vendredi 7 janvier 2011

La Protection mondiale des animaux de ferme (PMAF) cherche son chargé d’éducation

Offre d’emplo i : Chargé(e) d’éducation
Type de contrat : CDD de 6 mois pouvant déboucher sur un CDI
Lieu : Metz
Expérience requise : 3 à 5 ans de préférence
Niveau : Bac + 5 minimum ;
Date de début : poste à pourvoir au plus tôt
La Protection mondiale des animaux de ferme (PMAF) recherche un chargé d’éducation. Rattaché(e) à la Direction, vous êtes chargé(e) de développer et de coordonner les projets pédagogiques de l’association. A ce titre, vos missions sont les suivantes :
· Réaliser des nouveaux outils (brochures, vidéos, CD-Rom, etc.) éducatifs, pour un éventail de personnes, allant de la maternelle à l’enseignement supérieur.
· Organiser la promotion et la distribution du matériel éducatif réalisé par la PMAF
· Constituer un groupe d’enseignants bénévoles qui seront chargés d’évaluer les outils éducatifs réalisés par la PMAF et de conseiller l’association pour la réalisation de ces outils
· Intervenir dans les établissements d’enseignement, principalement dans les établissements d’enseignement agricole, ou dans tous autres lieux pour promouvoir au cours de conférences le bien-être des animaux d’élevage
· Rédiger des fiches d’information techniques sur les différents thèmes sur lesquels travaille la PMAF
· Présenter, avant chaque élaboration du budget prévisionnel de l’association, des projets d’activités chiffrés pour l’année à venir 
· Représenter la PMAF à des réunions avec des instances officielles, des organisations professionnelles, d’autres associations de protection des animaux, etc.
· Fournir des mises à jour pour la section éducation du site web de la PMAF (www.animaux-de-ferme.org)
En partenariat avec les autres départements de l’association, vous élaborerez des documents destinés à faire connaître les bonnes pratiques agricoles, qui prennent efficacement en compte le bien-être animal.

Vous développerez les actions de formation de la PMAF
1 Vous créerez, développerez et assurerez la promotion d’outils pédagogiques destinés aux professionnels qui travaillent en utilisant des animaux d’élevage (ex : transporteurs, éleveurs, maquignons, abatteurs) afin que leurs pratiques évoluent vers une meilleure prise en compte du bien-être animal
2 En partenariat avec les autres départements de l’association, vous créerez, développerez et assurerez la promotion d’outils destinés aux professionnels chargés de veiller au respect de la réglementation protégeant les animaux (ex : gendarmes, policiers, inspecteurs des services vétérinaires, magistrats, inspecteurs d’associations de défense des animaux) afin de les aider à remplir cette mission
Dans les deux cas cités précédemment, vous pourrez être amené à organiser des sessions de formation ou à réaliser des exposés oraux devant ces publics.

Votre profil :
De formation supérieure, Bac +5, vous avez un diplôme d’ingénieur agronome, une formation supérieure dans le domaine de l’éthologie, ou un diplôme spécialisé en science de l’éducation, vous avez une expérience confirmée de concepteur, formateur ou de conseiller pédagogique. Vous maîtrisez les approches pédagogiques actuelles.
Vous avez un réel intérêt pour la cause animale. Vous aimez prendre des initiatives, travailler en équipe, vous êtes autonome, organisé(e) et savez vous impliquer dans une action militante. Ouvert(e) d'esprit, doté(e) d'une expression écrite et orale rigoureuse, vous n'hésitez pas à prendre position et à la porter avec force et conviction. Vous avez une bonne maîtrise de l’anglais.
Merci d'adresser CV avec photo, lettre de motivation et prétentions
Par mail : courrier@pmaf.org
Par courrier : PMAF- BP 80 242 - 8 ter en Chandellerue - 57006 METZ Cedex 1

lundi 3 janvier 2011

Announcement for 11 PhD fellowship for interdisciplinary research in River Science

Deadline for applications: January 31, 2011.
A 3-years Joint PhD programme is offered in the framework of the Erasmus Mundus action by the University of Trento (Italy), Queen Mary, University of London (UK) and the Free University of Berlin (Germany), together with 12 associate partners in 8 different countries and 4 continents, encompassing research centres, private companies and governmental agencies.

Research is multidisciplinary-based at a principal institution with mandatory mobility to a second Consortium partner and one Associate partner. It focuses on the core areas of natural and engineering sciences relevant to the sustainable management of river systems from their headwaters to estuaries, including moprhodynamics, hydrology, biogeochemistry, geomorphology, biology and ecology.

Admission is on a selective basis; the best candidates will be assigned attractive EU fellowships.
Successful completion of the PhD programme will be awarded a joint or double Doctoral Degree in River Science.

For any further information concerning the programme, application and selection procedure please visit:
www.riverscience.eu

Upcoming Primate Meetings


SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY ANNUAL MEETING
Dates: January 3, 2011 - January 7, 2011
Sponsor: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Location: Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown and Salt Lake City Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah Web Site: http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2011/index.php

AAAS ANNUAL MEETING
Dates: February 17, 2011 - February 21, 2011
Sponsor: AAAS
Location: Washington, D.C.

SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE CHICAGO CHAPTER 2011 ANNUAL MEETING
Date: March 24, 2011
Sponsor: Society for Neuroscience Chicago Chapter
Location: DePaul University, Chicago, Lincoln Park Campus Student Center Web Site: http://chicagosfn.org/events/detail/80/

XX CONGRESSO NAZIONALE DELL'ASSOCIAZIONE PRIMATOLOGICA ITALIANA
Dates: April 10, 2011 - April 13, 2011
Sponsor: Italian Primatological Society
Location: Parco Natura Viva

20TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PALEOANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY
Dates: April 12, 2011 - April 13, 2011
Sponsor: Paleoanthropology Society
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

80TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS
Dates: April 12, 2011 - April 16, 2011
Sponsor: American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Location: Hilton Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota Web Site: http://physanth.org/annual-meeting/2011

16TH ANNUAL WISCONSIN SYMPOSIUM ON EMOTION
Dates: April 21, 2011 - April 22, 2011
Sponsor: HealthEmotions Research Institute, University of Wisconsin
Location: Ebling Auditorium, Madison, Wisconsin Web Site: http://www.healthemotions.org/symposium/

20TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY
Dates: May 24, 2011 - May 29, 2011
Sponsor: International Behavioral Neuroscience Society
Location: Sheraton Steamboat Resort, Steamboat Springs, Colorado Web Site: http://www.ibnshomepage.org/annualmtg11.htm

JOINT MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ETHOLOGICAL CONFERENCE (IEC) AND THE ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SOCIETY (ABS)
Dates: July 25, 2011 - July 30, 2011
Sponsor: International Ethological Conference (IEC) and the Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
Location: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Web Site: http://www.indiana.edu/~behav11

45TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ETHOLOGY
Dates: July 31, 2011 - August 4, 2011
Sponsor: International Society for Applied Ethology
Location: Hyatt Regency, Indianapolis, IN

34TH MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PRIMATOLOGISTS
Dates: September 16, 2011 - September 19, 2011
Sponsor: American Society of Primatologists
Location: Austin, Texas

62ND AALAS NATIONAL MEETING
Dates: October 2, 2011 - October 6, 2011
Sponsor: AALAS
Location: San Diego, CA

29TH ANNUAL NONHUMAN PRIMATE MODELS FOR AIDS
Dates: October 25, 2011 - October 28, 2011
Sponsor: Washington National Primate Research Center
Location: Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle, Washington Web Site: http://www.wanprc.org/wp-content/misc/nhp2011_flier.pdf

INTERNATIONAL PRIMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY XXIV CONGRESS
Dates: August 13, 2012 - August 17, 2012
Sponsor: International Primatological Society
Location: World Trade Center, Veracruz, Mexico Web Site: http://www.citrouv.edu.mx/ips2012/

dimanche 2 janvier 2011

Funded PhD Project 2: Building wildlife behaviour, connectivity and climate change into the design of conservation networks.

The goal of this project is to design protected areas networks in Québec, Canada, that are likely to maintain biodiversity under a changing climate. We seek a PhD student to incorporate wildlife habitat selection, movement, and connectivity into this design. We expect that simulation modeling will be the unifying methodology. Our case studies are existing protected areas networks in the regions of Gaspésie and Mauricie. In the former, a primary issue is the protection and recovery of an endangered population of Mountain Caribou; in the latter, a key issue relates to black bear dynamics.
The two networks are each embedded within a matrix of forest lands managed for timber harvesting, hunting and conservation. This student will work alongside a second PhD student who will focus on forest dynamics.

We offer a 3yr PhD scholarship at C$21,500/yr, tenable at the Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, Québec City, under the supervision of Eliot McIntire and Steve Cumming. The position is to commence as soon as possible. The successful applicant will work closely with a team of conservation biologists, wildlife biologists, ecosystem modelers and partners in sponsoring government agencies and ENGOS, and will join an active « meta-lab » of 10-15 students working on spatial simulation, statistical ecology and boreal conservation biology.
The qualifications for this position are strong quantitative skills and an interest in applied ecology and simulation modelling, independent of disciplinary background. Some programming experience (e.g. in R, Python, C, SELES, or Visual Basic) would be a major asset, although modelling courses are available in the lab. The language of instruction at Université Laval is French, but one’s thesis will be written in English. Applicants whose first language is not french are encouraged to apply. Québecâ•˙s francophone cultural environment provides an excellent opportunity to improve french language skills. Québec is also well known for its exceptional outdoors recreational opportunities and natural beauty.

