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Position for research assistant at James Hutton

Research Assistant

Land Management Social Science

The James Hutton Institute, TJHI

Salary £21,098 - £23,442

Applications are invited for a highly motivated Research Assistant – Land Management Social Science to work within the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group (SEGS) to support research activities relating to the analysis of agricultural, environmental and rural development issues, with a focus on agricultural knowledge systems for the first year. The successful candidate will join a team of Research Assistants providing a set of complementary skills that can be called upon by colleagues in SEGS. The candidate will initially be assigned to two on-going research projects funded by Scottish Government and the European Commission: ProAKIS (Prospects for Farmers’ Support: Advisory Services in European AKIS) and FarmPath (Farming Transitions: Pathways towards regional sustainability of agriculture in Europe). Work will involve collaboration with other Social Scientists at the James Hutton Institute and partner organisations across Europe.

The successful candidate will be expected to maintain and add content to the project web-sites, undertake qualitative interviews, search secondary sources, for example, to characterise agricultural knowledge systems in the United Kingdom and Ireland, write reports and other material for non-academic audiences, and enter data into qualitative data analysis programmes and referencing software.

This post is based in Aberdeen.

All individuals wishing to work within the UK must be entitled to do so before they can be employed.

Further information is available from www.hutton.ac.uk/careers. To apply please submit a covering letter addressing the applicant’s fit with the person specification and CV, (including the names and addresses of 3 referees one of which must be your current or most recent employer) via the 'Apply' button below or by post to HR Office Aberdeen, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH. Applications should also include three paragraphs (background/research questions, methods, findings) describing one example of a research project in which the applicant has been involved.

Please quote reference number JHI-10-13 in all correspondence.

Closing date for applications: 25 March 2013.

The James Hutton Institute

T: 0844 928 5428

OFERTA DE TRABAJO

En la actualidad estamos buscando Ingenieros Agrónomos, como trabajadores por cuenta propia (autónomos) para que colaboren con nosotros en el proyecto LUCAS (Land Use / Cover Area frame statistical Survey) para la oficina de estadística de la Comisión Europea (EUROSTAT).

Los interesados pueden remitir su CV a la siguiente dirección de correo electrónico: enlucas2012es@gmail.com

OFERTA

COLABORACIÓN EN PROYECTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN:

“El nexo Agua–Energía, retos y oportunidades relacionados con el agua para el sector de la energía”

Se busca un investigador de nivel senior que tenga el siguiente perfil:

Perfecto dominio del inglés (leer, hablar y escribir) y del castellano;

Titulado superior (preferiblemente ingeniero);

Disponer de un master vinculado con el sector de la energía o en su defecto, una experiencia equivalente demostrable;

Facilidades para trabajar en equipo y la gestión de proyectos.

Condiciones de trabajo:

Contrato hasta julio de 2013 con posibilidad de ampliación;
Equipo multidisciplinar de 3 personas (aparte del equipo directivo);

Incorporación en un equipo multidisciplinar puntero en el ámbito de los recursos hídricos y gobernanza del agua;

Posibilidad de realización de tesis doctoral;

Sueldo de 22.000 – 34.000 € brutos anuales, dependiendo del perfil;

Lugar de trabajo: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Departamento de Geodinámica.

Las personas interesadas y que cumplan todos los requisitos pueden dirigirse a Laurent Hardy (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), enviando un CV de 2 páginas máximo a: laurent.hardy@geo.ucm.es antes del 17 de febrero 2012.

Las entrevistas con los seleccionados tendrán lugar entre el 20 y el 25 de febrero.

Engineer Position

Title Indicators of climate change impacts on agro-ecosystems and forests: development of tools to make them useful for a large community of potential users.

