Student Research Assistant/HIWI

Subject: GIS analyses for catchment hydrology

Working time: between 5 and 19 hours per week
Starting date: 01.10.2020., limited to 3 months

Your tasks:

We want to understand what drives riverine nutrient export dynamics from catchments. Your main task is to gather GIS information and extract characteristics of catchments in different countries (e.g. USA, Sweden, UK). The characteristics include land use, topography and climate data. Catchment delineation from the digital elevation model and literature research could be further tasks.

Your profile:

• B.A. or M.Sc. Student in the field of hydrology, geosciences or environmental sciences or similar
• Basic knowledge and interest in working with GIS-data
• Basic knowledge and interest in a programming, preferably with R
• Interest in hydrology and water quality

We offer:

• Exciting insights into the work of a leading research institute
• Excellent technical facilities
• Work in inter-disciplinary and multinational teams

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