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Senior Scientist, Management of Planted Forests

at CIFOR The Senior Scientist will facilitate and identify strategic opportunities for research with impacts on the management of planted forests for multiple goods and services, to further realise their potential contribution to contemporary sustainable development objectives at scales from local to global, and from smallholder to...

Two Postdoctoral Positions – University of Arizona

segnalato da Federico Magnani The School of Natural Resources and the Environment is seeking resourceful, creative scientists, who are committed to tackling some of the big challenges in the carbon cycle and paleoecology. There are two Assistant Research Scientist positions in ecosystem model-data synthesis are available...

Post-Doc in Biodiversity and Remote Sensing Data Analysis

A Post-Doc position under the supervision of Dr. Duccio Rocchini is available in the GIS and Remote Sensing Platform (Platform chief: Dr. Markus Neteler), Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology of the Research and Innovation Centre. The position is related to the FP/ European Project EU BON Building the European Biodiversity...

X Convegno Nazionale sulla Biodiversità – Primo Annuncio

I Circolare X CONVEGNO NAZIONALE SULLA BIODIVERSITA’ Roma e Viterbo, 2-5 settembre 2014 Organizzazione a cura di: Centro Interuniversitario per le Ricerche, la Conservazione ed utilizzazione del Germoplasma Mediterraneo (CIGM) Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura -Centro di ricerca per lo studio delle...

Professional vacancy announcement at FOM

FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Rome, Italy DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: 18 September 2013 POSITION TITLE: Forestry Officer (Forest Genetic Resources and Biodiversity) GRADE LEVEL: P-4 DUTY STATION: Rome, Italy ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT: Forest Assessment, Management and Conservation Division (FOM) DURATION: Fixed Term: 2 years

PhD position available

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...

3 postdoc positions at Utah

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 and Post-doc positions available

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...

Soil Ecology Research Assistant in UK

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...

HIGHLIGHTS: Collelongo in copertina su Tree Physiology

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...

HIGHLIGHTS: Primi segni di saturazione nelle foreste Europee sink di carbonio.

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...

Hydrology: modelling school in Trento

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,...