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As a University of Applied Learning, SIT works closely with industry in our research pursuits. Our research staff will have the opportunity to be equipped with applied research skill sets that are relevant to industry demands while working on research projects in SIT.  The Research Engineer will play a key role in automated wildlife identification and classification from trap camera images using cutting-edge computer vision technology. Working closely with the Principal Investigator, Co-PI, and interdisciplinary research team, RE will develop and implement deep learning algorithms to analyze trap camera footage for wildlife monitoring and conservation efforts. Job Responsibilities Participate in and manage the research project together with the PI, Co-PI, and research team to ensure timely achievement of project deliverables. Undertake the following specific responsibilities in the project: Develop, train, and optimise deep learning models for wildlife species identification, classification, and segmentation using real-world datasets. Design and implement software modules to integrate the models into a working system prototype. Perform data annotation. Conduct experiments, analyse results, and iterate models for improved accuracy and efficiency. Prepare project documentation, technical reports, and academic publications. Collaborate with industry partners and contribute to technology transfer efforts. Support the design of simple web interfaces or dashboards to visualise CV model outputs, working alongside developers when needed. Contribute to system integration by applying familiarity with backend/frontend workflows, ensuring CV models can be accessed through user-facing applications. Assist in deployment of CV solutions on cloud or edge platforms with basic interface support for end-users. The candidate is to liaise and communicate with any internal or external stakeholders to ensure project deliverables are met and to perform any other adhoc duties assigned by Supervisor.  Technical Requirements: Possess strong technical knowledge and hands-on experience in: Deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras) Computer vision models for object detection and classification (e.g., YOLO, R-CNN variants, EfficientNet, ResNet, U-Net) Image processing and computer vision techniques  Python programming and relevant libraries (e.g., OpenCV, NumPy, scikit-learn, Pandas, Matplotlib) Experience with dataset preparation, model training, and performance evaluation Candidates with strong computer vision expertise and proven success in 1-2 substantial CV projects are welcome to apply regardless of domain-specific experience Familiarity with Web/Full-Stack Development: Basic understanding of frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or Vue.js) Eposure to backend development (e.g., Flask, Django, Node.js) Awareness of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture. General knowledge of database systems (SQL/NoSQL). Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) for deployment and scaling Educational Requirements: Hold at least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field Master's or PhD degree in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or related areas will be advantageous Preferred Qualifications: Experience with biological/ecological datasets or wildlife imagery Familiarity with data annotation tools and practices for large-scale datasets Knowledge of model deployment and optimization (e.g., ONNX, TensorRT, model quantization) Experience with edge computing or embedded systems (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi) Background in real-time processing and GPU acceleration (CUDA) Participation in relevant competitions (e.g., Kaggle, computer vision challenges) Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative development practices

Working remotely as a part of the Children's University Adelaide team at the Mount Gambier Campus 0.6 FTE role until 31 December 2026 Salary Range: $92,511 to $99,929 plus 17% superannuation At Adelaide University, we create the opportunities you need to achieve your ambitions – because when you thrive, we thrive. We are transforming education for contemporary learners and global citizens. Building on a proud legacy and shaped by bold ambition, it’s a place of excellence and equity, where our vibrant community of staff are united by our purpose to inspire Australia’s future change-makers and create a better tomorrow. Work that matters As a member of Children's University (CU) Adelaide, the Regional Engagement Officer (REO) delivers strong regional engagement through the development and management of Children's University and partnerships throughout the Limestone Coast, supporting Adelaide University's commitment to widening participation and impact. The team The role reports to the Team Lead, Learning and Support within the Children's University Adelaide team. More broadly this role forms part of Widening Participation and Impact team within the Community and Regional Engagement Function and is aligned to the International and External Engagement Portfolio within the University. Visit the AU website to learn more about Children's University.  Our people Our people are guided by purpose, curiosity and a commitment to lifelong learning. We embrace authenticity, innovation and collaboration, and harness diverse thinking in our pursuit of excellence. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys creating and fostering relationships with a diverse range of people throughout the community. You will be responsible for a range of different tasks and interactions, ensuring that each day is interesting, engaging and meaningful.  Learn more about our people, what we stand for and what we offer at Careers at AU. Experience To join our community and thrive in this role, you will likely have the following skills and experience: This role requires a commitment to lifelong learning, demonstrated by a degree in Education, Community Engagement or Social Work, or an equivalent combination of relevant experience working specifically with primary/middle school children.  Proven ability to engage, develop and maintain key stakeholder relationships Experience in collaborative and consultative working styles, with the ability to work cooperatively as part of a team Experience in high-level organisational and administrative work, demonstrating diligence and attention to detail Proven ability to work to short timelines, prioritise competing demands, and adapt to changing circumstances Our commitment to inclusion and diversity We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion where diversity is celebrated and everyone feels respected and valued. Adelaide University is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a safe, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, and people of all ages, genders, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements and providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Launch your future with Adelaide University now Applying is simple. Simply click on the Apply Now button and upload: your current CV a cover letter that tells us how your skills and experience are transferrable to the role Submit your application by 11:30pm Wednesday 22 April 2026 The University reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified. For further information about this opportunity, please contact (quoting reference number 492849): Emma Scott Team Lead, Learning and Support Phone: 8313 8315 Email: emma.scott@adelaide.edu.au  Applications welcomed from Australian or NZ citizens, Australian permanent residents and those who have the legal right to work in Australia for the term of appointment.  Pursuant to the Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Act 2016 (the Act) and the Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Regulations 2019 (the Regulations), this position has been deemed prescribed. This role will require the successful candidate to hold a current Working with Children Check. 

