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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><u><font
class="Apple-style-span" size="5">Post-Doctoral Position on
Chemical Transport Modeling of Arctic Air Pollution</font></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; ">The LATMOS (<a
href="http://www.latmos.ipsl.fr">http://www.latmos.ipsl.fr</a>)
laboratory,
located at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in the center
of Paris (Jussieu
campus), invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher
funded by the
European Union to start in fall 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="color: black; ">The postdoctoral researcher will work as
part of the European
Union funded ACCESS (Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society,
<a href="http://www.access-eu.org">http://www.access-eu.org</a>)
project, with a
focus on understanding Arctic atmospheric composition and
anthropogenic impacts
in the region. The overarching goals of </span>ACCESS are to
evaluate climate
impacts in the Arctic on marine transportation, fisheries, marine
mammals, and
the extraction of hydrocarbons over the next 20 years, with
particular
attention on environmental sensitivities and sustainability. Work
at LATMOS focuses
on quantification of the impact of local emissions (shipping,
resource
extraction) and transport of remote mid-latitude pollution on
present-day and
future air composition in the Arctic. The LATMOS team participated
in an
aircraft campaign (conducted in cooperation with the German
Aerospace Center (DLR)
in summer 2012) to study local Arctic emissions and plume
dispersion from
shipping and oil/gas extraction activities. The post-doctoral
researcher will
use a chemical-aerosol transport model (WRF-Chem), run at regional
to
hemispheric scales, to analyze campaign data and examine the
impact of
anthropogenic emissions on ozone and aerosols in the Arctic. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">The
position
is open for 12 months initially <span style="color: black; ">with
the possibility of an extension
until the end of the ACCESS project and/or as part of a recently
accepted EU
project, ICE-ARC (Ice, Climate and Economics in the Arctic).
ICE-ARC aims to
improve our understanding about the disappearance of summer
Arctic sea-ice and
its climate, economic and social impacts. The LATMOS
contribution includes data
analysis and modeling of new aerosol observations that will be
collected in the
Arctic Ocean as well as the study of feedbacks involving
atmospheric
composition-radiation-clouds. </span><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="color: black; ">Qualifications and requirements for the
position:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="color: black; ">- </span><span style="color: black; ">PhD
in atmospheric sciences, atmospheric chemistry, or a similar
field<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-indent:1.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="color: black; ">- Experience in
atmospheric chemistry modeling / analysis of atmospheric
observations / pollutant emissions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-indent:1.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="color: black; ">- Programming
skills in Unix/Linux, Fortran, and scientific
visualization programs (Matlab, IDL, and/or NCL)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 18pt;
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17pt;
"><span style="color: black; ">- Good English language and
writing skills<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;text-indent:1.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="color: black; ">- Willingness to
work in an international framework, and to attend
project/international meetings </span><span style="color:
black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 35pt;
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17pt;
"><span style="color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; ">Review of the applications will start
immediately and will
continue until the position is filled. To apply, please send a
detailed CV
(including a list of publications), a letter of motivation in
English, and the
email addresses of two academic referees to </span>Kathy Law:<span
style="color: red; "> <a href="mailto:kathy.law@latmos.ipsl.fr">kathy.law@latmos.ipsl.fr</a>
</span>and
Claire Granier:<span style="color: red; "> <a
href="mailto:claire.granier@latmos.ipsl.fr">claire.granier@latmos.ipsl.fr</a>
</span>
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