Postdoctoral Position – The Nucleo Milenio Center for Marine Conservation of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

The Marine Conservation Center is a scientific program focused on understanding the ecology and oceanography of coastal marine communities and their interaction with the heterogeneous artisanal management and social landscape. The center is based at the Estación Costera de Investigaciones Marinas in Las Cruces and is conformed by an interdisciplinary team of leading research ecologists, oceanographers and social biologists from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The PI’s and senior researchers of the center are C.A. Aiken, B. Broitman, J.C. Castilla, S. Faugueron, M. Fernández, S. Gelcich, S.A. Navarrete, C. Rodríguez, E.A. Wieters. The center was established to examine the effect of spatial heterogeneity in human activities (e.g. protected, dedicated and open areas) on coastal ecosystems across a mosaic of oceanographic and biological con...