, and eligibility, see: http://www.nature.org/science-in-action/naturenet-fellows/naturenet-asu-announcement-2016.pdf For inquiries, please contact: Katie Dietrich at [email protected] The 2017 Call for Applications for NatureNet Science Fellows with several additional university partners will be released September 1st, 2016.
