PhD Student Position Available
Energy and Water Fluxes
Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research
Lena Delta, Siberia
Applications will be accepted until filled.
For further information, please contact:
Birgit Heim
Email: Birgit.Heim [at] awi.de
The Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research (AWI),
Division of Geosciences, seeks applicants for a PhD student position in
energy and water fluxes. The project will focus on determining energy
and water fluxes in the Lena Delta, Siberia, with micrometeorological
methods and downscaling from satellite remote sensing data.
The AWI is a member of the EOS Helmholtz Research Network "Integrated
Earth Observing System" (http://helmholtz-eos.dlr.de/start_en.htm). The
purpose of the EOS research topic "Processes of the Land Surface" is to
help optimize and improve earth observation technologies. The PhD
student work will take place within the EOS framework.
The PhD project will be carried out in AWI's periglacial section,
located in Potsdam, Germany, within the SPARC, Helmholtz University
young investigator group, and in cooperation with the University of
Hamburg (Department of Soil Sciences), Germany, and within the EOS-II
framework with a PhD student of the German Space Agency (DLR). The
position will be funded for three years.
Applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Master/Diploma in physics, meteorology, geosciences or similar discipline;
- Arctic fieldwork experience;
- Excellent team work capabilities in a multidisciplinary team; and
- Fluency in English (written and oral).
The following would be considered assets, but are not required:
- Eddy covariance experience;
- Programming skills;
- Raster data analysis;
- EO-data processing; and
- Russian language skills.
Applications will be accepted until position is filled. Qualified
applicants should send applications (including CV, a brief letter of
motivation, and two references) with the reference 83/P to:
Alfred-Wegener-Institut fur Polar-und Meeresforschung
Forschungsstelle Potsdam
Personalabteilung
Postfach 60 01 49
14401 Potsdam
For further information please contact:
Dr. Birgit Heim
Email: Birgit.Heim [at] awi.de
AWI is an equal opportunity employer and especially encourages female
scientists to apply. AWI supports balanced work-life career development
via a variety of alternatives.
Severely disabled applicants with essentially identical technical and
personal suitability will be preferentially selected, please see out
notification on our homepage under job offers/jobs.