[Coral-List] Postdoctoral Invitation from Terry Hughes
Jonita Kerr
jonita.kerr at jcu.edu.au
Mon Aug 8 22:27:01 EDT 2005
Dear Colleague,
I am writing to solicit applications for up to 8 new postdoctoral positions
at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, a
multi-institutional centre that will formally begin operations by the end
of 2005. The positions are available at James Cook University
(Townsville), the University of Queensland (Brisbane) and the Australian
National University (Canberra). The Centre has secured so far
approximately $40 million in funding for 2006-2010. The Centre of
Excellence will take a leading role in multi-national research programs,
and at the outset has ongoing collaborative links to 28 institutions in
nine countries.
A list of approximately 200 recent publications by the Centre Chief
Investigators is attached. Requests for pdfs may be sent to
jonita.kerr at jcu.edu.au.
Positions are for 1-3 years (preferably 3-year), with a salary of
approximately A$55-70K plus benefits, depending on experience. Funding is
available for moving costs from overseas. To be competitive, younger
applicants will need to have already published most of their PhD results in
better journals.
The successful applicants will join Centre staff engaged in the study of
coral reefs at a global scale. There is considerable scope for the
successful candidates to shape a role that suits their particular strengths
and interests. The successful appointees will be expected to publish his
or her work in high-quality journals, and to collaborate with Centre staff
to apply their skills to research problems in coral reef management and
conservation. We are particularly interested in people with advanced
training in environmental and socio-economic history, social sciences,
natural resource economics, macroecology, epidemiology, stress physiology
(particularly climate change), evolutionary biology, phylogenetics,
bioinformatics, paleobiology and biogeography. A high level of
numerical/statistical skills is essential, while previous experience with
coral reefs is desirable.
The Centre's activities will focus around five programs (see below) that
transcend the three major Australian nodes of the Centre. Potential
candidates should begin a dialogue with the appropriate Program Leader to
help guide a formal application and to find out more about their potential
role in one or more programs. We will shortly advertise these positions in
Science/Nature.
Program 1: Evolutionary and environmental change
(Malcolm.McCulloch at anu.edu.au)
Program 2: Understanding and managing coral reef biodiversity
(david.bellwood at jcu.edu.au)
Program 3: Marine reserves and reef connectivity (garry.russ at jcu.edu.au)
Program 4: Genetic, molecular and physiological processes ("Ove
Hoegh-Guldberg" <oveh at uq.edu.au>)
Program 5: Resilience of linked social-ecological systems
(terry.hughes at jcu.edu.au)
Many thanks for your time and for passing this on to your younger colleagues.
Best wishes,
Terry
Jonita Kerr for Prof. Terry Hughes
Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity
Department of Marine Biology
James Cook University
Townsville, Australia
ph +61 7 4781 4823
fax +61 7 4725 1570
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