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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JOB: Project Scientist,
plankton ecosystem modeling </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51,
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JAMSTEC plans to recruit
ONE staff for full-time fixed-term contract position as Project
Scientist to engage in research and development as part of the
project "Developing a new ecosystem model to represent the
adaptive capacity of plankton ecosystems in the North Pacific",
which was funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency
(JST) within the research area "Establishment of core technology
for the preservation and regeneration of marine biodiversity and
ecosystems" of the Core Research for Evolutional Science and
Technology (CREST) Program. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51,
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Job Description: </span><br
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<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is an exciting
opportunity which provides ample resources for someone
interested in developing novel models of adaptive response and
biodiversity in planktonic ecosystems. </span><br style="color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This project aims to
develop new and efficient models of the dynamics of
phytoplankton and zooplankton communities, considering their
interactions with each other and with the physical environment.
The concept of optimality (as a result of natural selection)
subject to ecophysiological trade-offs will be central to the
modeling approach. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
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line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The successful candidate
will conduct research into how to efficiently represent the
biodiversity and associated adaptive capacity (i.e., flexible
response) of plankton communities in the ocean, using numerical
models of various scales from 0-dimensional (box) models of
processes to coupled 3-dimensional ecosystem models embedded
within physical models of the ocean (particularly the North
Pacific). This will include developing such models and
validating them against observations utilizing a database to be
compiled as part of this project. </span><br style="color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For more about the
research please see the webpage of the Principal Investigator
for this research project, S. Lan Smith:</span><br style="color:
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font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255,
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Salary:</span><br
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Annual salary (paid in
1/12 equal monthly payments)</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51,
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">e.g. Scientist: JPY
5,700,000-6,000,000</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Terms of Employment: </span><br
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1) On appointment, the
successful candidate will receive a relocation allowance in
accordance with the bylaws of JAMSTEC.</span><br style="color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2) An allowance for
commuting expenses will be provided.</span><br style="color:
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font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3) The employee and
JAMSTEC will share the premiums for social insurance and labor
insurance in the proportion specified by current statute.</span><br
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4) A housing lease
service available in accordance with JAMSTEC's bylaw.</span><br
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5) Holidays and
vacations: Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, year-end and New
Year's holidays. Annual vacations with pay, special vacations,
leave of absence to care for a family member, and maternity
leave are provided.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
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line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">6) Others: Various
subsidies are provided from the JAMSTEC employee cooperative for
mutual aid and welfare services.</span><br style="color: rgb(51,
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Closing Date: April 14,
2014</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
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Julia Westwater
Registrar/Graduate & Undergraduate Administrator
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MS #31
Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
Tel: 508/289-3379
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.whoi.edu/more.go?username=jwestwater">http://www.whoi.edu/more.go?username=jwestwater</a></pre>
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