Overview The School of Ocean Sciences (SOS) is a multidisciplinary department with a focus on continental shelf sciences. Core research interests include physical oceanography, marine biology and ecology, biogeochemistry and climate change science. The Project The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) / Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) - funded Marine Ecosystems Research Programme set out to integrate existing marine data and target new data with current models and knowledge of marine ecosystem services, in order to improve our understanding of the whole UK marine ecosystem (www.marine-ecosystems.org.uk). Purpose of the Job The successful candidate will be a numerate biologist with experience in cetacean and seabird ecology and work on risk and diet ana