Research Fellow Climate+ Biodiversity and Water Co-Centre

The Co-Centre for Climate+ Biodiversity + Water, hosted by the School of Natural Sciences, is seeking to recruit a Research Fellow to investigate and deliver validated projections of global vegetation responses driven by climate, land use, and traits, and apply these projections to enable population risk forecasting. Apply the Global Warming Levels and “storyline” climate projections produced for Ireland and the UK with our biodiversity models to project effects of these new projections on the types of species that will occur under these new climatic conditions and their dynamics.

The new The Co-Centre for Climate+ Biodiversity + Water is an international collaborative Co-Centre working across 14 academic partner institutions in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain. The Co-Centre is head-quartered at Trinity College Dublin (Co-Director Professor Yvonne Buckley) and Queen’s University Belfast (Co-Director Professor Mark Emmerson) with GB lead at the University of Reading (Professor Ed Hawkins). The Co-Centre award is managed by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), supported via UK’s International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF) and the Irish Government’s Shared Island initiative.

The Co-Centre will be the home of research, innovation, and policy development across the interlinked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and water degradation on the islands of Ireland and Britain. Failure to achieve global greenhouse gas emission reductions, stem the decline of biodiversity and reverse water quality deterioration mean business as usual is not an option. Transformations in how we produce food, store carbon, manage risks and exploit new opportunities are urgently needed. Economies of the future will need to be environmentally, economically and societally sustainable, with positive contributions to climate, nature and water.

The Co-Centre for Climate+ Biodiversity + Water  research will facilitate fair transitions to Net Zero, reverse biodiversity loss, and restore water quality for a sustainable economy. A transformational shift in land use is needed to achieve environmental targets while contributing to a sustainable economy and livelihoods. We will provide urgently required solutions and pathways for sustainable and just transitions in land use for climate, biodiversity and water. We will research the solutions needed from individual to systemic levels and provide the evidence-based tools to facilitate positive change. We will work with policy and industry partners to identify and validate the innovations needed to thrive in a climate, nature and water positive world.

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