• Ability to independently facilitate meetings and attention to detail and planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English as demonstrated in scientific publications.
• Quantitative skills including study design and statistical analysis in R (preferably) or other tools.

Candidates with the following additional qualifications/skills will be preferred:

● Exposure to enterprise & accounting management software such as Tally and SAP.

Remuneration:

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and work experience within the range of Rs. 20,000/- to Rs. 28,000/- per month.

How to apply:

● Submit a complete CV along with a cover letter (not exceeding one page) clearly conveying why you consider yourself a suitable candidate for this position.

A new list of 2% of top scientists worldwide has identified 1,494 scientists in India, out of which 3 are from Centre for Ecological Sciences [Raghavendra Gadagkar (Subject: Entomology), Raman Sukumar (Subject: Ecology), Ramachandra T.V. (Subject: Energy)], Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. The prestigious list was prepared by Stanford University and published in the journal PLOS Biology.

Announcement of Vacancy for the Position of Postdoctoral Fellow for Forest Dynamics Research in the Long-Term Ecological Observatories (LTEO) programme

Number of vacancies: One

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow 

Chief responsibilities: Oversee and manage the Forest Dynamics project of the Indian LTEO program, liaise with the co-PIs across multiple institutions, supervise junior researchers, and assist in data analysis and report and manuscript writing. 

Announcement of Vacancy for the Position of Research Assistant in the  Long-Term Ecological Observatories (LTEO) programme

Number of vacancies: One   

Position: Research Assistant  

Chief responsibilities: Liaison with the Ministry of Environment Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) and network building activities.  

Last date to apply: 13 July 2020 

Project details:  

Long-Term Ecological Observatories (LTEO) programme announces the following three vacancies:

1. Position: Science Manager

Number of vacancies: One

Chief responsibilities: Oversee the science plan of LTEO, liaise with research projects, develop new projects, project management including supervising junior researchers, and network building activities.

Last date to apply: April 30, 2020

Project details:

Contrary to the expected hypothesis that crop-raiding elephants in a human-dominated landscape will exhibit higher stress, the authors found that the stress levels were lower than expected, and it could be due to access to the superior quality of diet (as shown by higher NDVI and faecal Nitrogen content). 

Salient findings of the study: 

1. Lower levels of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites (as a proxy of stress) in crop-raiding elephants, than the elephants in protected forests. 

This paper deals with how wild Asian elephants react towards the injured, dying and dead conspecifics.  The branch of science that deals with understanding the reactions of individuals towards dead or death is termed 'Thanatology'. This is the first documentation on Asian elephants thanatological behaviour. 

Link to publication: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10329-019-00739-8 

Media coverage: 

Prof Rohini Balakrishnan was interviewed by The Weather Channel. Check the interview in the link below!

Link: https://weather.com/en-IN/india/science/news/2019-02-15-chasing-the-musi...

Wind-farms are the new top predator in the food chain.