Term:                    
September 1^st 2023 – August 31^st 2024. Extension possible.

Compensation:       
$60,000 CDN / year: Field work and conference budgets supplied.

Location:                
Victoria, British Columbia. Remote work is negotiable. The Lab:       The ACME Lab is a united group of researchers examining mammal ecology from the Arctic to the urban Canadian south. We are located at the beautiful University of Victoria and have a track record of publications in high-impact journals, For more information on our team see http://www.acmelab.ca, and more about its Director at http://www.jasonthomasfisher.ca/.

Opportunity:
The Applied Conservation Macro Ecology (ACME) Lab is hiring three post-doctoral researchers in terrestrial mammal ecology in two focal areas:

1. Boreal mammal communities’ response to landscape change. Working with researchers in the Oil Sands Monitoring Program and the Whitefish Lake First Nation, the PDF will lead field research, analysis, and reporting on the effects of landscape change on boreal mammal communities. The focus is on density estimation and community-scale multi-species modelling to explore landscape and population ecology using camera-trap data. The PDF will contribute to funding deliverables but with wide scope for original thought and contributions.

2. Urban ecology of black-tailed deer. Working with our wildlife veterinarian and team of technicians, the PDF will lead analysis on urban black-tailed deer ecology on southern Vancouver Island, where are conducting experiments in population reduction and testing hypotheses about population response in different landscapes with different degrees of permeability. The PDF will contribute to funding deliverables but again with a wide scope.

Several multi-author publications are expected of each, and we will work as an integrated team to achieve this. Our research is highly collaborative.

Send Applications to by 14 June 2023 to Dr. Jason T Fisher at fisherj@uvic.ca, including:
1. A CV that highlights your analytical and publishing skills;
2. A brief description of research goals and ideas for future work.

We believe diversity drives science. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view.
In the ACME lab, difference is valued. Join us.

The Department of Biology at the University of Saskatchewan is seeking a two-year postdoctoral fellow to lead a project focused on quantifying reproductive metrics in American black ducks, with hypothesis tests of environmental drivers on breeding areas. We anticipate the postdoctoral fellow will use machine learning algorithms to retrospectively assess egg-laying, full-term incubation and brood-rearing in black ducks, using GPS and acceleration (ACC) data from tracking devices fitted to individual females. Black ducks nest primarily in the eastern Canadian boreal forest, a large remote region where assessing reproductive success with field crews is not practical. While machine learning algorithms have been widely used to classify behaviours from ACC data, they have not been customized for reproductive metrics. The postdoctoral fellow also will determine feasibility of environmental covariates in the Canadian boreal forest (e.g., spatial layers for beaver ponds, commercial logging) for hypothesis tests about the reproductive period. We have deployed 200 devices and anticipate another 300 devices will be deployed in the next two years to collect information about the reproductive period. The devices collect GPS information every hour and ACC information every 10 minutes. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with a PhD student studying the full annual cycle for black ducks.

There are other projects in our group using similar GPS-ACC devices on Atlantic brant and greater white-fronted geese to assess the reproductive period in the context of annual cycle movements, behaviour and habitat use. The postdoctoral fellow will work with graduate students on those projects to develop best practices for using machine learning to identify reproductive metrics. We anticipate broad applicability of results for studying migratory birds that are cryptic or nest in inaccessible areas. In addition, there will be opportunities to collaborate on and lead other projects linking population and individual processes in migratory birds in the Weegman lab.

This project is an international partnership among the Black Duck Joint Venture, Canadian Wildlife Service, University of Saskatchewan, US Fish and Wildlife Service and member states of the Atlantic Flyway (Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia).

Minimum qualifications:
Ph.D. in statistics, wildlife ecology or closely related field
Skills in Program R
Demonstrated excellence in verbal and written communication
Ability to work independently and as part of a research team

Preferred qualifications:
Skills in JAGS
Experience forming and running machine learning algorithms, demographic and animal movement models
Knowledge and experience in avian ecology

Salary and benefits: Approximately $65,000 Canadian per year plus benefits
Start date: 1 September 2023
Last date to apply: 16 June 2023
To be considered for this position, please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement and contact information for three references to Dr. Mitch Weegman (mitch.weegman@usask.ca).

