Applications are invited for two new, twelve month, full time (part time working will be considered), policy placement secondment opportunities, to work with the Environment Agency based in Bristol.

These secondments are offered as part of NERC’s policy placement fellowship scheme which allows researchers and other staff involved in environmental science research to work closely with policy-makers within government and other public and third sector organisations in the UK.

The project areas for these policy placements are:

1. Ecosystem services and flood and coastal risk management.

2. Understanding the impacts of water abstraction and river flows on aquatic ecology.

Further details are available at http://www.nerc.ac.uk/using/publicsector/fellowship.asp

Please see “fellowship placement current opportunities” PDFs.

and further pdfs at http://www.nerc.ac.uk/using/publicsector/documents/ea-hydroecology-fellowship.pdf.

The closing date for applications is Friday 14th October 2011.