Paleonet: PhD Post: Late Quaternary tropical-polar linkages in ocean and atmospheric circulation

[Norman MacLeod]

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Late Quaternary tropical-polar linkages in ocean and atmospheric circulation
(TROPOLINK)

The Centre for Past climate Studies, Department of Earth Sciences, Aarhus
University, Denmark, in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark
and Greenland (GEUS), offers a PhD position on the above project
 
Project goal
The overall goal of the project, which receives financial support from the
Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Inovation, is to study the
tropical-polar ocean and climate linkage and the role of inter-hemispheric
water mass exchange in Atlantic climate variability. It is our goal to test
the significance of this water mass exchange on the strength of the Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation. Multiproxy studies of marine sediment
cores from the Labrador Sea ­ Baffin Bay, the Caribbean and off West Africa
will be included in the project.  We expect to be able to resolve centennial
to millennial scale climate variability for the last 40,000 years and, in
addition, detect multi-decadal variability of the last 1-2000 years.

PhD Task

The main task of the Ph.D. student will be the study of bottom-water
conditions with main emphasis on the tropical sites. He/she will have the
opportunity to use widely different analytical methods, but main focus will
be on benthic foraminifera. The student will carry out his/her projects at
the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark, in
collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS),
Copenhagen. The successful candidate will partake in an international,
multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

The applicant is expected to hold a university degree (minimum B.Sc. ­ for
further information see OEPh.D. education at Aarhus University¹ below) in
Earth Sciences with a strong focus on Quaternary Geology, Marine Geology
and/or Palaeontology. A degree in biology with additional courses in
Quaternary/Marine Geology might also be considered. Experience with
scientific publication in English is an asset together with experience with
micropaleontological work, especially experience with benthic and/or
planktonic foraminifera preferably from tropical regions. Laboratory and/or
sea-going experience is of advantage although not strictly required.

How to apply 

Applications must be in English and include a curriculum vitae including
possible publications, letters of reference from former supervisors and any
material the candidate would like to be taken into account.
Application are
submitted electronically through the Aarhus University web self service at
https://mit.au.dk/endex.cfm. 
Please see the Applicant¹s Guide on how to
apply. For this specific position you must choose the current reference
number, and choose the field ³Earth Science² and ³Department of Earth
Sciences².
Please note that we reserve the right to evaluate your
application on the available material received when deadline has passed, and
will not necessarily ask for further documentation.

Application Deadline: May 1, 2010.

Ph.D. education at Aarhus University 
In Denmark, and hence also at AGSoS,
the total time of university studies for a PhD degree is 8 years (480 ECTS)
following the Bologna Framework. Admission to the PhD studies at AGSoS is
based on either a five year (300 ECTS) MSc degree, in which case the student
is admitted for a PhD programme of study only, or a three year (180 ECTS)
BSc degree, in which case the student is admitted in parallel to a PhD- and
an  MSc Honours programme of study. In both cases, a student may be admitted
with transfer of merits, based on an individual assessment. As an example, a
student may be admitted based on four years of full time study for a 4 year
PhD programme (the well established "4+4 model").
For further information
see:  http://science.au.dk/en/studies/phd-studies/for-applicants/calls/

Contact information
Prof. Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, assoc. professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Aarhus
Denmark
phone + 45 8942 9454
mobile +45 2778 2897
Email: mss at geo.au.dk

or 

Dr. Antoon Kuijpers, senior scientist
GEUS
tel. +45-38142367
email aku at geus.dk


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The Natural History Museum
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