[ECOLOG-L] Postdoc, Atlantic salmon ecology at Gulf of Maine Research Institute

[Katherine Mills]

The Gulf of Maine Research Institute is seeking applicants for a
full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate position modeling
relationships between Atlantic salmon and Northwest Atlantic ecosystem
change.  This is a twelve to seventeen month position that will be
based at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine
beginning in January 2019.  The position may be extended contingent
upon satisfactory performance and project funding.

The postdoctoral research associate will be mentored by Dr. Kathy
Mills and based in the Ecosystem-Human Interactions Lab, which
conducts a wide range of research to understand how climate and
ecosystem change affect fish populations, communities, and fisheries;
evaluate adaptation strategies to support resilient fisheries and
marine ecosystems; and provide information to support decision-making
in the context of environmental variability and change.  This position
will also routinely collaborate with colleagues at NOAA’s Northeast
Fisheries Science Center.

The successful candidate will undertake analyses and modeling to
investigate how changing ecosystem conditions are affecting Atlantic
salmon marine survival and the potential role of growth as a mechanism
mediating these relationships. In addition, he/she will play a major
role in developing models to evaluate how ecosystem changes are
affecting energy available to and needed by Atlantic salmon in the
marine environment, and the impacts of these changes on salmon growth,
survival, and productivity.

Successful candidates should have a completed (or nearly completed)
PhD in fisheries science, marine ecology, oceanography, or a related
field.  He/she should have strong mathematical, statistical, and
computing skills with previous experience developing and using
ecological models (e.g., population dynamics, bioenergetics,
individual-based models).  Candidates should be proficient in the R
and/or MATLAB programming languages.  For full job description and
application information, please visit
http://gmri.org/about-us/join-our-team/jobs/postdoctoral-research-associate-1
.  Application review will begin Nov. 1.

[ECOLOG-L] Ph.D. opportunity: Quartz Islands - Island biogeography and ecology of distinct terrestrial habitat islands

[David Inouye]

Dear ecologists,

I’d like to draw your attention to a PhD position that is open in my new 
Biogeography and Biodiversity Lab at the Goethe University-Frankfurt, 
Germany (https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/71993212/ir). The PhD student will 
work within the the fully funded DFG project "/Quartz Islands - Island 
biogeography and ecology of distinct terrestrial habitat islands/“ that 
I’m co-supervising together with Ute Schmiedel and Jens Oldeland (both 
at Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology Lab of the University of Hamburg 
https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/oekologie-biologische-ressourcen/biodivevooek.html). 
The position is a 3 year fixed-term contract (65%, E13, TV-G-U). 
Starting date is January 1st (somewhat flexible…).


_The project_
The project aims at studying plant diversity and endemism in the 
floristically quite unique habitat islands (so-called quartz islands) of 
the Knersvlakte in South Africa. These quartz islands are famous for 
their ‚living stones‘ from the Aizoaceae family - minuscule succulents 
that look like pebbles during the dry period but produce extravagant 
flowers during the rainy season. A really fascinating and quite poorly 
studied system! Our aim is to combine approaches from community ecology, 
island biogeography and remote sensing to study what determines plant 
diversity and endemism across scales - from the plot scale to the 
‚island‘ and landscape scale.


_Requirements_
We are searching for a candidate that
- has skills in botany and plant identification in the field as well as 
background knowledge in island biogeography

- has skills in R and GIS
- has experience with soil analyses
- is willing to conduct field sampling under somewhat adventurous 
conditions in a remote, arid environment
- is willing to present and publish scientific results at international 
conferences and peer-reviewed journals
- has a background in biogeography, biology, ecology, physical geography 
or a related discipline


For more information please follow the link:
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794896/fb11

*Application deadline is October 20th. So less than a week remaining to 
apply!!*


If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Also, 
please feel free to forward this information to anyone you find suitable 
or of potential interest!


All the best
Severin

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Prof. Dr. Severin Irl

/Biogeography and Biodiversity Lab
Institute of Physical Geography/
/Department of Geoscience
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany/
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