The Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, is recruiting for a highly motivated post-doctoral research assistant to assess current and future climate change vulnerability of European marine bird species and identify populations at risk. This one and a half year, full time, research position will involve active collaboration with Prof William Sutherland and Dr Silviu Petrovan at Cambridge University.
The successful candidate will join an exciting inter-disciplinary project funded by the Stichting Ave Fenix Europa Foundation entitled “Evidence-based Climate Change Adaptation Practices to safeguard vulnerable species: supporting conservation practitioners, donors and policy makers”, based in the research group of Dr Nathalie Pettorelli. This project builds on the evidence gathering work done by Conservation Evidence (https://www.conservationevidence.com/); specifically, its overall aim is to use the information collected by Conservation Evidence to (1) identify populations of European marine birds most at risk of extinction, (2) develop and share an open-access, global-scale evidence base for climate adaptations, and (3) disseminate best practice guidelines for European marine birds with the wider conservation, donor and policy communities around the world.
