post-doc position in Ecology at Umeå University

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We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in ecology at Umeå University, Sweden, that will work with integration of data from modern ecological experiments with molecular genetic paleo-data and statistical modelling to evaluate the stability of biotic interactions through time and space.  The project is a part of the Biodiversa project “Future ArcTic Ecosystems (FATE): drivers of diversity and future scenarios from ethno-ecology, contemporary ecology and ancient DNA”. The deadline for applications is April 9, 2019 and the position is expected to start in June 1, 2019 or according to agreement.​

Johan Olofsson

For more details about the position see the following link:

https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/postdoctoral-position-2-years-in-ecology_259318/​

Bitr lektor Molecular ecology SLU

We are recruiting a Molecular Ecologist at the Department of Ecology at
the Swedish university of Agricultural Sciences (www.slu.se) in Uppsala,
Sweden.

Read the announcement carefully. It's a JUNIOR researcher position
despite the awkward title, somewhat similar to an associate
professorship in the US.

Please spread the word!

https://t.co/dwP4KwBhAF

Riccardo

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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology,
Box 7044, SE-750 07 Uppsala, SWEDEN
Phone +46-(0)18-672423

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AquaBiota söker nya medarbetare

 

AquaBiota bedriver forskning och konsultverksamhet inom marin och limnisk miljö, samt inom genetik. Vi utvecklar ständigt vår verksamhet och har nu behov av att utöka vår personalstyrka med några personer. Mer information om AquaBiota hittar du på www.aquabiota.se.

Fiskekolog, 1 tjänst

Vi söker en person med god kunskap om Sveriges fiskfauna och dess ekologi. Vi ser gärna att du har disputerat inom ett relevant forskningsämne, men längre erfarenhet inom ämnet kan också uppfylla kompetenskravet. God kunskap i statistisk analys (gärna i R) är viktigt och erfarenhet av arbete med GIS och/eller modellering är meriterande. God förmåga att formulera sig i skrift på svenska och engelska är ett krav. Även erfarenhet av provfiskemetoder är meriterande då det är en återkommande arbetsuppgift. Tjänsten är tillsvidare.

GIS-expert, 1 tjänst

Den person vi söker skall vara utbildad i GIS och hunnit skaffa sig arbetsvana inom området. Erfarenhet av marin GIS är meriterande liksom kunskaper inom web-GIS, databashantering och programmering. Kunskap om akvatisk ekologi och biologi, särskilt marin miljö, är också meriterande. God förmåga att kommunicera på svenska eller engelska är ett krav. Tjänsten är tidsbegränsad med möjlighet till förlängning.

Fältarbetare

Vi förväntar oss att driva ett flertal fältarbetsprojekt under sommaren. Beslut om dessa kan komma med kort varsel och då vill vi redan ha kontakt med potentiella fältarbetare. Egenskaper som vi efterfrågar är vana av fältarbete från mindre båtar, t ex nätfiske, inventering med bottenhuggare, videokamera eller genom dykning. Artkunskaper för Östersjön är meriterande, båtvana ett krav.

 

 

Eventuellt kan ovanstående tjänster kombineras på olika sätt. Vi ser personliga egenskaper som viktiga och vi eftersträvar en hög mångfald på arbetsplatsen.

 

Välkommen att skicka din ansökan bestående av ett brev och en kortfattad CV till martin.isaeus@aquabiota.se. För mer information, kontakta Martin Isaeus via mail eller telefon på 08-522 302 41. Vi behandlar ansökningar löpande och vårt mål är att anställningarna skall påbörjas redan under våren. 

 

Med vänlig hälsning

Martin

 

 

 

 

 

Martin Isæus

Ph.D. / Marine Ecology

Managing Director

+46 (0)8-522 302 41 (direct)

+46 (0)70-441 25 29 (mobile)

+46 (0)8-522 302 40 (switchboard)

martin.isaeus@aquabiota.se

AquaBiota

Löjtnantsgatan 25

SE-115 50 Stockholm

Sweden

www.aquabiota.se

 

FW: Postdoc position announcement

 

 

From: Patrik Byholm <Patrik.Byholm@novia.fi>
Sent: tiistai 26. maaliskuuta 2019 15.24
To: Patrik Byholm <Patrik.Byholm@novia.fi>
Cc: Andreas Lindén <Andreas.Linden@novia.fi>
Subject: Postdoc position announcement

