The Department of Water Resources (WRS) of the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at the University of Twente is a multidisciplinary scientific department specialising in the understanding, monitoring, predicting and sustainable use and management of water resources. The mission of WRS is to develop...
The Global Change and Sustainability Center (GCSC) at the University of Utah has open positions for three postdoctoral scientists. The successful candidates will join an interdisciplinary team of Environmental Earth Scientists to investigate land-atmosphere exchange of climate-change relevant atmospheric trace gases and their stable isotopes in...
PhD scholarship in Partitioning Respiration in Forest Ecosystems, Denmarck – deadline for application 30 September PhD student in Natural Science, Sweden – deadline for application 26 September Postdoctoral researcher in soil carbon modelling, Switzerland- deadline for application 20 September Research Fellow in behavioral and evolutionary ecology, Norway -deadline for...
The Laimburg Research Centre is recruiting a highly motivated scientist to conduct research in the field of the GIS-based modelling of plant growth of vegetables.
Postdoctoral Researcher: Modeling and analysis of phenological data
Linnaeus University is searching for new members of staff: Professor of Silviculture With a Special Competence in Effects of Climate Change on Forestry Professor in Forest Products with a special competence in Wood and Adhesive Chemistry
We wish to recruit an experienced Research Assistant in Soil Microbiology to join the plant-soil ecology team within the Ecological Sciences Group at our Dundee site. You will join an enthusiastic team of researchers working on the ecological functions of soil micro-organisms. In particular, your role...
Within the junior research group NITROSPHERE, the Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Braunschweig, Germany, invites applications for 1 PhD position (3 years) and 1 technician/research engineer position (3 years).
Titolo originale: Seasonal and inter-annual dynamics of growth, non-structural carbohydrates and C stable isotopes in a Mediterranean beech forest Autori: Andrea Scartazza, Stefano Moscatello, Giorgio Matteucci et al. Rivista: Tree Physiology (2013) doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpt045 Lo studio presenta l’analisi di dinamiche stagionali e inter-annuali di crescita, carboidrati non strutturali (NSC) e...
Titolo originale: First signs of carbon sink saturation in European forest biomass Autori: Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Marcus Lindner, Pieter J. Verkerk et al. Rivista: Nature Climate Change (2013), Perspective doi: 10.1038/nclimate1853 In questo articolo gli autori sottolineano i primi segni di saturazione delle foreste europee sink carbonio. Lo studio è stato condotto su...
Dear Modellers, this school will be held in Trento (Italy) between the 14 and 18 (both included) of october 2013. The school is the first of a cycle of high educational courses focusing on the hydrologic and environmental modeling by using Object Modeling System (OMS). OMS,...
Please join us in beautiful Monterey California for the 9th Symposium in the triennial series, Air Pollution and Global Change. Information is available at the Symposium website www.apgc.eu, which will be updated periodically. This is a diverse international meeting which seeks to integrate recent results in...
at University of Jena We are currently searching for a highly motivated student who would like to explore roles of site scale heteogeneity and event flow on soil organic matter transport and dynamics. The PhD project is embedded in the BGI soil modelling group at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry...
Multi-scale Remote Sensing Retrieval Methods for Carbon Stock Estimates along a Transect from Savannah to Tropical Biomes Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christiane Schmullius Project description This PhD project targets to develop a robust methodology to support the assessment of carbon stocks and to monitor carbon changes along a Savannah-to-rainforest transect...
IX Congresso Nazionale SISEF MULTIFUNZIONALITÀ DEGLI ECOSISTEMI FORESTALI MONTANI: SFIDE E OPPORTUNITÀ PER LA RICERCA E LO SVILUPPO Libera Università Bolzano (LUB), Bolzano, 16-19 Settembre 2013 Si informa che sul sito web del IX Congresso Nazionale della SISEF (Bolzano, LUB, 16-19 set 2013 – http://www.sisef.it/sisef/convegno-ix/) sono...
Titolo originale: Watering the forest for the trees: an emerging priority for managing water in forest landscapes Autori: Gordon E Grant, Christina L Tague and Craig D Allen Rivista: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2013, 11: 314-321) doi: 10.1890/120209 Le recenti minacce derivanti da siccità stanno spingendo ad...
A Post-Doc position available in the GIS and Remote Sensing Platform (Platform chief: Dr. Markus Neteler), Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecologyof the Research and Innovation Centre. The position is related to the FP7 European Project EU BON Building the European Biodiversity Observation Network. This postdoctoral fellowship has two focus: Advanced tools for...
The Plant Ecophysiology Research Group, at the School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban, South Africa), invite applications for the following: · 1 MSc (in grassland/forest ecology) · 1 PhD (on the ecophysiological responses of plants to climate change) · 1 Postdoc (on the ecophysiological...
segnalato da Giovanni Bovio Regione Piemonte, Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Università di Torino e Corpo Volontari AIB Piemonte organizzano il Convegno//Dimostrazione IL FUOCO PRESCRITTO PER LA PREVENZIONE DEGLI INCENDI BOSCHIVI, Ceva (CN) 10 –11 ottobre2013
Titolo originale: Climatic stress increases forest fire severity across the western United States Autori: Phillip J. van Mantgem, Jonathan C. B. Nesmith, MaryBeth Keife, et al. Rivista: Ecology Letters (2013), Early View doi: 10.1111/ele.12151 Recentemente in molte aree degli USA si sta cercando di contrastare l’aumento degli incendi con l’attuazione...