[ES_JOBS_NET] PhD opportunity at UNSW, Sydney

[Martin De Kauwe]

Dear colleagues,

Apologies for cross-posting, please forward this PhD opportunity to
potentially interested candidates...

"Unravelling the role of lags and legacies in explaining the response of
grasslands to elevated CO2"


   The rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere stimulates plant
   growth; however, in grassland ecosystems, the observed growth responses are
   highly variable and often depart markedly from our theoretical predictions.
   Our inability to explain the reasons for this variability prevents us from
   predicting changes in agricultural productivity and ultimately, the future
   grassland carbon sink. This project will apply a state of the art,
   hierarchical Bayesian modelling framework to determine how past climatic
   conditions influence current responses to high CO2concentrations. The
   project will use data from a new, specially-designed experiment, as well as
   results from past Free-Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment (FACE) and Open-top
   chamber (OTC) experiments, to close this knowledge gap. In particular, the
   student will aim to identify the mechanisms and timescales over which past
   water and nutrient availability affect photosynthesis and growth responses
   to CO2 in grasslands.

   The project is based at the Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC)
   <http://www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au/> at the University of New South Wales (UNSW),
   Australia, under the supervision of Dr Martin De Kauwe, Professor Kiona
   Ogle <http://www2.nau.edu/ogle-lab/> at Northern Arizona University
   (NAU) and Associate Professor Mark Hovenden
   <http://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/plant-science/Mark-Hovenden> at
   the University of Tasmania (UTAS).

   The successful candidate will become part of the Australian Research
   Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes
   <https://climateextremes.org.au/>, an international research consortium
   of five Australian universities (The University of New South Wales, Monash
   University, The University of Melbourne, The University of Tasmania and The
   Australian National University) and a suite of outstanding national and
   international Partner Organizations. The Centre provides excellent
   opportunities for travel and graduate student development. In
   particular, there are funds available to travel to Arizona and work closely
   with Professor Ogle during the PhD scholarship.

   We are looking for expressions of interest from outstanding graduates
   with a strong academic record including Honours Class I or equivalent.
   Graduates with a strong background in plant ecophysiology, mathematics,
   physics, atmospheric science, engineering or similar quantitative sciences
   are particularly encouraged to apply. Programming experience with R or
   Python is desirable but not essential.

   Questions should be directed to Martin De Kauwe (m.dekauwe at unsw.edu.au).
   Expressions of interest including a CV, full academic transcript, and the
   names of up to three academic referees should be sent to climate.grad@
   unsw.edu.au <climate.grad at unsw.edu.au> by the 1st of April. Note: this
   is not an official application, if your expression of interest is accepted,
   we will guide you through the application process.

Many thanks,

Martin

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Dr Martin De Kauwe

ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes
Climate Change Research Centre
Room 462
UNSW Sydney
NSW 2052 Australia

t:   +61293858481
m: +61478096086
w:  http://mdekauwe.github.io
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