Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Postdoc position on plant and microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling across the Arctic (based in Abisko)

Dear colleagues,

 

Johan Olofsson and I, in collaboration with Sara Hallin and Karina Clemmensen in Uppsala, are re-advertising a postdoc-position (3 years) focussing on year-round plant and microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling across the Arctic. I hope you will help us spread this information to suitable candidates!

 

Deadline for application: 2 January 2023

 

https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/postdoc-position-3-years-focusing-on-plant-and-microbial-carbon-and-nitrogen-cycling-across-the-arctic-_567456/

 

The holder of the position will investigate year-round seasonal (a)synchronies in plant and microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems across the Arctic, and how these are driven by large-scale environmental and community variation.

 

The position is part of a large interdisciplinary project that aims to understand and quantify how processes during the arctic winter may be decisive for overall feedbacks from arctic tundra to the global climate. Arctic ecosystems store large amounts of organic carbon in plants and soil. Uptake of carbon by arctic plants is strongly limited by their access to nutrients, especially nitrogen, due to competition by microbes. Year-round carbon and nitrogen balances thus depend the activities of plant and microbial communities and their seasonality. This multidisciplinary project will involve a research team of about eleven senior and postdoctoral scientists, four PhD students and three technical staff. Together, we will advance basic knowledge of plant and microbial activities during the cold season. The project will further assess the environmental drivers and community traits that may be used to up-scale and predict effects of asynchronies on year-round carbon and nitrogen balances of tundra.

 

The position will be based in Abisko. More information can be found via the links above. We welcome all applications!

 

 

Thanks for your help, and apologies for cross-postings.

 

Best wishes,

 

Ellen

 

 

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Ellen Dorrepaal

Associate professor

Climate Impacts Research Centre

Dept. of Ecology and Environmental Science

Umeå University

SE-98107 Abisko

Sweden

ellen.dorrepaal@umu.se

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