Vacancies at The Nordic Centre for Research on Marine Ecosystems and Resources under Climate Change (NorMER)

8 PhD and 4 Postdoc positions are now available in the new Nordic Centre for Research on Marine Ecosystems and Resources under Climate Change (NorMER), with more positions opening next year.

A major challenge to managers and scientists today is to identify ways that oceans can provide food and other services in a sustainable way under changing climatic and socioeconomic conditions. As a changing climate and high harvesting put increased pressure on marine resources, scientists of the future need the cross-disciplinary skills to combine physical, biological, and social/economic science to give appropriate management advice. NorMER (www.normer.org) is a new Nordic Centre of Excellence, with funding from Nordforsk, on behalf of Top-level Research Initiative (TRI), and the participating institutions for 2011-2015, that will address this challenge through a unique program of primary research. 45 researches from 10 Nordic institutions will collaborate in training 15 new PhD students and 5 Postdocs through joint projects that explore the biological, economic, and societal consequences of global climate change on fisheries resources in the Nordic region, with a primary focus on the Atlantic cod. The NorMER partnership includes teams led by Nils Chr. Stenseth at the University of Oslo, Carl Folke of the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden, Erik Bonsdorff at Åbo Adakemi University in Finland, Marko Lindroos at the University of Helsinki in Finland, Markus Meier at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute in Sweden, Guðrún Marteinsdóttir at Marine Academic Research in Iceland, Eyðfinn Magnussen at the University of Faroe Islands, Helle Siegstad at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Øyvind Fiksen at the University of Bergen in Norway, and Thomas Kiørboe at the Technical University of Denmark. Each PhD project will be supervised and based at a single institution, but will require a mandatory visit to a partner institution of up to 4 months for co-supervision (see the detailed descriptions for each project for details). The Postdoc positions are additionally required to collaborate with multiple partner institutions.

Application deadline 30th March 2011.

Please see the list of available positions below to apply. Applicants are encouraged to apply for more than one position:
 

Norway-Oslo-PhD1  
This PhD position aims to evaluate the current system of marine reserves in relation to changes in cod population dynamics and climate variation.


Norway-Oslo-Postdoc1   
Postdoc position on statistical modelling of population dynamics of marine ecosystems.


Norway-Oslo-Postdoc2   
Postdoc position in economics: Integrate biological and societal aspects of climate change effects.


Norway-Bergen-PhD1     
This PhD project aims at modelling temperature effects on life history adaptations and population dynamics in Atlantic cod.


Finland-Helsinki-PhD1    
This PhD project aims at developing both regional models of cod and its prey in the Baltic Sea for better management of the fishery in a changing climate.


Finland-Helsinki-PhD2    
This PhD project aims to compare the bioeconomics of different cod fisheries: Barents Sea, Baltic Sea, North Sea, and Iceland, for better strategic management of Nordic fisheries.


Denmark-Copenhagen-PhD1
This PhD project aims at investigating how climatically driven variations of the phytoplankton spring bloom dynamics influence the zooplankton and fish recruitment in north Atlantic marine ecosystems.


Denmark-Copenhagen-PhD2
This PhD project aims at performing genetic/genomic analysis on historical collections of cod and potentially other fish species from several Nordic populations in order to estimate the temporal stability of population structure as well as adaptive micro-evolution in relation to climatic variation.
 

Denmark-Copenhagen-PhD3
This PhD project aims at developing statistical models of fish populations based on catch and survey data. This will be achieved by the application of grey-box statistical modelling techniques.


Denmark-Copenhagen-Postdoc1  
This Postdoc position aims at developing the applicability of statistical methods for grey-box modelling of ecosystem dynamics, that is, methods for combining knowledge about ecosystem dynamics with different data sources.


Sweden-Stockholm-Postdoc1    
This Postdoc position is aimed to apply advanced statistical tools to test for trends, regime shifts, early warning indicators and thresholds in the Baltic Sea ecosystem using long-term monitoring data. 


Iceland-Reykjavik-PhD1     
This PhD position aims to evaluate the impact of climate change on processes that influence survival of Atlantic cod eggs and larvae in Icelandic waters

Published Dec. 3, 2012 2:28 PM - Last modified Oct. 27, 2017 1:36 PM