EarthShape: 12 PhD and Postdoc Positions 1661 views

EarthShape (Earth Surface Shaping by Biota) is a German- Chilean Research initiative. The program bridges between scientific disciplines and includes geoscientists and biologists to study this complex question from different viewpoints. EarthShape phase II has open PhD and postdoc positions (starting 2019)

About the program:

• All study sites are located in the north-to-south trending Coastal Cordillera mountains of Chile, South America.
• These sites span from the Atacama Desert in the north to the Araucaria forests approximately 1300 km to the south. The site selection contains a large ecological and climate gradient ranging from very dry to humid climate conditions.
• The sites were selected to avoid other complicating factors such as differences in rock type, and glacial, and volcanic impacts.
• EarthShape is a 6-year priority program that started in 2016 and is funded through the German Science Foundation (DFG-SPP 1803).

Available projects:

1. Post-doc Project 1a:

Fire-Induced Redistribution and Losses of Elements in the Weathering Zone (FIRE).

Host: Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin

Supervisor: Prof. Anna Gorbushina, co-supervisor: Prof. Michaela Dippold

2. PhD Project 1b:

Fire-Induced Redistribution and Losses of Elements in the Weathering Zone (FIRE).

Host: University of Göttingen

Supervisor: Prof. Michaela Dippold, co-supervisor: Prof. Anna Gorbushina

University of Göttingen

Application deadline: 22. November 2018

3. PhD Project 2a

Connecting the green and the grey world: an experimental approach to separating climate, vegetation, and geochemical effects on nutrient cycling along a climate gradient.

Host: University of Tübingen

Supervisor: Prof. Yvonne Oelmann, co-supervisors: Dr. Harald Neidhardt, Prof. Katja Tielbörger

University of Tübingen

Application deadline: 10. December 2018

4. PhD Project 4

Burrowing-animal communities and their role as bioturbators along a climate gradient.

Host: University of Marburg

Supervisor: Prof. Nina Farwig, co-supervisors: Prof. Roland Brandl, Prof. Jörg Bendix

Application deadline: 30. November 2018

5. PhD Project 5a (mSECCO)

Quantifying modern links between vegetation, hydrology and Earth surface processes from inorganic and organic geochemical proxies in Chilean modern river sediment.

Host: GFZ Potsdam

Supervisor: Dr. Hella Wittmann-Oelze, co-supervisors: Dr. Dirk Sachse, Dr. Patrick Frings, Dr. Anne Bernhardt

Application deadline extended: 30. November 2018

6. PhD Project 6

Sediment transport and connectivity under changing biogeomorphic feedbacks.

host: Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (BfG) & Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Supervisor: Dr. Thomas Hoffmann, co-supervisor: Dr. Sebastian Schmidtlein, Prof. Lothar Schrott

7. PhD Project 7

Biota, fractures, thresholds: Emergent self-organization in landscape evolution?

Host: German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Potsdam

Supervisor: Jun. Prof. Dr. Dirk Scherler, co-supervisor: Prof. Jean Braun

Application deadline extended: 30. November 2018

8. PhD Project 8

possible position, to be announced

Host: University of Graz, Austria

Supervisor: Prof. Kurt Stüwe

9. PhD Project 11

Using innovative isotope geochemical weathering to explore deep (up to 80m) rock weathering.

Host: German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Potsdam

Supervisor: Prof. Friedhelm von Blanckenburg

Application deadline extended: 30. November 2018

10. PhD Project 13a

Geophysical imaging of weathering fronts with seismic and electromagnetic methods.

Host: German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Potsdam

Supervisor: Prof. Charlotte Krawczyk; co-supervisor: PD Dr. Ute Weckmann

Application deadline: 9. November 2018

11. Post-Doc Project 13b

to be announced, starting autumn 2019

Host: German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Potsdam

Supervisor: Prof. Charlotte Krawczyk; co-supervisor: PD Dr. Ute Weckmann

12. PhD Project 15b

Mineralogical consequences of silicate weathering by Fe-metabolizing bacteria.

Host: Technical University of Berlin

Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Neumann

Application deadline: remains open until filled