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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I would like to draw your attention to a currently advertised 3/4-year PhD position at the University of Bergen in Norway, and hope you can bring this post
 under the attention of suitable candidates. The position is part of the Trond Mohn Foundation-funded</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://pastfact.mystrikingly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> PASTFACT</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> project,
 and focuses on reconstructing the drivers and impact of Early Holocene glacier change. The over-arching goal of the project is to better understand the imprint and seasonality of Arctic hydrological intensification under warmer-than-present conditions. To
 do so, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a set of emerging sedimentological tools like Computed Tomography (CT) scanning in the group`s state-of-the-art </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://www.uib.no/en/earthlab" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">EARTHLAB</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> facility.
 There will also be plenty of possibilities for fieldwork on Svalbard. The application <b>deadline</b> closes on <b>September 1. </b>For more information and to apply, please check:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="http://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/209290/phd-fellowship-in-quaternary-paleoclimate" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/209290/phd-fellowship-in-quaternary-paleoclimate</span></a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">With kind regards, and happy to answer additional questions,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Willem van der Bilt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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