Postdoc in ecological modeling at Trier University, Germany

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Postdoc in ecological modeling at Trier University, Germany

Postby stefan_loetters » Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:06 pm

At Trier University‘s 'Trier Center for Sustainable Systems (TriCSS)', financed by the ‘Forschungsinitiative des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz’ will be available one
postdoc position (100% E 13 TV‐L) for the period 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2016
in the field ”wind power inside forests versus bat protection – development of prognostic tools for estimating threats to bat populations by wind turbines“.
The issue of wind energy versus biodiversity is highly relevant. Te estimated land requirements for wind energy plants within forest stands (Rhineland-Palatinate for instance wants to use 2% of its total forest area for generating wind energy) fosters a lasting conflict with other values added such as the timber industry, local recreation, tourism and biodiversity (particularly birds and bats). In the framework of the European Natura 2000 network, there are clear legal regulations for the latter subject of conservation, which could be compromised to an uncertain extent through the development of wind energy plants in the forest.
Within the scope of the advertised postdoc position a population model of the threat to bats should be developed. Herewith a deterministic model of "crash fatalities" at wind turbines (in cooperation with the department of mathematics) should be linked to a stochastic population model. A spatially explicit three-dimensional small-scale modelling of the wind field within the range of wind energy plants to optimize crash fatality prognoses of present as well as future wind regimes (in the next 60-90 years; in cooperation with the department of environmental meteorology) is supposed to enable us to derive profit analysis of wind energy plants with different rotor heights and involving switchoff-algorithms used for bat conservation.
The applicants should be qualified in the field of stochastic, individual based, population modelling, which is verified by publications in international professional journals. The contribution of this expertise in other projects of the department of biogeography is explicitly encouraged.
Please submit your application with the common documents (since we will not return the documents, please apply only electronically) until November 24th 2013, addressed to Prof. Dr. Michael Veith (veith@uni-trier.de) and PD Dr. Axel Hochkirch (hochkirch@uni-trier.de). Seriously disabled applicants as well as women will be favoured if they have the proper qualifications.
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