Advt. No. WII/BSA/2018 Recruitment of Junior Project Fellows (5 Positions) The Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun invite applications for engaging Project Fellows for the following projects. The process of selection of Project Fellows will include 1.5 hrs of written test followed by Interview on 13 August, 2018. Project 1: Ecological responses of flora and fauna to climate change in the TransHimalayan landscape with special reference to vulnerability and adaptations - GoIGEF-UNDP Third NATCOM Project Funding agency: UNDP and Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Requirement: Three (3) JPFs purely on contractual basis for a period of ONE YEAR Ladakh, J&K and Himachal Pradesh Location of Project site Post Graduate Degree in Botany/Forestry/Environmental Science/Wildlife Science/Life sciences with 60% marks Research experience on Floristic/Ecological surveys/Climate change/RS &GIS related studies in western Himalaya Understand the effect of climatic variability on grazing Work description grounds for wild and domestic ungulates – Resource dispersion and availability, interrelationship between the productivity and forage dependence by ungulates (wild and domestic) – Resource Utilization and Specificity and the nature of vulnerability to climate change adaptation by the local pastoral communities – Livelihood and Natural resource dependence vis a vis vulnerability Project 2: Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Soil Health through Microbial and Plant Communities in Alpine Ecosystems of Indian Himalayan Region- GoIGEF-UNDP Third NATCOM Project Essential Qualification (EQ) Desirable Qualification (DQ)
Funding agency: UNDP and Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change Requirement: One (1) JPF purely on contractual basis for a period of ONE YEAR WII Dehradun, with extensive traveling to alpine areas in Location of Project site the Indian Himalayan Region (Uttarakhand and Sikkim) Post Graduate Degree in Botany/ Environmental Sciences/ Essential Qualification Life Sciences/ Forestry with minimum 60% marks (EQ) Experience of field work on sampling Himalayan Desirable Qualification vegetation micro-flora / soil and nutrient analysis (DQ) Phenocam based study of plant phenology and analysis of responses of plants to climatic variation;