Dead-line for Submission November 30, 2011

Start of Contract ~March 2012

Duration 30 months

Salary ~1656 to 2010€ depending on the number of years of past experience Employer CNRS

Location Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Orme des Merisiers 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette. France (http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/)

Contact Person nathalie.de-noblet@lsce.ipsl.fr

Description of the job

Scientific Context The work proposed is part of the ANR-ORACLE project (https://oracle.lsce.ipsl.fr/). The aim of ORACLE is to systematically explore the potential implications of climate change and changes in socio-economic and policy environment for land-use in France (and Europe)—taking explicitly into account the link between uncertainty on climatic drivers and ecosystem responses on the one hand, and adaptation decisions on the other hand. ORACLE brings together climatologists, agronomists, economists, hydrologists and statisticians with a common goal: better inform the relationships between climate constraints and land uses. We focus on major anthropogenic ecosystems in Europe (crops, pasture and managed forests). Our time scale of interest spans the very recent past (last 30 years), and the future regional climate projections for the 21th century with various horizons of interests (2050 and 2100).

Climatologists here are developers of global land-surface models. They will interact with agronomists and forestry scientists through the co-development of indicators that will relate outputs from global
land models to outputs from specific impact models. The indicators will be used, within ORACLE, to identify those areas in France and Europe that may be at risks or become opportunities for a suite of
managed ecosystems (crops, pasture, forests).

Assignments

The engineer we are looking for will be in charge of the data interface between global land-surface models and impact models. He/she will have to develop and regularly update the database that will include all model outputs. He/she may also have to run the global land-surface
model ORCHIDEE. He/she will develop the graphic tools to present the indicators to not only scientists but also stakeholders, i.e. endusers of our products. He/she will adapt a variety of statistical tools to
the indicators we have chosen to address assessments regarding risks & opportunities. He/she will develop and maintain the ORACLE web site not only for our scientific partners but also for end-users (such as e.g. stakeholders).

He/she will need to work in close collaboration with all partners

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION

Title Designing relevant indicators of climate change impacts (for agro-ecosystems and managed forests), derived from Global Dynamic Vegetation Models’ outputs

Dead-line for Submission November 30, 2011

Start of Contract ~March 2012 (No later than June 2012)

Duration 24 to 34 months (see ‘assignments’ in ‘description of the job’)

Salary ~1928 to 3191€ depending on the number of years of past experience

Employer CNRS

Location Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Orme des Merisiers 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette. France (http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/)

Contact Person nathalie.de-noblet@lsce.ipsl.fr

Description of the job

Scientific Context Global Dynamic Vegetation Models (hereafter referred to as DGVMs) are now frequently used to evaluate the regional or global impacts of climate changes on the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Such impacts are regionally distributed on a regular grid and are computed using similar formalisms for e.g. water and carbon cycles, basic processes of ecosystem functioning, which gives confidence on the spatial distribution of the simulated impacts.
Scholze et al. (2006), for example, carried out a climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystems.
Although scientifically very challenging, such estimates do not provide sufficient quantitative information for e.g. agronomists, forestry scientists on the real risks their specific area of interest will be facing in the near and far future. They are therefore not an effective basis for communicating the climate change pressures likely to be faced by land-management stakeholders (Matthews et al., 2008)
and do not hold a socio-economical dimension. Such considerations have pushed some of us to propose to develop a methodology to make our DGVM outputs more useful. We intend to
elaborate series of indicators in view of linking land use (arable crops, grasslands and forests) to climatic variations (signals of temperature and rainfall changes, dryness/wetness cycles, etc.) for a
pertinent set of cropping, grassland and forest systems. We will develop transfer functions that will connect some of the various outputs from our DGVMs to the outputs simulated by specific impact
models in e.g. agronomy, forestry. The work proposed here is part of the ANR-ORACLE project
(https://oracle.lsce.ipsl.fr/). The aim of ORACLE is to systematically explore the potential implications of climate change and changes in socio-economic and policy environment for land-use in France (and
Europe)—taking explicitly into account the link between uncertainties on climatic drivers and ecosystem responses on one hand, and adaptation decisions on the other hand. ORACLE brings
together climatologists, agronomists, economists, hydrologists and statisticians with a common goal: better inform the relationships between climate constraints and land uses. We focus on major
anthropogenic ecosystems in Europe (crops, pasture and managed forests). Our time scale of interest spans the very recent past (last 30 years), and the future regional climate projections for the 21th century with various horizons of interests (2050 and 2100).