Area of specialization: Critical Zone is the “heterogeneous, near-surface environment in which complex interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms regulate the natural habitat and determine availability of life-sustaining resources”. Its limits range from the top of the canopy down to the bottom of the aquifer. The successful applicant to this position will join the Global Critical Zone Science Chair to develop and conduct a research program to better understand forest nutrition and nutritional stress in Eucalyptus forest stands in Brazil. Research context: Forests cover 1/3 of the continental surfaces and play a crucial environmental role both at local and global scales. Forests sequester 25% of the carbon injected each year to the atmosphere by human activities and thus regulate the Earth’s global climate at short time scales. In its 2022 report for policymakers, the Word Resource Institute (Seymour et al., 2022) draws attention to the fact that forests do not only play a role by absorbing carbon from the atmosphere but also influence global and local temperature, rainfall patterns through albedo, evapotranspiration (forest ecosystems provide 2/3 of the continent precipitation), surface roughness and aerosols emission. At longer timescales, forests, via the formation of soil organic matter, erosion and deposition in the ocean, play an essential role in the regulation of climate at the geological time scale. As a consequence, protection and better management of forests is crucial for climate warming mitigation through carbon sequestration, as well as for other ecosystem services such as wood production or recreation. However, forests are “not just carbon”. For forests to play their role on the planet, not only do they need carbon withdrawn from the atmosphere and water from the soil, but they also require a number of major and minor nutrients. Among the factors that limit the energetic yield of photosynthesis to 0.1%, and thus the productivity of forest ecosystems, the availability of soil nutrients is probably one of the most important. With the exception of nitrogen (N) that can be fixed from the atmosphere, major nutrients such as potassium (K), silicon (Si), phosphorus (P) or minor nutrients such as metals (zinc, Zn; magnesium, Mg; calcium, Ca; boron, B; molybdenum, Mo,…) are ultimately derived from the transformation of soil minerals into secondary phases such as cation-poor clays and oxides, a process known as chemical weathering and taking place in soils or affecting atmospheric mineral aerosols. There is now ample evidence that forests are under increasing nutritional stress (Penuelas et al., 2020). The limitation of forest productivity by nutrients like N and P has been extensively studied (Du et al., 2020; Hou et al, 2020), while the role of other mineral-derived nutrients has attracted less studies. This situation is all the more critical now that we know that the pure “liebigian” limitation (one factor limits the growth) is not true for most ecosystems (Wurzburger et al., 2012), implying that the effect of other nutrients and micronutrients must be studied in detail. Hence a prerequisite for our ability to assess forest ecosystem evolution and maintenance of biomass productivity of agroforests, in the face of environmental change, is a better understanding of how plant nutrient requirements are met beyond C, N, and P. K is one of those mineral nutrients that has been investigated. Fertilization experiments have confirmed that K deficiency limits tree growth and forest productivity and mechanistic models have been developed that confirm the strong response of GPP (gross primary production) to a nutritional stress for K (Cornut et al., 2022) The overall objective of this postdoc project is to improve our knowledge of nutritional dynamics in forest ecosystems based on the balance between organic (dead biomass recycling) and mineral (chemical weathering or added sources by fertilization) sources. To achieve this goal the project aims at make use of isotopes, in particular boron isotopes, and potentially K isotopes. Recently, the analytical and conceptual development of so-called non-traditional stable isotopes opened up a new avenue for the study of nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems, the main idea being that biogeochemical processes will generate measurable discriminations between metal isotopes that can be used to trace their routes through living individuals, ecosystems, or the critical zone (e.g. Cividini et al. 2010, Dessert et al., 2015). In this respect, the trace element boron (B) appears as a powerful tool as it is a micronutrient involved in a wide variety of physiological processes where it undergoes significant isotopic fractionation of the two stable isotopes: 10B and 11B (Gaillardet et Lemarchand, 2018, Roux et al., 2021, Chetelat et al., 2021). In the Eucalypus stands, Boron is frequently added to the soil as it has been observed that boron fertilization improves the resistance of the trees to drought. The aim of the project is to focus on forest plantations as a “model forest” to better understand the behavior of boron and other major nutrients (and in particular potassium) and how their cycles is linked to the ecosystem services. It is coupling experimentation, isotopic measurements and modeling aspects taking advantage of a network of international collaboration and collaborations with the private sector. Importantly, this project is associated to a broader project funded by the French National Research Agency (Nutribor project, PI Pr. Jérôme Gaillardet) which aims at applying boron isotopes to a range of critical zone observatories covering environmental and geological gradients. The successful postdoc will integrate the scientific community of the Nutribor project.  