Fwd: PhD recruitment open day at PML

Dear all:

Plymouth Marine Laboratory is having an open day for prospective PhD students on the 2nd December 2015. More information in the link below: 
 
http://www.pml.ac.uk/Media_and_events/Events/PML_PhD_Recruitment_Open_Day
 
 
Thanks

TJ

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TJ Young

PhD Student, University of Cambridge

Co-President, UK Polar Network

Web: http://polarnetwork.org/committee/current-committee/young/

Email: tj.young@polarnetwork.org
Phone: +44 (0)7539 526731

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Re: Postdoc Positions in UK Polar Sciences

Dear all,

Today's the last day to fill out a short (<5 minutes) questionnaire about how organisations like the  UK Polar Network and the UK Arctic and Antarctic Partnership can better communicate, represent, and support postdocs in their research and well-being. The survey is open to anyone in the polar sciences community regardless of current stage of career: It's quite important that we get a variety of responses from as many people as possible. 

We will be presenting the results of this questionnaire at the next UKAAP meeting in Edinburgh on the 25th November 2015, in which committee members are made up of early careers, senior lecturers and scientists, administrators, and funding agency (e.g. NERC, UKRC) representatives. So what you say will actually be heard by the relevant people that can actually make these changes.

The link to the questionnaire: goo.gl/frJQ2D

Best wishes in your research and postdoc aspirations,

TJ, Anne, Clare and Ruth, on behalf of the UKPN and UKAAP

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TJ Young

PhD Student, University of Cambridge

Co-President, UK Polar Network

Web: http://www.polarnetwork.org/ukpn-committee/tj-young/

Email: tj.young@polarnetwork.org

Phone: +44 (0)7539 526731

We're social!

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Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/UKPolarNetwork

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Dear all,

We hope this email finds you well! On behalf of the UK Polar Network and the UK Arctic and Antarctic Partnership, we are looking into trying to improve support and address current issues for postdocs through this year within the UK research framework, and we'd like to see what the community thinks are the most pertinent questions and issues that are worth tackling.

In this regard, we'd like to ask you, as members of the UK polar sciences community, to fill in a short questionnaire about how organisations like us can better support postdocs in their research and life. Truly, this questionnaire is short! 5 questions are simply clicking boxes, and 2 questions needs a short paragraph--5 minutes max. You can answer this form anonymously, so please be as critical as need be!

The survey is open to anyone in the polar sciences community regardless of current stage of career: It's quite important that we get a variety of responses from as many people as possible. This will feed in to discussions in both UKPN and UKAAP, in which committee members are made up of early careers, senior lecturers and scientists, administrators, and funding agency (e.g. NERC, UKRC) representatives. So what you say will actually be heard by the relevant people that can actually make these changes.

We will keep this form open until the 18th November 2015, giving just under a month for you to fill in your responses.

