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<p>Come and work with us at Lund University, Sweden! We have an
opening for a PhD position within the project "Tracing hypoxia
during warm periods in the Baltic Sea region - using plasma
analytical methods and synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy". <br>
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<p>Deadline: 2016-08-01<br>
Keywords: foraminiferal geochemistry, paleoceanography and
micropaleontology. </p>
<p>In the Baltic Sea region, several periods of warmth and large
environmental change have occurred since the most recent
glaciation, and there is evidence that these periods were also
marked by deoxygenation. Reconstructing past oxygenation
conditions is difficult because few quantitative proxies exist for
oxygen levels, and there are currently many efforts to improve and
develop better proxies for past oxygenation of bottom waters.
Recently, we have focused on Mn/Ca in benthic foraminifera as a
potential proxy variable for low oxygen conditions. In this
project we plan to use a combination of inductively coupled plasma
(ICP) - and synchrotron-based methods to analyze Mn concentration,
distribution, and speciation and other trace elements in
foraminiferal shells. The objectives of this work are: 1) to
quantitatively reconstruct marine environmental conditions,
focusing primarily on bottom water oxygenation in the Baltic Sea
region, during periods of warming and large environmental change
and 2) improve the tools we use to reconstruct past environments
by using a combination of experimental work and synchrotron - and
plasma based methods.<br>
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<p>Please see the following link for further information and
application instructions: <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:105773/where:4/">https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:105773/where:4/</a></p>
<p>Contact person: Assoc. Prof. Helena Filipsson, <a
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href="mailto:helena.filipsson@geol.lu.se"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:helena.filipsson@geol.lu.se">helena.filipsson@geol.lu.se</a></a><br>
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Best wishes, <br>
Nadine Quintana Krupinski<br>
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Dr. Nadine B. Quintana Krupinski
Dept. of Geology, Lund University,
Sölvegatan 12, 22362 Lund, Sweden
Office phone: +46 (0)46 222 7805
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nadine.krupinski@geol.lu.se">nadine.krupinski@geol.lu.se</a></pre>
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