Marine Data Collection from Stakeholders for the SEA MARVEL project
A biologist with skills in data collection, scientific analyses and report writing is sought to join the SEA MARVEL project team between March and September 2023 (400 hours) at €20 per hour, exclusive of VAT.
Specific tasks would include:
- Working with stakeholders, including Maltese 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.
- 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.
- Writing scientific reports in English
A total remuneration of €8000 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 the 24 of February 2023 to , Conservation Biology Research Group, , University of Malta at the following email address.
Project Summary:
The Italia-Malta Interreg project SEA MARVEL joins forces between organisations 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 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.
