Doctoral and Postdoctoral oportunities from CONICET Argentina
Topics:
Animal Movement, population dynamics and landscape ecology.
Description:
Technological advances let us to collect detailed data on the environment (remote sensors, data loggers) and on mobile agents (GPS tracking, accelerometers). On the other hand, computing capabilities (massive parallel processing, GPUs) have reached levels that allow the explicit treatment of complex systems. This makes it possible, in principle, to achieve unprecedented connections between theory and data in order to gain a better understanding and predictive capacity of ecological systems.
The proposed work for these fellowships should combine model development with Bayesian inference using hierarchical models or Approximate Bayesian Computation. We are currently working on animal plant-interactions (seed dispersal and plant demography), animal movement (deer, cows, sheep and condors), and fire ecology and forests dynamics. Our work is interdisciplinary and rely on several local and international collaborations.
Location: INIBIOMA-CONICET, Bariloche.
Requirements: Quantitative background and basic programming skills
Contact: Juan Manuel Morales (jm.morales at conicet.gov.ar)