The Land Resource Management Unit (Ispra, Italy) of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is looking for a PhD Candidate and a Trainee.
1) The PhD candidate will support our global modelling activities and improve means to assess impact assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services considering different policy scenarios affecting our environment (e.g. climate change, biofuel, agriculture, …). In the context of the PhD project, the objective is to develop, implement, and test methodologies quantifying loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in areas where land cover change is occurring.
Main tasks include:
• the development of methods and indicators for quantifying loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services at the global scale
• the development of associated algorithms to compute the above indicators in support to our web based modelling services (see http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ );
• the publication of use cases illustrating the methodology.
Deadline for application is 04th of September 2013
+Reference: GH20 H.5 JN 197037
2013-IPR-H-20-000-2234 'Ecological Modelling for measuring loss of biodiversity & ecosystems'
Reference: GH20 H.5 JN 197037
2013-IPR-H-20-000-2234 'Ecological Modelling for measuring loss of biodiversity & ecosystems' - See more at: http://www.conbio.org/professional-development/scb-job-board/positions-for-phd-candidates-and-trainees-at-the-joint-research-centre-of-t#sthash.OduqOs9U.dpuf
2013-IPR-H-20-000-2234 'Ecological Modelling for measuring loss of biodiversity & ecosystems' - See more at: http://www.conbio.org/professional-development/scb-job-board/positions-for-phd-candidates-and-trainees-at-the-joint-research-centre-of-t#sthash.OduqOs9U.dpuf
Reference: GH20 H.5 JN 197037
2013-IPR-H-20-000-2234 'Ecological Modelling for measuring loss of biodiversity & ecosystems' - See more at: http://www.conbio.org/professional-development/scb-job-board/positions-for-phd-candidates-and-trainees-at-the-joint-research-centre-of-t#sthash.OduqOs9U.dpuf
2013-IPR-H-20-000-2234 'Ecological Modelling for measuring loss of biodiversity & ecosystems' - See more at: http://www.conbio.org/professional-development/scb-job-board/positions-for-phd-candidates-and-trainees-at-the-joint-research-centre-of-t#sthash.OduqOs9U.dpuf
2) We are looking for a highly motivated trainee to support our work on monitoring the sustainable use of natural resources, in particular in the context of protected areas. The objective of the project is to map global conservation efforts, with a focus on the African Caribbean and Pacific countries, and related development funding activities.
Deadline for application is 2nd September 2013
+Reference: 2013-IPR-H-000-2240 - ISPRA ‘Mapping conservation activities and related development efforts'
Contact Information:
Candidates interested in the published positions must introduce an application form through the JRC recruitment web site http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
Employment conditions and more details about the positions and required qualifications are also available on the same web page.
Only applications received through ESRA will be considered as valid.