See below and attached a phd opportunity through Global biodiversity of marine planktonic calcifiers (BIOCAL).
Dr Anna Belcher
Ecological Biogeochemist
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge
From: Clara Manno - BAS <clanno@bas.ac.uk>
Sent: 26 October 2021 20:15
To: Anna Belcher - BAS <annbel@bas.ac.uk>; Emily Rowlands - BAS <emirow@bas.ac.uk>; Elisa Bergami - BAS <eligam@bas.ac.uk>; Laura Wilkie Johnston <ljwj1@st-andrews.ac.uk>; Atherden F. <flo.atherden@soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Fw: BIOCAL funded!
Sent: 26 October 2021 20:15
To: Anna Belcher - BAS <annbel@bas.ac.uk>; Emily Rowlands - BAS <emirow@bas.ac.uk>; Elisa Bergami - BAS <eligam@bas.ac.uk>; Laura Wilkie Johnston <ljwj1@st-andrews.ac.uk>; Atherden F. <flo.atherden@soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Fw: BIOCAL funded!
Hi!
Can you please disseminate this PhD fellowship (in Barcelona) within your network?
This is a great opportunity for the students that want to get experience abroad.
Cheers
Clara
From: Patrizia Ziveri <Patrizia.Ziveri@uab.cat>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 6:29 PM
To: Clara Manno - BAS <clanno@bas.ac.uk>
Cc: Michael Grelaud <Michael.Grelaud@uab.cat>; Graham Mortyn <Graham.Mortyn@uab.cat>; graham.mortyn@gmail.com <graham.mortyn@gmail.com>
Subject: BIOCAL funded!
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 6:29 PM
To: Clara Manno - BAS <clanno@bas.ac.uk>
Cc: Michael Grelaud <Michael.Grelaud@uab.cat>; Graham Mortyn <Graham.Mortyn@uab.cat>; graham.mortyn@gmail.com <graham.mortyn@gmail.com>
Subject: BIOCAL funded!
Ciao Clara,
We are happy to inform you that the project on Global biodiversity of marine planktonic calcifiers (BIOCAL) has been funded by our national funding agency. This project includes a North Atlantic latitudinal oceanographic cruise and we are looking forward to organising this with you likely in 2023 (in 2022 there is still a backup of cruises from the COVID lockdown period) but we will keep you informed about this. We would like to organise a kick-off meeting probably in Spring next year.
Also, we need your help to find a good student that can apply for a PhD fellowship associated to this project. Unfortunately we don't have very much time to find the candidate since the call will be open shortly. Our university is under a serious cyberattack and most of the emails and all online platforms are not working so we had some delays due to this problem. If you know any student that can potentially apply, please ask her/him to contact us urgently.
I attach here the call with the details of the scholarship. The student should have done a master or have sufficient credits to enter in the doctoral program.
Best wishes,
Patrizia
In brief:
BIOCAL focuses on the three main planktonic calcifier groups (coccolithophores, foraminifera and pteropods), with modern assessments of climate change impacts to water column
counts and biodiversity patterns across major globally relevant working areas as the N. Pacific, Southern Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea, as well as a new oceanographic expedition in the N. Atlantic, each characterized by strong gradients in biogeochemical properties across oceanic frontal systems. We will also calculate the carbonate contribution based on these assessments, to better constrain the marine carbon cycle. Further, we will calculate biodiversity change rates from the sedimentary records of the same groups over key past timeframes, involving the pre- versus post-Industrial era, and the last deglaciation, to better frame the biodiversity change rates of modern times against important context.
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