The Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (LC3M) is looking for a bright, collaborative individual for an exciting four-year, fully-funded post-doc opportunity. Reporting to director David Beerling, and in close collaboration with David Edwards, Robert Freckleton and Julie Scholes, the post-doc researcher will develop, organize and manage the Centres field trials on enhanced weathering within oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo and measure impacts on yield and biodiversity.
The position will be based in the Dept. Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing field projects involving complex logistics together with experience working on ecosystem-scale processes and/or land management practices in the tropics. The aim of this project is to undertake detailed field trials of enhanced weathering and biodiversity impacts in young and mature palm oil catchments and investigate potential co-benefits on production and protection from herbivores and pathogens. Biodiversity assessments will focus particularly on terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates and may use DNA meta-barcoding analyses. The project will involve working in collaboration with academics, researchers, and plantation managers, to develop and manage large-scale replicated catchment-scale experiments and pot- based nursery investigations in Malaysian Borneo. There will be abundant opportunities to collaborate with the network of researchers within LC3M and to develop additional research directions within the areas of tropical climate change, agricultural sustainability, and conservation. For more details and to apply, see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANX768/palm-oil-project-manager- ecologist/
