Paleonet: PhD opportunity (fully funded) at the University of Queensland, Australia - Global Change Ecology & Biodiversity Conservation

[Sun Wook Kim]

Dear Paleonet subscribers,


The Marine PalaeoEcology Lab at the University of Queensland (UQ, Australia) is seeking a postgraduate student (PhD) to work on a perennial subject in global change ecology: How do we improve our capacity to project marine biodiversity responses to climate change? Organisms need to adapt and/or migrate to avoid critical population loss under climate change. Despite the importance of both processes in biodiversity dynamics, most biodiversity predictions have focussed on the patterns of migration under climate change. The successful candidate will investigate the type and extent of both adaptation and migration required for ecologically and economically important marine species to avoid extirpation and extinction under climate change.



The successful candidate will join a team of world-leading global change ecologists and climatologists to work on a successful Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘Portfolio projection of biodiversity responses under climate change’. This project will use global circulation model products, natural history records, laboratory experiments, novel theoretical frameworks, and quantitative ecology tools to evaluate the type and magnitude of biodiversity responses required to avoid biodiversity crises under climate change.



Candidates with strong backgrounds in macroecology, quantitative ecology, global change ecology, climate sciences and/or biogeography are desirable. The candidate should be capable of writing R or Python scripts to perform spatiotemporal analyses. Previous experience with climate data is also desirable. The candidate will be offered latitude to select the focal research species, provided the species is suitable for both projection modelling and potential laboratory experiments.



As part of the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, the successful candidate will be provided an earmarked scholarship from the Australian Government to assist the candidate with a stipend and tuition fees. To be eligible for this scholarship scheme, the candidate must meet the entry requirements for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the UQ (https://future-students.uq.edu.au/study/programs/doctor-philosophy-7501#entry-requirements).


Preferred start date: Early 2023



If you have any queries regarding this position, please contact Prof. John Pandolfi (j.pandolfi at uq.edu.au<mailto:j.pandolfi at uq.edu.au>).

Sun Kim
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Marine PalaeoEcology Lab | ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
School of Biological Sciences
The University of Queensland
St. Lucia, QLD 4072
Australia

P: (+61) 7 3365 2729
F: (+61) 7 3365 4755
E: sun.w.kim at uq.edu.au | sun.wk.kim at gmail.com
W: marinepalaeoecology.org

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