SASB Jobs News - 2012


Job announcements, by date posted (click on item for details):

Please send jobs news to the Secretary:  andrew . thornhill (at) anu . edu . au. For the list of jobs etc. posted in 2011, click here. 

 

SSB systematics mentoring grants

The Society of Systematic Biologists is pleased to announce the availability of awards for revisionary taxonomy and systematics, modeled after the NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics (ARTS) recently developed within the Systematics and Biodiversity Science Cluster. We are calling these 'mini-ARTS' grants. These awards are designed to allow SSB members (students, post-docs, and faculty) to spend a summer or semester apprenticed to an expert in a particular taxonomic group or to enhance revisionary taxonomic and systematics research in novel ways. Goals of this award program are to address constraints on our knowledge of undescribed biodiversity, assist in passing on taxonomic expertise before it is lost, increase the number of students with broad training in organismal biology and systematics, and support projects in biodiversity and taxonomy informatics as well as monographic and revisionary taxonomy. Activities can include a trip to the taxonomist's laboratory, pay for the taxonomist to visit the applicant's laboratory for a period of time, or pay for costs of computer time or development of interactive keys for electronic dissemination of systematics results. Requests for support may be in any amount up to $3,000. We will fund two or three of these awards this year.

A complete application includes 1) a brief description of the project, including a separate section justifying the importance of the taxon and the revisionary work, 2) an itemized budget, 3) the applicant's CV, and 4) a letter of support from the taxonomic expert or collaborator. If the applicant is a student or post-doc, please also include a reference letter from the advisor. Applicants may be from any country, but must be members of SSB, and are advised to join the Society as soon as possible to facilitate their applications (to join go here). The narrative part of the application should be no more than two pages, including the budget, but not including the curriculum vitae and letter(s). Grant applications should be sent to the SSB Awards Committee (ssb-apps@life.illinois.edu). E-mail submissions are required, and applicants should use pdf format for all documents. In the subject line of the email, please indicate the SSB award category as 'mini-ARTS'.

Please see the SSB website for any updates or additional information about this award. Application deadline is March 31, 2012.
Posted 30 January 2012 (back to list)

 

Zoology curator, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki

Closing date 6 February 2012 for start 1 August 2012. Full details here.
Posted 24 January 2012 (back to list)

 

Postdoc in mycology, Auckland

Inaugural Ross Beever Memorial Fellowship, two years beginning 2012, based at Landcare Research in Auckland, NZ. For this inaugural Fellowship, preference will be given to candidates with research experience in taxonomy of hypogeous fungi and with intent to prepare an inventory of New Zealand species and undertake taxonomic research on a key group, building on Ross's existing research on these fungi.

Applicants should have a PhD and applications close 31 January 2012. Apply online through this webpage.
Posted 9 January 2012 (back to list)

 

Researcher in systematic botany, Leiden

NCB Naturalis is searching for a researcher in systematic botany (36 hrs/week), 3 years with yearly evaluation. The successful applicant will develop a research programme with emphasis on taxonomy of Malesian plants, with clear links to thematic research in NCB Naturalis, such as dynamic biogeography, evolution of species interdependencies, phylogenomics, or character evolution.

Requirements are a PhD in plant systematics, with special reference to vascular plants; extensive experience with and publication record of, taxonomic revisionary work, and selected topics in phylogenetics, biogeography, and morphology; experience with e-taxonomy tools; leading participation in research networks and fund raising; drive to cooperate closely with colleagues in Malesia; proven experience in academic teaching; preferably experience with field work in the tropics.

More information on the position here. You are invited to submit your application including your curriculum vitae, a clearly focused research program of maximum four pages (containing a four year working plan, a proposed budget, a complete list of publications, your H-index, up to five keywords describing the research area, a statement of teaching interests and the names and e-mail addresses of at least three persons that can be contacted for reference (and who have agreed to be contacted) before January 16th 2012 by e-mail: sollicitaties@ncbnaturalis.nl, or by mail: Naturalis, HR department, PO box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. For more information contact Jan van Tol, Associate Director for Research, Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis. jan.vantol@ncbnaturalis.nl, +31 71 568 76 06.
Posted 6 January 2012 (back to list)