The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) with its 1,100 employees has gained an excellent reputation as an international competence centre for environmental sciences. We are part of the largest scientific organisation in Germany, the Helmholtz community. Our mission: Our research seeks to find a balance between social development and the long-term protection of our natural resources.
The Department of Hydrogeology is offering the following vacancy within the EU funded Initial Training Network project “Ecohydrological interfaces as critical hotspots for transfor-mations of ecosystem exchange fluxes and biogeochemical cycling” (INTERFACES) as of 1st February 2014:
PhD student - Early Stage Researcher (m/f)
Limited to 3 years
Subject: Development of optical sensors for measuring dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide at sediment-water interfaces
Your duties:
▪ Development, test and application of optical sensors for measuring dissolved oxygen as time-variant key parameter that controls the spatial fluctuations of aerobic/anaerobic zones at interfaces such as hyporheic and riparian zones
▪ Application of these sensors in different field conditions in collaboration wit the fellows at the partner institutes
Your profile:
▪ Master´s degree in environmental sciences, environmental engineering, chemistry or related subjects with a strong background in optical sensor techniques and basic knowledge in electrical engineering
▪ Knowledge in flow and solute transport in porous media
▪ excellent communication skills, capacity for teamwork, flexibility and an interest in interdisciplinary research
Marie Curie requirements for this position:
▪ The applicants should have less than 4 years full-time equivalent research experience from the award of the degree which entitles them to undertake a doctorate
▪ Applicants can be of any nationality but at the time of selection must not have resided or carried out their main activity (e.g. work or studies) in Germany for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the starting date of the fellowship
We offer:
▪ Excellent technical facilities which are without parallel
▪ The freedom you need to bridge the difficult gap between basic research and close to being ready for application
▪ Work in inter-disciplinary, multinational teams
▪ Excellent links with national and international research networks
▪ Excellent support and optimal subject-specific and general training with our HIGRADE graduate school
▪ Salary, working hours and terms of employment will be in accordance with the Marie Curie rules of the European Commission (http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/)
Your application:
We look forward to receiving your full e-mail- application quoting the reference 98/2013 at bewerbung@ufz.de.
Helmholtz-Zentrum
für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ
Personalabteilung
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig
Closing date for applications: 31.12.2013
Equal opportunities are an integral part of our personnel policy, we therefore particularly welcome applications from qualified women. Severely disabled persons are given priority where applicants are equally qualified.
Your contact for any questions you may have about the job:
Christian Schmidt
E-mail: christian.schmidt@ufz.de
Tel.: 0341/235-1986
Place of work: Leipzig
www.ufz.de/career
http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=11426&coma4_data[ske_stl_id]=1618&coma4_data[ske_seite]=detail
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2013
jueves, 3 de octubre de 2013
IWA Watershed and River Basin Management 2014
Colgamos el anuncio de esta conferencia que nos hizo llegar Teresa Camarero. Gracias!
Call for Contributions for the 13th IWA Specialist Conference on Watershed and River Basin Management
Join experts from around the world on 9-14 September 2014 in beautiful San Francisco, California to network, explore, and discuss cutting edge issues related to sustainable watershed management, with a special focus on emerging issues related to watersheds and river basin management. Conference topics will include impacts of climate change on watershed management, delta and estuary ecosystems, water quality impacts of hydraulic fracturing, harmful algae blooms, environmental impact of large water projects, irrigated agriculture, and more.
We invite submissions of 300 word abstracts for contributed oral and poster presentations at the 13th IWA Specialized Conference on Watershed and River Basin Management. The deadline for paper submission is 15 December 2013.
Contributed oral presentations are allotted 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions, and will be placed in thematic sessions scheduled Wednesday morning to Thursday afternoon. By submitting an abstract, it is expected that authors will be available during any of these time slots. Posters will be displayed during the entire conference, and authors are expected to present their posters during scheduled poster sessions.
Selected papers will be peer-reviewed for publication in IWA peer reviewed journals Water Science and Technology, Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, or Water Practice and Technology.
Students planning to present at the meeting who are interested can sign up to have their presentations judged and the top presentations will be given an award.
Additional information on the conference can be found at www.iwa2014sanfrancisco.org or IWA website.
Call for Contributions for the 13th IWA Specialist Conference on Watershed and River Basin Management
Join experts from around the world on 9-14 September 2014 in beautiful San Francisco, California to network, explore, and discuss cutting edge issues related to sustainable watershed management, with a special focus on emerging issues related to watersheds and river basin management. Conference topics will include impacts of climate change on watershed management, delta and estuary ecosystems, water quality impacts of hydraulic fracturing, harmful algae blooms, environmental impact of large water projects, irrigated agriculture, and more.
