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Postdoc and PhD opportunities: Planning Resilient Landscapes

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Are you interested in advancing the planning and implementation of sponge landscapes in Europe?

Leibniz University Hannover is calling for applications for a PostDoc and a PhD position in Planning Resilient Landscapes to conduct research on nature-based solutions to address floods, droughts, and biodiversity change within the EU Horizon Europe project SpongeWorks. SpongeWorks will advance the upscaling of ‘sponge measures’ as nature-based solutions to boost the natural water retention capacity in Europe.

The positions are supervised by Christian Albert within the Landscape Planning and Ecosystem Services working group at Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Environmental Planning.

Please see the following websites for the official announcements:
• PostDoc (m/f/d) in Planning Climate Resilient Landscapes (Salary Scale 13 TV-L, 100 %) Due date: March 27, 2024. Key focus: Synthesis research and scientific coordination
• PhD Candidate (m/f/d) in Planning Climate Resilient Landscapes (Salary Scale 13 TV-L, 75 %) Due date: April 1, 2024. Key focus: Geodesign for co-creating sponge strategies.

Postdoc Vacancy: Monitoring, modelling, and managing ecosystem services across landscapes in Canada

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There is an opening for a postdoctoral scholar to help build an Ecosystem Service Observatory System for Canada. The work will be part of the research carried out within the ResNet project on monitoring, modelling, and managing ecosystem services across landscapes in Canada. The position is supervised by Dr. Elena Bennett, in collaboration with Dr. Rich Sharp at Spring and Dr. Becky Chaplin-Kramer at WWF. The postdoc will be based at McGill’s Macdonald Campus in Montreal. We’re very excited about the possibilities in front of us with this project, and the postdoc has the potential to be at a really cool position at the heart of the work.

Find out more by downloading the attachment.

Researcher with experience in Geoinformatics and Spatial Data Science

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The Institute of Forestry in Hamburg, Germany is looking for a full-time researcher position starting 01.04.2024 for a period of 27 months.

The position will be part of the research project “GEOSpatial remote sensing-based detection of land use change in support of the EU regulation on deforestation-free supply chains (GEOS-EUDR)” funded by BMZ.

Submission deadline: Wednesday, 07.02.2024 (23.59h CET)

Full details vacancy annoucement here or in the PDF attached.

 

Junior Scientist on Resilience and Vulnerability of Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean Type Ecosystems

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A permanent position as a junior scientist (Chargé de Recherche) will be open soon at INRAE Aix-en-Provence, France.

This position will be in the research unit UMR RECOVER based near Aix-en-Provence, within the team EMR (Ecosystèmes Méditerranéens et Risques/Mediterranean Ecosystems and Risks). The recruited person will have to develop researches on Resilience and Vulnerability of Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean Type Ecosystems, particularly in the context on climate change and fire risk. More details on the INRAE jobs web page after 31st January 2024.

To apply click here.

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Research Associate: Understanding human-nature interactions in urban areas using new forms of big data

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The School of Social & Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow has an opportunity for a Research Associate to make a leading contribution to the ESRC SDAI funded project ‘developing and exploring methods to understand human-nature interactions in urban areas using new forms of big data‘. The post holder will also contribute to research and data service activities of the UKRI-ESRC-funded Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC). [Read more…] about Research Associate: Understanding human-nature interactions in urban areas using new forms of big data