Postdoctoral Research Associate

Division: College of Geography
Wage: £40,223 each year (Grade 4)
Reference: 1463
Location: Mile Finish
Date posted: 12 March 2024
Deadline: 9 April 2024

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Overview

In regards to the Function

The Earth Floor Science group at Queen Mary College of London (QMUL) are looking for a postdoc in paleoceanography and paleoclimatology to work on a NERC and NSF-funded undertaking ‘Pliocene Classes for the Indian Ocean Dipole (PLIOD)’.

The PLIOD undertaking is a collaboration between QMUL’s College of Geography, College Faculty London and College of Arizona (USA). The purpose of the undertaking is to make use of the marine sediment archive and local weather fashions to research Indian Ocean dynamics throughout a globally heat local weather state three million years in the past—the mid-Pliocene heat interval. Our proposed paleodata will likely be used to judge local weather mannequin dynamics, constrain mechanisms, and advance our understanding of the Indian Ocean imply state and variability.

The main job for this postdoc is to reconstruct sea floor and subsurface and deep ocean circumstances from marine sediment cores from the Indian Ocean. This undertaking makes use of materials from the Worldwide Ocean Discovery Program and its earlier iterations.

About You

The PDRA will:

• Put together sediment samples together with washing and selecting for planktic and benthic foraminifera
• Geochemically analyze foraminifera for steady isotopes and/or minor components
• Analyze datasets rising from the PLIOD undertaking to grasp the spatial and temporal imply state and variability within the Indian Ocean
• Put together outcomes for publication in peer-reviewed tutorial journals (as lead creator and co-author).

The PDRA will likely be embedded right into a multidisciplinary workforce of paleoceanographers, geochemists and local weather modelers and thus develop an interdisciplinary ability set.

In regards to the College/Division/Institute/Mission

The College of Geography at Queen Mary College of London is internationally acknowledged for its theoretically knowledgeable, empirically grounded and politically engaged analysis, and stays one of many high departments for Geography and Environmental Sciences within the UK (REF 2014).

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary College of London, we imagine {that a} range of concepts helps us obtain the beforehand unthinkable.

All through our historical past, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives by tutorial excellence. And we proceed to stay and breathe this spirit as we speak, not as a result of it’s merely ‘the suitable factor to do’ however for what it helps us obtain and the mental brilliance it delivers.

We proceed to embrace range of thought and opinion in every part we do, within the perception that when views collide, disciplines work together, and views intersect, actually authentic thought takes type.

Advantages

We provide aggressive salaries, entry to a beneficiant pension scheme, 30 days’ depart each year (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket mortgage scheme and entry to a complete vary of non-public {and professional} improvement alternatives. As well as, we provide a variety of labor life stability and household pleasant, inclusive employment insurance policies, versatile working preparations, and campus services together with an on-site nursery on the Mile Finish campus.

Queen Mary’s dedication to our numerous and inclusive neighborhood is embedded in our appointments processes. Cheap changes will likely be made at every stage of the recruitment course of for any candidate with a incapacity. We’re open to contemplating functions from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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