Pre-doctoral contract
The selection process for candidates to develop a PhD Thesis on the study of diet diversity and trophic position of mid trophic level marine fish. This thesis is included in the activities of the research project MTL-FISH (Mid Trophic Levels share of microbial and metazoan Food webs: Impact of Seasonal and between-Habitat variability) funded by the Spanish Research Agency.
Thesis objective: to investigate the influence of factors like the existence of temporal windows, seasonality, zonal variability, the availability and diversity of prey, or ontogenetic factors on diet diversity and trophic position of mid trophic level marine fish, through a comparative analysis of their diet. The selected PhD candidate will be part of the multidisciplinary research group Plankton Ecology and Biogeochemistry (EPB), receiving advanced training in a variety of analytical techniques, including microscopy, genomics, biochemistry and stable isotope analysis, as well as in the application of trophodynamic models and statistical techniques.
Place of work: Centro Oceanográfico de A Coruña. Instituto Español de Oceanografía. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. A Coruña (Spain)
Maximum contract duration: 4 years
Expected starting date: January 2025
Funding: Project PID2023-147149NB-I00
Principal Investigator: Antonio Bode Riestra (antonio.bode@ieo.csic.es)
More information and application: https://sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/convocatorias-de-personal/convocatoria/38031
New Postdoctoral Fellowship for studying micronekton in the EPB group
A new research project has been assigned to the EPB group to quantify functional diversity in mesopelagic communities. The scientific project TROF-MP will be carried out by Dr. Airam Sarmiento Lezcano between 2024 and 2030 and will address the relationships between the functional diversity of mesopelagic communities and ecosystem productivity.This project is a collaboration between the National Oceanography Centre (NOC, UK) (Prof. Clive Trueman), the Stockholm University (Sweden) (Prof. Monika Winder) and IEO-CSIC (Prof. Antonio Bode).
Project name: Trophic interactions and ecosystem processes in mesopelagic fishes (TROF-MP)
Project number: IN606B-2024/018
Call: Programa de apoyo a la etapa de formación posdoctoral 2024 - GAIN de la Xunta de Galicia
Type of action: Programa de apoyo a la etapa de formación posdoctoral 2024 - GAIN de la Xunta de Galicia
Granting authority: GAIN. Xunta de Galicia
Funding: 290.500 euros
Project starting date: 1 July 2024. Duration: 84 months
New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for the EPB group
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant has been assigned to the EPB group to quantify trophic linkages between inshore and offshore pelagic food webs. The scientific project PelCon will be carried out by Dr Rita García Seoane between 2024 and 2027 and will compare the mechanisms coupling coastal and oceanic food webs between the oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre near Hawai’i Island and the productive upwelling waters of the North Eastern Atlantic Ocean near Galicia, NW Spain. This project is a collaboration between the University of Hawai’i (Dr. Brian N. Popp and Dr. Jeffrey C. Drazen) and the IEO-CSIC (Dr. Antonio Bode).
Project name: Disentangling processes controlling trophic connectivity between coastal and oceanic pelagic food webs (PelCon)
Project number: 101150001
Call: HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01
Type of action: HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
Granting authority: European Research Executive Agency
Funding: 261,380.64 euro
Project starting date: 1 August 2024. Duration: 36 months
Preparation of a Doctoral Thesis proposal at the Oceanographic Center of A Coruña
Títle: Food traceability of marine organisms
Reference: JAEICU23_EX_0248
Duration: 10 months (until 31/12/2024), Funding: 1.000 euros/month
Supervisor: Antonio Bode (antonio.bode@ieo.csic.es)
Call open from 1st. to 30th September 2023
More information: https://sede.csic.gob.es/icu2023
Plankton in the new millennium: keynote lecture at the 2022 ICES Decadal Symposium
Recent changes in oceanic plankton are being reported at unprecedented rates. Most changes are related to environmental factors and many were identified as driven by climate, either through natural cycles or by anthropogenic effects. However, the separation of both effects is difficult because of the small size of most observational series. Moreover, some changes are related to trends and cycles while others were perceived as abrupt ecosystem shifts, often synchronized over large spatial scales.
As part of the activities of The Fourth Symposium on Decadal Variability
of the North Atlantic and
its Marine Ecosystems: 2010–2019 (https://decadal2022.imr.no/), from
20–22 June 2022 in Bergen, Norway,
Antonio Bode
opened Theme Session 2 (Decadal change and trends in North
Atlantic/sub‐Arctic plankton and their ecosystems) with a keynote
lecture entitled "Plankton in the new millennium: synchronic
multidecadal trends and regime shifts".
More info:
https://www.ices.dk/news-and-events/news-archive/news/Pages/Decadal2022ABode.aspx
Oceans Special Issue "World Oceans Day 2022"
Oceans are the origin of life, connecting us all. However, climate change has led to the emergence of numerous challenges for oceans today. The MDPI journal OCEANS is honored to announce a new Special Issue to celebrate the World Oceans Day 2022 (June 8). The scope of this Special Issue includes but is not limited to ocean complexity, ocean impacts and challenges, and resilience and innovation. We encourage researchers from all areas of ocean science to submit abstracts for this Special Issue. We will then make a decision on the full manuscripts for this Special Issue or as a regular paper. Let us all take action together to preserve our ocean.
OCEANS is an open-access journal that normally charges authors a fee. However, MDPI has agreed to publish papers that have been prepared for this important issue free of any charge.
This will be a dynamic Special Issue, and articles will be published as soon as the reviewers and editors are ready to accept them, without waiting for the deadline for the entire Special Issue to arrive.
Dr. Sam Dupont
Prof. Dr. Antonio Bode
Dr. Michael W. Lomas
Prof. Dr. Pere Masqué
Dr. Diego Macías
Guest Editors
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 8 June 2022.
