Dear Colleagues,
The Marine Institute Galway Ireland is recruiting a Post Doctoral Researcher to work on bycatch issues relating to ETP species (including marine mammals), as part a large European project.
Position is for 48 months. Closing date is the 2nd of May.
The role will involve developing a modelling framework to design monitoring programmes, estimating bycatch probability, bycatch rates, and total bycatch for marine mammal and other species; using outcomes of mitigation trials to assess the effect of mitigation measures for ETP species including marine mammals; and developing a decision support simulation system for bycatch management and mitigation interventions.
The Post-Doctoral Researcher will work closely with the Marine Institute’s CIBBRiNA project lead, as well as with colleagues in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Aqua), to deliver research for the CIBBRiNA project. The CIBBRiNA project (Coordinated Development and Implementation of Best Practice in Bycatch Reduction in the North Atlantic region) aims to improve knowledge and understanding to minimise and where possible eliminate incidental bycatch of species, including marine mammals, in fisheries which have high risk of bycatch of protected, endangered and threatened species (PETS), in European waters.
Educational and Professional Requirements:
• A relevant PhD in fisheries science, marine science, statistical ecology or a related field.
• An understanding of issues related to bycatch in European fisheries.
• Demonstrated experience of working in the arena of fisheries and/or marine ecosystem modelling or similar.
• Demonstrated skills in data analysis linked to marine ecological/fisheries science, with particular experience in statistical modelling.
• Strong data handling and data manipulation skills (e.g., experience developing pipelines to handle complex relational data).
• Experienced in hierarchical statistical modelling (ideally implemented in R) and a good grasp of statistical inference from multi-scale longitudinal data.
• Ability to work with and effectively communicate with scientists, the fishing industry and other relevant stakeholders.
• Proven Scientific Report and peer reviewed paper writing skills.
• Proven ability to produce reproducible code.
Please read a detailed job description here:
If you have any questions please contact Dr Ailbhe Kavanagh (ailbhe.kavanagh@marine.ie)
Kind Regards / Le gach dea-mhéin
Dr Ailbhe Kavanagh
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Ailbhe Kavanagh MSc PhD
Ale-Va; she/her (why is this here?)
Team Lead Bycatch
Ecosystems Team, Fisheries Ecosystems and Advisory Services
Foras na Mara, Marine Institute, Rinville, Oranmore, Co. Galway, Ireland H91 R673
Email: ailbhe.kavanagh@marine.ie
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