Current Job Opportunities and Fellowships
Are you passionate about marine conservation and applied science?
At iMARES, we are looking for dedicated individuals to join our team and work on projects that contribute to the protection of marine ecosystems. If you want to be part of our work and collaborate on innovative research, explore our job openings and available fellowships.
Check out the vacancies and take the next step in your career with iMARES. We look forward to meeting you soon!
The end of the Messinian salinity crisis and how to repopulate a marine basin
The Messinian Salinity Crisis was the greatest paleoenvironmental perturbation in the Mediterranean Sea, and took place around 5.5 million years ago, when the marine connection to the Atlantic Ocean was restricted, leading to drastic reduction in biodiversity and the complete restructuring of the marine biota. After the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the Mediterranean–Atlantic gateway opening at Gibraltar initiated the reconnection to the global ocean, allowing for the influx of marine species, which took place within a few months to years. However, this influx did not lead to the expected, also rapid (re)establishment of populations, an observation which can only be explained by the lack of favorable paleoenvironmental conditions in the Mediterranean basin. The aim of this PhD project will be to investigate the establishment of different marine taxa in a previously hypersaline basin. The student will employ statistical models to predict the distributions of the targeted taxa, and explore potential trophic relationships established in the marine ecosystem.
This thesis will be supervised by Konstantina Agiad, Marta Coll and Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, and conducted at the Institut de Ciències del Mar in Barcelona.
Expressions of interest (with CV including Bachelor grade) should be sent to konstantina.agiadi@univie.ac.at
- Monitoring the contemporary biodiversity crisis in the Mediterranean Sea using digital data from recreational fishing
PI: Dr. Valerio Sbragaglia (sbragaglia@icm.csic.es)
- Pleistocene-Holocene marine resources of the Western Mediterranean.
PI: Dr. Maria Bas (mbas@icm.csic.es)