Fifteen (15) PhD Positions, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2015-2016)

EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – Innovative Training Network (ITN) European Training Network (ETN). C-CASCADES is seeking to employ 15 Early-Stage Researchers (Positions within the C-CASCADES project) to contribute to a breakthrough in the understanding of the transfer of carbon between land and ocean at the planetary scale and its consequences for atmospheric CO2 and climate. Research undertaken by the ESRs will permit the characterization of the transport, transformation and ultimate fate of carbon in rivers, lakes and coastal waters and their representation in Earth System Models. This will allow a better quantification of the fluxes of greenhouse gases exchanged with the atmosphere and their impacts on the climate system. The closely related training objective is to engage the next generation of Earth system scientists in an integrated, cutting-edge and highly relevant joint research programme. The research undertaken will capture technological innovation in sensor development; advance mechanistic understanding of the carbon transformations that occur during the lateral transfer between land and ocean; embed this understanding in enhanced catchment, regional and global-scale models; and, assess quantitatively the carbon transfer fluxes and carbon transformations along the land to ocean aquatic continuum at the global scale, from terrestrial ecosystems to the open ocean via rivers, lakes and coastal waters.

LIST OF ESR PROJECTS:
WP1 Process Understanding: Technical development, observations and experiments

1.1 Optimization and adaptation of sensors for CO2, CH4 and O2 across the full river-ocean mixing Regime | Primary host: CONTROS, Secondary hosts: GEOMAR, ETH Zurich.
Please contact P. Fietzek (p.fietzek@contros.eu) or A. Körtzinger (akoertzinger@geomar.de) for more information, send application documents to careers@contros.eu Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp1#WP1-1

1.2 Temporal variations of greenhouse gas fluxes (CO2, CH4, N2O) from headwaters to downstream water Systems Primary host: EPF Lausanne, Secondary hosts: CONTROS, Univ. Uppsala. Please contact T. Battin for more information (tom.battin@epfl.ch), send application documents to tania.gonin@epfl.ch

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp1#WP1-2

1.3 Particulate organic carbon dynamics along the land ocean aquatic continuum
Primary host: Univ. Exeter, Secondary hosts: Univ. Uppsala.
Please contact T. Quine (T.A.Quine@exeter.ac.uk) for more information, send application documents with subject line C-CASCADES to cles-studentships@exeter.ac.uk

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp1#WP1-3

1.4 Influence of organic carbon quality changes on greenhouse gas emissions from inland waters |Primary host: Univ. Uppsala, Secondary hosts: EPF Lausanne.
Please contact G. Weyhenmeyer (Gesa.Weyhenmeyer@ebc.uu.se) for more information, send application documents online to http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=57261

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp1#WP1-4

1.5 Organic carbon pathways in the Seine River system
Primary host: Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Secondary hosts: Veolia Water.
Please contact J. Garnier (josette.garnier@upmc.fr) for more information, send application documents to josette.garnier@upmc.fr and vincent.thieu@upmc.fr

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp1#WP1-5
WP2 Regional scale applications: benchmark studies on hotspot areas

2.1 The role of deltas as carbon sinks and sources– a study of the Danube
Primary host: ETH Zurich, Secondary hosts: EPF Lausanne.
Please contact B. Wehrli (Bernhard.Wehrli@eawag.ch) for more information, send application documents to Luzia.Fuchs@eawag.ch

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp2#WP2-1

2.2 Catchment / continent scale model for organic carbon and particle dynamics in Malaysia and Europe including the Arctic section
Primary host: DELTARES, Secondary hosts: Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace.
Please contact J. van Gils (Jos.vanGils@deltares.nl) for more information. For applying for this position, please consult this page: http://www.deltares.nl/en/working-for/vacancies

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp2#WP2-2

2.3 The imprint of the Amazon river system on the Atlantic carbon cycle
Primary host: ETH Zurich, Secondary hosts: Max Planck Institute Meteorology.
Please contact N. Gruber (nicolas.gruber@env.ethz.ch) for more information, send application documents online through ETH Refline https://pub.refline.ch/845721/3750/++publications++/1/index.html

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp2#WP2-3

2.4 The effects of riverine delivery of nutrients and carbon on the biogeochemistry of the
Arctic ocean under future climate change
Primary host: Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Secondary hosts: Univ. Brussels.
Please contact J. Orr (James.Orr@lsce.ipsl.fr) for more information, send application documents to James.Orr@lsce.ipsl.fr

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp2#WP2-4

2.5 The role of Arctic Sub-sea permafrost in the carbon cycle
Primary host: Max Planck Institute Meteorology, Secondary hosts: Univ. Bristol. Please contact V. Brovkin (victor.brovkin@mpimet.mpg.de) for more information For applying for the position, please consult this page: http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/institute/opportunities.html

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp2#WP2-5
WP3 Global scale modeling and feedbacks on Earth system processes

3.1 Reservoir and lake effect on carbon fluxes through the land ocean aquatic continuum Primary host: Univ. Brussels, Secondary hosts: Univ. Exeter, Univ. Uppsala, Global Carbon Project.
Please contact P. Regnier (l.a.connect@icloud.com) for more information, send application documents to l.a.connect@icloud.com

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp3#WP3-1

3.2 Carbon burial, benthic-pelagic coupling and feedbacks on the global carbon cycle
Primary host: Univ. Bristol, Secondary hosts: ETH Zurich.
Please contact S. Arndt (S.Arndt@bristol.ac.uk) for more information, send application documents to S.Arndt@bristol.ac.uk

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp3#WP3-2

3.3 Representation of lateral transfer of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) from land to the river system in JULES.
Primary host: Univ. Exeter, Secondary hosts: Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace.
Please contact P. Friedlingstein (P.Friedlingstein@exeter.ac.uk) for more information, send application documents to Linda McIlwraith L.McIlwraith@exeter.ac.uk

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp3#WP3-3

3.4 Modeling dissolved organic carbon river transport at global scale in the ORCHIDEE
process based land surface model, from soils emissions to estuaries
Primary host: Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Secondary hosts: Univ. Brussels.
Please contact P. Ciais (philippe.ciais@lsce.ipsl.fr) for more information, send application documents to philippe.ciais@lsce.ipsl.fr

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp3#WP3-4

3.5 Global and regional contribution of riverine fluxes to ocean carbon and nutrient cycling
Primary host: Max Planck Institute Meteorology, Secondary hosts: DELTARES. Please contact T. Ilyina (tatiana.ilyina@mpimet.mpg.de) for more information For applying for the position, please consult this page: http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/institute/opportunities.html

Project description: http://c-cascades.ulb.ac.be/index.php/join-us-wp3#WP3-5

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