<div dir="ltr">Please post this opportunity, this is extremely time sensitive. <div>thank you.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">irinuuuuu .</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:irinamarinov@gmail.com">irinamarinov@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:18 PM<br>Subject: PhD research fellowship in Ocean and Climate Dynamics at University of Pennsylvania<br>To: <a href="mailto:Es_jobs_net@mailman.ucar.edu">Es_jobs_net@mailman.ucar.edu</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">
<p><span><b>PhD Opportunity in "Ocean and Climate Dynamics" at University of Pennsylvania</b></span></p>
<p><span>Seeking motivated doctoral students to join the ocean & climate dynamics group (<a href="https://climate.sas.upenn.edu/" target="_blank"><span>https://climate.sas.upenn.edu</span></a></span><span>) </span><span>in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at University of Pennsylvania for the 2016-2017 academic year. </span>Accepted students will receive departmental fellowships, health insurance, conference travel.</p>
<p><span><b>Possible scientific research directions include:</b></span></p>
<p><span>· The distinct role of Southern Ocean physics in the global climate; physical connections between the Southern Ocean and tropics via the atmosphere and the ocean.</span></p>
<p><span>· The response of global ocean physics, carbon and oxygen cycles to climate change, including feedbacks. </span><span>Developing theories on what controls the oceanic sink for atmospheric CO</span><span><sub>2</sub></span><span> on various timescales.</span></p>
<p><span>· Ocean ecology: past and future responses to a changing physical climate. Biological-physical interactions in the ocean. Phytoplankton functional groups from space.</span></p>
<p><span>· Including evolutionary concepts and functional traits into ecological models and coupling them to comprehensive global climate models.</span></p>
<p><span>Projects involve running global climate models and analyzing a combination of model output, in-situ data and satellite datasets. Applicants must be self-motivated and hard working, with good written and verbal communication skills. Strong analytical background irrespective of your undergraduate major (e.g. math, physics, engineering or theoretical ecology coursework) and programming experience (e.g. Fortran, Matlab, python, unix environment programming) are desired.</span></p>
<p><span>If interested, please contact </span><span>Dr. Irina Marinov</span><span> at <a href="mailto:imarinov@sas.upenn.edu" target="_blank"><span>imarinov@sas.upenn.edu</span></a> with your CV, transcripts, interests and written samples, as well as the relevant science/computational background. Formal PhD application deadline for our department is January 15, 2016; application needs to be submitted via the UPenn graduate application portal.</span></p><p><span><i>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</i></span></p><p>Irina Marinov</p><p>Assistant Prof, ocean and climate modeling</p>Dept of Earth and Environmental Science<br>University of Pennsylvania<br><a href="http://climate.sas.upenn.edu" target="_blank">http://climate.sas.upenn.edu</a><br><a href="mailto:imarinov@sas.upenn.edu" target="_blank">imarinov@sas.upenn.edu</a></div>
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