Post Doctoral Research Associate – Grade 7

University of Liverpool

The Downside: Plankton development drives marine ecosystems and kinds sinking particles which retailer carbon within the ocean, mitigating the consequences of local weather change. In areas the place entry to nitrogen limits plankton development, nitrogen fixing organisms enhance manufacturing by making natural nitrogen straight from nitrogen gasoline. These organisms are vital for regulating manufacturing within the ocean, however many questions on their traits stay unanswered. Particularly, we search to grasp what results in the co-existence of the 4 principal photosynthetic nitrogen fixing teams: *Crocosphaera*, *Trichodesmium*, UCYN-A, and symbiotic Diatom-Diazotroph Associations. We’ve a set of theoretical predictions for a way these organisms work together with each other and their setting and can use computational fashions to check them in opposition to noticed patterns of nitrogen fixation within the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.

We wish to develop and check new concept for a way and why nitrogen fixers function within the ocean.

The Function

: We search a motivated postdoctoral researcher with computational modelling abilities and an curiosity in understanding plankton distributions within the ocean. You’ll first design and implement parameterizations of nitrogen fixing plankton and check whether or not they can clarify the primary, unexplained, options of nitrogen fixation within the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre north of Hawaii. New concepts and instructions can be inspired. Moreover, that is an thrilling alternative to be a part of a world collaboration, the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology

(simonsfoundation.org).

Along with interacting with the colourful group of oceanographers on the College of Liverpool, the candidate can be anticipated to work together with collaborators at establishments just like the College of Bristol, MIT, and the College of Hawaii.

This put up is ideally suited to somebody with a computational skillset and an curiosity in how life works within the sea.

There are devoted funds for laptop gear, and journey to assist you in your scientific work.

Any candidates who’re nonetheless awaiting their PhD to be awarded needs to be conscious that if profitable, they are going to be appointed at grade 6, backbone level 30.  Upon written affirmation that they’ve been profitable in being awarded their PhD, they are going to be moved onto grade 7, backbone level 31 from the date of their award.

The put up is offered on a hard and fast time period foundation till January 2027.  

The College has the correct to shut the emptiness early whether it is deemed that there have been sufficient purposes obtained

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