PhD Position: Coastal Carbon Fluxes
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
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Ocean Sciences (OS)
We are looking for a highly motivated student to join the Institute of Carbon Cycles in pursuit of a PhD in marine biogeochemistry. This student will build a project within an interdisciplinary research group aimed at refining our understand of coastal and marine inorganic carbon cycling. Here, two key topics identified as key constraints in our current understanding of global carbon cycling will be under investigation: the coupled physical-chemical drivers of air-sea CO2 exchange, and dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity (DIC and AT) sources and sinks in coastal and marine waters. These goals are supported by a well-equipped lab, with the former addressed using atmospheric Eddy Covariance (EC) coupled with autonomous pH and pCO2 instruments, and the latter addressed with lab-based precision inorganic chemical analyses. Considering the interdisciplinary nature of this research project, the successful PhD candidate will develop a broad understanding of the “plumbing” of the marine carbon cycle.
We invite applications for a PhD position (m/f/d) in the area of Coastal Carbon Fluxes at the Institute of Carbon Cycles with preferred starting date is 1 November 2024. The position is limited to three years.