Call for MarineGEO Postdoctoral Fellowship Proposals Submission Deadline: December 15, 2016
The Smithsonians Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network (TMON) invites research proposals for the MarineGEO Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Proposals should advance the goals of the Marine Global Earth Observatory. MarineGEO is a growing, long-term, worldwide research program focused on understanding geographic and temporal patterns and processes in coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystems using comparative approaches. By specializing in coastal systems, MarineGEO studies can reveal the role marine biodiversity plays in maintaining resilient ecosystems in the portion of the ocean where people and marine biodiversity are concentrated and interact most. To learn more about MarineGEO and our labs, please visit the program website: https://marinegeo.si.edu. MarineGEO is dedicated to understanding changes in and relationships among the biodiversity, structure, and functioning of marine ecosystems at local to global scales. Two cornerstones of MarineGEO are (1) the use of standardized, repeated, long-term research and (2) coordinated experiments conducted across the Smithsonians facilities and an expanding global network of diverse partners. This approach is designed to: Achieve rigorous, comparative understanding of biodiversity trends across space and time Understand the nature and causes of variation in coastal marine ecosystems Assess links between local and global environmental forcing, biodiversity, and functioning of ecosystems For more information on this postdoctoral fellowship opportunity and to apply: https://marinegeo.si.edu/marinegeo-postdoctoral-fellowship-call-proposals
