[ES_JOBS_NET] Research Fellow (3.5 years), Modelling volcanic processes and greenhouse gas emissions, University of Birmingham (UK)

[Sarah Greene]

Dear all,


We are recruiting a research fellow (3.5 year position) at the University of Birmingham (UK) modelling volcanic processes and greenhouse gas emissions from the North Atlantic Igneous Province. You'd be working in a big collaborative team of palaeoclimate and solid Earth scientists as part of a NERC/NSF-funded project led by me, Sarah Greene, and my colleague Steve Jones.


Background

One of the biggest uncertainties about future climate change is how the carbon cycle will respond to (or 'feed back' on) our warming planet.  The recently awarded NERC-NSF Large Grant “C-FORCE” will measure how the global carbon cycle responded from start to finish during a past period of global warming that was driven by volcanic emissions of carbon-based greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is the largest natural climate change event of the last 65 million years, the closest natural comparator to the modern rates of global warming and carbon greenhouse gas emissions, and the only entire climate change event for which it is currently possible to measure global carbon cycle feedbacks.  During the PETM, forcing carbon emissions were supplied by the North Atlantic Igneous Province (NAIP) and palaeoclimate proxy records show how the Earth system responded to the total PETM carbon budget.  By comparing the NAIP volcanic emissions with the Earth system's response, C-FORCE will reconstruct how the global carbon cycle evolved throughout the PETM, and show whether or not tipping point behaviour occurred.  Ultimately, an improved understanding of the carbon cycle affects future carbon budgets to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celcius and is therefore necessary for shaping mitigation targets and government policy.


Summary of Role

A 3.5-year Research Fellow position based in Birmingham and working closely with members of the C-FORCE consortium across the UK, Europe and the USA, to determine the pacing and magnitude of carbon emissions supplied by the North Atlantic Igneous Province at the best possible temporal resolution using a ground-breaking stochastic modelling framework, and feed these results into the global carbon cycle modelling that will achieve C-FORCE's ultimate aim.


For further details or to apply, please click here: https://bham.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdetail.ftl?job=220001LE&tz=GMT%2B01%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon


Informal enquires can also be sent to Steve Jones: s.jones.4 at bham.ac.uk<mailto:s.jones.4 at bham.ac.uk>


I hope you'll consider applying and/or forwarding this along to anyone you think might be interested!


Best,

Sarah


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Dr. Sarah E. Greene (she/her)
Associate Professor of Palaeoclimates
Director of CENTA NERC Doctoral Training Partnership<https://centa.ac.uk/>
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/my/sarahgreene

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