 

Dear colleague,

 

We have today announced a postdoc position here at Novia University of Applied Sciences as a part of a new project on Great cormorants. The aim of the project is twofold: to investigate which areas cormorants prefer for fishing, and to quantify the local impact of cormorants on fisheries catches in the Gulf of Finland. The successful applicant have a track record of producing high-quality scientific material, skills in GIS and in analysis of data, preferably in the programming environment R. More information about the position and how to apply: https://www.novia.fi/about-us/open-positions/project-researcher-the-cormorant-project-raseborg

 

It would be greatly appreciated if you can forward this information via relevant channels to possible candidates.

 

Best regards,

Patrik Byholm

 

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Dr. Patrik Byholm
Senior lecturer, Head of Programme

Novia University of Applied Sciences
Raseborgsvägen 9
FI-10600 EKENÄS
Finland

phone +358 44 449 8293
www.novia.fi

 

PhD-position in theoretical/ computational ecology and evolutionary biology at Lund University

Dear Friends and colleagues

 

Please help us find a candidate for a PhD-position in theoretical/ computational ecology and evolutionary biology at Lund University, Sweden. We are looking for a highly motivated and quantitatively minded candidate with a general interest in ecology, evolution, and community structure and dynamics. I would be grateful if you could spread the word among your students and fellow colleagues.

 

See a detailed description of the position below and feel free to contact me (mikael.pontarp@biol.lu.se) for further information. 

 

Link English version: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:258502/

Link Swedish version: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:258502/

 

Sincerely

Mikael Pontarp

 

Project description

The fact that climate change can cause extinction of species is established, but our ability to study and quantify causality of such effects is challenging. Reliable predictions about future extinctions are thus also elusive. The aim of this project is to develop theory and quantitative methods that can improve our understanding and prediction of ecological and evolutionary processes that structures and maintains biological communities. The Ph.D. student should thus have basic knowledge of how ecological interactions, evolutionary processes, and dispersal of organisms in a variable environment can affect the structure and dynamics of communities. A particular focus will be on the phylogenetic difference between communities (phylobetadiversity), a metric of community structure that contains signals of both ecological, evolutionary and biogeographical processes. The student will formulate general theory of the causal link between process and phylobetadiversity through analysis of spatially explicit eco-evolutionary models. Theory will also be tested against empirical patterns through parametrization and validation of the models, given available data. There will be a particular focus on hummingbird community data from the Andes, which is a global biodiversity hotspot. By fitting models to hummingbird data, we aim to quantify the processes that have structured this unique ecosystem, and possibly predict how this system may respond to future conditions.

 

The project is at its start-up phase and part of the start-up of Dr. Mikael Pontarp's research group at Lund University. The student will thus have the opportunity to contribute to the profile of the project as well as the direction it may take. To be able to utilize such an opportunity the student needs to be independent and persistent. In addition, to succeed in a theoretical and quantitative project like this, the student needs experience in and interest of differential equation models, agent-based simulations, evolutionary analysis, and statistics. The project is expected to be carried out in collaboration with Prof. Åke Brännström at Umeå Univeristy, Sweden who will serve as assistant supervisor.

 

Requirements and qualifications

The candidate should have a Masters degree in ecology/evolutionary biology. Alternatively, the candidate may have a degree in Physics, Mathematics or computer science. Knowledge of interacting ecological, evolutionary and biogeographical processes that underpin community structure and dynamics is desirable. Candidates also need to have proficiency, but not necessarily documented, in working with mathematical modeling, computation and computers and programming, e.g. in Matlab, Python, Julia, C++, etc. Knowledge of model parameterization and validation and Bayesian statistics is also desirable. Important qualities in a successful candidate are outgoing, curiosity, problem-solving, structured, independent and persistent.

 

Eligibility

Students with basic eligibility for third-cycle studies are those who- have completed a second-cycle degree- have completed courses of at least 240 credits, of which at least 60 credits are from second-cycle courses, or- have acquired largely equivalent knowledge in some other way, in Sweden or abroad.

