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<td>Fwd: Postdoc: Modelling of the land-sea nutrient
transfer to the Mediterranean sea, Aix-en-Provence, France</td>
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<td>Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:53:07 -0500</td>
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<pre>tough job ... al that sun and wine
----- Forwarded message from Wolfgang Cramer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wolfgang.cramer@imbe.fr"><wolfgang.cramer@imbe.fr></a> -----
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:54:52 +0100
From: Wolfgang Cramer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wolfgang.cramer@imbe.fr"><wolfgang.cramer@imbe.fr></a>
Subject: Postdoc: Modelling of the land-sea nutrient transfer to the
Mediterranean sea, Aix-en-Provence, France
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:asolow@whoi.edu">asolow@whoi.edu</a>
Postdoctoral position announcement - Please circulate in your
networks and accept our apologies for double-posting
MODELLING OF THE LAND-SEA NUTRIENT TRANSFER TO THE MEDITERRANEAN
SEAUNDER DIFFERENT LAND MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS
We seek a post-doctoral scientist for the project “Towards an
integrated prediction of Land & Sea Responses to global change in the
Mediterranean Basin” (LaSeR-Med), which focusses on integrated
socio-ecological modelling. The duration of the contract is initially
one year, with a possible extension for a second year, depending on
the initial results. The post-doc will be based within the
Mediterranean Institute of marine and terrestrial Biodiversity and
Ecology (IMBE) in Aix-en-Provence, France. The project is part of the
Labex OT-Med (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.otmed.fr/">http://www.otmed.fr/</a>).
Applicants should hold a doctoral degree in physics, chemistry,
microbiology, geosciences, environmental sciences or a related field
of science. They should be familiar with modelling biogeochemical
interactions between ecosystems and capable to further develop
existing numerical ecosystem models. Programming skills (C) and
modelling experience are therefore mandatory. Knowledge of R and of
Unix/Linux environment will be an advantage. The candidate should
have good written and oral communication skills. For work, good
skills in the English language will be essential.
Our project
Terrestrial and marine ecosystems are connected through groundwater,
river discharge and nutrient outflows (especially N and P). River
catchments in the Mediterranean are N-intensive regions, mostly due
to intensive agriculture in the North and to crop N2 fixation or
food & feed import in the South. The fraction of nutrient reaching
the sea constitutes significant anthropogenic forcing of many marine
biological processes. For simulating the dynamics of the first levels
of the marine food web (from nutrients to jellyfishes), the ocean
biogeochemical model, Eco3M-MED, used and developed by the
Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) within OT-Med,
currently uses N and P measurements at river mouths, e.g. for the
Rhône.
In order to estimate the impacts of global change on the
functioning of marine ecosystems, the project aims at modeling the
dependency of N and P outflows to the Mediterreanean sea toward land
management. Land management is modelled as part of the agro-ecosystem
model LPJmL (Bondeau et al., 2007), that has been especially adapted
to the Mediterranean cropping systems (Fader et al., 2015). Among
others, LPJmL simulates the daily carbon and water cycles, and the
river discharges to the sea. Following existing approaches in the
scientific literature, the post-doc will implement the nutrient N and
P transfer in LPJmL, covering the net nutrient inputs to the river
catchments by accounting for the processes occurring at the
agro-ecosystem level (N2 biological fixation, fertilization,
atmospheric deposition) and the net food and feed imports. Since only
a minor fraction of the net nutrient inputs from Mediterranean basins
reaches the sea, the retention along the nutrient cascade will have
to be added to the LPJmL river routing scheme, similarly to the
method used by the Riverstrahler model. Once the nutrient transfers
have been introduced into LPJmL, simulations will be validated using
current climate and land use forcing for comparisons with the
existing observations from river outlets. Finally, future conditions
will be assessed by using the model with scenarios of changing
regional climate and land use / land management.
Your application
Applications should contain a suitable motivation letter describing
your anticipated role in the project, a CV, a list of scientific
publications and the names of at least two scientists that can be
contacted for references. THEY MUST BE SENT TO MS.
GABRIELA BOéRI ([<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:1]GABRIELA.BOERI@IMBE.FR">1]GABRIELA.BOERI@IMBE.FR</a>). PLEASE PREPARE YOUR
APPLICATION AS A SINGLE FILE IN PDF-FORMAT.
Questions about the project or the position can be directed to Dr.
Alberte Bondeau ([<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:2]alberte.bondeau@imbe.fr">2]alberte.bondeau@imbe.fr</a>). The
position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate has been
found – work should start soon after that date. The salary and
contract conditions will be determined according to standards set by
Aix-Marseille University – questions in this regard can be directed
to Sophie Pekar (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pekar@otmed.fr">pekar@otmed.fr</a>).
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Cramer
/Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et
continentale (IMBE)/
Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Université,
Technopôle Arbois-Méditerranée
Bât. Villemin – BP 80, F-13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex 04, France
Tel. +33-4-42-90-84-86, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.imbe.fr/wolfgang-cramer">www.imbe.fr/wolfgang-cramer</a>[3],
ResearcherID: B-8221-2008[4], Follow
@wolfgangcramer[5]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.futureearth.org/ecoservices/">http://www.futureearth.org/ecoservices/</a>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:gabriela.boeri@imbe.fr">mailto:gabriela.boeri@imbe.fr</a>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:alberte.bondeau@imbe.fr">mailto:alberte.bondeau@imbe.fr</a>
[3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imbe.fr/wolfgang-cramer">http://www.imbe.fr/wolfgang-cramer</a>
[4] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8221-2008">http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8221-2008</a>
[5] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/wolfgangcramer">https://twitter.com/wolfgangcramer</a>
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