Position Details

College of Life and Environmental Sciences

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974

Grade: 7 

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to February 2025 

Closing date: 5 May 2024

Background

Part of the CASTOR project, funded within the NERC Treescapes program, this role will contribute to the understanding of ecosystem engineers in shaping riparian carbon storage

Role Summary

• Work within the CASTOR interdisciplinary project team
• Investigate the role of ecosystem engineers in controlling riparian ecosystem carbon storage and dynamics
• Work with the other team members to deliver 
• Explore additional funding and collaborative opportunities using the river network approach

Main Duties

The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.

• Apply and adapt modelling methods to investigate the role of ecosystem engineers in river and riparian ecosystem carbon storage and dynamics
• Integrate these findings into publishable work, for presentation at conferences, etc
• Collaborate with the wider interdisciplinary project team to develop potential overlaps in findings and applications where possible
• Contribute to the supervision of students on related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
• Undertake management/administration arising from research
• Provide guidance, as required, to support staff and any students who may be assisting with the research 
• Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines
• Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.
• Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods 

Person Specification

• PhD and experience in modelling ecosystem dynamics and carbon balances, experience with river and riparian ecosystems desirable but not essential
• Demonstrated experience in data analysis
• Demonstrated experience in ecosystem or carbon model development, adaptation, or use.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly
• Ability to work independently and use initiative in research projects
• Contribute to the planning and organising of the research programme and/or specific research project
• Co-ordinate own work with others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort, and also to generate collaborative opportunties
• Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly

Informal enquiries to Joshua Larsen, email: j.larsen@bham.ac.uk

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