We invite submissions of 300 word abstracts for contributed oral and poster presentations at the 13th IWA Specialized Conference on Watershed and River Basin Management. The deadline for paper submission is 15 December 2013.
Contributed oral presentations are allotted 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions, and will be placed in thematic sessions scheduled Wednesday morning to Thursday afternoon. By submitting an abstract, it is expected that authors will be available during any of these time slots. Posters will be displayed during the entire conference, and authors are expected to present their posters during scheduled poster sessions.
Selected papers will be peer-reviewed for publication in IWA peer reviewed journals Water Science and Technology, Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, or Water Practice and Technology.
Students planning to present at the meeting who are interested can sign up to have their presentations judged and the top presentations will be given an award.
Additional information on the conference can be found at www.iwa2014sanfrancisco.org or IWA website.
Graduate and Post-doc paleoecology positions with PalEON
We will start to post some work offers and grants. If you heard about something that might be of interest, please let us know and we'll add a post!
Here it goes the first one:
PalEON, an NSF-funded PaleoEcological Observatory Network to Assess
Terrestrial Ecosystem Models (www.paleonproject.org), is looking for highly
qualified graduate and post-doc candidates interested in working with an
interdisciplinary team of statisticians, paleoecologists, ecosystem
modelers, and climate scientists. Graduate positions are available at the
University of Idaho and the University of Notre Dame. Post-doc positions
available at University of Arizona.
University of Idaho
Work at the University of Idaho focuses on understanding ecosystem change in
boreal forests of Alaska. Specifically, the successful student will utilize
paleoecology, dendrochronology, and varying modeling approaches to (1)
quantify the patterns and causes of boreal fire regime variability over the
past 2000 years, (2) quantify the impacts of climate variability on tree
growth over the past several centuries, and (3) help assimilate these data
into ecosystem models to project ecosystem response to future climate
change. Details about Dr. Higuera’s lab and graduate position can be found
at: http://www.uidaho.edu/cnr/paleoecologylab and
http://webpages.uidaho.edu/phiguera/gradResearchAssistAdd_2013_08.pdf
Review of applications begins November 1, 2013 and the position will remain
open until a suitable candidate is found.
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame is looking for 1-2 highly motivated PhD
students with strong ecological and quantitative skills interested in
bridging between long-term data, statistics and modeling. Projects will
fall within the PalEON general approach of validating and improving
ecosystem models through the inclusion of information from historical and
paleoecological data spanning the last 2000 years. Details about Dr.
McLachlan’s lab and applying for the positions can be found at:
www.paleonproject.org and
https://www3.nd.edu/~paleolab/opportunities/
Applications are due January 5, 2014.
University of Arizona
2 Assistant Research Positions are available with Dr. Moore’s laboratory in
the School of Natural Resources.
The first position is focused on long term controls of vegetation and the
paleoecological reconstruction of the carbon cycle in the Northeast USA and
Alaska.
The second position will focus on ecophysiological processes controlling
carbon uptake and storage in forest ecosystems from daily, seasonal to
inter-annual timescales.
For details and to apply:
www.uacareertrack.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=209329
Here it goes the first one:
PalEON, an NSF-funded PaleoEcological Observatory Network to Assess
Terrestrial Ecosystem Models (www.paleonproject.org), is looking for highly
qualified graduate and post-doc candidates interested in working with an
interdisciplinary team of statisticians, paleoecologists, ecosystem
modelers, and climate scientists. Graduate positions are available at the
University of Idaho and the University of Notre Dame. Post-doc positions
available at University of Arizona.
University of Idaho
Work at the University of Idaho focuses on understanding ecosystem change in
boreal forests of Alaska. Specifically, the successful student will utilize
paleoecology, dendrochronology, and varying modeling approaches to (1)
quantify the patterns and causes of boreal fire regime variability over the
past 2000 years, (2) quantify the impacts of climate variability on tree
growth over the past several centuries, and (3) help assimilate these data
into ecosystem models to project ecosystem response to future climate
change. Details about Dr. Higuera’s lab and graduate position can be found
at: http://www.uidaho.edu/cnr/paleoecologylab and
http://webpages.uidaho.edu/phiguera/gradResearchAssistAdd_2013_08.pdf
Review of applications begins November 1, 2013 and the position will remain
open until a suitable candidate is found.
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame is looking for 1-2 highly motivated PhD
students with strong ecological and quantitative skills interested in
bridging between long-term data, statistics and modeling. Projects will
fall within the PalEON general approach of validating and improving
ecosystem models through the inclusion of information from historical and
paleoecological data spanning the last 2000 years. Details about Dr.
