PostDoc Antarctic Ice Sheets in warming climates

The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) and funded by federal and state government. AWI focuses on polar and marine research in a variety of disciplines such as biology, oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geophysics thus allowing multidisciplinary approaches to scientific goals.

PostDoc "Antarctic Ice Sheets in warming climates" (m/f/d)

Background

Future warming of the Southern Ocean can severely disrupt the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). A collapse of the WAIS has occurred during the last interglacial period, a period when the polar surface temperature and global sea level were higher than today.

This project will aim at quantifying processes leading to sea level rise during climate warming. This requires the inclusion of an interactive ice sheet - solid Earth component into our multi-scale Earth system model AWI-ESM. We will evaluate feedbacks and potential thresholds through model scenarios on decadal to multi-millennial time scales.

The position is part of our recruiting initiative AWI INSPIRES - INternational Science Program for Integrative Research in Earth Systems. AWI INSPIRES aims at strengthening our new research program “Changing Earth, Sustaining our Future”. Details about all open positions and the general application requirements can be found at

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Tasks

You will

• couple the ice sheet model PISM and lithosphere model VILMA into our Earth System Model.
• perform climate scenarios for the past, present and future.
• characterize feedbacks in the Earth system.
• determine thresholds of the WAIS.
• collaborate with climate modelers and geoscientists at AWI.
• data-model comparisons.
• writing international peer-reviewed papers.

Requirements

• A PhD degree in physics, mathematics, oceanography, meteorology, or a related field.
• Experience with complex climate models.
• Excellent English language skills, both written and spoken.
• International publications and conference contributions.

Further Information

For further information please contact
Prof. Dr. Gerrit Lohmann
(Gerrit.Lohmann@awi.de, +49(471)4831-1758).
This is a full-time position, limited to 3 years. It is also suitable for part-time employment. The salary will be paid in accordance with the German “Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federation” (Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes, TVöD Bund), up to salary level

13
. The place of employment will be
Bremerhaven.
Postdocs can register with AWI’s postdoc office
, thereby gaining access to a set of tailor made career development tools.

This characterizes us

• our scientific success - excellent research.
• collaboration and cooperation - intra-institute, national and international, interdisciplinary.
• opportunities to develop – on the job, aiming at other positions and beyond AWI.
• a culture of reconciling work and family – audited, and even more than that.
• our outstanding research infrastructure – ships, stations, aircraft, laboratories and more.
• an international environment – everyday contacts with people from all over the world.
• having an influence – fundamental research with social and political relevance
• flat hierarchies – freedom and responsibility.
• exciting topics – also in technology, administration and infrastructure.

Equal opportunities are an integral part of our personnel policy and we encourage women to apply.
Disabled applicants will be given preference when equal qualifications are present. The AWI fosters the compatibility of work and family through various means. Because of our engagement in the area of work-life compatibility we have been awarded the certificate “Career and Family”.

We look forward to your application!

Please forward your application with letter of motivation explaining why you want to join one of our research areas, two letters of recommendation and a list of publications by

February 16
th
, 2020
exclusively online.
Selected candidates will be invited to present their research ideas and motivation during the “Annual recruitment days”, planned from 16 to 24 March 2020 in Bremerhaven, Germany.

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