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<div><b>From:</b> <<a href="mailto:info@fynbosforum.org.za">info@fynbosforum.org.za</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> 20 December 2012 9:53:38 AM SAST<br>
<b>To:</b> Fynbos Forum Sandy Dowling <<a href="mailto:info@fynbosforum.org.za">info@fynbosforum.org.za</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>FF: Lectureships, Readers and Chairs at Imperial College, Silwood Park, London Closing date 31 Jan 2013]</b><br>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><b style=""><span style="">Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment (Lecturers/Readers/Chairs): NS 2012 250 JT</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><span style=""> Up to 10 positions to be appointed within the Faculty of Natural Sciences </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Imperial College London is launching a major initiative to tackle the grand challenges and opportunities facing ecological systems and the environment.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We are seeking scientists at all levels (Lecturers/Readers/Chairs) to develop innovative projects addressing challenges in areas including the following:</span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Managing focal species in complex ecosystems; Disease, pest, invasive and/or vector biology; Ecological synthetic biology and genomics.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></li></ul>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><span style="">Closing Date: 31 January 2013 (midnight GMT)
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