PhD and Postdoctoral Positions Disability Scholarships in, Norway

Doctorate and Fellowship Positions in NorMER in the field of Global climate change on fisheries resources in the Nordic region, with a primary focus on the Atlantic cod in University of Oslo,Norway -2011

Study Subject: Global climate change on fisheries resources in the Nordic region, with a primary focus on the Atlantic cod.
Employer: University of Oslo
Level: PhD and Postdoctoral

A major challenge for managers and researchers today is to find ways that the oceans food and other services in a sustainable way to identify you in changing climatic conditions and socio-economic. As climate change and high harvest so even more pressure on marine resources, scientists of the future must have the ability to cross combining physical, biological and social / economic sciences, advise appropriate management. Norma is a new Nordic Centre of Excellence, with funding from Nordforsk, on behalf of the High-Level Research Initiative (TRI) and the participating institutions for 2011-2015 to meet this challenge through a unique program primary research. 45 searches of 10 Nordic institutions will cooperate in the training of 15 new graduate students and five postdoctoral students in joint projects examining the biological, economic and social change on fisheries resources in the Nordic region, with an emphasis on cod.

The NorMER partnership includes teams led by Nils Chr. Stenseth at the University of Oslo, Carl Folke of the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden, Erik Bonsdorff at Åbo Adakemi University in Finland, Marko Lindroos at the University of Helsinki in Finland, Markus Meier at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute in Sweden, Guðrún Marteinsdóttir at Marine Academic Research in Iceland, Eyðfinn Magnussen at the University of Faroe Islands, Helle Siegstad at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Øyvind Fiksen at the University of Bergen in Norway, and Thomas Kiørboe at the Technical University of Denmark. Each PhD project will be supervised and based at a single institution, but will require a mandatory visit to a partner institution of up to 4 months for co-supervision (see the detailed descriptions for each project for details). The Postdoc positions are additionally required to collaborate with multiple partner institutio.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 30 March 2011

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