Text and photo by Camilla Aadland, Uni Research
Carin Andersson Dahl (to the left) and Bjørg Risebrobakken are in charge of two of the four new projects that will start during spring 2014.
Bjørg Risebrobakken is one of the research leaders at Uni Climate , the climate research department of Uni Research. Risebrobakken is looking for a researcher in paleoceanography for a position within the project ClimLink ”Climate forcing factors for marine environmental change during the mid and late Holocene – a link between the eastern Atlantic and the Baltic Sea”
The Norwegian-Polish cooperation have a vacant position for a researcher in paleoceanography, who will be looking at climatic linkages between the North Sea – Skagerrak – and the Baltic Sea regions, and identify common climatic forcing factors for the two areas.
The project is lead by the University of Szczeciński, and the researcher employed in Bergen will contribute to the training of polish collaborators in methods used in the project.
International recognized research teams
Carin Andersson Dahl is in search of two international researchers who have not previously been working in Norway.
”We are looking for two PhD-candidates who will be working within an international training network for early stage researchers” Carin Andersson Dahl says.
The two young climate researchers will be part of the project called ARAMACC , a collaboration between nine internationally accredited research groups. The overall goal of ARAMACC is to train researchers in multiple skills across the broad supra-disciplinary field of molluscan sclerochronology and scleroclimatology.
The candidates will build crossdated chronologies, similar to tree-ring chronologies, using annual increments embedded in the shells of long-lived marine bivalve molluscs with the aim of building up a network of such chronologies for the northeast Atlantic region.
Climatic variations at sea
In addition to these three vacancies, there is also another PhD position and a post doc position vacant at the climate department of Uni Research.
In the three year position in the project ”Pliocene East Greenland Current and Sea Ice Evolution (PEGSIE)” , the candidate will look at sea ice from varm periods back in time as an analogy to a situation we can have in the future. More precisely the candidate will perform geochemical analyses of phytoplankton biomarkers in Pliocene sediments from the Nordic Seas to reconstruct the sea ice extent during this time
In the two year post doc position in climate modelling, the candidate will be working on improving simulations and predictions in the tropical Atlantic.
Uni Climate is seeking a candidate to conduct research aimed at investigating mechanisms responsible for the development of systematic biases in coupled General Circulation Models (GCMs). A focus will be placed on the area of the tropical Atlantic and especially its oceanic upwelling regions.
Attractive research community
Carin Andersson Dahl and Bjørg Risebrobakken are sure there will be many well-qualified candidates among the applicants.
”We usually get many applicants, and 90 percent of the applicants are international. There is an attractive climate research community in Bergen. Our strength is the inter-disciplinary collaboration. We have researchers within instrumental data, reconstructions, modelling, land, ocean, atmosphere, we have it all. Normally it is hard to combine researchers from different disciplines, but at this point we have come far ” she says.
Both Risebrobakken and Andersson Dahl are researchers at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, where Uni Research is one of four partners.
Please read more on the five vacancies here .