Missions

Characterization of fuels in pilot ecosystems and modeling of fire propagation to produce fire risk maps to support land-use planning.

Activités

-Participate in the collection of field data to characterize ecosystem fuels in the four French regions selected for the ANR PREDISPOSE project.
-Participate in the definition of fuel models representative of ecosystems
-Use fuel models and meteorological archives to create scenarios and simulate fire propagation at landscape scale
-Compile simulation results to produce fire risk maps
-Participate in the writing of scientific articles
-Interact with local and regional authorities

Compétences

-Master's degree preferred, in Biology Ecology Evolution or Master's degree in natural risk management
-Knowledge of ecology, environment, geography, numerical modeling
-Skills in field data collection,
-Programming languages: R, Python, SQL
-Statistical analysis,
-Geospatial data analysis
-Teamwork skills

Contexte de travail

The person hired will be based in Montpellier, on the Triolet campus of the University of Montpellier, at the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier. ISEM is a research laboratory that has been developing research on the origin and dynamics of biodiversity for over 40 years. The successful candidate will work within the Dynamique des écosystèmes, écologie des perturbations, paléoclimats (DEEP) team of the PAléo-écosystèmes, climat, sociétés (PAST) scientific department. This department brings together members from the biogeosciences, ecology, evolutionary biology and archaeosciences. It studies the relationships between climate, human societies and the structure and diversity of ecosystems and anthropo-ecosystems over the long term (from a few decades to several million years), using a wide range of tools (determination and morphometry of bio-indicators of animal and plant origin, dendrological analysis, elemental and isotopic geochemistry, environmental genomics and paleogenomics, numerical modeling).