Within the framework of the LifeWatch-INDALO project at the University of Jaén, we offer a post-doctoral contract for graduates in Biology, Environmental Sciences or Physics with experience in work associated with eddy-covariance towers for the analysis of CO2 flows. These teams will be part of the long-term monitoring system of the Sierras Subbéticas Global Change Observatory (OCGSS) that we are beginning to deploy. The person hired will have the collaboration of researchers from the Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA) and will be part of the team of 4 technicians dedicated exclusively to the project. I attach the contract announcement with all its details. I ask you to publicize the call in your research environment.
Application deadline: May 6 to 15, 2022
Contract Type: full time
Duration: from July 2022 to June 2023
Gross salary: €2,500/month
Responsible for the Contract: Julio M. Alcántara. jmalcan@ujaen.es
Source of Financing: project co-financed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development of the Government of Andalusia and the Ministry of Science and Research through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) corresponding to the Pluriregional Operational Program of Spain 2014- 2020.
Specific qualification:
– Ph.D. Graduated in Environmental Sciences, Biology or Physics.
– Demonstrable experience in the use of eddy-covariance data (as part of TFG, TFM or doctoral thesis, or through scientific publications).
Additional merits in aspects related to the contract profile:
– Authorship in scientific articles.
– Experience in writing technical reports.
– Experience in developing research projects.
Other merits:
– Collaborations with international research groups.
– Good level of English (B2 certificate or higher, or demonstrable experience in an interview).
– Driving license (B).
– Experience in research in ecosystem functions and biodiversity.
Application details and documentation: https://www.ujaen.es/servicios/servinfo/anuncios
Ref: 2022/CL037 (T2-I)
Contract description: We are looking to incorporate a researcher with experience in work associated with eddy-covariance towers for the analysis of CO2 flows. At the OCGSS we are preparing the assembly of 6 eddy-covariance towers in forests of the Andalusian Sierras Subbéticas (around points 37.65N, -3.72W and 38.25N, -2.64W). These towers will monitor pine forests of Pinus halepensis and P. nigra subsp. salzmanni, both natural and from repopulation, plus an area affected by a fire in 2017 and an area of holm oak forest. These teams will be part of the long-term monitoring system of the Sierras Subbéticas Global Change Observatory (OCGSS) that we are beginning to deploy. The work team will include four technicians dedicated exclusively to the project: one dedicated to databases and web developments, one dedicated to GIS tasks (vegetation mapping and processing of aerial and satellite images), a field technician in plant ecology (vegetation mapping, flora lists, demographic and phenological monitoring, biomass estimates) and another field technician in entomology (species lists, development of a macro-photography collection, demographic monitoring of arthropod communities and estimates of ecological functions of the entomofauna). All technicians will also collaborate in maintenance work on monitoring equipment. The contract should start in June 2022 (no later than July 2022) and will cover the entire initial implementation phase of the project, which ends in June 2023. However, the OCGSS is planned as a long-term infrastructure, so that the team of researchers will be in charge of attending research calls that allow financing the long-term continuity of the hired personnel. This scientific equipment will allow our research group (RNM-354) to open a new line that will be co-directed by the hired researcher. To this end, the person hired is expected to take an active part in the development of research funding applications (at regional, national and European level), which involve the use of our equipment. The person hired will become part of the Interuniversity Institute for Earth System Research in Andalusia (IISTA), which includes several research groups from the universities of Jaén, Granada and Córdoba that work on the same topic as this project.