PostDoc (m/f/d) Southern Ocean tipping points

Awi - via Umantis - Bremerhaven - 07-06-2019 zur Vakanz  

This position is part of the EU project COMFORT: Our common future ocean in the Earth system – quantifying coupled cycles of carbon, oxygen, and nutrients for determining and achieving safe operating spaces with respect to tipping points.

Within the Alfred-Wegener-Institut, you will be part of the Helmholtz Young Investigator group Marine Carbon and Ecosystem Feedbacks in the Earth System (MarESys) led by Dr. Judith Hauck. MarESys aims to assess integrated effects of climate change and variability in the ocean with a focus on ocean carbon feedbacks and marine ecosystem drivers.

Tasks

  • You will analyze recent and future changes in Antarctic Bottom Water production in the Weddell Sea and its contribution to the Southern Ocean carbon sink and its variability, in a high-resolution set-up of the coupled model FESOM-REcoM
  • You will analyze characteristics of biogeochemical fluxes around a potential tipping point where the Antarctic Bottom Water production is substantially changed and whether any early warning indicators for such a tipping point exist. You will assess the impact on ocean carbon sequestration.
  • You will compare the model simulations with available data on Antarctic Bottom Water formation and associated biogeochemical fluxes, e.g. from recent
RV Polarstern
expeditions

Requirements

  • PhD in marine sciences, biology, biogeochemistry, physics, oceanography or related field
  • excellent English language skills and enjoy working in an international and interdisciplinary team.
  • Demonstrated skills in Fortran, R, Python or any other high-level programming language
  • experience with ocean modelling (circulation, biology, biogeochemistry

Desirable skills and knowledge

Proven record in publishing

Further Information

For further information please contact
Dr. Judith Hauck
(Judith.Hauck@awi.de, +49(471)4831-1848).
The position is limited to August 31st, 2021. The salary will be paid in accordance with the German Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes (TVöD Bund), up to salary level

13.
The place of employment will be
Bremerhaven.

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 for women and men are an integral part of our personnel policy. Therefore, 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”.

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