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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH OFFICER - SWANSEA UNIVERSITY - GLACIOLOGY GROUP, SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

The School wishes to appoint a creative and innovative Research Officer, reference 4812, for a fixed term of 2 years to work on the Leverhulme Trust funded project GLIMPSE “Stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet” within the Glaciology Group.

The Research Officer will work closely with others to develop methods for mapping ice retreat around the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet using remotely sensed and field data. The work will require the fellow to partake in challenging and remote fieldwork to undertake field mapping and sampling for dating. There will be the opportunity to utilise these data in constraining models of the ice sheet. The GLIMPSE team forms part of Swansea Glaciology Group. We pride ourselves on being a dynamic, friendly, and scientifically ambitious group. We are looking for a creative and innovative individual, with a PhD in glacial geology, glaciology or a numerate geoscience discipline to join our team. You will be highly motivated, a natural and co-operative team player and have excellent interpersonal communication skills (including written).

More information on the post is available here: http://www.swan.ac.uk/personnel/Vacancies/Research/PostTitle,23301,en.php

Starting salary: £28289; Closing Date: 30 May 2008

Informal enquiries on the Postdoctoral Researcher to Professor Tavi Murray (email: Este endereço de e-mail está protegido contra spam bots, pelo que o JavaScript terá de estar activado para que possa visualizar o endereço de e-mail , 01792 602269). Information about the project, university, department and research group is available on the www at:

http://www.greenlandice.org/ and http://geography.swan.ac.uk/glaciology/

http://www.swansea.ac.uk/
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/environment_society/
http://www.swan.ac.uk/geography/