Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Ecological Responses to Climate Change - University of Exeter

Description: 

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
Ecological Responses to Climate Change in Key Areas for Biodiversity Conservation 
School of Biosciences 
 
(Ref. N1856 ) 
Salary circa: £25,000 pa depending on qualifications & experience 
This post is available on a fixed term basis for three years and will be based at Tremough Campus, Cornwall. 
 
We are seeking to recruit a post-doctoral appointment to work collaboratively on an ESF funded project entitled “From Climate to Landscape: Imagining the Future”. This is an interdisciplinary research project between scholars in Biosciences, Geography and English, concerned with the predicting the effects of climate change on specific localities and engaging people with the debate about the desirability of these changes, in particular on the iconic habitats and landscapes that contribute to sense of place. 
 
Post-doctoral appointments will be made respectively in the disciplines of Biosciences, Geography, and English, but will work collaboratively across the interdisciplinary team. 
 
In the Biosciences element of the project we will test the effects of climate change on the key species and habitats of flagship landscapes for conservation, identifying levels of threat for different taxa and ecological communities, their sensitivity to uncertainty in climate change scenarios, and the scope of adaptive conservation management to buffer against change. 
 
The successful applicant will test the effects of climate change on the key species and habitats of flagship landscapes for conservation, identifying levels of threat for different taxa and ecological communities, their sensitivity to uncertainty in climate change scenarios, and the scope of adaptive conservation management to buffer against change. 
 
This research will function as an example of best practice for managing landscape-scale biodiversity under climate change, by modelling the levels of ecological change to which we are committed, or which can be achieved by adaptation, and will contribute a template of landscape-scale ecological change for the collaborative research by Geography and English. 
 
The successful applicant will be a quantitative ecologist with a PhD and/or postdoctoral experience in species distribution or bioclimate modelling, field ecology and GIS . S/he will have a strong ability both to work independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team, showing clear understanding of the wider, multidisciplinary implications of the research. 
 
For further information please contact Dr Robert Wilson, email: R.J.Wilson@exeter.ac.uk 
or call: 01326 253769. 
 
To apply, applicants should send a CV plus three referees to C.H.Guy@exeter.ac.uk, quoting the job reference N1856 . 
 
Closing date: 12 Noon, Friday 5 December 2008 
 
The University of Exeter is an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity in its workforce and, whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, is particularly keen to consider applications from groups currently underrepresented in the workforce.

Closing Date: 

Dec 05, 2008

Salary: 

c.£25,000 pa

Area: 

Tremough Campus, Cornwall

Company Email: 

C.H.Guy@exeter.ac.uk