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Natural peatlands are being converted to agriculture and forestry at an increasing rate, usually requiring drainage and burning. Because peatlands hold large amounts of carbon (C), these processes have high potential to emit greenhouse gases (GHGs). Carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes from tropical peatlands are larger than from temperate or boreal peats (Jauhiainen et al 2005). Indonesia holds 22-26.5 Mha of peatland, 61% of which were covered by forest vegetation in 2000 (Joosten 2009). However, population growth has resulted in increased land use change, with oil palm and acacia being main drivers for conversion (Ravindranath et al 2009). This resulted in Indonesia being the largest emitter during 2008 of CO2 from drained peatlands (Joosten 2009).

POSITION: Colorado State University is recruiting a Global Change Ecologist with empirical research expertise in Plant Community Ecology at the rank of Associate/Full Professor (with tenure). We seek a broadly trained individual with an established research program that integrates across levels of organization to provide a mechanistic understanding of community and ecosystem responses to global environmental change.

JRC is looking for a post-doctoral researcher to work on the simulation of trace gas fluxes from terrestrial ecosystems in Europe. The tasks will include to contribute to the improvement of models that comprehensively assess the nitrogen and carbon cycles in forest and agricultural systems at the regional and global scale, and to contribute to the development of meta-models combining results of various models, field observations and remote sensing products into a consistent and integrated modeling framework.

"International Max Planck Research School for global Biogeochemical Cycles" at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany.

The school offers excellent research possibilities for students to obtain a PhD degree in a 3-years graduate program.

Please refer to the attached pdf and the program website (www.imprs-gbgc.de) for more information on currently advertised PhD fellowships, the school, possible research projects, and the application procedure.

CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY

Based at EDINBURGH

Environmental Physicist/Chemist (12-14 months maternity cover)

The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), is the UK’s Centre of Excellence for research in the terrestrial and freshwater environmental sciences. We have sites at Wallingford, Bangor, Edinburgh and Lancaster.

SCIENTIST / POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW - NITROUS OXIDE RESEARCH

We are seeking a Scientist/Post doctoral fellow to undertake research on nitrous oxide production and exchange processes from soils at a range of spatial and temporal scales and develop technologies to reduce emissions in research programmes that are undertaken by the Global Change Processes Team.

You should posses a PhD in soil or environmental science, in such areas as microbiology, biochemistry or nitrogen dynamics. You should have both strong analytical capabilities and familiarity with instrumentation used in the measurements of trace gas concentrations. An interest and knowledge in grazed pastoral agricultural management systems in New Zealand would be an advantage.

Post-doc position in joint ecosystem/atmospheric model evaluation

Reference number 2010/115

Application deadline 2010-07-16

The Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling group and Radar Remote Sensing group at Radio Space Science are currently jointly looking for a new member for the post-doctoral research project “Evaluation and Use of Ecosystem Models for Chemical Transport Modelling”.

Job Description

Postdoc on modelling of the greenhouse gas balance of Europe

We seek a postdoctoral researcher to work on modelling of the greenhouse gas balance of Europe at the Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement (LSCE) in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, within the EU-funded GHG-Europe project.

Description

Post-doctoral position at INRA/France in 2010: Modelling atmospheric transfer at the landscape scale

Context and objectives

REF NO E 334 802/10 the Department of Earth Sciences, University of
Gothenburg.

The Faculty of Science Board.

Period of application
until: 2010-04-01

Post Graduate Student
wanted for taking part in the project ” Practicable tool for to estimate
nitrous oxide from biomass-cropping in agriculture and forestry” funded by
Swedish Energy Agency.