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Open positions in the ICOS field
Expert (Communication), European Environment Agency (EEA), Copenhagen, Denmark
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is organising an open competition with a view to establishing a reserve list of experts to work in the area of climate change in the Secretariat to the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change.
The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change is an independent body providing the EU with scientific knowledge, expertise and advice relating to climate change. The Advisory Board evaluates policies and identifies actions and opportunities to successfully achieve the EU’s climate targets. It was established in 2021 by the European Climate Law and consists of 15 independent senior scientific experts covering a broad range of relevant disciplines.
The Secretariat to the Advisory Board seeks to recruit one experienced professional to join an open, positive, multicultural, and interdisciplinary team of enthusiastic experts to support the work of the Advisory Board and the execution of its work programme. We are in particular looking for a candidate with experience and expertise in online communication and science-to-policy communication.
Deadline for applications is 6th January 2025. Read more and apply here: https://jobs.eea.europa.eu/jobs/expert-communication-91
Director of SITES, the Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science, Uppsala, Sweden
Are you interested in further developing Sweden’s ecosystem research and the national infrastructure for such research? Welcome to an inspiring and important job, networking in all of Sweden, placed at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
The director holds the scientific and operational responsibility for SITES, leading the development of the infrastructure in accordance with the guidelines established by the Steering Group and instructions from SLU. The director formally reports to SLU's Vice Chancellor and the SITES Steering Group. The director is expected to work (1) strategically with regards to scientific impact and broader relevance of the infrastructure, (2) operationally by leading and coordinating the activities of the SITES Secretariat and its staff with overall responsibility for data management and SITES Thematic Programs, (3) with quality assurance and reporting to funders and the steering committee. The director's duties also include creating long-lasting good relationships and actively promoting cooperation between stations and within the secretariat. Another important task is to establish successful collaborations with other strategic national and international infrastructures, projects and organizations.
The director is appointed for a period of three years with possible extension. The assignment covers 50% of a full-time position and can be combined with own research, either at SLU or any other higher education institution in Sweden. The director will be employed at a department at SLU and will be part of the SITES Secretariat together with a deputy director, a data management coordinator, thematic program leaders and other infrastructure staff. The director is appointed by SLU, in consultation with the other hosting organizations and VR, based on recommendations from the steering group.
This position starts on 1st January 2025 or according to agreement.
Deadline for applications is 30th November 2024. Read more and apply here: https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=11485&rmlang=UK
Postdoctoral researcher, tropical methane emissions and the Global Methane Budget, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, USA
Stanford Earth Sciences (the Jackson lab; https://jacksonlab.stanford.edu) in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability is hiring a full-time postdoctoral scientist to contribute to a project quantifying tropical methane fluxes in Brazil, Peru, French Guiana, and Botswana as part of the FLUXNET-CH4 network we recently established. The postdoc will contribute to field and flux-tower measurements in tropical forests and wetlands with local partners and is likely to assist with regional synthesis, analysis, and scaling of methane fluxes across sites. The project contributes to the Global Methane Budget of the Global Carbon Project.
Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Stanford welcomes applications from all who would bring additional dimensions to the University’s research, teaching and clinical missions.
In addition to candidates with flux experience, candidates with expertise measuring methane sources or sinks in the field, ideally in tropical systems, are also desired. The project provides opportunities for collaboration, including with Alison Hoyt’s lab at Stanford and Sara Knox’s lab at McGill University, and will have some international travel. Send a CV, statement of research, and the names of three references to: rob{dot}jackson{at}stanford{dot}edu and colinfinnegan{at}stanford{dot}edu
Please email with interest as soon as possible. Applications are already being reviewed.
PhD opportunity in ocean carbon observing technologies, National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton, UK
Ocean robots (sensors and vehicles) can offer the spatial and temporal coverage required to observe ocean acidification and the rapidly changing carbon cycle. Using the latest in autonomous technologies, this project will develop, demonstrate and prove the impact of high-resolution carbon observations through a series of trials around the globe.
The ocean carbon cycle is changing at an unprecedented rate with acidification threatening ocean ecosystems and blue economies. Understanding spatial and temporal variability in carbonate chemistry is essential to identify ocean acidification hotspots and better understand and predict impacts on marine life. Autonomous technology has the potential for large-scale high-resolution real-time observing (e.g. the Argo programme) and could accelerate our understanding of how the ocean carbon cycle is changing. The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is a world leader in ocean observing technology development (sensors, samplers and vehicles) and its use for generating new knowledge. Working with engineers and scientists from the Ocean Technology and Engineering group, the successful PhD candidate will lead the optimization of novel autonomous sensor and sampler technologies (e.g. through laboratory tests and field trials, integrated on autonomous platforms such as the Autosub Long Range and gliders and profiling floats. The successful candidate will evaluate these technologies and develop new autonomous observing strategies during planned and funded sea trials to the North and mid-latitude Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The candidate will collaborate with the wider European ocean carbon observing community and observing technology developers through project GEORGE and TRICUSO (starting January 2025) collecting data which will improve our understanding of ocean acidification and carbon dynamics. The primary objective of this project will be to test the hypothesis that novel observing technologies can generate data of the quality required for ocean carbon sink estimates and air-sea CO2 fluxes, considering measurement uncertainty and contrasting against traditional ship-based observations.
Deadline for applications is 8th January 2025. Read more and apply here: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/keeping-up-with-ocean-change-using-robots-to-push-the-envelope-in-ocean-carbon-observing/?p175586
Postdoctoral fellow, URBAG, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
The postdoctoral fellow will be working alongside the URBAG research team (visit www.urbag.eu to learn more about our research and the team) and will be responsible for the GHG monitoring network that has recently been developed (visit https://urbag.eu/ghg/) and for developing a line of research that includes several of the following objectives, to be further defined by the candidate:
- Explore how various land uses of the urban region such as agriculture, parks, urban forest, and built areas affect the budget of CO2 in the city, while understanding the role of atmospheric processes in the transport and distribution of CO2.
- Develop services, tools, and datasets based on the needs of cities, for processing and analyzing the observation data to determine efficacy of GHG reduction strategies; raising awareness and engaging citizens.
- Collaborate with other SOMMA centers in the exploitation of this data, such as BSC, IS Global, CREAF and others with whom we have already established collaboration for the use of this data.
- Provide an exemplary urban GHG monitoring system in Europe and contribute to the European ambitious climate strategy to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement.
- Validate GHGs inventory accounts determined by the city administration as well as urban GHGs modeling efforts and to create repositories of atmospheric C distribution in cities.
- Intervene with schools in the city of Barcelona, so that climate culture forms part of the schools' curricula and transversal projects.
- Supporting the core Maria de Maeztu challenges of ICTA (oceanic and land-use systems, cities, production and consumption patterns, and transformative policies) with pertinent data for their projects; i.e., modeling GHG changes due to "transformative policies", analyzing land-atmosphere CO2 exchange for urban land uses for "cities").
Deadline for applications is 8th January 2025. Read more and apply here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/281749