McLachlan’s lab and applying for the positions can be found at:
www.paleonproject.org and
https://www3.nd.edu/~paleolab/opportunities/
Applications are due January 5, 2014.
University of Arizona
2 Assistant Research Positions are available with Dr. Moore’s laboratory in
the School of Natural Resources.
The first position is focused on long term controls of vegetation and the
paleoecological reconstruction of the carbon cycle in the Northeast USA and
Alaska.
The second position will focus on ecophysiological processes controlling
carbon uptake and storage in forest ecosystems from daily, seasonal to
inter-annual timescales.
For details and to apply:
www.uacareertrack.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=209329
miércoles, 31 de julio de 2013
Presentation of DOMIPEX: a collaborative J-AIL project
We are launching this "Project AIL" section of the Youth-AIL Blog to keep you informed about all the news. Advances and documents will be post here to allow you to actively participate in the development of the project and enrich it with your ideas and experience.
First of all, we want to introduce a little bit of ourselves. We are both PhD students at the Departament d'Ecologia de la Universitat de Barcelona in the final year of our studies. Ada's work is focused in stream ecology and biogeochemistry with major emphasis on applications of stables isotopes. Núria's main research field is the biogeochemical cycling of dissolved organic matter in Mediterranean systems.
We want to thank the AIL to give us the opportunity of coordinate this project. However, without your collaboration this project will not become a reality! We would like to count with the active participation of all the J-AIL members from the very beginning of the project.
This project aims to study the response of dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics to experimental additions of DOC additions in a wide range of streams during contrasting discharge periods (basal flow conditions and after a high-flow event). The project will start in November and will last for one year and a half.
There is no need to be a biogeochemist! The objective is to develop a final protocol as clear as possible to be applied by any limnologist, regardless your initial field of expertise. The only way to do so is gathering the maximum number of ideas, experiences and potential synergies among peninsular researchers.
You can propose a couple of study sites and we'll discuss the idoneity once the team is defined. Ideally, we were seeking for streams:
- in mid-altitude range
- with low discharge
- calcareous lithology.
- not affected by morphological alterations
- preferably, with previous data information available
But we can modify it altogether once we know the participants and their possibilities. We have created a POLL to be filled in order to collect basic information of the sites.
The main aim of the project is the interaction among J-AIL members, it can be a cool experiment and we'll have fun doing it!!
WE HOPE YOU ALL JOIN THE TEAM!!
Ada and Núria
adapastor@gmail.com
ncatalangarcia@gmail.com
First of all, we want to introduce a little bit of ourselves. We are both PhD students at the Departament d'Ecologia de la Universitat de Barcelona in the final year of our studies. Ada's work is focused in stream ecology and biogeochemistry with major emphasis on applications of stables isotopes. Núria's main research field is the biogeochemical cycling of dissolved organic matter in Mediterranean systems.
We want to thank the AIL to give us the opportunity of coordinate this project. However, without your collaboration this project will not become a reality! We would like to count with the active participation of all the J-AIL members from the very beginning of the project.
This project aims to study the response of dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics to experimental additions of DOC additions in a wide range of streams during contrasting discharge periods (basal flow conditions and after a high-flow event). The project will start in November and will last for one year and a half.
There is no need to be a biogeochemist! The objective is to develop a final protocol as clear as possible to be applied by any limnologist, regardless your initial field of expertise. The only way to do so is gathering the maximum number of ideas, experiences and potential synergies among peninsular researchers.
You can propose a couple of study sites and we'll discuss the idoneity once the team is defined. Ideally, we were seeking for streams:
- in mid-altitude range
- with low discharge
- calcareous lithology.
- not affected by morphological alterations
- preferably, with previous data information available
But we can modify it altogether once we know the participants and their possibilities. We have created a POLL to be filled in order to collect basic information of the sites.
The main aim of the project is the interaction among J-AIL members, it can be a cool experiment and we'll have fun doing it!!
WE HOPE YOU ALL JOIN THE TEAM!!
Ada and Núria
adapastor@gmail.com
ncatalangarcia@gmail.com
lunes, 21 de marzo de 2011
III Encuentro de Jóvenes AIL
Os invitamos a participar en el III Encuentro de Jóvenes AIL, que se celebrará en Sevilla durante los días 13- 15 de mayo de 2011.
La temática del encuentro versará sobre las capacidades y técnicas del científico para hablar en público. Todos conocemos la problemática de hacer atractiva la exposición de unos resultados. La actividad formativa constará de una parte teórica impartida mediante distintos seminarios y una parte práctica en la que se evaluarán tus habilidades individualmente mediante filmación y visualización en común, para ayudarte a corregir o mejorar algunos aspectos. Seguro que el taller te será muy útil en tu carrera científica y/o docente.
