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Deadline : 26 mars 2012
PostDoc, UMR 7093
Within the FP7 European Perseus and French Mermex projects, the post doctorate will work on ecoregionalization in the environment of the Mediterranean sea under following framework:
PERSEUS: Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research for the Southern EUropean Seas (PI: Dr Evangelos Papathanassiou – Greece).
WP1: Marine ecoregionalisation, distribution of multiple natural and anthopogenic pressures on the Mediterranean Sea (basin scale study) (PI: Emin Ozsoy – Turkey).
Task 1.1: Analysis of pressures and processes and their impact on the ecosystems.
Subtask 1.1.6. Data integration and marine ecoregionalisation (PI: Philippe Koubbi – France).
MERMEX: Marine Ecosystems Response in the Mediterranean EXperiment (PI: Cécile Guieu, Xavier Durrieu de Madron and Richard Sempéré).
WP5: Ecosystem Based Management (PI: Philippe Koubbi and Jean-Olivier Irisson).
A Geographic Information System (GIS) based on the integration and processing of existing data will be used to define biogeochemical provinces and ecoregions (homogeneous regions with predictable environmental and species assemblages properties that differ from one region to another) and to map ecosystem features as well as potential pressures (vulnerability to environmental natural and anthropogenic changes) at the basin scale. The methodology developed will be sufficiently flexible to assimilate new information from PERSEUS and MERMEX projects.
The candidate will fit into national and international programs and work with different teams of LOV (Oceanographic Lab. of Villefranche, UMR 7093 CNRS-UPMC), MERMEX and PERSEUS to exchange information and data.
The candidate should have skills in marine ecology and biogeochemistry. He has to be proficient in numerical ecology and more particularly in geostatistics, habitat and community analysis for delineating ecoregions.
Details:The post doctorate will be hired from September 1st 2012 to 30th of November 2012.
Deadlines : Applications are due for March 26th including a CV (3 pages maximum) and a cover letter.
Contact : Philippe Koubbi UMR LOV: koubbi@obs-vlfr.fr

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Call for Applications – Closing date: 31 Jan 2012

1.    Proposed Project Title
Multi-level participatory planning for aiding the development of meso-scale(1) institutions for natural resource management
(1)Sub-national or resource relevant management scale

2.    Objectives
The general objective of the study is to develop and test a participatory planning framework which can contribute to the building and the viability of meso-scale institutions dedicated to natural resource management (water, soil, biodiversity, forests…).
Meso-scale is understood as an intermediary level between local (or community) level and national level. At this level national policies are being disseminated or interpreted (scaling down) and/or local experiences aggregated and disseminated (scaling up and out). Meso-scale institutions can also have their own perspectives and can hold specific functions such as conflict management, support for operational management (such as planning), as well as issue scoping and framing.
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Deadline : 31 Janvier 2012

Nippon Foundation Nereus Fellowship: “Improving species range map methodologies for marine biodiversity”
Réponse par email to: gae.matthews@geog.cam.ac.uk, no later than 1200 noon UK time on Tuesday, 31st January 2012

The University of Cambridge and UNEP-WCMC have secured funding to provide full support to a PhD student for 3 years (subject to satisfactory progress) from 1 October 2012 under the Nereus Programme, a co-operation between The Nippon Foundation and The University of British Columbia, Canada.

Nereus is a new programme designed to develop scientific capability for predicting future seafood production. The programme builds on international networking of scientists to communicate and bring about change to how we exploit the oceans in order for our children and grandchildren to enjoy seafood and experience a healthy ocean.
The goal to develop future ocean simulations is fundamentally dependent on the availability of reliable, spatially explicit databases of relevant data, which are global in extent and of appropriate spatial and temporal resolution to the policies and management decisions that they inform. LIRE LA SUITE –>