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Data de início: 10-02-2022

Data de fim: 30-01-2023

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-01-2022

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 125 €

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Resumo: The hosting organization is a private foundation working for the research and conservation of Mediterranean wetlands. Founded in 1954 by Dr Luc Hoffmann and based in the Camargue, it is at the cutting edge of multidisciplinary fields of research, building bridges between science, management and public policies, and drawing up management plans. The hosting organization has internationally recognized scientific expertise, and provides practical responses to problems regarding the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. The hosting organization’s projects are carried out in the Camargue and around the Mediterranean Basin.

With its 2600-hectare estate, the hosting organization has laboratories, experimental field sites and offices surrounded by wetlands and various other Mediterranean habitats. It has developed a wide range of local, national, and international partnerships. The hosting organization research teams work in close collaboration with several national and international research centers, in particular the nearby universities and CNRS (national scientific research centers) of Montpellier and Marseille, the Edward Grey Institute (Oxford), and the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC, Sevilla).

The hosting organization is managing the project Observatory of Mediterranean Wetlands which has been designed as a decision support tool developed under the MedWet Initiative and the Ramsar Convention. Using a series of themes and indicators, the Observatory produces syntheses on the status and trends of Mediterranean wetlands, analyzes the causes and consequences of changes in biodiversity and the services provided. It works across the Mediterranean basin with declinations at in the regional, national and local scales. Policy makers are the main target of the transfer.

Perfil: Age: 18-30

Tarefas: ● Field work: data collection on birds, plants, mammals, amphibians, water levels monitoring…
● Computerise ornithological, botanical or monitoring trends on wetlands data,
● Search and computerise bibliographical data,
● Awareness and transfer documents production,
● Bi-monthly monitoring of water quality of temporary ponds across the reserve and collection of data on rare plant species, adding to long-term studies,
● Fieldwork for ongoing studies: trapping and processing of eels; monitoring of damselfly emergence; trapping and processing of European pond turtles; bittern counts,
● Statistical analysis of datasets using R, Statistica and Excel, compiling and organising reports, proof-reading of scientific papers and French-English translations,
● Physical conservation work: creation of enclosures, tree-planting, removal of non-native plants, vine cutting, sorting of scrap metal.
● Mounting of insect specimens for natural history displays.

Documentação: CV + Motivation letter