<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><strong>Job description</strong></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><strong></strong>The PhD candidate will
participate in a research project that aims to better understand the
role of boreal forest management in the mitigation of climate
change. He or she will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to
monitor forest management processes that affect the exchange of matter
and energy between the surface and atmosphere, and to improve their
representation in land surface models employed in climate research. The
candidate will be enrolled in the PhD program at the University in Oslo
(UiO) Department of Geosciences and will receive academic supervision
from Professor Frode Stordal</p>
<p>The position will be mainly based at NIBIO in Ås, Norway, with part of the time spent at UiO in Oslo, Norway.</p>
<p><strong><br>Main duties and responsibilities</strong></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><strong></strong>The position-holder
will help execute research on the links between forest management and
forest structure and on the physical processes and mechanisms
influencing climate at multiple scales. He or she will contribute to
the development of routines for integrating Norwegian forest management
into the Community Land Model (CLM) – the land surface model employed in
parallel research projects and in the Norwegian Earth System Model
(NorESM). Central to his/her responsibilities will be to map historical
and present day distributions of forest cover and structure in
Fennoscandinavia in formats and resolutions compatible with CLM using
information obtained from remote sensing and national forest inventory
systems. He or she will participate in the design and implementation of
regional climate modeling simulations, in the analyses of their
outcomes, and in the evaluation of the performance of the novel forest
management scheme developed in the project (as implemented in CLM). <br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt">Full details are here:</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><a href="https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/121398/phd-position-in-land-surface-modeling">https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/121398/phd-position-in-land-surface-modeling</a><br></p><br></div>