<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "MS PGothic", sans-serif; background: white;">Chiba University invites applications for a researcher to work on studies of climate tipping reconstruction.</span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "MS PGothic", sans-serif; background: white;"><br></span></div><div><font face="MS PGothic, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Job description:</span></font></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "MS PGothic", sans-serif; background: white;"><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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<div>Atsushi Okazaki, Ph.D.<br>IAAR / CEReS, Chiba University<br></div>
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