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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jacobs, SM, Dr <sjacobs@sun.ac.za> [mailto:sjacobs@sun.ac.za]
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<b>Sent:</b> 07 December 2013 08:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> saabnet@kendy.up.ac.za<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [saabnet] Scholarship Opportunity for MSc and PhD studies: Riparian Ecology and Microbiology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Dear <span class="xspelle">Myke</span>,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Can you perhaps send out the attached advert for MSc and PhD positions for 2014?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Shayne Jacobs<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Scholarship Opportunity for MSc and PhD studies in 2014:
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Riparian Ecology and Microbiology</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Project title:
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Assessing the impact of selected methods of removal of alien invasive trees and biomass on
<span class="xspelle">fynbos</span> riparian ecosystem functioning</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsobodytext3" style="text-align:justify;text-kashida-space:50%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Riparian
<span class="xspelle">ecotones</span> are situated at the interface between terrestrial and aquatic environments and act as regulators of material fluxes. As such they are important providers of ecosystem services such as nutrient recycling and maintaining
water quality and quantity. Invasion of riparian zones by invasive alien plants is pervasive in the Western Cape and threatens provision of ecosystem services. The Working for Water (<span class="xspelle">WfW</span>)<span class="xspelle">Programme</span>
has the primary task of clearing of riparian <span class="xspelle">ecotones</span> (and upland areas), combined with a poverty relief, and over the last 18 years pioneered many successful strategies for removal, treatment and clearing.
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<p class="xmsobodytext3" style="text-align:justify;text-kashida-space:50%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif""> When applied as prescribed, riparian zones can recover well from
invasion in terms of vegetation structure. Less clear is the impact of various methods of clearing and treatment on riparian function, notably on soil nutrients and microbial diversity and activity, which underlies many ecosystem services associated with
riparian <span class="xspelle">ecotones</span>. We will use ecological and microbial approaches to study riparian function, with the aim of strengthening our understanding of riparian restoration and we will work closely with
<span class="xspelle">WfW</span> to achieve this. This research is sponsored through funding from the Water Research Commission.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsobodytext3" style="text-align:justify;text-kashida-space:50%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif""> We are in search of excellent students to pursue MSc or PhD studies
(Ecology or Microbiology) starting the beginning of 2014. We would like to appoint highly motivated students that have the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family:Symbol">?</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">An appropriate degree for admission</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family:Symbol">?</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Appropriate experience</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family:Symbol">?</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">The ability to work independently in the field and in a team</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family:Symbol">?</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Competence in experimental design and statistics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family:Symbol">?</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Full computer literacy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family:Symbol">?</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">Excellent writing and communications skills</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family:Symbol">?</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">A Code 08 Drivers
<span class="xspelle">licence</span> is a strong recommendation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft Sans Serif","sans-serif"">NB: Students with NRF freestanding bursaries for 2014 will receive preference.
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