[Forum SIS] CANSSI/Fields post-doctoral position

[Claudio Agostinelli]

Cari Colleghi,
diffondo volentieri questa opportunità per un posto di post-doctoral
fellow presso la Dalhousie University.
Cordiali saluti,
Claudio Agostinelli

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Dear Colleague,

We (myself and Chris Field)  anticipate receiving funding for a
post-doctoral fellow (please see advertisement below). Please circulate
this information to  any of your current or recent students who might be
interested.
Best,
Joanna



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Joanna Mills Flemming
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 4R2
902-494-1268, 902-494-5130 (fax)

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Post-Doctoral Fellow - Advances to State-Space Models for Fisheries Science

Applications are invited for a CANSSI/Fields post-doctoral position in
connection with a CANSSI Collaborative Research Team project to develop
robust and statistically rigorous state-space models (SSM) methodologies
for fisheries science with Joanna Mills Flemming and Chris Field (both
at Dalhousie University). The research will be motivated by ongoing
discussions with fisheries collaborators aimed at addressing pressing
fisheries issues in Canada. Goals include:
- Building robust statistical methodologies for SSMs used in fisheries
science and management that allow for both errors and misspecification
in the observation process and in the state/dynamic process.
- Developing relevant model diagnostics that can be used to evaluate
model goodness-of-fit for both the observation and state process. In
practice, stock assessment scientists and fisheries managers need to
know if their advice is sensitive to reasonable alternative assumptions.

The successful applicant should be familiar with SSMs, possess excellent
computational skills and be well organized. Interested applicants should
send their CV and Letter of interest as well as arrange to have two
letters of reference sent  to Joanna Mills Flemming
(Joanna.Flemming at Dal.Ca) before April 1, 2014. The position is for two
years, contingent upon funding, with start date to be determined.
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