The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) and the School of Marine Science (SMS) at William & Mary announce five assistant professor positions- a faculty cluster initiative associated with a new institutional strategic plan.

We seek creative and innovative scholars who can contribute to these strategic directions through multidisciplinary collaborations. We anticipate hiring up to five, full time (12-month), tenure-eligible faculty positions at the assistant professor level. The primary responsibility of these positions is the production of scholarly products, but new hires will also contribute to our academic program by teaching at least one course, likely for undergraduate and graduate students. VIMS recognizes the need for a diversity of voices, perspectives, and experiences to address environmental and socioeconomic challenges, and strongly encourages applications from individuals underrepresented in the field of marine science and in higher education.

VIMS has a core commitment to the development and persistence of resilient coastal and marine systems through a scholarly focus on three thematic areas:

Understanding and monitoring ecosystem health by connecting physical, chemical, biological, and socioeconomic systems to address environmental and community vulnerabilities.
Providing translational science for sustainable management of natural resources, including fisheries and aquaculture.
Providing science for the stewardship of coastal and ocean processes, connecting global trends and local drivers to understand and address environmental change.

Job Open Date: 10/10/2022
Review Begin Date: 10/31/2022

Job Posting and Application Instructions

Graduate Research Assistant on Northeast Sea Grant project:

Can proprietary commercial lobstering data be used to inform offshore wind development?

UMaine’s School of Computing and Information Science seeks a Master’s level graduate research assistant to aid in conducting research on constructing map representations from commercial lobster boat plotter/navigation systems. The objective of the project is to evaluate the feasibility of integrating proprietary data from individual fishermen’s commercial marine Personal Computer (PC)-based navigation plotters into aggregate mapping products that: 1) represent examples of fine-scale spatial and temporal coverage of the Maine lobster fishery, and 2) respect the confidentiality of individual data holdings.

The work will involve working directly with project partners from the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, UMaine’s School of Computing and Information Science, and the Lobster Institute. The Research Assistant should therefore be comfortable communicating and interacting with an interdisciplinary team and with lobster fishermen.

The Research Assistant, in collaboration with project team members, will be responsible for:

Working with lobstermen through the Fishermen’s Knowledge Trust (FKT) to inventory data collection platforms used by lobster fishermen fishing in federal waters and to collect sample data from a set of fishermen
Working with the FKT to set up a database to manage collected data
Developing and testing software to parse and aggregate sample data
Conducting GIS and statistical analysis as needed to develop data products

Qualifications:

A Masters level student in Spatial Informatics, Computer Science, Data Science, or Marine Science with:

programming proficiency, ideally familiar with R or Python
familiarity with GIS analysis and software (commercial (e.g. ArcGIS) or open source (e.g QGIS)
familiarity with relational and spatial databases
familiar with electronic navigation/ charting systems
familiarity with lobster fishing practices a plus

The project will provide tuition, stipend, and student health insurance for one year with a potential second year depending on federal approval of project continuation and acceptable performance on the
project.Contact:
Dr. Kate Beard-Tisdale
School of Computing and Information Science
University of Maine, Orono
kate.beard@maine.edu

NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Competition

NOAA Fisheries seeks applications that demonstrate direct benefits to the U.S. fishing and marine aquaculture industries and applications which involve:

Fishing or aquaculture community participation aimed at helping seafood communities to resolve issues that affect their ability to fish or farm
Making full use of those species that are currently under federal or state fishery management plans
Addressing the socioeconomic impacts of overfishing and overcapacity

U.S. fisheries include any commercial fishery, recreational fishery, or marine aquaculture operation that is, or may be, engaged in by citizens or nationals of the United States or other eligible applicants. The competition is open to applicants from a variety of sectors, including individuals, industry, academia, and state and local governments.

NOAA Fisheries awards grants in marine fishery projects through this grant competition ranging from a minimum of $25,000 to a maximum of $300,000.

Closing Date
October 31, 2022

Learn more about the Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program

NSF’s Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES)

The DISES Program supports research projects that advance basic scientific understanding of integrated socio-environmental systems and the complex interactions (dynamics, processes, and feedbacks) within and among the environmental (biological, physical and chemical) and human (“socio”) (economic, social, political, or behavioral) components of such a system. The program seeks proposals that emphasize the truly integrated nature of a socio-environmental system versus two discrete systems (a natural one and a human one) that are coupled. DISES projects must explore a connected and integrated socio-environmental system that includes explicit analysis of the processes and dynamics between the environmental and human components of the system.

PIs are encouraged to develop proposals that push conceptual boundaries and build new theoretical framing of the understanding of socio-environmental systems. Additionally, we encourage the exploration of multi-scalar dynamics, processes and feedbacks between and within the socio-environmental system.

Deadline Date
November 15, 2022

Review full program guidelines and learn how to submit a proposal in the latest solicitation.

CINAR Fellows in Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystem Science

CINAR is a NOAA Cooperative Institute whose mission is to conduct and coordinate cutting-edge research engaging both NOAA and academic scientists to enable informed decisions by NOAA for sustainable and beneficial management of the Northeast U.S. Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem (www.cinar.org).

Applications are now being solicited for CINAR Fellows in Quantitative Fisheries and Ecosystem Science. This call is open to early-career scientists with appointments at CINAR partner institutions: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), University of Maine (UMaine), Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), Rutgers University, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies (UMCES), University of Rhode Island (URI), University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology (SMAST).

Support for these fellowships is being provided by the NOAA Quantitative Ecology and Socioeconomics Training (QUEST) program, which provides education and training opportunities to ensure an adequate supply of future NOAA Fisheries scientists in mission-critical, quantitative-based disciplines required for effective living marine resource management. The goal of this fellowship program is to engage early career scientists in research to improve and enhance the assessment and management of living marine resources in the Northeast region. Fellowship funding will be provided to individual CINAR faculty who write successful proposals describing how they will use the funds in support of QUEST priorities. These faculty must be early career (i.e., Assistant or Associate Professor, Assistant or Associate Scientist, or Assistant Research Professor). Eligibility is not limited by time from degree or years in a tenure-track appointment. Faculty must work in stock assessments, ecosystem-based assessments, or socio-economics (e.g., economic/social sciences/policy research on use and management of fisheries by communities dependent on marine resources), with the goal of providing essential information for the sustainable management of living marine resources. They also should have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the QUEST mission.

Applications are due October 31, 2022. Please see the attached announcement for guidelines and selection criteria, and feel free to contact us with questions.

For more information about CINAR, please see our website at www.cinar.org.

Best regards,

Don Anderson
Mindy Richlen
Claire Anacreon

Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR)

CINAR webpage: http://www.cinar.org

Anderson lab webpage: http://www.whoi.edu/groups/andersonlab/

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