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Institution: Lancaster University
United Kingdom
Retrieved : 2018-08-23 Expired
Description :

Multiple anthropogenic drivers increasingly threaten the world’s ecosystems and biota.  At LEC we have a strong international profile in undertaking research that aims to tackle and mitigate these threats through understanding: (1) how biodiversity and ecosystem functioning respond to contemporary environmental changes, including climate change, land-use change, invasive species, human disturbance and overexploitation; and (2) how these feedback and interact with societal changes, including local food security, natural resource use, or exposure to infectious diseases. We are looking to appoint a lecturer who uses environmental remote sensing and associated geospatial techniques to develop a deeper understanding of these issues.

We encourage applications from those developing innovative remote sensing and geospatial methods to address applied questions, and those who use such techniques in combination with other methodological approaches, such as ecological or social surveys. We are particularly interested in applications from people who can apply remote sensing and geospatial techniques for understanding tropical ecosystems, which are the world’s most biodiverse and provides vital ecosystem services at local, regional and global scales. We have long-standing research links with institutions in humid tropical forest biomes of South America (Amazon and Atlantic forests) and South-East Asia (Borneo), as well as drier ecosystems in Africa (Miombo woodlands and savanna regions of Tanzania, Mozambique) and South America (Cerrado). You should be able to demonstrate how you will develop international collaborations that complement or strengthen existing research links in LEC.

We anticipate that your research will link closely with LEC’s Tropical Futures research challenge, the Geospatial Data Science research group, the Data Science Institute as well as the Centre of Excellence in Environmental Data Science, which is a joint venture between the Lancaster University and the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) in the process of being established.

In terms of teaching, you will contribute to modules across our undergraduate and postgraduate portfolio broadly in the areas of environmental remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), geographical and environmental skills and applications, and biodiversity and conservation. You will demonstrate a willingness and ability to contribute to team-taught modules and to develop their own modules.

We are committed to family-friendly and flexible working policies on an individual basis. The department holds an Athena SWAN Bronze Award, which recognises and celebrates good employment practice undertaken to address gender equality in Higher Education and research.

Details of LEC’s activities can be found on the Departmental web site: http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/ and additional information about Lancaster University can be found at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/.  Informal enquiries about LEC and this post should be addressed to: Professor Phil Barker, p.barker@lancaster.ac.uk (+44 (0) 1524 510262).


We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups

Closing Date: 30 Sep 2018
Category: Academic





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