Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge Research Program

In 2007, TRaCK was established as a research hub under the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Programme - the Australian Government’s commitment to world-class public good environmental research. Several exciting new research opportunities are now available as part of the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) Research Program www.track.gov.au

Senior Research Fellow - Aquatic Ecology

Vacancy number: 6502 / 303

Four-year fixed term full time appointment - Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Darwin.

Remuneration: Academic Level C - $88 771 - $102 360 per annum.

Research Fellow - Aquatic Ecology

Vacancy number: 6501 / 304

Three-year fixed term full time appointment - Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Darwin.

Remuneration: Academic Level A/B - $47,258 -- $80,170 per annum.

Research Associate - Aquatic Ecology

Vacancy number: 6503 / 302

Three-year fixed term full time appointment - Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Darwin.

Remuneration: Academic Level A - $47 258 - $64 135 per annum.

These three positions will play an active role in several projects within TRaCK's Food Webs and Biodiversity Theme, particularly projects aimed at developing a better understanding of:

• food web interactions (particularly involving fish and invertebrates),
• food web subsidies (between rivers, riparian zones or floodplains) and,
• flow ecology relationships (particularly for fish or ecosystem processes).

Informal enquiries:
Associate Professor Michael Douglas
Tel: (08) 8946 7261
Email: michael.douglas@cdu.edu.au

Research Associate - Ecohydrologist

Vacancy number: 6507 / 305

Three-year fixed term full time appointment - Charles Darwin University, Casuarina Campus, Darwin.

Remuneration Package - Academic Level A - $47 258 - $64 135 per annum.

Located within the School of Science and Primary Industries, the successful candidate will be part of a team investigating the impacts of land use change on surface and groundwater hydrological processes in a range of tropical rivers catchments in north Australia. The project will examine spatial and temporal patterns of evapotranspiration across a range of savanna landscapes.

The successful candidate will be expected to manage the field measurement program and in close consultation with project managers, coordinate field activities, undertake data management and analysis and contribute with the project team to reporting and peer-review scientific paper preparation.

Informal enquiries:
Dr Lindsay Hutley
Tel: (08) 89467103
Email: lindsay.hutley@cdu.edu.au

Research Fellow - River Modelling

Vacancy number: 6504 / 306

Three-year fixed term full time appointment - Located in Darwin

Remuneration Package - Academic Level A/B - $47,258 - $80,170 per annum.

Located within the School of Engineering and Logistics, the Research Fellow will conduct research in catchment hydrology and river hydraulics with special emphasis on hydrodynamic and sediment transport modelling and be involved in the development and application of hydrodynamic models at regional and reach scales. The work will be directed to understanding floodplain sedimentation rates and processes and bedload transport in large tropical rivers and its effect on dry-season pool dynamics.

Informal enquiries:
Professor Eric Valentine
Tel: (08) 8946 6350
Email: eric.valentine@cdu.edu.au

WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE TO APPLY

For further information:
Tel: 08 8946 6284.
Web: www.cdu.edu.au/pmd/vacancies.html

Applications Close: 12 November 2007