Lastly, the link to the questionnaire: goo.gl/frJQ2D

Best wishes in your research and postdoc aspirations,

TJ, Anne, Clare and Ruth, on behalf of the UKPN and UKAAP


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TJ Young

PhD Student, University of Cambridge

Co-President, UK Polar Network

Web: http://www.polarnetwork.org/ukpn-committee/tj-young/

Email: tj.young@polarnetwork.org

Phone: +44 (0)7539 526731

We're social!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKPolarNetwork

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/UKPolarNetwork

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/UKPolarNetwork

Register for the Young Researchers Workshop at ICOP 2016

Apologies for cross-posting, but this is too good not to share! - TJ

View this email in your browser A "Young Researchers Workshop" will take place at the XI. International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP 2016) on 18 - 19 June 2016. This workshop is organized as a joint effort of PYRN (Permafrost Young Researchers Network), APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists), the young researcher representatives of the USPA (United States Permafrost Association), and ADAPT (Arctic Development and Adaptation to Permafrost in Transition). The workshop aims at providing opportunities to young researchers to learn and build interdisciplinary knowledge: how to get published in scientific journals (professional trainer) practical methods and essential soft skills. For detailed information on the Young Researchers Workshop program, pleasedownload the program here or visit the workshop website  The soft skills portion, presenting and sharing knowledge about the Arctic and Antarctic permafrost regions, will be a focus. To achieve this, the participants will enter into dialogue and exchange in thematic break-out sessions. The application deadline for abstract submission as well as the application for the workshop: December 1, 2015. The maximum number of participants is 150. If more applications are submitted, an evaluation of the applications will be done. To apply for the workshop, please use the suitable category in the conference registration system and please be prepared to provide the following there: A letter of motivation stating why you are interested in participating in the ICOP and the workshop (500 words) If you are part of a network (PYRN, IPA, APECS, USPA…), how are you involved? If you are not part of a network, are you interested to increase your activity e.g. for the future PYRN or APECS executive committee, council and/or national representation? (300 words) Approval will be sent out until February 11, 2016 to successful applicants Facebook Twitter Website Email Our mailing address is: Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) UiT The Arctic University of Norway Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics Tromso, Troms 9037 Norway Add us to your address book unsubscribe from the APECS mailing list    update your APECS profile

PhD project: Catastrophic ice melt and life in the oceans

Dear all,

Just wanted to draw your attention to an exciting PhD opportunity at the School of Earth and Environment in Leeds:

CATASTROPHIC ICE MELT AND LIFE IN THE OCEANS
The aim of the PhD is to understand the effect of catastrophic meltwater discharge on physical ocean circulation, ocean biogeochemistry and marine ecosystems during the last 21 thousand years and in the future. This will be achieved by combining cutting edge knowledge of ice sheet dynamics and biogeochemistry with state of the art ocean modelling.
More info is available here: http://www.nercdtp.leeds.ac.uk/projects/index.php?id=289

Supervisors are from the University of Leeds and University of Bristol, and the project offers development of a wide inter-disciplinary skill set, with potential for international collaboration and travel. The deadline to apply is February 2016, with a potential start date of October 2016. 

If you know anyone who might be interested please forward them this email. 

Many thanks,

Jon

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Jon Hawkings

PDRA, Geographical Sciences (Bristol Glaciology Centre)

University of Bristol

University Road

Bristol

BS8 1SS

Email: jon.hawkings@bristol.ac.uk

Web: www.jonhawkings.com 

Twitter: @jonnyhawkings

Fwd: PhD studentship in Arctic storm risk

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> Hi there,
> We are offering a NERC-SCENARIO PhD studentship at the University of Reading on Arctic Storm Risk, to start in September 2016. This project has Insurance industry funding from XL Catlin. And will be supervised by Kevin Hodges, Jonny Day and Len Shaffrey (University of Reading) and Tom Philp (XL Catlin).
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> Please forward to any potential students. Full funds are available for UK students and tuition fee only support is available for EU students.
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> http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/nercdtp/home/available/desc/SC201615.pdf
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> Thanks
> Jonny
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> Dr Jonathan Day - AXA Research Fellow
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> EMAIL: j.j.day@reading.ac.uk
> WEB: http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~jonny/home/
> TWITTER: @jonny_day
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> Dept. of Meteorology, Phone: 0118 378 6018
> University of Reading, Fax: 0118 378 8316
> READING. RG6 6BB. UK. Room: 3L71
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FW: PhD Opportunity working in the Southern Ocean

Hi all, 

Please find below an exciting PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia with field trips to the Southern Ocean. 

Please pass along to anyone you think may be interested.

Kind regards,

Kyle 

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Subject: FW: PHD opportunity
From: "Mayers K." <Kyle.Mayers@soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, November 05, 2015 4:39 am
To: "'kyle.mayers@polarnetwork.org'" <kyle.mayers@polarnetwork.org>

 

 

From: Pebody, Corinne [mailto:cawo@noc.ac.uk]
Sent: 05 November 2015 11:31
To: noc-all@noc.soton.ac.uk
Cc: Manno, Clara <clanno@bas.ac.uk>
Subject: FW: PHD opportunity

 

Fantastic opportunity for a PhD working in the Southern Ocean

Please read on below if interested

Best wishes

Corinne Pebody

 

 

From: Manno, Clara
Sent: 04 November 2015 14:57
To: Pebody, Corinne
Subject: PHD opportunity

 

 

Hi Corinne! Can you spread to everybody could be interested?

