FYI, if a Benthic ecologist also adequate French speaker, via Marine-B list
Deadline for application submission: Monday, March 17th 2014 at 4 p.m.
Candidates must submit their application by e-mail to labrune from obs-banyuls.fr
Post-Doctoral Position in Benthic Ecology, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
LECOB, UMR8222, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Université Paris 6
Task:
The selected candidate will carry out tasks related to the analysis of selected subsets of community data from the BMDB in order to generating an assessment of
EcoQ of benthic habitats in the French metropolitan coastal waters. In order to do so, he/she will rely on an extensive review of the literature to:
1. Select a set of biotic indices based on their characteristics, pertinence and frequency of use.
2. Compute the values of those indices and assess their correlations within selected data subsets.
3. Develop (metrics, thresholds of conversion in EcoQ based on the concept of reference station) a new biotic index based on the sensitivity/tolerance
concept.
4. Test and validate this new index on subsets from the BMDB through comparisons with existing biotic indices and independent assessments of the EcoQ of
benthic habitats (sediment profiling).
5. Use this new index to describe the current EcoQ of benthic habitats in French metropolitan coastal waters.
Skills:
Candidates should have a Ph. D. in Ecology, Benthic Ecology
Expertise in community ecology and in the handling of biotic indices.
Knowledge of marine systems and benthic ecology will be appreciated.
Proficiency in the R language and/or MATLAB.
Good expertise in statistics and data treatment.
Working knowledge of French and written English desired.
Contacts:
Céline Labrune : labrune from obs-banyuls.fr<mailto:labrune from obs-banyuls.fr>
Antoine Grémare : a.gremare from epoc.u-bordeaux1.fr<mailto:a.gremare from epoc.u-bordeaux1.fr>
More information at https://filex.univ-brest.fr/get?k=mrwGp9pNHsoLshTkHPT
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