8 new postdoctoral positions at the NEW ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies

ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, a multi-institutional centre that will formally begin operations by the end of 2005, solicits applications for up to 8 new postdoctoral positions. 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.
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" )
Program 5: Resilience of linked social-ecological systems (terry.hughes@jcu.edu.au)

Source: Marinet

Jorge Brenner