 

 

The effect of iron supply on diatoms and carbon sequestration: South Georgia (Antarctica) as "natural iron fertilized laboratory"

Project Supervisor Dr. Clara Manno clanno@bas.ac.uk

Deadline  for application 23:59 on 6 January 2016

Project description

Changes in iron supply to oceanic phytoplankton have a significant effect on concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide by altering rates of carbon sequestration, a theory known as the 'iron hypothesis'. In situ mesoscale fertilizations experiments showed that the addition of iron (Fe) stimulated phytoplankton growth, especially diatoms. The development of large diatom blooms upon iron re-supply demonstrates the metabolic plasticity inherent to their ability to recover rapidly from nutrient limitation. 

The Southern Ocean (SO) is considered as the largest ''high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll'' (HNLC) area where the suppression of Fe limitation could potentially affect phytoplankton productivity. However, in the region downstream of South Georgia an extensive bloom is supported until late summer by macronutrients and iron resupplied. The presence downstream of South Georgia of a "natural iron fertilized laboratory" is a unique opportunity to identify the processes that regulate diatom metabolism in order to forecast bloom development and carbon sequestration in an area estimated to have the largest seasonal uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide yet measured in the Southern Ocean.

The project will aim to carry out comparative analyses on diatom physiology and growth rate at two oceanic sites off South Georgia with contrasting productivity regimes, with one site being naturally iron-fertilized and, the other, relatively iron-limited. The assemblage and abundance of diatoms during the bloom period will be investigated as well as their contribution to carbon export at both sites. The sensitivity of diatoms to low/high levels of iron will be investigated in incubation experiments with manipulated seawater. Particular focus will be dedicated to identify the transcriptome sequencing of selected key diatom species from this region in order to determine species-specific differences in their metabolic plasticity in response to changing iron concentrations.

Requirements, training and opportunities
Training and fieldwork: We seek an enthusiastic, pro-active team player with strong scientific interests and self-motivation. S/he will have at least a 2.1 honours degree in biology, or a branch of environmental science.The candidate will participate in one Southern Ocean sampling campaign for which he/she will receive training in sea-survival techniques and field-laboratory health and safety. On board, the student will participate in the collection of phytoplankton and run iron-manipulation experiments. The student will learn how to determine the transcriptome sequencing of selected key diatom and will develop skills in analysing dataset and remote sensing data processing. The student will be enrolled in the UEA Science Graduate School.

See more at:

http://www.enveast.ac.uk/projects/display/-/asset_publisher/G2PAL8zto56C/content/manno_ubas16ee?inheritRedirect=false&redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.enveast.ac.uk%2Fprojects%2Fdisplay%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_G2PAL8zto56C%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-4%26p_p_col_pos%3D3%26p_p_col_count%3D4

 

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Outreach in Sheffield (Respond by Friday) and Scotland (Fife)

Hi All,

There are two opportunities for outreach see below for details:

Sheffield:

We are located on the outskirts of Sheffield.  The visit would be to a class of mainly Year 2 pupils with a small group of Year 1s ( about 6 years of age). We are doing a topic on the Polar regions this term and we will be looking at explorers as part of that. We will be looking at Scott of the Antartic so the visit would be to show a modern day slant on this if possible. Obviously it's also a good opportunity to bring in eco issues.

The talks would be best maximum 40 minutes and visual aids would help the children stay focused that long. We will be looking at the equipment Scott of the Antartic used so any examples of modern equipment would be great. May be a focus on how exploration has changed would work. Any day of the week beginning 7th December would be fine. We can be flexible about times  but avoid between 12.15 and 1.15.

Scotland:

Our school is in Kennoway, Fife and students involved would be primary 6 and we have two classes with a total of 54.  Would love to have some sort of activity and question and answer session? Was hoping we could squeeze this in before Christmas if possible, and there may be some funding available it would clearly depend on the cost.

Please email me (reussschmidtk@gmail.com) if you're interested and I'll put you in contact with the teachers.

Cheers,

Kassandra