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Job am 07.03.2025 bei Neuvoo gefunden Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

Postdoctoral position (fmx) Landscapes as Carbon Sponges

• Potsdam, Brandenburg Work-Life-Balance Reference Number 9662We seek a highly motivated postdoctoral scholar to contribute to the development of a new landscape-scale concept for future land use or management that takes into account their carbon storage potential with the aim of achieving net-zero landscapes. Landscapes store carbon, fixed through photosynthesis by plants, in soils and sediments. This stable carbon can become a long-term sink for atmospheric carbon when it is transferred by rivers into geological basins (such as deep ocean sediment) . Since several thousands of years, humans have been engineering fluvial landscapes to make them more efficient for agriculture and transport, altering those biogeochemical fluxes, while their effect on the carbon cycle is unquantified. In a joint project funded by the Helmholtz Research Field Earth and Environment you will work within a [...] of carbon fixation, stabilization, transformation and mobilization in fluvial systems. This project will focus on river systems in Northeastern Germany using sedimentary archives of the recent geological past and a diverse set of tools, from sedimentology, geomorphology, paleoclimatology, organic and inorganic geochemistry on fluvial sediments and marine archives during periods of natural climate variability and major human disruptions. Your responsibilities:Perform sedimentological, geomorphological, organic and inorganic geochemical analyses on fluvial and potentially marine sediment archives Extract, purify and analyse terrestrial biomarkers and their radiogenic and stable carbon and hydrogen isotope ratios to trace carbon through the landscape Obtain a detailed understanding of the natural processes and human perturbations that alter the carbon budget of a fluvial landscape Publish key results in international journals and present them at scientific meetings Your qualifications:PhD degree (or equivalent) in the (bio) geosciences (geology, physical geography, environmental sciences, geoecology or related fields) , with evidence of excellence in guided researchA capacity for quickly grasp scientific concepts and [...]
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Chemistry)

• Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, Amherst [...] as an independent researcher and will ideally produce a peer-reviewed publication. The postdoctoral researcher will also be expected to train and mentor undergraduate students in the Durr lab and may potentially assist in the instruction of either general chemistry or inorganic chemistry courses. These tasks are viewed as professional development opportunities for the postdoctoral researcher s training as a teacher-scholar. The postdoctoral researcher will be expected to take appropriate actions to support a diverse workforce and participate in the College [...]