Dear All,
Please see below for opportunities in Edinburgh that may be of interest.
Best wishes,
Sian
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From: Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland <masts@st-andrews.ac.uk>
Date: 8 December 2016 09:59:36 GMT
To: Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland <masts@st-andrews.ac.uk>
Subject: Job/PhD postings
Dear All
1) Please see PhD studentship opportunity attached - The project would be based at mat HW in the lab of Dr Guttierez to investigate the formation of Marine Oil Snow (MOS) in NE Atlantic waters and to study the microbial communities associated with MOS particles.
2) University of Edinburgh are currently advertising a 3-year postdoctoral position and two fully-funded 3-year PhD studentships to work on the European ATLAS project (http://www.eu-atlas.org/). Please do pass these links to candidates you may know and distribute to your wider networks. Details below.
Many thanks, Emma
Postdoctoral research associate in deep-sea biodiversity
We are looking for a PDRA to create new explanatory models of environmental drivers of biodiversity trends in the deep North Atlantic Ocean, and assess Good Environmental Status (GES) as part of the European ATLAS project (www.eu-atlas.org). The project will progress research on the biodiversity of Scotland?s seamounts, banks, continental slope and shelf but also at a site in the High Seas. The project will analyse both video/stills and faunal samples to create explanatory and spatially explicit statistical models that explain trends in deep ocean biodiversity across gradients in oceanography, bathymetry, geology and carbon flux. ATLAS is a multidisciplinary trans-Atlantic collaboration between Europe, Canada and the USA, and aims to develop an adaptive ecosystem-based approach to marine spatial management in the deep North Atlantic. This post is full time, fixed term for 36 months and is available from 1 February 2017; or as soon as possible thereafter.
Further details can be found here:
https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=038244
PhD project: Biogeographical patterns in the deep ocean: environmental, biological, and historical drivers in the North Atlantic?
The goal of the PhD project is to create a dynamic new deep ocean biogeographic classification tool depicting biogeographic patterns over space and time under present-day and under future climate change scenarios. This will be conducted through validation and refinement of the existing marine biogeography classification system for the deep ocean, GOODS (Global Open Oceans and Deep Seabed) tool developed by IOC-UNESCO (UNESCO, 2009), working closely with colleagues at the University of the Azores.
A special emphasis of the PhD project will be placed on the biogeography of fauna from complex seabed habitats such as cold-water coral habitats, cold seeps, hydrothermal vents, sponge grounds and Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) indicator species to validate GOODS with respect to benthos. The candidate will also be given the flexibility to choose an additional group of marine fauna to validate and refine the GOODs model. This could include migratory or sessile species, pelagic or benthic, from sharks to sponges, allowing the PhD candidate to validate GOODS in either the pelagic open ocean or deep seabed and to model the environmental, biological, and historical factors that shape this biogeography.
Further details can be found here: https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=81203&LID=468
PhD project: Physiology and carbon cycling of North Atlantic coral ecosystems in a changing ocean?
The goal of the PhD project is to assess the physiology and carbon cycling of key North Atlantic coral and sponge species under variable environmental conditions. This will be conducted through experimentation on live organisms in aquaria in Edinburgh, the Azores and Norway. Results will help inform how carbon cycling of these key habitat forming organisms changes under variable present day conditions and projected future conditions, to understand how carbon cycling in the North Atlantic may change.
The project will have a large fieldwork abroad component (up to a year), with research being conducted in research stations in the Azores and Norway, with further research opportunities on cruises within the ATLAS program. The scholar will be expected to be self-sufficient working in field stations abroad, and have previous relevant technical experience ideally including experience of marine aquaria and of experimenting on marine organisms.
Further details can be found here: https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=81204&LID=468
