Hiring Organization:
Tarsius Project
Position Description:
We are looking for volunteers to assist on a project studying behaviour, home-range use and acoustic communication of the Philippine tarsier. Volunteers will work independently in the field under supervision of the project leader. We have several animals radio-collared and monitor their nightly movements in the forest and record their vocalization.
Specific tasks [...]

The Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) has been founded by the Senckenberg Gesellschaft fuer Naturforschung, the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, and additional partners. It is funded by the Federal State of Hesse through its Initiative for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence (LOEWE). The mission of the Centre is to carry out internationally [...]

As a collaborating group of academic and government scientists, we are seeking 5 Ph. D. students to work as a part of a multidisciplinary team conducting manipulative experiments designed to examine the effects of multiple stressors in small wetland ecosystems. The focus of this NSERC funded research program will be on the potential effects of [...]

A PhD position is available at the Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution (Montpellier, France) to work with Guila Ganem on the causal and proximal mechanisms of adaptive speciation in the house mouse (Mus musculus). The project combines behavioural, biochemical, chemical and genetic approaches to understand the evolution of an olfactory-based species mate recognition system. Specifically, [...]

The School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, has created three new positions to further enhance our capacity in evolutionary biology and infectious disease research. The School is one of the UK’s largest and most highly-rated life sciences departments, providing an innovative environment for research and teaching with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research. The [...]

Closing date: 1st August 2010
Genetics, Aquaculture & Biodiversity Laboratory
University of Los Lagos (Osorno Chile)
Falkland Islands Government
Environmental Planning Department
Falkland Islands Development Corporation (Stanley – Falkland Is.)
Applications are sought for two fixed (2 year) research positions available from August 2010 aimed at monitoring and assessing the evolutionary impact of exotic salmonids on native galaxiid fishes in Chile [...]

A postdoc position is available in the lab of Christian Braendle to study the plasticity and evolution of the germ line in Caenorhabditis nematodes. The basic project aims are to mechanistically dissect the plastic adjustment of germ line proliferation and differentiation in response to changing environments, and to characterize evolutionary variation of such plasticity. Approaches [...]

To assess the impact of artificial light on flora and fauna a large-scale project has been funded by STW, Philips and the NAM. The project will be carried out jointly by the Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group at Wageningen University (NCP-WU) and the Animal Ecology Department of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), in [...]

Salary Scale: Grade 5, point 34 to 38 (£23,566 – £26, 523 per annum).
A BBSRC-funded research assistant post at the University of Cambridge with Dr Alex Thornton is available from 1 October 2010. The project will investigate intelligence and culture in wild jackdaws (Corvus monedula). Specifically, the work will use observational data and field experiments [...]

Position Description:
The Lomas Barbudal Capuchin Project has been running for 20 years, and (funding permitting) will continue for many years to come. Each year we accept about 6 interns who stay a full year and participate in data collection. The project currently monitors 11 social groups of monkeys. Virtually all monkeys are well habituated, and [...]