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Forwarded from NERC: <br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">*Open-ended, senior position at British
Antarctic Survey for physical oceanographer*<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Closing date: *2 June 2013*<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Further details and application: <a
href="http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/employment/vacancies/job.php?JobID=820">http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/employment/vacancies/job.php?JobID=820</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Informal inquiries about the position may be
address to: Emily Shuckburgh, Head of the Open Oceans group:(<a
href="mailto:emily.shuckburgh@bas.ac.uk">emily.shuckburgh@bas.ac.uk</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Description:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">We are looking to appoint a Physical
Oceanographer to a senior post within the Open Oceans group at the
British Antarctic Survey (BAS), based in Cambridge, UK. The focus
of the Open Oceans group is on improving the understanding of the
circulation, mixing, dynamics and Earth System feedbacks in the
polar oceans, using a combination of theoretical, observational
and numerical analysis techniques, and assessing the implications
for the global climate. The group interacts closely with the Shelf
Seas group at BAS, which is focused on investigating ice and
continental shelf processes, and well as with other groups in BAS
focused on study of the atmosphere, cryosphere and ecosystems.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Ongoing research interests of the Open
Oceans group include: investigating mixing processes in the
Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean at the mesoscale and
submesoscale and dynamical interactions influencing the oceanic
overturning circulation; assessing the representation of the
coupled Southern Hemisphere system and of key Arctic
teleconnections in climate models; monitoring and understanding
the production and export of bottom water from the Antarctic
continent into the Atlantic Ocean; monitoring the meridional
overturning circulation in the South Atlantic; mapping the
pathways of carbon uptake by the Southern Ocean; and understanding
the physical controls on the interdisciplinary marine environment
in the Scotia Sea and at the Antarctic peninsula.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The tools used to conduct this research
include autonomous ocean gliders, research ships, mooring arrays,
dynamical analyses and advanced numerical modelling. The
postholder would be expected to contribute to some of the research
activities of the group using the appropriate combination of these
tools, and to instigate new avenues of research of their own. They
would lead a significant element of the Open Oceans workpackage
and supervise some of the more junior staff. They would be
expected to take part in and lead some fieldwork activities.<o:p></o:p></p>
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