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<b class="">Understanding long term climate and atmospheric composition change over Antarctica</b>
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<div class="">NERC-funded PhD position at Lancaster University, with co-supervision at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. </div>
<div class="">Additional project partners at NCAR, Colorado and CSIC Madrid.</div>
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<div class="">Starting October 2017</div>
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Air bubbles trapped in the ice of the Earth’s cold regions provide a unique, fascinating and long term record of atmospheric composition. Ice-core records of reactive gases are a relatively recent innovation, and potentially offer constraints on aspects of the
past ~10000 years where there is little consensus (or investigation) with climate models. In this project you will work with ice core hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) data and other observations, and state-of-the-art global climate models to advance our understanding
of changes in oxidising nature of the atmosphere.
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<div class="">Your analysis will quantify the contribution of natural and anthropogenically-forced change from Greenland and Antarctica ice cores over the last ~100-10000 years, determine the contribution of different drivers of composition change for a range
of future scenarios, and define novel techniques to evaluate global models and direct their improvement.<br class="">
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<div class="">You will be primarily based in the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, but the project team includes scientists from the <a href="https://www.bas.ac.uk/" class="">British Antarctic Survey</a> (BAS) in Cambridge, the <a href="http://www2.ucar.edu/" class="">National
Center for Atmospheric Research</a> (NCAR) in Boulder Colorado, and the <a href="http://ac2.iqfr.csic.es/en/the-group/58-staff/112-alfonso-saiz-lopez-2" class="">Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate group</a> at CSIC Madrid. You will make several visits to BAS
to understand more about collecting data and analysing change in Antarctica, and this partnership will also give you the opportunity to attend a polar field skills summer school in Svalbard, Norway. There will also be an extended visit to NCAR to work with
climate modellers there.<br class="">
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<div class="">Through working with complex climate model and observation data, you will learn scientific computing skills and get experience of big data analysis. Together with the field training and experience this project will set you up well for a range
of career options in academia or beyond. </div>
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<div class="">This project is part of the ENVISION Doctoral Training Partnership. See <a href="http://www.envision-dtp.org/portal/projects/" class="">their site</a> for more projects for next October.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Link to project: </b><a href="http://bit.ly/2d6DmUl" class="">http://bit.ly/2d6DmUl</a></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Apply</b>: <a href="http://www.envision-dtp.org/portal/" class="">http://www.envision-dtp.org/portal/</a></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Deadline</b>: 6th January 2017</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Eligibility</b>: UK/EU students for fees; need to have lived in UK for 3 years; see more information at <a href="http://www.envision-dtp.org/students/" class="">http://www.envision-dtp.org/students/</a> (under Funding)</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Contact</b> Paul Young (<a href="mailto:paul.j.young@lanacaster.ac.uk" class="">paul.j.young@lanacaster.ac.uk</a>) for more information about this position</div>
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