The PhD project will investigate the surface-atmosphere energy exchange in northern high latitude ecosystems with focus on sub-arctic and arctic areas. The student will be responsible for measurement and analyses of energy exchange in field sites in Greenland, Svalbard and Northern Sweden. Data from other ongoing measurements such as ICOS ecosystem stations (www.icos-infrastructure.eu and www.icos-sweden.se) or similar will also be available and used in the analyses. The project is part of the Nordic Centre of Excellence DEFROST (www.ncoe-defrost.org) work package no 1 (WP 1) on ‘Cryosphere and Ecosystem Energy and Carbon Exchange’. There will be collaboration with other PhD projects in WP 1 which are more focused on trace gas exchanges. Application deadline: June 17 2011.More information can be found here.

The research will be based on the further development of an advanced regional climate-ecosystem model and its application to across the Arctic. Simulations under recent historical and potential future climate forcing will evaluate the potential for coupled changes in climate, vegetation patterns, ecosystem hydrology, permafrost distribution and trace-gas (CO2 and CH4) exchange of high-latitude ecosystems to feed back to the climate system, amplifying or attenuating climate change regionally and globally. Application deadline: August 6, 2011. For more information, click here.

We are announcing a Postgraduate scholarship in Geobiosphere Science: "Relationships between primary productivity and the benthic environment in upwelling regions during the last deglaciation."   Read more..
Deadline for application December 1.