2 Short term PhD training (6-12 months) positions available on "The Ecological and Evolutionary Response to Climatic Variation" in Oslo, Norway. Deadline 15. Oct. 2006
Short-term PhD visits: The Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) at the University of Oslo, Norway offer funding for training of PhD students. The funding is for short-term training positions, from 6-12 months, as part of the Marie Curie Early Training Site at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES-MCO), University of Oslo, Norway.
The positions are only available for students that are already part of a PhD program at their home institution. Research area: "Climatic effect on ecological and evolutionary processes". A major scientific challenge of today is to understand how rapid climatic change affects the biosphere. To predict and understand future ecological and evolutionary responses to climatic change we need to combine the knowledge on how past and present climatic change affects ecological and evolutionary processes.
Such insight is essential if we are to develop sustainable strategies for management, conservation and rehabilitation of ecosystems ? strategies that will form the fundament for appropriate decision- and policy-making. The PhD training program offers an unique integration of innovative techniques in biology, statistics and mathematics in order to analyze and predict the effects of climatic changes and anthropogenic activity on ecological and evolutionary processes. Project topics The PhD positions are available within 3 research areas with a number of potential research projects: Population ecological responses to climate variation Evolutionary responses to climate variation Bio-economics and management of ecosystems under climatic variation Courses and supervisor
http://cordis.europa.eu.int/mc-opportunities/index.cfm?fuseaction=dataForm.showDataDetail&obj_id=11848&obj_type=VAC
Organisation - University of Oslo
Division/Faculty/Department - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES)
Street - Box 1066
City - Oslo
Postal Code - N-0316
Country - NORWAY
Phone - tbc
E-Mail - n.c.stenseth@bio.uio.no
Application Deadline - 15/10/2006
