Dear Colleagues,
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on an Australian
Research Council funded project that deals with ecological modelling.
The project will continue for 1.5 years with a possible extension
depending on funding availability. The applicant should have a good
mathematics/statistics background as well as a strong interest in
ecology/biology.
The project is being run at RMIT University <http://www.rmit.edu.au/>,
in Melbourne (city campus) led by PI's
Prof Lewi Stone, Dr Yan Wang, and Dr Ascelin Gordon.
External Principal Investigators: Dr David Dowe, Monash University
Dr Robert Dorazio USGS, Dr Andy Solow Woods Hole
The successful candidate will be based in the School of Mathematical and
Geospatial Sciences within RMIT University.
Project Summary:
Identifying how species are distributed over the landscape, and how they
interact and self-organize into foodwebs, are central goals in Ecology.
This project will provide innovative new modelling tools to improve our
understanding of species distributions and their foodweb networks.
Broadly speaking, the successful candidate together with the PI's will
be developing a general framework for extending current species
distribution modelling frameworks to deal with multiple species,
incorporating both their interactions as well as surveillance errors in
detection. We intend to use spatial point process models, for which the
candidate should preferably have some background knowledge.
This is a loose guideline, and there are also possibilities for
pursuing related research.
For further information please contact
Lewi Stone <[email protected]>
or
Ascelin Gordon <[email protected]>
