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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-IE>Twelve positions in polar climate research available in Belgium</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>A consortium of five Belgian universities is seeking PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and computer scientists to work in the framework of the <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/project.html" target="_blank">PARAMOUR</a> project (Decadal Predictability and vAriability of polar climate: the Role of AtMosphere- Ocean-cryosphere mUltiscale inteRactions) funded by the program EOS –The excellence of Science. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>PARAMOUR aims at revealing fundamental drivers of climate variability and assessing climate predictability in high latitudes by using coupled regional climate models in both hemispheres.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>We invite applications for the following positions:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>1/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job1.html" target="_blank">PhD Student</a>: </span><span lang=EN-GB>Influence<b> </b>of small-scale ocean and sea ice processes<b> </b>on the<b> </b></span><span lang=EN-IE>decadal variability and predictability of the atmosphere-ocean-ice sheet system in the Totten glacier area, Antarctica (UCL).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>2/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job2.html" target="_blank">PhD Student</a>:<b> </b>Influence of initialization and basal processes within ice sheet models on the decadal variability and predictability of the atmosphere-ocean-ice sheet system (ULB)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>3/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job3.html" target="_blank">PhD Student</a>: </span><span lang=EN-GB>Influence<b> </b>of small-scale atmospheric processes<b> </b>on the<b> </b></span><span lang=EN-IE>decadal variability and predictability of the atmosphere-ocean-ice sheet system in the Totten glacier area, Antarctica (KU Leuven).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>4/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job4.html" target="_blank">PhD Student</a>: PhD Student: Influence of small-scale Greenland ice sheet processes on the decadal variability and predictability of the atmosphere-ocean-ice sheet system (VUB).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>5/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job5.html" target="_blank">PhD Student</a>: Influence of the oceanic and atmospheric processes driving the sea ice extent variability in Arctic and sea surface temperature changes around Greenland (ULiège).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>6/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job6.html" target="_blank">Post Doctoral Researcher</a>: Decadal variability of the Southern Ocean and its contribution to the predictability of the atmosphere-ocean-ice sheet system (UCL).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>7/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job7.html" target="_blank">Post Doctoral Researcher</a>: Sensitivity of the ice sheet/ice shelf system on decadal variability and predictability of the atmosphere-ocean-ice sheet system (ULB)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>8/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job8.html" target="_blank">Post Doctoral Researcher</a>: Decadal variability of the Greenland ice sheet and its contribution to the predictability of the atmosphere-ocean-ice sheet system (VUB)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>9/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job9.html" target="_blank">Post Doctoral Researcher</a>: Decadal variability of the Greenland Ice sheet Surface Mass balance linked with the Arctic Amplification and recent atmospheric circulation changes (ULiège).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>10/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job10.html" target="_blank">Computer scientist</a>: supervising the technical developments of a climate model configuration covering Totten glacier region (KU Leuven)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>11/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions_job11.html" target="_blank">Computer scientist</a>: supervising the technical developments of a climate model configuration covering Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (UCL)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-IE>12/ <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions.html" target="_blank">Computer scientist</a>: supervise the technical developments of a climate model configuration covering Greenland, the North Atlantic and the Arctic (VUB)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-IE>The description of the positions is available on the project website <a href="http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions.html" target="_blank">http://www.climate.be/php/users/klein/PARAMOUR/open_positions.html</a> . </span><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>