Organisation/Company: MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY (Research Field: Other Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) First Stage Researcher (R1) Country: Ireland) Application Deadline 15 Jan **** (UTC) Type of Contract: Other Job Status: Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No
Offer Description
Department:
Biology
Vacancy ID:
******
Closing Date:
15-Jan-****
The Forest Ecology and Global Change Research Lab is seeking a highly motivated Research Assistant to join our DAFM funded DeerImpact research project.
Project Description:
Deer populations have reached extreme levels in many regions in Ireland, resulting in serious financial and environmental damage to forests and agricultural land.
Stakeholders are struggling to identify deer density thresholds that set the limit between sustainable and unsustainable populations.
Identifying these thresholds can inform management actions aimed at reducing localised high-density populations and related impacts.
The DeerImpact project (University College Dublin, Maynooth University, Atlantic Technological University, funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine) is using a suite of novel methodologies to accurately measure the impact of deer in forest and grassland ecosystems.
Recent evidence has indicated that increasing populations of free-ranging deer are negatively impacting forage production in agricultural grasslands in Ireland.
As part of the wider DeerImpact project, researchers at the Forest Ecology and Global Change lab will investigate the impact of deer on forage production in agricultural grasslands.
Deer exclosures will be established in grassland sites across a gradient of deer population densities.
Over 2 years, deer activity (using camera traps) and grass yield in paired fenced and unfenced experimental plots will be monitored.
Assist with experimental design and fieldwork planning.
Collect data in the field using camera traps and monitor grass yield in paired fenced and unfenced experimental plots.
Analyse data in the laboratory.
Research Assistant Level I *****):
€33,292 p.a. (1 point – with increment).
Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.
Applications must be submitted by 15-Jan-****, 23:30hrs (local Irish time).
Late applications will not be accepted.
Maynooth University is an equal opportunities employer
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