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#jobalert The call for our 2025 #postdoc pool is now open. We offer 5 positions: ✔ salary level E13 TVöD (100 %) | 3 year fixed term 📅 Application deadline: 24 August 2024 ✏ Starting date: 1 January 2025 In order to address questions of global importance related to functional marine biodiversity, marine conservation and effective governance, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) has created an integrative postdoc pool, HIPP. This aims to stimulate a holistic, innovative and interdisciplinary research environment to attend to the most pressing questions facing the marine environment: for nature and people combined, The HIPP offers postdoctoral scientists the opportunity to develop their own research ideas and to actively shape their scientific careers. For each call, we set a topical context in order to foster interconnection and collaborations between postdocs. For this call, we seek to hire a strong team of researchers, open and enthusiastic about interdisciplinary work, who will address the theme of “Making sense of tipping points for biodiversity: ecosystem and societal perspectives“ in collaboration with the broader HIFMB community. We envisage a cohort that jointly develops novel research approaches to tipping elements in both natural and societal dimensions. Each of the subprojects (outlined below) shall explicitly work with concepts of connectivity and isolation as well as scale (local to regional). We explicitly encourage asking whether adaptation and adapting – for environments and people - allows avoiding tipping in either emergent properties or single aspects of ecological systems or societal worlds . The entire cohort involves 5 subprojects with 1 postdoc position each. The open positions: - PostDoc for Tipping behaviour in ecological metacommunities – theory (HIPP25 Pos #1) (m/f/d) - PostDoc for Tipping points induced by planktonic dispersal constraints based on cell size and adaptability (HIPP25 Pos #2) (m/f/d) - PostDoc for Urchin mass mortality (HIPP25 Pos #3) (m/f/d) - PostDoc for Tipping behaviour in paleoecological timescales (HIPP25 Pos #4) (m/f/d) - PostDoc for Management targets in space and time – the spatial extent needed to reach targets in time (HIPP25 Pos #5) (m/f/d) More info: https://lnkd.in/eMAh2GQ7 #Jobs #MarineScience #OceanScience #Research #Joboffer

I made a very pedestrian* introduction to dynamics and dynamical systems modelling. https://lnkd.in/gj-tfh_a

HIFMB is hosting Ocean Science Jam: Polar World. Make sure to attend it on May 23.

HIFMB is hosting Ocean Science Jam: Polar World. Make sure to attend it on May 23.

Do you remember? On May 23, it's finally time again. The next Ocean Science Jam will be all about the Polar World. ❄ 🐇 ☃ Don't miss it! 🗓 May 23rd, 7 PM 📍 CORE Oldenburg

Check out our new paper - so excited that it's finally published :)

New video: This one covers the maths of random node and link removal, with applications in infrastructure resilience, vaccination campaigns, and social distancing. https://lnkd.in/eXsyjFQn

From January to April 2024, Anna Pasco Bolta was an Artist in Residence at HIFMB and the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst. Anna was the second artist to take part in this jointly developed Artist in Residence scheme aiming to promote the dialogue between marine biodiversity research and art. In her transdisciplinary research, she investigates mechanisms and models for understanding and constructing the idea of life and existence. Approaches from nature science and poetic languages provide tools and vehicles to question systems of coexistence and politics in order to surrender to a more intimate coexistence and become an embedded and co-creative part of biodiversity. Her practice includes interactions with artificial intelligence, future materials, imagery and ceramics that engage the audience in multi-layered ways and invite interaction. Through her practice, she combines art theory, pop culture and science in works that question the dichotomies that organise Western thought and the symbiotic relationships that shape our coexistence with other species and the environment.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) sets out the seabed in international waters as a space known as the ‘Area’ and moreover as the ‘common heritage of (hu)mankind’. That means it’s yours and mine. That you – we – have rights to this as part of our heritage as people of this Earth. In spite of this, not many of us may even know this, or flex our muscles to stake our claim in it. The reality is, who wants access (and gets it) may be a question of big business, money, technological ability, and geopolitical power. All is not equal when it comes to the seabed. A few days ago, a team of HIFMB colleagues set off to get closer to their 'common heritage' - at the Jade Bay on the German North Sea coast. One of the results is this excursion report, which is not only extremely enjoyable, but also raises many intriguing questions about accessibility and usage rights of the seabed. Highly recommended reading: https://lnkd.in/du-CKnwM Photos: Amelia Hine #marinegovernance #marinebiodiversity #marinesciences