 

The employment of doctoral students is regulated in the Swedish Code of Statues 1998: 80. Only those who are or have been admitted to PhD-studies may be appointed to doctoral studentships. When an appointment to a doctoral studentship is made, the ability of the student to benefit from PhD-studies shall primarily be taken into account. In addition to devoting themselves to their studies, those appointed to doctoral studentships may be required to work with educational tasks, research and administration, in accordance with specific regulations in the ordinance.

 

Application

Link English version: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:258502/

Link Swedish version: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:258502/

   

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Dr. Mikael Pontarp

Department of Biology, Lund University

Biology Building, Sölvegatan 35

223 62 Lund

Sweden

SITES AquaNET mesocosm infrastructure welomes applications!

Dear OIKOS members,

 

The Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science (SITES) invites application to use the SITES AquaNET infrastructure to conduct mesocosm experiments in lakes.

 

The infrastructure is located at four SITES stations (Svartberget, Erken, Skogaryd and Asa) and an associated station (Bolmen research station, operated by Sweden Water Research/Sydvatten) and therefore enables experimental manipulations in lakes along a latitudinal gradient in Sweden. We offer open access to the mesocosm infrastructure in one or more lakes and support from qualified personnel.

 

Each site has a jetfloat deployed in its local lake with 16-20 polyethylen cylindrical enclosures, but experimental manipulations can also be done in assembled polyethylen film enclosures with different shapes and dimensions, and the jetfloat can be re-structured to fit various experimental needs.  The experimental facilities have a sensor and datalogging system to measure real-time environmental parameters, such as DO, temperature, photosynthetic active radiation, chlorophyll, phycocyanin and turbidity in each mesocosm. In addition, all stations can provide access to lab and sample storage facilities, and field equipment.

 

More detailed information can be found here and applications for using the infrastructure during 2019 can be made by filling in the this form.

 

We are looking forward to your applications!

 

Silke Langenheder

(SITES AquaNET Coordinator)

 

 

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Silke Langenheder

 

Uppsala University

Department of Ecology and Genetics/

Limnology

Norbyvägen 18 D

75236 Uppsala

Sweden

 

Erken Laboratory

Norra Malmavägen 45
761 73 Norrtälje

Sweden

 

E-mail: silke.langenheder@ebc.uu.se

phone: +46 (0)18 471 2710

web: http://katalog.uu.se/empinfo?id=N0-277_3&q=Silke+Langenheder

 

Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science

(http://www.fieldsites.se)

 

 

 

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Student Conference on Conservation Science in Tihany, Hungary 2019

Hi again,

Another student event linked to the Society for Conservation Biology.

//Bege Jonsson

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Dear Early Career Conservation Biologist,

We are delighted to invite you to the fifth SCCS Europe in 2019, organised by the MTA Centre for Ecological Research. SCCS Europe offers young conservationists, students and early career researchers the opportunity to meet renowned plenary speakers, to attend career-enriching trainings, workshops and field trips and to have fun at the largest lake in Central Europe, Lake Balaton at a student-friendly low price.

http://sccs.okologia.mta.hu/

We proudly introduce our prominent keynote speakers:

-- Irina Herzon based in the Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki

-- Bengt Gunnar Jonsson is a professor of Plant Ecology, at the Mid Sweden University

-- Eszter Kelemen, ESSRG Ltd., Budapest & MTA Institute of Sociology

-- Juliet Vickery is Head of International Research, Centre of
Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

There will be a series of workshops, networking opportunities, fun, and of course, the possibility to present your research results.

The all-inclusive conference fee will be only 270 Euro - including conference registration, accommodation and catering (three meals per
day) during the conference, evening socials like wine tasting, and a half-day trip to the Tihany Peninsula, a World Heritage site of UNESCO.
Some photos from last years are here:
http://sccs.okologia.mta.hu/node/165. We are looking forward to welcome you in the heart of Europe! Join SCCS Europe in 2019!

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 15 MAY.

SCCS Europe organisers

Contact: sccs@okologia.mta.hu

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KOVÁCS-HOSTYÁNSZKI Anikó PhD
research associate professor

MTA ÖK, Ökológiai és Botanikai Intézet, Lendület Ökoszisztéma-szolgáltatás Kutatócsoport / Lendület Ecosystem Services Research Group, Centre for Ecological Research, MTA Postal address: MTA OK, Alkotmány u. 2-4, H-2163 Vácrátót, Hungary
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