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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Dear Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">We
are seeking applicant for
PhD project that will address the nature of stabilized carbon in
soil under
grassland management (<b>see below </b><b>Research area and
project description</b>). The project will apply the13C
labelling
techniques and molecular analyses. <span> </span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The
PhD student will be based
at the INRA</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">Versailles-Grignon</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">, France <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The
PhD student will be
expected to work under a wider programme of research entitled: <i>MANAGEMENT
OPTIONS
FOR INCREASING SOIL CARBON UNDER GRASSLANDS</i> funded through
the
Global Partnership for Livestock Emission Research. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span>Interested
candidates should send </span><span>to </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Dr. Abad Chabbi (<a href="mailto:abad.chabbi@lusignan.inra.fr" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:abad.chabbi@lusignan.inra.fr" target="_blank">abad.chabbi@lusignan.inra.fr</a>)
or
Dr. Cornelia Rumpel (<a href="mailto:cornelia.rumpel@grignon.inra.fr" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:cornelia.rumpel@grignon.inra.fr" target="_blank">cornelia.rumpel@grignon.inra.fr</a>)</span><span> a cover letter with a brief statement of research
interests and experience, </span><span>CV, </span><span>transcripts and contact information for three
referees <br>
<font color="#cc0000"><b>before </b></font></span><font color="#cc0000"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">3
May 2016.</span></b></font><span></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">We
would greatly appreciate
your help with distributing the information to anyone who might
be suitably
qualified and interested to take up training and research as a
PhD student in
this area.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Kind regards,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><br>
Abad. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><font color="#3333ff"><b><span><span lang="EN">Title:</span></span></b></font><b><span lang="EN"> Quality, quantity and vulnerability of soil
carbon stocks of grasslands
soils under different management practices</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB"><big>The proposed research will be
carried out under the framework of an international project
between the National
Institute for Agricultural Research (France) and the Landcare
Research
Institute (New Zealand). The objective of this international
project is to
evaluate the impact of intensification of grassland management
on the dynamics
of soil organic matter (SOM) in different pedoclimatic
contexts. The PhD work
will contribute towards the understanding of management
impacts through the
assessment of their influence on molecular transformations
occurring during
soil organic matter degradation and stabilisation processes.
The conceptual
approach includes an evaluation of degradation and
stabilisation processes at
field scale. We will study long-term experimental sites
situated in France and
in New Zealand and also use <sup>13</sup>C labelling
techniques. The results
obtained during the PhD will contribute to ameliorate process
information to be
used in a biogeochemical model (CenW), which will allow for
evaluating the
implications of management practices on soil C dynamics and
composition in the long-term,
as well as resilience of the system to global change. The PhD
thesis will
provide an answer to these questions by going beyond global C
stocks assessment
through molecular analyses providing information on the nature
and origin of
SOM pools, which constitutes a major advance in the research
field.</big><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>PhD Dr.habil. Abad CHABBI
</b><b>Director</b><b> of </b><b>Research </b>
- Scientific Coordinator of the SOERE ACBB <a href="http://www.soere-acbb.com/" target="_blank">http://www.soere-acbb.com/</a>
- Coordinator of the FP7- ExpeER <a href="http://www.expeeronline.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.expeeronline.eu/</a>
- Coordinator of the FP7 AnaEE <a href="http://www.anaee.com/" target="_blank">http://www.anaee.com/</a>
- Expert member of the DFG, German Research Foundation, Germany
- Expert member of the FAO/IAEA, Austria
- Expert member of NERC & BBSRC, UK
- Expert member of the Chines Academy of Sciences, China
Email : <a href="mailto:abad.chabbi@lusignan.inra.fr" target="_blank">abad.chabbi@lusignan.inra.fr</a>
Tel. <a href="tel:%2B33%280%295%2049%2055%2061%2078" value="+33549556178" target="_blank">+33(0)5 49 55 61 78</a> (Direct)
<a href="tel:%2B33%280%295%2049%2055%2060%2097" value="+33549556097" target="_blank">+33(0)5 49 55 60 97</a> (Secrétariat)
<a href="tel:%2B33%280%291%2030%2081%2052%2089" value="+33130815289" target="_blank">+33(0)1 30 81 52 89</a> (EcoSys, Grignon)
<a href="tel:%2B33%280%296%2082%2080%2002%2085" value="+33682800285" target="_blank">+33(0)6 82 80 02 85</a>(Mobil)
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abad_Chabbi" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abad_Chabbi</a>
INRA Centre de recherche Poitou-Charentes
INRA Centre de versailles
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