<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;text-align:justify">PhD Position in Blue
Carbon and Climate Change Research<br><br></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;text-align:justify"></span><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">We offer up to two
3-year PhD positions within the project “Will carbon burial in coastal wetlands
provide a negative feedback to a warmer climate?” funded by the Australian
Research council. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif" lang="EN-US">This project will use</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">cutting edge radioisotope
tracer technology to determine carbon dynamics, including carbon burial rates,
carbon tidal export, respiration and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif" lang="EN-US">CO<sub>2</sub>, CH<sub>4</sub>
emissions.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
The focus of this project will be along a wide range of climatically distinct
vegetated coastal habitats in Australia, Brazil, India and Micronesia. The
student will work within a larger, well-funded project and will closely
interact with a number of leading researchers and other students. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The
PhD student will work out of the recently constructed laboratories located at
the National Marine Science Centre at Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour,
Australia, which received the highest rank of 5.0 “well above world average” in
oceanography and geochemistry in the 2015 assessment of research excellence by
the Australian government.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Applicants
will need to have a Masters or Honours degree in a related field, such as environmental
sciences, marine sciences, earth sciences, or chemistry. The PhD scholarship
will provide a tax free stipend of $25,800 and tuition fees will be exempt. Students
with an APA scholarship are eligible for a $10,000 top up scholarship. Interested
applicants should send their CV, and a letter of interest to Dr. Christian J.
Sanders – </span><a href="mailto:christian.sanders@scu.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">christian.sanders@scu.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">. Closing date January 31, 2016 and
starting date, by June 2016. </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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