Stillingstittel:
Post Doc position in Chemistry - Environmental Marine Chemistry

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Faculty of Natural Sciences and TechnologyDepartment of Chemistry

Jobbnorge ID: 124772

A postdoc position within the field of Environmental Marine Chemistry is available at the Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology (NT). The position is for a period of two years financed by NT, and is part of the Deep Sea mining pilot project at NTNU Oceans Science and Technology.

 

About the projectNTNU has initiated a large Deep-sea mining pilot, a multidisciplinary research project that bridges technologies and sciences at NTNU. The Deep sea mining pilot project is multidisciplinary and is bridging technologies and sciences at NTNU. Key research areas are the understanding of geological processes, exploration, resource assessment, life cycle analysis as well as environmental and human sciences. As a part of this activity we plan to initiate a study on the environmental and ecological Impacts of the Deep Sea Mining on Seafloor massive sulfides (SMS) zones.

 

Deep-sea mining (DSM) activities are one of the recent emerging human activities for using oceanic resources. The deep oceans sea floors have unused minerals, biologic and genetic resources. Any human activity on the seafloor may have some impacts on the biogeochemical and ecological processes. Therefore there is an urgent need to develop a precautionary approach, which involves developing the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), to establish conservation guidelines before exploration and exploitative activities at deep-sea mineral deposit.

 

Job description

The main field of the research activities of the new position will be on the sediment-water interface biogeochemistry in relation to the marine ecosystem and in particular towards the Northern seas and the Arctic Zones.

 

Major part of the research of the position will be in studies of the potential impacts of DSM on the critical biogeochemical and ecological process in SMS zones.

 

The research part of this position shall have a special focus on data mining on the biogeochemistry of the sediment-water interface. Collaboration with existing conceptual model studies on sediment -water interactions, and application of existing coupled transport biogeochemical ecological models will be part of the research.

 

Qualifications

We are seeking a Postdoc candidate with background in the fields of: Marine Chemistry, Marine Biogeochemistry, Environmental and Ecological data mining, data retrieval and assimilation. Candidates with interdisciplinary knowledge from subsets of fields including ocean and benthic biogeochemistry, marine ecosystem dynamics, and modeling in benthic ecosystem are particularly encouraged to apply.

 

The applicant should have a PhD in Earth Sciences, Marine Science or Environmental sciences with a strong background in leading and contributing to data mining algorithms, processing and analysis. The successful candidate must have a publications record in international journals and ability to write grant proposals.

In assessing candidates, an expertise and experience in data mining on the marine biogeochemical processes will be emphasized.

 

The candidate should also document or justify their competence in oral and written English. We are particularly looking for a candidate with a positive attitude, who can think creatively and critically, and who can work independently and consistently on the research project. He/s

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Høgskoleringen 5 7491 TRONDHEIM

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Sør-Trøndelag

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år