SEMINARIOS
- Ponencia Inaugural: "Diez reglas básicas de la comunicación oral"
Miguel Ángel de la Rosa Acosta, Catedrático, Universidad de Sevilla. Presidente de la Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular. Investigador del Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis (Universidad de Sevilla - CSIC) y Director del cicCartuja.
- Seminario: "Un ejemplo de divulgación científica: los crustáceos caprélidos"
José Manuel Guerra García. Profesor Titular, Universidad de Sevilla. Investigador del Laboratorio de Biología Marina de la Univ. de Sevilla.
- Seminario: “Diseño de presentaciones efectivas”
Sergio Segura Rueda. Profesor colaborador, Universidad de Sevilla. Investigador del grupo de Ingeniería del Software Aplicada de la Universidad de Sevilla.
- Seminario y taller práctico: “Técnicas para hablar en público”
Valentín Escribano. Experto en habilidades de comunicación.
III Encuentro de Jóvenes AIL
Taller teórico-práctico: “LA COMUNICACIÓN ORAL EN LA CIENCIA ”
VISITA AL ESPACIO NATURAL DE DOÑANA.
Se tiene prevista para el domingo una excursión al Espacio Natural de Doñana. La inscripción incluye la visita guiada (con profesores del departamento) y el microbús.
Nº de plazas 20
Con el fin de contentar al máximo de personas posibles y teniendo en cuenta las circunstancias económicas, se plantean varias opciones de inscripción, en las que podréis solicitar alojamiento o no. El alojamiento se realizaría en un alberge juvenil vecino al Campus de Ciencias (Av. Reina Mercedes, 41012, Sevilla). El taller se realizaría en la Facultad de Biología de la Universidad de Sevilla.
Fecha límite de inscripción: 10 de abril
Envía un mail con tus datos lo antes posible a patriciopd@us.es.
¡¡Te recordamos que las plazas son limitadas!!
Datos a indicar:
- Nombre y apellidos
- NIF
- Procedencia
- Mail y teléfono de contacto
- Modalidad de inscripción
- Observaciones/ información importante
La temática del encuentro versará sobre las capacidades y técnicas del científico para hablar en público. Todos conocemos la problemática de hacer atractiva la exposición de unos resultados. La actividad formativa constará de una parte teórica impartida mediante distintos seminarios y una parte práctica en la que se evaluarán tus habilidades individualmente mediante filmación y visualización en común, para ayudarte a corregir o mejorar algunos aspectos. Seguro que el taller te será muy útil en tu carrera científica y/o docente.
SEMINARIOS
- Ponencia Inaugural: "Diez reglas básicas de la comunicación oral"
Miguel Ángel de la Rosa Acosta, Catedrático, Universidad de Sevilla. Presidente de la Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular. Investigador del Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis (Universidad de Sevilla - CSIC) y Director del cicCartuja.
- Seminario: "Un ejemplo de divulgación científica: los crustáceos caprélidos"
José Manuel Guerra García. Profesor Titular, Universidad de Sevilla. Investigador del Laboratorio de Biología Marina de la Univ. de Sevilla.
- Seminario: “Diseño de presentaciones efectivas”
Sergio Segura Rueda. Profesor colaborador, Universidad de Sevilla. Investigador del grupo de Ingeniería del Software Aplicada de la Universidad de Sevilla.
- Seminario y taller práctico: “Técnicas para hablar en público”
Valentín Escribano. Experto en habilidades de comunicación.
III Encuentro de Jóvenes AIL
Taller teórico-práctico: “LA COMUNICACIÓN ORAL EN LA CIENCIA ”
VISITA AL ESPACIO NATURAL DE DOÑANA.
Se tiene prevista para el domingo una excursión al Espacio Natural de Doñana. La inscripción incluye la visita guiada (con profesores del departamento) y el microbús.
Nº de plazas 20
Con el fin de contentar al máximo de personas posibles y teniendo en cuenta las circunstancias económicas, se plantean varias opciones de inscripción, en las que podréis solicitar alojamiento o no. El alojamiento se realizaría en un alberge juvenil vecino al Campus de Ciencias (Av. Reina Mercedes, 41012, Sevilla). El taller se realizaría en la Facultad de Biología de la Universidad de Sevilla.
Fecha límite de inscripción: 10 de abril
Envía un mail con tus datos lo antes posible a patriciopd@us.es.
¡¡Te recordamos que las plazas son limitadas!!
Datos a indicar:
- Nombre y apellidos
- NIF
- Procedencia
- Mail y teléfono de contacto
- Modalidad de inscripción
- Observaciones/ información importante
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