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PhD Fellowship to be held at University of
Bergen,
Palaeozoology is one of the main research areas
at the Natural History Collections at the
Within osteology, the interaction between fauna and environment and fauna
history are the major areas of interest. The PhD fellow will use bone samples
collected at the Hardangervidda high mountain plateau as basis for his/her
research. In the interdisciplinary Hardangervidda project http://bergenmuseum.uib.no/forskning/hardangervidda
large samples of reindeer bones from Iron Age and Medieval times have been
excavated. By means of these bone materials and metrical, molecular and
ecological methods, the research fellow will investigate the history of the
reindeer at Hardangervidda for the last 2000 years.
The appointment is in total four years, and 25% of the time will be museum
related work in the Natural History Collections. The successful applicant will
be admissible to the Ph.D. programme of the Department of Biology, with an
approved plan for doctoral studies with a time frame of three years. Hence,
applicants must meet the formal admission requirements for the PhD programme at
Closing date for application: 03.04.2009
Reference number: 09.1908
Further details are available from https://secure.jobbnorge.no/visstilling2.aspx?stillid=55825