Title
Quantitative Ecologist/Statistician (2 posts available) – Ref SB2276
Description
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Centre for Research into Ecological and
Environmental Modelling (CREEM), Salary: £29,972-£35,788 pa, Start: 2 April 2012
or as soon as possible thereafter, Fixed Term: 3 years
Details
Applications are invited for two Postdoctoral Research Fellows (PDRFs) on a new
research project to start April 2012. The project entitled MOCHA – “Multi-study
OCean acoustics Human effects Analysis” is a large, international collaborative
project with the funded posts based within CREEM at the University of St
Andrews. The research is funded by the United States Office of Naval Research.
There is currently great concern about the impacts of man-made noise in the
oceans on marine fauna. Behavioural Response Studies (BRSs) are experiments
aimed at directly quantifying the relationship between potential anthropogenic
disturbances and their effect on the behaviour of specific marine mammals. The
United States Navy is making a substantial investment in BRS studies, aimed at
understanding the effect of active sonar on species of concern. Despite the
difficulties of conducting such experiments in the field and analysing such
complex data, we believe that substantial progress can be made to enhance the
inferences drawn from existing and future BRS data. We will achieve this by
bringing together researchers undertaking BRS studies and statisticians
specializing in the analysis of biological experiments of this kind in a working
group format, with dedicated researcher effort between group meetings.
We require two post-doctoral researchers to work within this project. You will
either be a statistician or ecologist with demonstrable experience in
quantitative methods with a PhD in statistics, mathematics, ecology, or a
related quantitative discipline. A broad interest or experience in the field of
marine mammal biology, animal behaviour or phase 1 clinical trials would be
advantageous.
Informal enquiries to Dr Catriona Harris, e-mail: [log in to unmask] or
Dr Len Thomas, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Further details, including application details, are available from
https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/
under reference number SB2276
A direct link to the above page is http://tiny.cc/bpzmu
In particular, see the link to "Further Particulars" at the bottom of that page.
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Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling
The Observatory, University of St Andrews, Scotland KY16 9LZ
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