New deadline: 7 October 2022
A graduate with skills in data collection, scientific analyses and research publication is sought to join the SEA MARVEL project team between November 2022 – 2023 (400 hours) at €15 per hour, exclusive of VAT.
Specific tasks would include:
- Working with stakeholders, including fishermen, yachtsmen, sea-users to collect sighting data of species and pollution during their time at sea and analyse such data to complement other dedicated environmental data collection by the SEA MARVEL team. Citizen science methods may be useful.
- Such work would entail being able to present the project’s requirements, data collection needs and outputs to stakeholders and promote the biodiversity conservation targets of SEA MARVEL and its plastic pollution free environment goals. Fluency in different languages may be useful to communicate with local and visiting mariners.
- Writing scientific publications/reports in English.
A total remuneration of €6000 exclusive of VAT will be spread during the year. The payments will be against an invoice. The applicant must be VAT registered.
The applicant should be willing to work flexibly and with dedication on the required biodiversity marine conservation data collection, analyses and reporting.
Interested applicants are invited to send in their letter of application with their CV by 7 October 2022 to Prof Adriana Vella, Conservation Biology Research Group, Department of Biology, University of Malta.
Project Summary
The Italia-Malta Interreg project SEA MARVELjoins forces between organizations that, in Sicily and Malta, work to reduce knowledge gaps and promote timely, concrete and feasible actions and campaigns to aid nature protection for innovative sustainable development. The geographical position of these islands allows for strategic analyses pertinent to the understanding of Mediterranean pressures and challenges caused by climatic and environmental changes. SEA MARVEL aims to raise awareness of the risks and mitigate the effects of plastic pollution, declining populations of marine species, alien species invasion and climate change effects in order to maintain and reactivate the ecosystem and protected Natura 2000 sites. SEA MARVEL’s fieldwork, under the scientific guidance of the University of Malta, shall assess the presence of and promote actions toward the repopulation of vulnerable indicator species such as cetaceans. It will also target timely interventions to identify and reduce alien species and plastics in the selected Natura 2000 sites in line with the Marine Strategy Framework Directive’s Good Environmental Status. Under the guidance of the University of Catania, challenges that stimulate the participation of the new generation and coastal communities towards the development of sustainable management plans shall be set-up.
Project Partner of SEA MARVEL
Conservation Biology Research Group | Department of Biology | Faculty of Science
Coordinator: Prof Adriana Vella | Room 209, Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080
, Malta. Tel: +356 2340 2790 | email: adriana.vella@um.edu.mt
