Oferta compartida por Cristina Internships Our Spring 2024 Internship application window is now open! Applications are due by November 1, 2023! Location: Pima County, Arizona Hourly Rate: $15/hour Position: Part-time, 10 hours per week Application deadline: November 1, 2023 Interviews: December 4 and 5, 2023 Internship start date: January 16, 2024 Job Description Interns with the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection (CSDP) actively contribute to meaningful conservation projects to protect wildlife and open space. They will be mentored by CSDP staff, both collaboratively and independently completing tasks. Interns are provided opportunities for specific mentorship and training in an area of interest through a chosen final project. This position offers remote work-from-home and flexible hours. Although the work is remote, we are seeking Interns based near Pima County, Arizona who can coordinate with their supervisor to occasionally exchange physical equipment, and to have oppor...
Oferta compartida por Nuria Phylogenomics and evolution of speciose desert rodents (genera: Gerbillus ) We are looking for an enthusiastic student / researcher to join project and expeditions to the Sahara to collect data and accomplish research / PhD thesis. The selected candidate will apply with the team for an independent research position / PhD scholarship. Several financing opportunities exist within the supervisor team institutions (see below). Ongoing climate change, and extreme weather events, raised concern for species survival throughout the world. Some organisms have long coped with those problems, by adapting to new conditions and seeking shelter in suitable patchy areas. Therefore a promising approach to predict the future of the species is to first reconstruct its evolutionary past. North Africa has been exposed to frequent, and repeated, climatic oscillations. Therefore, the Sahara desert can serve as a laboratory to study how species respond to climate change and extrem...
Oferta compartida por Nuria We are looking for an enthusiastic researcher to apply to work with our team ( https://boratyns.wixsite.com/zbyszek ). The selected candidate will apply with the team for the independent Junior Researcher position within the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology ( https://www.fct.pt/ : Calls/Scientific Employment: 1. Scientific Employment Stimulus - Individual Call). The timeline for the application is: January-February 2022 and position to start within a year from that date. We work mainly, but not only, on Sahara-Sahel rodents as a suitable model system to investigate variable aspects of animal adaptations (e.g.: https://doi.org/10.25225/jvb. ). We aim to develop an integrative approach to camouflage (combining fields such as: ecophysiology, behavioral and community ecology, genomics, remote sensing). The successful candidate is expected to join ongoing investigations and to develop their research integrating multiple fields. We are flexib...
Oferta compartida por Nuria The Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology at the UAE University invites applications for a postdoctoral position, focusing on genome evolution and adaptation of desert plants to abiotic stress to begin as soon as possible. We are looking for a motivated researcher, where the bulk of his/her work will focus on bioinformatic analyses of data generated in the Center. He/She will conduct and develop research using the full range of genomic and bioinformatics tools, build workflow pipeline to address relevant scientific questions. The post holder will be a member of the Genomics and Bioinformatics platform group with responsibility for carrying out and publishing research within the designated research theme. The ideal candidate will: be a productive researcher with interests in both Diversity, Genetic Variation, Population Genomics, Transcriptomics and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. The candidate should have interest i...
Funded Ph.D. Position – Chihuahuan Desert Ecology – New Mexico State University We are seeking a highly motivated Ph.D. student to work on a multidisciplinary project across the fields of plant ecology and soil microbial ecology. Research will be conducted in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico at the Jornada Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Site http://jornada.nmsu.edu/lter . The project will explore the abiotic and biotic drivers of Lehmann lovegrass ( Eragrostis lehmanniana ) invasion, as well as assessing the impacts of invasion on extant plant and microbial communities. The student would join the labs of Drs. Lehnhoff and Pietrasiak in Entomology, Plant Pathology & Weed Science ( https://eppws.nmsu.edu/ ) and Plant & Environmental Sciences ( http://aces.nmsu.edu/academics/pes/ ), respectively, and would also have the opportunity to interact with a dynamic group of scientists at the Jornada LTER. Basic qualifications Candidates should have: a minimum of a ...
