Dear MARMAM The University of St Andrews, in collaboration with Morigenos - Slovenian Marine Mammal Society, is recruiting a PhD student interested in studying dolphin movements. This is a fully funded PhD at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, UK. Movement is an important function of organisms, which has an impact on lives of individuals, populations, interactions between species and with humans, as well as on ecosystem processes. Ecologists collect data on animal movement through multiple approaches, including photo-identification. In this project, the successful applicant will study movements of bottlenose dolphins using a spatio-temporal networks approach from human mobility research. Specifically, the project will use long-term photo-identification data to build origin-destination (OD) flow networks, which are common in studies of different types of human mobility, but they are not well-known in movement ecology. Here, we will investigate how spatio-temporal network analysis can be applied to the study of marine mammal movement, using a well-studied population of bottlenose dolphins (*Tursiops truncatus*) in the northern Adriatic Sea as a case study. The student will be based at the University of St Andrews under the supervision of Dr Urska Demsar (University of St Andrews), and co-supervised by Dr Tilen Genov (Morigenos and the University of Primorska). Candidates should have a solid technical background in spatial data science or geoinformatics, and an interest in modelling of ecological processes. They should also have coding experience (preferably R or Python, but also Matlab, C++ or similar is appropriate). More information about the project is available here: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/assets/university/schools/school-of-geography-a... For information on where and how to apply, please visit: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-sustainable-development/prospective/p... Application deadline is 9 February 2024. Kind regards, Tilen Genov ______________________________________________________________________ Tilen Genov, PhD Assistant Professor | Morigenos - Slovenian Marine Mammal Society <http://www.morigenos.org/en> | | Department of Biodiversity, University of Primorska <http://www.famnit.upr.si> | | Consortium for the Conservation of the Atlantic Humpback Dolphin <http://www.sousateuszii.org> | | IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group <https://iucn-csg.org/> | | twitter: @TilenGenov <https://twitter.com/TilenGenov> | @Morigenos_org <https://twitter.com/Morigenos_org> | @sousateuszii <https://twitter.com/sousateuszii> | @IUCNCetaceanSG <https://twitter.com/IUCNCetaceanSG> |