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SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATOR ANTARCTIC AND SOUTHERN OCEAN BIODIVERSITY (m/f/x) at RBINS
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The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is recruiting a scientific collaborator to support the implementation of a Virtual Research Environment for Monitoring and reporting on biodiversity changes in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic Region.

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Post-doctoral fellowship on cyanobacterial research in polar biotopes at ULiège
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The Laboratory of Molecular Diversity and Ecology of Cyanobacteria, Department of Life Sciences, InBios Research Unit (ULiège, Belgium) is recruiting a post-doctoral fellow for 18 months. The candidate will be engaged in two projects, HabitAnt: ‘Past and future habitability in Antarctic lakes: succession, colonization, extinction, and survival in glacial refugia’, funded by BelSPO BRAIN-BE and Exposoils ‘Climate change experiments in Arctic and Antarctic polar desert soils’ funded by BelSPO IMPULS.

Find out more about this fellowship and how to apply here.

PhD position on Antarctic climate causality: unraveling links between the components of the system and their variability
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A consortium of UCLouvain and KU Leuven is seeking a PhD student to work in the framework of the ACCU project (Antarctic Climate Causality: Unraveling links between the components of the system and their variability).

Find out more about this PhD position and how to apply here.

COMNAP Early-Career Award 2024
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The COMNAP Early-Career Awards (also known as COMNAP Antarctic Fellowship) is now open for application. The purpose of the award is to strengthen international capacity and cooperation by enabling early-career persons to join a project team from another country.

Find out more about this fellowship and how to apply here.

Postdoctoral fellow Water & Climate
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The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is looking to fill a postdoc position in the department of Hydrologie en waterbouwkunde in the Faculty of Engineering to study water and climate.

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Postdoctoral fellow Hydro-informatics
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The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is looking to fill a postdoc position in the department of Hydrologie en waterbouwkunde in the Faculty of Engineering to study hydro-informatics.

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PhD or postdoc: Predicting marine deoxygenation from earth observation data using machine learning
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One position is available in the frame of the “Multiple Threats on Ocean Health” (MiTHo) research project funded by the European Space Agency to develop prediction tools of deoxygenation. The developed approach will combine earth observation (EO), ARGO and mechanistic model products with machine learning to predict coastal hypoxia and sub-surface oxycline variability.

PhD or postdoc: Projecting the Black Sea’s ecosystem and ecosystem services in a future climate. Trends, tipping points and resilience assessment.
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One position is available in the frame of the European projects BRIDGE-BS and NECCTON and is a collaboration between the Liège University (MAST and the Stockholm Resilience centre to perform and analyse regional climate model projections over the Black Sea. The ultimate aim of the work is to assess changes in ecosystem state and services bundles in a current and future climate and to tentatively estimate the acceptable limits of these changes (“safe operating” space of stressors).

Postdoc: To reconstruct past ecosystems during ice free conditions in Greenland and uncover subglacial biogeochemistry
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The Université Libre de Bruxelles is looking for a talented and motivated postdoctoral scientist to explore the types of ecosystems that emerged and adapted prior to the build-up of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and to uncover valuable insights into subglacial biogeochemistry from the basal ice and sediments beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet.

VLIZ recruits: Oceanographic Data & Sensor Expert
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The VLIZ Marine Robotics Centre is pushing boundaries to innovate measurement techniques and to facilitate the adoption of autonomous marine systems in marine research and in the blue economy. In our research and innovation projects, we use our marine autonomous systems (e.g. AUV Barabas, USV Adhemar and Glider Yoko) and coastal IoT moorings to acquire high-resolution measurements of the water column, currents, waves and the seafloor. To strengthen the team of the Marine Robotics Centre, VLIZ is hiring an Oceanographic Data & Sensor Expert (m/f/x).

2 years RESEARCH position on permafrost at UCLouvain
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Job opportunity: Scientist in Permafrost research (UCLouvain, Belgium) The Earth and Life Institute invites applications for a 2-year research position in the LIFTHAW project. The goal of LIFTHAW is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the nutrient mobility response in permafrost regions subject to thawing. We welcome applications from early career scientists having either (i) a Master degree in sciences, bio-engineering or any related field, or (ii) a Ph.D. degree in geoscience, geochemistry or a related discipline.

3 years postdoc position on benthic biogeochemistry and food webs in fjords
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Open vacancy for a 3 years postdoc position to investigate benthic carbon and nutrient cycling and food webs in response to changing ice conditions in fjord environments. Deadline: 8/01/2023 Apply here: https://career012.successfactors.eu/career?company=C0000956575P&career_job_req_id=24706&career_ns=job_listing&navBarLevel=JOB_SEARCH

Postdoctoral scientist position at UCLouvain: Role of winds and oceanic interactions on sea ice changes in the Southern Ocean over the past millennium
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Using a new reconstruction of sea ice extent and wind changes over the past millennium and sensitivity experiments performed with a climate model, the main objective of the project WINDSCOOP is to determine the impact at multi-decadal timescale of winds and oceanic processes on the sea ice cover. This will improve our understanding of the variability of the ice extent at this timescale and ultimately our ability to identify the origin of recent changes in sea ice extent and to predict future ones. In this framework, applications are open for the following position: POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER Starting date: 1st of September 2022 but can be negotiated Full time position for 24 months with possibility to extend to 36 months. Net monthly salary: 2300-2500 € (depending on seniority – this includes social insurance). Transportation to and from the workplace is covered. Location: Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. The candidates must not have spent more than 2 years in Belgium over the last 3 years and should not have obtained their PhD more than 6 years before the starting date of the grant. A new reconstruction of sea ice concentration and winds has been developed over the past months and is now available. The post-doctoral scientist will be responsible for an in-depth analysis of this reconstruction and to carry out sensitivity experiments with the ocean model NEMO driven by atmospheric reanalyses and with the climate model EcEarth. In particular, he/she will perform experiments in which the model winds will be nudged to observed winds. Both winds observations over the past decade and reconstructions for key periods of the past centuries will be used. Additional simulations in which the interactions with the ocean will be disabled will allow disentangling the direct contribution of the winds to sea ice changes from the one due to interactions with the ocean. On the basis on those experiments and analyses, the role of winds and of the feedbacks between ocean and sea ice in past and recent sea ice changes will be determined and quantified. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS – To have a PhD in climatology or related field; – To have published in peer-reviewed international journals; – To have strong experience in programming and in managing large data sets; – To have demonstrated good verbal and written communication skills in English; – To have interest in working in a multidisciplinary team environment. Previous experience in polar climate dynamics is an asset. Applicants should send an e-mail to Hugues Goosse (hugues.goosse@uclouvain.be) (i) a statement of research experience, qualification and interest, (ii) a complete CV including a list of publications, and (iii) the name of two scientists who would agree to send a letter of recommendation. Review of the applications will start May 16th and the call will remain open until the position is filled. Website: https://uclouvain.be/fr/node/41467

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