PhD Research Project - Putting ecosystem models to work for marine environmental management
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This is an exciting opportunity to develop methods that will impact on management and decision making in the marine environment. Understanding the outputs of ecosystem multi-model ensembles is technically challenging, and the science of communicating these outcomes - and, crucially, the uncertainty around them - to a wider audience is in its infancy. This is critical, because the uncertainty around a suite of outcomes could mean the difference between, for example, sustainable exploitation and collapse of a fishery. This PhD, joint funded by Cefas and the Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield will aim to develop this science, building on the model ensemble approach to marine ecosystem management being pioneered within the Nerc/Defra Marine Ecosystems Research Programme (MERP marine-ecosystems.org.uk).
The major aims of the PhD are:
1) To develop methods to interpret the output of ensembles of marine ecosystem models, and in particular to identify the key sources of uncertainty;
2) To assess the impact of model uncertainty on predictions of key parameters for marine environmental policy, in particular the provision of various ecosystem services;
3) To develop tools (e.g. novel forms of data visualisation) to communicate model ensemble predictions and associated uncertainty to a non-specialist audience.
The student will be based in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences as the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Tom Webb, Paul Blackwell, Julia Blanchard, and Kieran Hyder.
For more information or to apply please go to: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=58555
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