Assignments

The recruited post-doctorate fellow will participate to the development of the transfer functions to translate the DGVM’s outputs into the set of indicators mentioned above. This part of the
task implies a very close collaboration with all partners, and with engineers or post-docs that individual partners will (or have) hire(d). He/she will be in charge of implementing those transfer functions in
the ORCHIDEE DGVM, developed at LSCE/IPSL. He/she will carry out the simulations of future impacts of climate change, forcing ORCHIDEE with a variety of climate change scenarios. He/she will
work, for this task, in close collaboration with an engineer to be recruited at LSCE. He/she will work on the interpretation of these simulations, and develop tools to assess the areas of risks/opportunities in France (and eventually Europe). The post-doctorate will be recruited for 24 months. Additional 10
months may added to the contract in which case the post-doctorate will be asked to spend those in Bordeaux (INRA laboratory,
EPHYSE: http://www.bordeaux-aquitaine.inra.fr/ephyse/) and work in the definition of useful indicators for forested areas.

FELLOW POSITION (POSTDOCTORAL) WATER AND FOOD SECURITY AND CARE OF NATURE IN LATIN AMERICA AND SPAIN RESEARCH PROJECT FUNDED BY THE BOTIN FOUNDATION- WATER OBSERVATORY (www.fundacionmbotin.org) .

WORK PLACE MONCLOA CAMPUS (UCM/UPM) Madrid. (Spain)
DESCRIPTION OF THE POSITION
The Water Observatoryof the Botin Foundation is a think tank with the clear goal of influencing policy and debates on global water policy, through both innovative research and by creating a fora for debate and discussion at the most senior level.
This position provides an an excellent opportunity to contribute directly to the interface between science and policy in the fields of water, food security and Care of Nature in Latin America and Spain. The areas that the research project will mainly address are: role fo groundwater intensive revolution, extended water footprint, water and energy nexus, international food trade, cultural and religious aspects of water, role of technology and innovation,aind environmenatl protection. This research project begun in 2010 and will continue in 2012 and probably beyond..Its main characteristics and outputs are available at www.fundacionbotin.org/agua.htm.
The successful candidate will join the FB-Water Observatory and work in frontier research, emprical analysis and policy interface in the research programme on Water and food y security in Latin America and Spain under Prof. Ramon Llamas Director of the FMB Water Observatory at the Universidad Complutense and Prof. Alberto Garrido Deuputy director of the FB-WO and Director of the CEIGRAM, Technical University of Madrid both located at the Moncloa Campus of Excellence. Duties will be carried out at the Moncloa campus where the FMB-Water Observatory is based, in Madrid, Spain.
The candidate is expected to have a solid background in a fields related to water, with previous experience in international research projects (especially semi-arid regions). Candidates should ideally have a Ph.D, or have relevant high level work experience equivalent to a Phd. The Ph.D should be preferably in hydrology, natural resource economics and policy, or engineering, a mixed background being a strength .
The selected candidate will interact with researchers of different nationalities, and will write and present scientific papers. An excellent command of written and spoken English is essential for this position.
The FB Water Observatory offers an interdisciplinary workplace. The strong ties with a world-wide network of research institutions engaged in water research and allows a continuous fruitful exchange of experiences. The successful candidate is expected to begin his/her position on 1st January 2012. The appointment period will be at least one year long, which can be renewed for an additional one or two years. Gross salary will be based on qualification and working experience. Higher salaries may be considered for particularly experienced candidates.

La Fundació CREDA-UPC-IRTA busca una persona para colaborar en un proyecto relacionado con los seguros agrarios.

Formación candidatos
- Licenciado en Economía,
- Licenciado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas.

Se valorará conocimientos del Sistema Español de Seguros Agrarios y estructura de costes de la producción agrícola.

Indispensable manejo de herramientas de gestión y análisis de datos (Excel, Access, paquetes estadísticos y econométricos)

Fecha inicio: 3 de octubre 2011
Fecha finalización: 30 de junio 2012

Contrato: 25 horas semanales

Salario: 1.100 euros mensuales brutos

Lugar de trabajo: CREDA. Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia
Castelldefels (Barcelona)

Enviar CV (hasta 25/09/2011) y más información a:
lluc.mercade.romeu@upc.edu