PostDoc Physical Oceanography of the southern Weddell Sea

The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is a member of the Helmholtz Association (HGF) and funded by federal and state government. AWI focuses on polar and marine research in a variety of disciplines such as biology, oceanography, geology, geochemistry and geophysics thus allowing multidisciplinary approaches to scientific goals.

PostDoc "Physical Oceanography of the southern Weddell Sea" (m/f/d)

Background

Warm waters of open ocean origin lead to enhanced melt rates and potential instability of Antarctic ice shelf grounding lines, relevant for global sea level rise. The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf is presently stable due to a wide, cold continental shelf, but models project an increased vulnerability in the future.

The project aims at understanding drivers and variability of processes that control the flow of warm water onto the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf and toward the fringing ice shelves. The tasks are focused around the COSMUS expedition, which will retrieve mooring time series from the Filchner Trough and carry out detailed hydrographic measurements at the continental slope. The data will be analyzed along with historical observations to shed light on open ocean-continental shelf exchange.

The position is part of our recruiting initiative AWI INSPIRES - INternational Science Program for Integrative Research in Earth Systems. AWI INSPIRES aims at strengthening our new research program “Changing Earth, Sustaining our Future”. Details about all open positions and the general application requirements can be found at

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Tasks

You will

• synthesize and analyze existing datasets from the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf,
• participate in the COSMUS-expedition (Jan – Mar 2021) and help in collecting new data,
• analyze the updated mooring time series (2018-2021) to be recovered from the mWDW inflow region in eastern Filchner Trough,
• collaborate with the international (Germany, Norway, France, UK) FISP-research community, and
• lead and contribute to publications of your results in peer-reviewed journals

Requirements

• A PhD in Physical Oceanography or related field.
• Extensive experience in the analysis of sensor-based ocean data.
• Strong background in high-level programming, preferably MATLAB.
• Willingness to participate in an Antarctic expedition and interact with an interdisciplinary and international science community.
• Competitive record of first-author publications.

Further Information

For further information please contact
Dr. Hartmut Hellmer
(Hartmut.Hellmer@awi.de, +49(471)4831-1794) or
Prof. Dr. Torsten Kanzow
(torsten.kanzow@awi.de, +49(471)4831-2913).
This is a full-time position, limited to 3 years. It is also suitable for part-time employment. The salary will be paid in accordance with the German “Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federation” (Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes, TVöD Bund), up to salary level

13
. The place of employment will be
Bremerhaven.
Postdocs can register with AWI’s postdoc office
, thereby gaining access to a set of tailor made career development tools.

This characterizes us

• our scientific success - excellent research.
• collaboration and cooperation - intra-institute, national and international, interdisciplinary.
• opportunities to develop – on the job, aiming at other positions and beyond AWI.
• a culture of reconciling work and family – audited, and even more than that.
• our outstanding research infrastructure – ships, stations, aircraft, laboratories and more.
• an international environment – everyday contacts with people from all over the world.
• having an influence – fundamental research with social and political relevance
• flat hierarchies – freedom and responsibility.
• exciting topics – also in technology, administration and infrastructure.

Equal opportunities are an integral part of our personnel policy and we encourage women to apply.
Disabled applicants will be given preference when equal qualifications are present. The AWI fosters the compatibility of work and family through various means. Because of our engagement in the area of work-life compatibility we have been awarded the certificate “Career and Family”.

We look forward to your application!

Please forward your application with letter of motivation explaining why you want to join one of our research areas, two letters of recommendation and a list of publications by

February 16
th
, 2020
exclusively online.
Selected candidates will be invited to present their research ideas and motivation during the “Annual recruitment days”, planned from 16 to 24 March 2020 in Bremerhaven, Germany.

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