GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, one of the leading institutions in marine research, together with the FUTURO (Future of Tropical Upwelling Regions in the Atlantic Ocean) project – centered around a large-scale, one-year field study off West Africa in the tropical Northeast Atlantic – is offering a position for a Scientific Project Manager to support this international research initiative.
This role includes project planning and coordination, financial and organizational oversight, stakeholder communication, and funding acquisition. The eligible criteria include completed university degree (preferably in natural fields), professional experience in the field as well as experience in national or international research funding, and communication skills in German and English. Experience in cooperation with African institutions is a plus.
This full-time position, with a minimum duration of 24 months, offers work-life balance support, engagement in marine and climate research areas, pension plan and beneficial benefits.
FUTURO will study the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) off West Africa – a critical marine region providing 25% of global fisheries from just 1-2% of ocean surface. The project addresses climate change impacts, acidification, and overfishing while developing sustainable practices to support West African coastal communities.
GEOMAR is focused on the global ocean and marine research and is committed to develop sustainable solutions for the protection of the ocean. They promote knowledge and technology transfer through international exchange.
Applications should be sent until 20th April 2025 under this link.
For further information and other jobs opportunities, please visit www.geomar.de.


Summer@LSTS 2020 – Session #4 with Filipe Castro (Texas A&M University)
On August 20th, 2020, 2:15-4:30 PM UTC (short interval by 3:30), Summer@LSTS 2020 had Filipe Castro, who gave a lecture on Archaeology and Engineering. Archaeologists study and try to reconstruct past human activity based on the material remains left behind. To interpret and reconstruct habitats, ships, or even small artifacts, archaeologists look at similar behaviors or artifacts or settling patterns of live cultures around the globe, in order to try to understand the contexts they are studying. Because of that, in many countries around the world archaeology is a sub-discipline of anthropology, not history, as it is in Europe. In any event, archaeologists are anthropologists, because they study the human adventure, which is the very definition of anthropology. But excavating is a very destructive activity. This session is about some of the applications of engineering that are extremely useful to archaeologists.
Summer@LSTS 2020 – Class #3 with Leonardo Marques da Cruz (PROOCEANO)
Summer@LSTS 2020 continued on August 20th, 2020, 1-2 PM UTC, with Leonardo Marques da Cruz, who presented “Autonomous Marine Vehicles and their Applications in Operational Oceanography: Experience in Brazilian Waters.” Leonardo Cruz is an oceanographer graduated from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He has a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in the area of Computational Modeling in Environmental Engineering and a PhD student on Ocean Engineering at COPPE/UFRJ. Leonardo is one of the founding partners of PROOCEANO and currently he is one of the company’s directors.
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