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Description de poste
Contexte du recrutement et définition de poste :
The LIENSs laboratory is a joint interdisciplinary research unit (UMRi 7266 La Rochelle University - CNRS). This laboratory uses interdisciplinarity to address the challenges of sustainable development in relation to the coastline. It integrates the skills of a wide range of disciplines, from environmental sciences to human sciences, chemistry and biotechnology. His research focuses in particular on the functioning of the coastal system, its evolution in a context of global change and increasing urbanisation of the coasts, and its sustainable use and exploitation.
Tasks and assignments
Missions
The MIGRATLANE research programme is part of the development of offshore wind farms along the French Channel-Atlantic coast. The planning of maritime developments for the energy transition must be accompanied by a sound knowledge of the animal species that frequent these areas in order to ensure their preservation. The Office Français de la Biodiversité has therefore launched and is leading a research programme designed to collect data and characterise migratory flows, flight behaviour and altitudes, as well as the maritime areas of importance for seabirds, land birds and bats.
The migratory flow along the North-East Atlantic Arc drains a large proportion of the Western Palearctic migrants (Iceland, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Northern Europe, and even as far as Asia or Western Siberia for some) and a proportion of the Eastern Nearctic migrants (who migrate via Europe). The numbers involved are considerable during the post-nuptial migration period, with several thousand migratory birds per kilometre of coastline entering the sea from the UK, then transiting along the coast via the North Sea - Channel - Bay of Biscay route, with daily numbers sometimes much higher when migration conditions are particularly favourable. During prenuptial migration, these species make the reverse journey to their respective nesting sites. The methods and characteristics (altitude, meteorological factors, nocturnal vs. diurnal, routes, etc.) of these migrations are beginning to be studied, but are still largely unknown.
This 24-month contract aims to :
First the candidate will have to extract various meteorological variables, including precipitation, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and cloud cover, at the time when the birds choose to undertake the sea crossing. Various statistical models will then be constructed to test the effect of each of these variables.
The study will focus on various species of shorebird: the pintail, the brant, the short-eared owl, the grey cuckoo and the turtle dove.
The data is obtained by telemetric monitoring, which has been in place since 2023, and which provides detailed knowledge, by species, of the phenology of migrations at sea, the vertical distribution of migrants at sea, flight speeds, and the spatial distribution of marine species in relation to their origin distance from the colony).
Reporting to a Lecturer-Partner of the Lot2 Migratlane project, you will have to :
Then your main responsibilities will include :
Profil recherché :
Requirements
Skills / Qualifications
Languages: ENGLISH and eventually French