Interested in studying gregarious fish behaviors in a tropical island in the Indian Ocean? If yes, this short term position (17 months) is probably for you:

Position: Computer Scientist in Spatial Analysis and Data Integration
Location: IRD Reunion Island, France
Duration: 17 months from June 2010 to December 2011
Deadline: 31st of May 2010
Salary Range: ~ 3000€ by month

IRD (Institute for Reasearch and Development) is seeking for a young scientific researcher (PhD) with strong quantitative analytical skills and good knowledge in spatial analyses including experience in data modelling (developed mathematical approaches by stochastic differential equations or individual-based models) and programming (R, Splus, C++ or Matlab). You should possess good interactive web development skills to manage databases using JavaScript (AJAX) and PHP/Python in an Apache/Linux environment. Knowledge in marine biology and telemetry are suitable. You will work on electronic tagging data coming from experiments dedicated to the understanding of gregarious fish behaviours under FADs (Fish Aggregating Device). Spatial data with high resolution acquired by different telemetry methods are already available. You will contribute to purchase and consolidate the analyses by confront field data to model outputs. You should have to participate to tagging experiment in the open-field. You need good verbal and written presentation and communication skills in English, good working knowledge of Word and Excel and databases and proven ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team.

For additional information and proposal, please contact:
Dr M. Soria, Research engineer
Tel: 00 262 (0) 262 29 93 42
Email: marc.soria@ird.fr