PostDoc (m/f/d) Carbon storage potential in North Sea salt marshes and seagrass

Global climate change has multiple and expansive effects on humans and the environment. Mitigation of climate change and its associated effects will be the great as well as essential challenge for the future. As carbon dioxide is one of the major causes for climate change, a big multi-disciplinary research project with several leading German research institutes investigates the potential of innovative ways of reduction, capture and storage of carbon dioxide.

At temperate, subtropical and tropical coasts, salt marshes and seagrass beds are known sinks for carbon dioxide but their potential to capture and sequester carbon dioxide varies regionally. The aim is to determine this potential for North Sea salt marshes and seagrass beds as a model system. Therefore, the above ground and underground biomass of saltmarshes and seagrass beds needs to be measured as well as their carbon storage capacity determined. Results of field and lab experiments need to be extrapolated to the Wadden Sea region, which shows extended seagrass beds and saltmarshes at the sedimentary south-eastern North Sea coast.

In order to develop and successfully pursue interdisciplinary research on this topic, the Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Wadden Sea Station Sylt, is seeking a scientist (Postdoc) (f/m/d) in the division of „Biosciences“, section Coastal Ecology

Tasks

• determine the potential of North Sea salt marshes and seagrass beds to capture and sequester carbon dioxide as a model system
• measure above ground and underground biomass of saltmarshes and seagrass beds
• determine carbon storage capacity of saltmarshes and seagrass beds
• conduct field and lab experiments
• conduct statistical analysis of scientific experiments
• extrapolate results to the Wadden Sea region (knowledge of GIS and/or basic modelling skills required)
• develop and successfully pursue interdisciplinary research

Requirements

• PhD degree focused on marine biology-ecology
• scientific sound knowledge of carbon fluxes as well as salt marshes and seagrass beds
• experiences in designing and the statistical analysis of scientific experiments (lab and field experiments)
• sound knowledge of coastal ecology, preferably of the Wadden Sea
• preferably knowledge of GIS and basic modelling skills
• the ability to develop and successfully pursue interdisciplinary research

Further Information

For further information please contact
Dr. Christian Buschbaum
(Christian.Buschbaum@awi.de, +49(4651)956-4228).
The position is limited to 2 years and is advertised subject to availability of funding. 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
Sylt.

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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