Postdoc opportunities in earth science for Chinese students

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen, Germany is advertising a 4-year postdoctoral position in Experimental Planetology within the ERC Starting Grant project ELMO: Experimental Laboratory Magma Ocean . The project addresses fundamental questions in experimental planetary science , magma ocean evolution, and the chemical link between interior magma oceans and the atmospheres of hot exoplanets. The successful candidate will investigate how volatile and moderately volat...

PhD and postdoctoral opportunities are available at Northeastern University, Shenyang, China , in the Mining Spatial Data Intelligence Research Hub led by Professor Alex Lechner . The group works at the intersection of environmental science , landscape ecology , GIS , remote sensing , and AI , with a research focus on environmental and social risk in mining landscapes . Projects span local case studies through to global-scale analysis, and the team is described as internationally connected with ...

The Earth Systems Ecology Lab at The University of New Mexico is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for an ecosystem modeling project focused on the interaction of climate change and disturbance impacts on forests in the intermountain western United States. The position is part of a multi-institution team involving hydrology, computer science, and social science collaborators. The postdoc will work on forest-water relationships , run LANDIS-II simulations for three watersheds, and collaborate ...

KNMI (Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut) is advertising a 4-year scientist climate change / postdoc-style research position in De Bilt, the Netherlands, focused on extreme rainfall, hydroclimatic extremes, flood prediction, climate change, weather and climate models , and the physical processes that drive severe precipitation in a warming climate. The role sits within the Extreme-Futures project , part of a Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship led by Professor Fowler of Newcas...

Two 30-month postdoctoral positions are available in global seismology at the University of Oxford within the NERC-funded Pushing the Frontiers project PRISM-MTZ . The successful candidates will be based in Oxford Earth Sciences and join the DEEPSCAPE group , working with project partners in Strasbourg and Cambridge . The project aims to produce novel constraints on the bulk structure and discontinuity topographies of the mantle transition zone (MTZ) by developing a joint finite-frequency infere...

LMU Munich and partners in Germany are preparing a major DFG-funded Research Unit, RING: Rotations in Physics, Geophysics, and Geodesy , focused on measuring tiny fluctuations in the Earth’s rotation using ring laser technology . The project brings together research in geophysics , geodesy , seismology , quantum optics , and metrology , with applications to Earth rotation, navigation, seismic monitoring, and atmosphere-solid Earth coupling. The announcement states that the research unit will off...

University College London is advertising a 36-month postdoctoral research position in island evolution, functional morphology, palaeontology, biomechanics , and quantitative evolutionary analysis. The project is part of the Leverhulme-funded study “Adaptation and niche shifts in island giants” and is based with Dr Phil Cox at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy . The successful researcher will work with a broad CT dataset of mammal skulls, including fossil island giants and their mainland rel...

Florida Atlantic Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute is hiring a postdoc to work on ocean optical scattering instrumentation . This opportunity sits at the intersection of oceanography , ocean optics , biogeochemistry , physics , and environmental science , with a focus on research and development in marine measurement systems. The post is associated with Wayne Slade at Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. The announcement invites interested candidates to apply vi...

University of Oxford is advertising a 36-month postdoctoral research assistant (PDRA) position in Metamorphic Geochemistry within the Department of Earth Sciences. The project is supported by the NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant NITRO-MET: Reactive Nitrogen Supply Driven by Orogenic Metamorphism . The research will investigate the behaviour of nitrogen and nitrogen isotopes during orogenesis, with a particular focus on the role of mica and feldspar in pelitic sediments undergoing regional metamo...