Postdoctoral Fellowship in Small and Medium-Sized Carnivore Ecology in South Africa University of South Africa in South Africa

PhD opportunity via the Iapetus DTP: Enhancing conservation decision-making through scientific innovation . The project focuses on conservation science , biodiversity metrics , and the scientific development of IUCN’s Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) metric. The work will involve collaboration with colleagues at IUCN , including Thomas Starnes , and is being advertised by Louise Mair (Research Fellow at Newcastle University). This is a strong fit for applicants interested in envir...

A fully funded PhD opportunity is available in conservation ecology at the University of Waikato, New Zealand . The thesis, titled “Fuel for Recovery: Using food-web science to improve translocation success of threatened birds,” will investigate how food-web science can support the conservation and successful translocation of threatened bird species. The project is associated with the Invertebrate Behavioural Ecology and EcoDiv Labs and will be supervised by Dr. Chrissie Painting . Research inte...

Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistantship at the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit , University of Wyoming , in partnership with the Ricketts Conservation Fund and the WYOBIRD initiative. The project is based in Laramie, Wyoming, USA , with field work in western Wyoming. The research will examine how the demography of forest songbirds in the southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem varies across habitat treatments such as prescribed fire, wildfire, and thinning. Students will work in...

The University of South Africa is seeking a wildlife veterinarian for a postdoctoral fellowship affiliated with the Applied Behavioural Ecology and Ecosystem Research Unit (ABEERU) within the Department of Environmental Sciences. The researcher will complement existing wildlife research through field-based veterinary work, wildlife immobilisation and the development of an independent project aligned with the Unit’s broader research interests. One proposed project examines the health, morphology ...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Wildlife Ecology at the Wildland-Urban Interface, University of California, Santa Barbara This postdoctoral position is centered on wildlife ecology, conservation biology, community ecology, spatial ecology, and molecular ecology, with a strong emphasis on understanding how wildlife communities respond to the rapidly expanding wildland-urban interface. The project will be based at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with regular field work in the Santa Barbara...