Up to 8 new postdoctoral positions will be available at the ARC Centre of Excellence
in Coral
Reef Studies, a multi-institutional centre that will formally begin operations
by the end of 2005.
The positions are available at James Cook University (Townsville), the University
of Queensland
(Brisbane) and the Australian National University (Canberra). The Centre has
secured so far
approximately $40 million in funding for 2006-2010. The Centre of Excellence
will take a leading
role in multi-national research programs, and at the outset has ongoing collaborative
links to 28
institutions in nine countries.
A list of recent publications by the Centre Chief Investigators is
attached. Requests for pdfs may
be sent to jonita.kerr@jcu.edu.au.
Positions are for 1-3 years (preferably 3-year), with a salary of approximately
A$55-70K plus
benefits, depending on experience. Funding is available for moving costs from
overseas. To be
competitive, younger applicants will need to have already published most of
their PhD results in
better journals.
The successful applicants will join Centre staff engaged in the study of coral
reefs at a global
scale. There is considerable scope for the successful candidates to shape a
role that suits their
particular strengths and interests. The successful appointees will be expected
to publish his or
her work in high-quality journals, and to collaborate with Centre staff to apply
their skills to
research problems in coral reef management and conservation. We are particularly
interested in
people with advanced training in environmental and socio-economic history, social
sciences,
natural resource economics, macroecology, epidemiology, stress physiology (particularly
climate
change), evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, bioinformatics, paleobiology and
biogeography. A
high level of numerical/statistical skills is essential, while previous experience
with coral reefs is
desirable.
The Centre's activities will focus around five programs (see below) that transcend
the three major
Australian nodes of the Centre. Potential candidates should begin a dialogue
with the
appropriate Program Leader to help guide a formal application and to find out
more about their
potential role in one or more programs. We will shortly advertise these positions
in
Science/Nature.
Program 1: Evolutionary and environmental change
(Malcolm.McCulloch@anu.edu.au)
Program 2: Understanding and managing coral reef biodiversity
(david.bellwood@jcu.edu.au)
Program 3: Marine reserves and reef connectivity (garry.russ@jcu.edu.au)
Program 4: Genetic, molecular and physiological processes ("Ove
Hoegh-Guldberg" <oveh@uq.edu.au>)
Program 5: Resilience of linked social-ecological systems
(terry.hughes@jcu.edu.au)
Prof. Terry Hughes
Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity
Department of Marine Biology
James Cook University
Townsville, Australia
ph +61 7 4781 4823
fax +61 7 4725 1570