2 Postdocs - Remote Sensing - Ecosystem-Atmosphere Biogeochemistry

University of Eastern Finland is look for two motivated postdoctoral researchers to join the project “Land use as a modulator of land cover transitions and the ecosystem–atmosphere carbon balance (LANDMOD)” that is associated with the Digital Geosciences Research Group at the University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu campus). LANDMOD is a multi-disciplinary project unraveling the impacts of land use on land cover changes and their consequences for the climate. We particularly look at reindeer management strategies as the type of land-use and focus on depicting land cover differences on wetlands. Our main objectives are 1) to contribute understanding of the rates, magnitudes and mechanisms of land cover changes under different reindeer management strategies and 2) to quantify how the differences in land cover reflect on the release and uptake of CO2 in a landscape level. Besides estimating the impact of land use today, we will also estimate the influence of past land use on the cumulative carbon balance. With these approaches, the project will contribute understanding on how and why the rates and magnitudes of land cover transitions vary at highlatitudes in northern Fennoscandia, and how these feedback to the atmosphere.