Applicants should submit by email a short statement of interest, a current CV, and the names of three references. For further information, contact the undersigned:

Eliot McIntire
eliot.mcintire@sbf.ulaval.ca
Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval

http://www.cef-cfr.ca/index.php?n=Membres.EliotMcIntire

http://www.cef-cfr.ca/index.php?n=Membres.StevenGCumming

Funded PhD Project: Regional conservation planning for dynamic landscapes under climate change

The goal of this project is to design protected areas networks in Québec, Canada, that are likely to maintain biodiversity under a changing climate. We seek a PhD student to apply ecological modelling of forest dynamics and spatial simulation to this design problem. Our case studies are existing protected areas networks in the regions of Gaspésie and Mauricie, each embedded within a matrix of forest lands managed for timber harvesting, hunting and conservation. One region is subject to wildfire, the other contains an isolated population of endangered woodland caribou. One major aspect of the research will be modelling the rate of northwards migration of tree species through the regions, as affected by climate, existing landscape structure, disturbance regimes and management. This student will work alongside a second PhD student who is focused on wildlife behaviour and landscape connectivity.

We offer a 3yr PhD scholarship at C$20,000/yr, tenable at the Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, Québec City, under the supervision of Steve Cumming, Alison Munson and Eliot McIntire. The position is to commence as soon as possible. The successful applicant will work closely with a team of conservation biologists, wildlife biologists, ecosystem modelers and partners in sponsoring government agencies and ENGOS, and will join an active
« meta-lab » of 10-15 students working on spatial simulation, statistical ecology and conservation biology.

The qualifications for this position are strong quantitative skills and an interest in applied ecology and simulation modelling, independent of disciplinary background. Some programming experience (e.g. in R, Python, C, SELES, or Visual Basic) would be a major asset, although modelling courses are available in the lab. The language of instruction at Université Laval is French, but one’s thesis will be written in English. Applicants whose first language is not french are encouraged to apply. Québecâ•˙s francophone cultural environment provides an excellent opportunity to improve french language skills. Québec is also well known for its exceptional outdoors recreational opportunities and natural beauty.

Applicants should submit by email a short statement of interest, a current CV, and the names of three references. For further information, contact the undersigned:

Steve Cumming
stevec@sbf.ulaval.ca
Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval

http://www.cef-cfr.ca/index.php?n=Membres.StevenGCumming

http://www.cef-cfr.ca/index.php?n=Membres.AlisonMunson

http://www.cef-cfr.ca/index.php?n=Membres.EliotMcIntire

5th International Conference on the Assessment of Animal Welfare at Farm and Group Level (WAFL)

August 8-11th, 2011, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Call for Papers

WAFL 2011 will feature a combination of submitted research presentations and invited talks. Research papers must address topics specifically related to the use of scientifically robust methods to assess animal welfare at the group level in practical or commercial settings such as farms, slaughter plants, during transport, at animal markets, and in laboratories, animal shelters and zoos.


Topics may include but are not limited to:

- Development and validation of animal welfare assessment or audit protocols

- Development and validation of innovative/automated measures of animal welfare

- Practical implementation of welfare assessment or audit protocols

- Combinations of animal welfare indicators for comprehensive and efficient welfare assessment

- Integrating animal welfare assessment with assessment of environmental impact or food safety

- Assessing and improving compliance with animal welfare standards or guidelines

- Welfare assessment in zoos and laboratories

Instructions to authors:

• Authors should indicate whether they prefer a spoken or poster presentation. Please note that the number of spoken presentations will be limited. Presenting authors may not give more than one spoken paper.

• Abstract submission opens 1 January 2011, and the deadline for abstract submission is 1 March 2011. Abstracts will be reviewed and authors will be notified of the final status of their abstract by 30 April 2011. For abstracts to be included in the Conference Proceedings, the presenting author must be registered as participant of the congress before 20 May 2011.
• Presentations should be of original research, which is substantially completed, but which has not yet been published as a full paper in a scientific journal.
• Abstracts must contain a clear statement of the purpose of the work, the methods used, the results, and conclusions. Results must be presented in sufficient detail to support the conclusions drawn. Except for theoretical contributions, papers describing the development and validation of methods of an animal welfare assessment protocol or audit, and review papers, submitted abstracts must describe the study design and sample size, give precise information on the results so far obtained, indicate the method(s) of analysis, and provide information about test statistics. Authors are strongly encouraged to include numerical values for results (e.g. means and measures of variability, correlation coefficients) where appropriate. Reviewers will be advised to reject empirical abstracts that do not contain a clear statement of the actual results obtained, or which rely on the expectation of future results, since it is very difficult to evaluate the suitability of these abstracts for presentation.
• Abstracts must not exceed 3000 characters including title, authors and addresses, and including spaces and punctuation.
• Abstracts must be written and presented in English. Linguistic accuracy is the responsibility of the authors.
• Figures, tables, references and acknowledgments must not be included in the abstract


**For registration and abstract submission information, please visit the WAFL website: www.uoguelph.ca/ccsaw/wafl

**Based on the quality of their abstracts, a limited number of presenters may be invited to submit a full manuscript of their work for publication in a special issue of Animal Welfare.