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Date: 20 December 2012 9:53:38 AM SAST
To: Fynbos Forum Sandy Dowling <info at fynbosforum.org.za<mailto:info at fynbosforum.org.za>>
Subject: FF: Lectureships, Readers and Chairs at Imperial College, Silwood Park, London Closing date 31 Jan 2013]

Dear all

Imperial College, London, Silwood Park Campus
Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment (Lecturers/Readers/Chairs): NS 2012 250 JT

        Up to 10 positions to be appointed within the Faculty of Natural Sciences

  *   Imperial College London is launching a major initiative to tackle the grand challenges and opportunities facing ecological systems and the environment.
  *   The initiative will appoint a large cohort of scientists in a flexible set up, from permanent academics to sabbaticals and members of collaborative working groups.
  *   This initiative will benefit from and invest in long-term field experiments both at Silwood Park and around the world, as well as in-house, high-tech laboratory facilities.
  *   Bringing together some of the top leaders across disciplines, the initiative will strive to ensure the future wellbeing of humanity and ecological systems in a world of global change.
  *   The initiative will involve groups from across the Faculties of Natural Sciences, Medicine and Engineering,  the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, and the Centre for Environmental Policy.


  *   We are seeking scientists at all levels (Lecturers/Readers/Chairs) to develop innovative projects addressing challenges in areas including the following:

  *   Land-use change and interactions between ecosystem processes, biodiversity and human health and wellbeing; Sustainable food and water supplies; Human-environment-biosphere interactions; Environmental medicine; the response of ecosystems to a changing climate & broader environment, and their feedback on this change.
  *   Managing focal species in complex ecosystems; Disease, pest, invasive and/or vector biology; Ecological synthetic biology and genomics.
  *   Predicting, monitoring and mitigating environmental and biotic change across local to global scales;  Ecosystem science, including modelling, field and laboratory experiments; Remote sensing ecology and  automated monitoring systems; Ecological engineering and prediction.


Closing Date: 31 January 2013 (midnight GMT)

How To Apply: Our preferred method of application is online via this website<https://www4.ad.ic.ac.uk/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=1202068461&retainAM=Y&addBreadCrumb=S&p_svid=40174&p_spid=1622199&oapc=9&oas=NColiYaB6l0NYG8VWNNIYA>.

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