Briefly, the Nutribor project consists of different workpackages. 1/in-situ experimentation at the Ile de France Ecotron near Paris. 2/ boron isotope measurements in the critical zone of three natural catchments from the OZCAR network (French Critical Zone Observatory network) in Northern France, Southern France and the French Lesser Antilles. 2/ecophysiological and reactive transport modelling. The postdoctoral work will particularly be interesting for the comparison with the controlled experiments at the Ecotron facility near Paris. It will benefit for a pluridisciplinary research environment.  Eucalyptus plantations in Brazil and methodology: Brazil has one of the world’s largest surface areas of planted forest (9.9 million ha), of which more than 70 % is covered by eucalyptus (Pena-Vergara et al. 2022). These fast-growing forest plantations have high wood productivity, coming from the intensive management practices including short rotation, fertilization and genotype selection. These plantations are providing an increasing share of wood biomass for producing pulp and paper, charcoal, firewood, and panels. The rapid growth rates of eucalyptus with large wood exports at harvest make this ecosystem particularly interesting for studying and modeling biogeochemical cycles (Cornut et al. 2021), and poses important challenges in finding the right levels of fertilization to limit their environmental impact. Boron-poor soils are commonly found in the ‘Cerrados’ region of Brazil, where there is the greatest expansion of eucalyptus spp plantations on degraded pastures (José et al. 2009, da Silva Damasceno et al. 2023). Boron is one of the most limiting nutrients to eucalyptus seedling growth in these soils (Sgarbi et al. 1999, Sakya et al. 2002). Fertilization in boron is therefore necessary in the more depleted soils, but is also important in other areas where chemical weathering is no longer sufficient for sustaining the high exportations. The primary field site in Brazil, EucFlux, is a 200 Ha Eucalyptus instrumented plantation that has been highly monitored since 2008 with an eddy-covariance flux tower together with numerous ancillary data related to water, carbon and nutrient cycles (Christina et al. 2017). The soils at this site are deep Ferrasols (FAO classification) developed on Cretaceous sandstone, with approximately 80 % sand content down to the water table at 17 m. The mean annual rainfall is 1430 mm year-1. Harvest is planned for September 2025, following which a nutrient omission design for boron and potassium will be included for the next plantation cycle (of 6-7 years). The primary objectives of the postodoctoral work at this site will be to use existing infrastructure and additional experimental equipment to establish a partial boron mass balance at two developmental stages of Eucalyptus spp subject to different fertilization regimes: in a mature fertilized Eucalyptus spp stand after canopy closure in the final months leading to harvest, from January to September 2025, as well as post-harvest over the early developmental stages of the same clone of a Eucalyptus spp plantation subject to a fertilization design with boron and potassium omissions (Figure 1). Figure 1. Schematic design of nutrient omission in the Eucflux experiment made in collaboration with the private companies of forest exploitation. Various critical zone compartments will be analysed for B content and isotopic signature, as well as for the various macro- and micronutrient contents of these compartments (soil, soil water, different parts of the vegetation, rivers). More specifically, soils will be collected at four depths to 150 cm and multiple belowground and aboveground tree compartments at these different development stages (roots at three depths, branch wood & branch bark, stem wood & stem bark, leaves (high canopy and low canopy), and monthly litterfall samples. In addition, will be collected monthly composite samples of : 1/throughfall (using a funnel system connected to reservoirs), 2/stemflow (using PVC pipes spiraling down a section of the trunk to reservoirs), 3/soil solutions (using gravitational flow to lysimetric plates at the litterfall-soil surface interface and at 15 cm, with collections planned for further analyses at 40 cm and 100 cm post-harvest), 3/atmospheric deposition (with a receptor above the tree canopies at the top of the flux tower), 4/groundwater samples (collected