This thesis will be part of an international research program named PADDLE (Planning in A liquiD worlD with tropicaL StakEs) which was recently submitted to an European funding program: RISE (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Scheme). PADDLE project aims at enabling exchanges between experts in order to apply a knowledge-based framework to improve the marine spatial planning in dynamical tropical ecosystems. MSP currently offers an increasing number of opportunities to combine different uses of marine resources in a single area. PADDLE will reinforce existing networks of experts and will design innovative tools for tropical sea management. The area of interest for this PhD will be Northeastern Brazil (Pernambuco state, Recife region).
The research will consist in: – Incorporating data from ecological, economic, and social systems from a wide range of disciplines (physicists, ecologists, statisticians, lawyers, geographers, …), – Producing an up to date understanding of the ecosystem functioning and of the current management, identifying the tensions / potential conflicts likely to arise when MSP will be implemented in the Tropical Atlantic. – Developping a DST for the stakeholders implemented as a a collaborative platform for an innovative MSP adapted ot tropical areas. The DST should be able to preddict the outcomes of various scenarii for alternative management measure proposals in order to monitor and diagnose the effectiveness of these measures.
Conditions: The research undertaken by a CIFRE fellow is within the framework of a public and private partnership and is formulated by both parties. He/she is enrolled in a doctoral course in the French laboratory and attends all the relevant courses. He/She is monitored by a thesis supervisor. He/She signs a 3 years full time work contract with the French company – Beginning of the contract: February 2017 (still conditioned on obtaining the funds) The location of the PhD is based half in Montpellier-France (CREOCEAN) and half in Recife-Brazil (IRD). The gross annual salary is of €23,500. Please send CV + cover letter: thorin@creocean.fr / sophie.bertrand@ird.fr / marie.bonnin@ird.fr Job interviews scheduled for November-December 2017
http://creocean.fr/fr/th%C3%A8se-cifre-dst-marine-spatial-planning-msp-tropical-ecosystems
Source: Marine Biologist network and job postings