Studying herbivory in arctic and alpine ecosystems
Vacancy: University of South-Eastern Norway
The Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences has a vacant permanent position as Professor/ Associate Professor in Vegetation Ecology from 01.08.2019.
The position is attached to the Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health and reports to the Head of Department. The place of employment is Bø in Telemark, a small town in beautiful surroundings, within two hours travel of Oslo.
Robert Björk is looking for a PhD student to join his team at the University of Gothenburg to work within the project ‘Importance of trophic interactions for mycorrhizal dynamics across the Arctic’ funded by the Swedish Research Council.
The project will use long-term herbivore exclusion experiments at multiple sites across the Arctic to assess how herbivory affects soil fungal communities and the role of ericoid and ectomycorrhizal shrubs in ecosystem carbon dynamics in the Arctic.
You can read more about the project and how to apply here.
Deadline for applications is February 28, 2019.
The Arctic Interactions (ArcI) research community at the University of Oulu is offering five tenure track positions.
Deadline for applications is February 28, 2019.
You can find more information about the ArcI tenure track programme on their web and in the pdf attached. If you have any questions, please contact Jeff Welker.
There are two open positions for Assistant Professor at the Agricultural University of Iceland in Environmental Sciences and Agricultural Sciences.
Deadline for applications is January 21, 2019.
The information so far is only in Icelandic, but the English version should come up soon. If you are interested, please be in touch with Isabel C Barrio.
Isabel C Barrio is planning on applying for funding for HN-related activities in the next call of the Icelandic Research Fund. Deadline for these applications will be in June 2019, but it is worth thinking ahead! Some of the types of grants include PhD and postdoc funding. If you are in a position to apply for these grants and you would be interested in developing a HN-related project in Iceland (or know somebody who might be), please get in touch with Isabel.