The Department of Biology at the University of Saskatchewan is seeking a 2-year postdoctoral fellow to lead two projects focused on population ecology of migratory birds:

Project 1: We will develop novel population models for mourning doves in Missouri to guide harvest and conservation decisions. This project is a collaboration with Tom Thompson (Missouri Department of Conservation) and Dr. Tom Bonnot (US Fish and Wildlife Service). The postdoc will focus on estimating demographics, including survival, productivity, harvest and movements. In addition, we seek to prioritize collection of data sets that contribute most strongly to demographic estimation and monitoring in future years.

Project 2: We will use all available demographic and population survey information collected since 1961 for the population of barnacle geese that breed in Greenland and winter in Ireland to estimate demographic rates and abundance in an integrated population model. We will identify demographic contributions to population growth rate, and test hypotheses about how land use and climate change are influencing barnacle goose population dynamics.

There will be opportunities to explore related research questions and collaborate on several projects in movement and population ecology in the Weegman lab.

Minimum qualifications:
Ph.D. in statistics, wildlife ecology or closely related field
Skills in Program R
Demonstrated excellence in verbal and written communication
Ability to work independently and as part of a research team

Preferred qualifications:
Skills in JAGS, NIMBLE, Stan
Experience forming and running integrated population models
Knowledge and experience in avian ecology

Salary and benefits: Approximately $65,000 Canadian per year plus benefits
Start date: 1 September 2023
Last date to apply: 16 June 2023

To be considered for this position, please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement and contact information for three references to Dr. Mitch Weegman (mitch.weegman@usask.ca).

The Baum Lab (juliakbaum.org) at the University of Victoria seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral
Fellow to lead ecosystem-scale research investigating the dynamics of coral symbioses
under climate change and with exposure to local anthropogenic stressors.

Click here for more information.

This postdoctoral position, at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, is for up to 3 years at a starting salary of CDN$57,000 per year with annual increases in accordance with the collective agreement. The specific research topic is unspecified, but will be at the interface of Conservation Biology and Landscape Ecology. Applicants should email a 500-word (maximum) research plan, CV, and names and contact information for three references to Lenore Fahrig, lenore.fahrig@carleton.ca. Only applications that include all of these elements will be considered. The subject line of the email should be “postdoc application <your surname>.” Applications will be considered until the position is filled.

The position is for one year, with a second year for reappointment pending satisfactory performance. Preferred start date is 1st August 2023 or soon thereafter. Salary $55,000 per year plus benefits.

See more information here.

Come Join The Clare Lab: Postdoctoral Position In Biodiversity Science!                           

We are advertising an exciting postdoctoral position to join a vibrant team at York University in Toronto. The Clare Lab uses DNA based tools to address questions in ecology. We have worked all over the world on the impact of landscape change on feeding ecology and species interactions and have a history of innovation in metabarcoding and eDNA techniques.

Learn about the Clare lab here: https://www.yorku.ca/professor/eclare/

No species is an island. Every individual is host to microbes, parasites, viruses and DNA traces of what they have eaten. Together these mixed DNA sources are an individual’s “symbiome”. This successful candidate will help us develop new protocols required to analyse the symbiome of important forest pests and solitary bees and will work with PhD and MSc students on a variety of ecological systems to refine the lab methods used to identify the many interactions made by a single individual. The Clare Lab has pioneered the use of DNA metabarcoding to identify species interactions and this position will help advance these methods.

The research project is funded in collaboration with the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario and BIOSCAN Canada, a large consortium of biodiversity scientists collaborating across disciplines from Social Sciences to Evolution and Ecology to Machine Learning. The successful applicant will have considerable opportunity for creativity and career development and will be part of a large research team both nationally and internationally. More information on BIOSCAN can be found here. https://ibol.org/programs/bioscan/

Applicants should have experience in DNA metabarcoding, and this may include the analysis of microbiome, plant material, fungal communities, or mixed insect samples. The candidate will need excellent lab skills, in DNA extraction and PCR, and the analysis of high throughput sequencing data (e.g., DADA2, QIIME etc.) would be an asset. R-based statistical ability or high-performance computing skills are desirable. Ideally, the candidate would also engage in field work, have the ability to identify insects and have a valid driver’s licence.

Applicants should send a CV and cover letter (1-2 pages) to eclare@yorku.ca. Outline your experience in metabarcoding and specific labs skills and provide details of two reference.

Review of applications will start immediately. With the position to start as soon as possible.

Salary is competitive.

York University is situated on the edge of Toronto and is a vibrant campus connected by the subway to central Toronto. https://www.yorku.ca/.