The Algarve Centre for Marine Sciences (CCMAR) opens a call for a Junior Researcher (M/F) of any nationality, including stateless candidates, under an uncertain term employment contract within the research project HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-12: Improved science based maritime spatial planning and identification of marine protected areas, funded by Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON; HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions), in order to recruit and select the best candidate for the development of the project activities under the following conditions:

Job Summary and Duties:

The project uses a systematic approach to design a network of marine protected areas in Europe using spatially comparable data on marine species, habitats and ecosystems in order to optimize the protection of most biodiversity.

The tasks to perform by the Junior Researcher include:

1. Modelling of environmental data, including ocean currents and climate change scenarios.
2. Development of climatic proxies for changes in marine species distributions based on climate change scenarios (e.g., climate velocity).
3. Classification of marine ecosystems based on environmental variables (e.g., ordination analyses based on PCA and clustering algorithms).