Assistant Researcher: Amazon Environmental Research Institute

Assistant Researcher - Amazon Environmental Research Institute

Location: Brazil and USA
Deadline for Applications: Feb 28th
Contact Person: Anaiza Portilho
Special Requirements: PhD (or equivalent), conversational English and
Portuguese
Salary and benefits: to be agreed but based on experience

Responsibilities:
- Build research program on the effects of climate change and land-use on
native forest and savanna/woodland ecosystems, with initial focus on Brazil.
- Contribute to an inter-disciplinary research program designed to provide
input to land-use and climate change policies in Brazil and other tropical
nations.
- Assemble and manage spatial data sets on landcover, soils, climate,
socio-economic information.
- Contribute to the development of REDD+ programs at national and
state/province levels in Brazil and other tropical nations.

Qualifications/Experience:
- Demonstrated capacity for teamwork, inter-disciplinary research,
policy-relevant research
- Demonstrated capacity to carry out and publish in peer-review literature
scientific articles on remote sensing and/or modeling of land use change,
fire, and/or impacts of climate change on terrestrial vegetation.
- Technical skills in managing and using diverse spatial datasets to
creatively address issues of land use and climate change.
- Experience in working outside of home country
- Conversational English and Portuguese (required); conversational Spanish
and French (desirable)
- PhD (or equivalent)

Please send a 2 page resume and cover letter to:
Anaiza Portilho
anaiza [at] ipam.org.br