[Coral-List] TWO POST-DOCTORAL OPPORTUNITIES IN TROPICAL MARINE ECOLOGY

[sale at uwindsor.ca]

We seek two POST-DOCTORAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGISTS to join a 
five-person field research team for a major project in Dubai, United Arab 
Emirates.  The project is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, 
4-year effort to establish a sustainable marine environmental management 
program for extensive subtidal ecosystems newly-created during coastal 
terra-forming projects such as Palm Jumeirah and The World.  Our project 
includes a sophisticated environmental monitoring program, and specific 
targeted research to determine the ecological behavior of the new marine 
systems being created due to the reclamation efforts.  The overall goal is 
to build a proactive management program based on scientifically sound 
models of ecological performance, which will make it possible to 
anticipate patterns of change and ensure maintenance of a sustainable 
ecological system with good water quality and resilient ecological 
communities.  In addition, the project includes an educational component 
for environmental managers in the region and more broadly, in the form of 
training workshops and an international conference program.  This United 
Nations University project is being led by Dr. Peter F. Sale of UNU?s 
Canada-based International Network on Water, Environment & Health 
(UNU-INWEH), with Dr. Ken G. Drouillard (University of Windsor) Dr. 
Charles G. Trick (University of Western Ontario), and Dr. Bjorn Kjerfve 
(Texas A&M University).  The Dubai-based team works closely with the lead 
investigators, including occasional visits to the North American sites.

These are academic positions with excellent opportunities to undertake 
original research and to publish in leading journals.  Successful 
candidates will hold a Ph.D. in some area of marine or environmental 
biology, preferably with tropical experience, and will have expertise in 
one or more of benthic ecology of tropical lagoonal habitats, production 
dynamics of tropical phytoplankton communities, and nutrient dynamics, or 
microbial ecology of tropical coastal systems.  Experience in team-based, 
multidisciplinary research is desirable, as is familiarity with coral reef 
or other tropical coastal biota.  These are hands-on positions, so SCUBA 
and small boat experience will be expected.
 
For more information, and directions on how to apply, go to:   
http://www.inweh.unu.edu/inweh/Vacancies.htm
Please do not send applications to me, but to the contact information 
given in the Vacancy announcement.  Closing date is 10 April 2007.

Peter F. Sale
UNU-INWEH 

Peter F. Sale
International Network on Water, Environment and Health
United Nations University
and
Biological Sciences
University of Windsor

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