via the piezometers using a weighted tube receptor). In addition, samples will be collected from water points and micro-watersheds in Itatinga close to the EucFlux site during the second phase of the project. In parallel, experiments will be run at the Ecotron (Ile de Paris) that will allow various levels boron application, as well as drought simulation to be applied to these eucalyptus (of the same clone, AEC144). Running these experiments in parallel will be of great value, between the precisely contrived conditions of the Ecotron to the in-situ field measurements at Itatinga. The Ecotron experiments are not part of the postdoctoral work and will be made by a French PhD student. Combining data from Eucalyptus stands and experimentations in Ecotron will allow boron fractionation between different soil, tree and water reservoir compartments to be determined, as well as the relationship between boron and other macro- and micronutrients will be evaluated. These findings have the potential to improve knowledge on the nature of nutritional dynamics in these Eucalyptus plantations in typically nutrient-deficient soils and subject to the increasing intensity and frequency of droughts. Boron isotopic measurements, major elements and complementary analyses will be conducted in Brazil as much as possible. These measurements will open perspectives of of collaboration with a modelling team at Cirad.  Job application: The Global Critical Zone Science Chair at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) invites applications for a two years postdoc fellowship (candidates from Moroccan or African universities). The successful applicant will conduct research on the boron and potassium biogeochemistry in the critical zone of instrumented sites in Brazil. He.She will be mostly based in Brazil. The different compartments of the system will be investigated (soil, vegetation, soil pore water, river water) in the framework of the in-situ research experiment described above. The work will be done in collaboration with international teams and teams in Brazil. Boron isotopic measurements will be made in Brazil at least in a routine phase. Collaboration will also associate the private sector in charge of the forest exploitations. High precision isotopic measurements will be conducted. The candidate must have a background in either isotope geochemistry and if possible, an experience working with MCICPMS. The candidate is expected to adopt a system approach in its way to understand the behavior of boron and other nutrients in the studied agrosystems (/planted forestry systems). Modeling skills will be appreciated even if the main part of the postdoctoral work in field and lab-related. Writing skills are necessary as the results of the postdoctoral work will be published in high standard scientific journals. Criteria of the candidate: PhD in environmental science, soil science, surface geochemistry, or related fields from a recognized Moroccan or African university. At least one or two high publications record in international well-ranked journals Significant knowledge in environmental science studies, including experienced in soil field work and abilities in isotopic geochemistry techniques and/or modeling capabilities. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Skilled in both field and lab work Proactive, ethic, and respectful person Tentative Schedule: Year 1 1 Collection of flux data B isotopic analysis, macro- and micronutrient analysis Monitoring and analysis of flux data 2 Collection of flux data B isotopic analysis, macro- and micronutrient analysis Monitoring and analysis of flux data 3 Monitoring and analysis of flux data Relationship between B and other macro- and micronutrients 4  Monitoring and analysis of flux data Relationship between B and other macro- and micronutrients Modelling boron and potassium fluxes Year 2 1 Monitoring and analysis of flux data Establishment of boron and potassium budgets Relationship between B and other macro- and micronutrients Paper 1: Boron budget in tropical soil-tree planted systems. Modelling boron and potassium fluxes  Paper 2: Boron and potassium dynamics in a planted tropical forestry system 2. 2 Monitoring and analysis of flux data Establishment of boron and potassium budgets Relationship between B and other macro- and micronutrients Paper 1: Boron budget in tropical soil-tree planted systems Modelling boron and potassium fluxes Paper 2: Boron and potassium dynamics in a planted tropical forestry system 2. 3 Relationship between B and other macro- and micronutrients Paper 1: Boron budget in tropical soil-tree planted systems. Modelling boron and potassium fluxes Paper 2: Boron and potassium dynamics in a planted tropical forestry system 2. Executive summary for policy makers 4  Paper 2: Boron and potassium dynamics in a planted tropical forestry system 2. Executive summary for policy makers Final report References: Chetelat, B., Gaillardet, J., Chen, J.Bin, 2021. Dynamic of boron in forest ecosystems traced by its isotopes: a modeling approach. Chem. 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