Met-jobs Digest, Vol 506, Issue 5

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Today's Topics:

1. open position at Asiaq, Greenland Survey (Jakob Abermann)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:36:33 +0000
From: Jakob Abermann <jab@asiaq.gl>
Subject: [Met-jobs] open position at Asiaq, Greenland Survey
To: "'met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk'" <met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk>
Cc: Keld Hornbech Svendsen <khs@asiaq.gl>, Dorthe Petersen
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Head of the Hydrology and Climate group

Your tasks:
Your role is to serve as group leader for five employees in the Hydrology and Climate group and to participate in the technical work of the group's projects. You will be responsible for general marketing and project management. You will work closely with the group's technical coordinator in order to find innovative and custom-made solutions for the client's need.

The technical work:
You will be working on topics related to climate and water resources in a broad sense, particularly in relation to exploring the potential for hydro-electric power. This involves field work, quality assurance of data, data analysis, modelling and report writing. In addition, you will participate and develop research projects with strong international partners.

Applicant profile:
You are a graduate engineer, geographer, geophysicist or similar. You have leadership abilities and experience in modern project management. You have knowledge and experience of some of the following:
- Arctic hydrology
- Hydrological modelling
- Arctic meteorology and climate
- Measurement methods
- Data processing and analysis
Experience in programming, databases, GIS and statistics will also be an advantage.
Your spoken and written English is excellent. Knowledge of Danish language is an advantage.

Employment terms and conditions:
Employment will be in accordance with the collective agreement between the Government of Greenland and the relevant trade union. Staff accommodation will be assigned in accordance with applicable rules. Relocation and travel costs will be paid for the employee, accompanying partner and children at the time of taking up employment, as well as when leaving after at least three years of employment.

Applications:
Please submit your CV together with other relevant documentation including copies of any examination certificates or a list of publications that you wish to be taken into consideration. Please send your application to asiaq@asiaq.gl or by first class post (A-post) to Asiaq, P.O. Box 1003, DK-3900 Nuuk, Greenland.

Phone us:
For further information, please telephone Henrik Fenger Jeppesen (Project Director) or Dorthe Petersen (Technical Coordinator) on tel. +299 34 88 00.

Deadline for applications: Monday 10 March 2014
Start date: 1 May 2014 or by agreement



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Jakob Abermann
Project Manager ClimateBasis
Postbox 1003 - 3900 Nuuk - Greenland
+299 34 88 52
jab@asiaq.gl

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Met-jobs Digest, Vol 506, Issue 4

Today's MetJobs Topics:

1. Position for research associate at Karlsruhe Instituteof
Technology (Goettsche, Frank (IMK-ASF))
2. Geobiology Lab Manager Position, Stanford University,
California (Laura Kelsey Meredith)
3. Correction: Research associate post, Hamburg (Roger Brugge)
4. Correction: Post Doctoral Research Fellowship at Monash
University (Australia) (Roger Brugge)

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The Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT) , Germany, announces an open position for a

* Research associate in satellite remote sensing of land surface
temperature

For more information please see the attachment. Application deadline is
March 31, 2014.

Best Regards,
Frank-M. G?ttsche.

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
IMK-ASF

Dr. Frank-M. Goettsche
Senior Scientist

Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Phone : +49 721 608-23821
Fax : +49 721 608-27285
E-mail: frank.goettsche@kit.edu
www.imk-asf.kit.edu/

KIT - University of the State of Baden-W?rttemberg and
National Large-scale Research Center of the Helmholtz Association

Hi all,

We are hiring a lab manager to be split between running and maintaining our new shared bio facility in the School of Earth Sciences and managing my lab. The job ad can be found at http://stanfordcareers.stanford.edu/job-search by searching for job posting 61907. I have also attached the job description to this email. Applicants can apply through that same link.

Thanks,
Paula

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Paula V. Welander
Assistant Professor
Environmental Earth System Science
Stanford University

tel. (650) 723-7341 fax. (650) 498-5099
https://pangea.stanford.edu/people/faculty/paula-v-welander
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Geobiology Lab Manager ? 61907
Description
Geobiology Lab Manager, Environmental Earth System Science

Stanford?s School of Earth Sciences (SES) is a world leader in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, dedicated to the creation, integration, and transformation of fundamental understanding of Earth processes, and the application of that knowledge to help provide energy, water, and a safe and sustainable planet. As one of Stanford?s seven schools, SES provides both undergraduate and graduate education and training to future leaders in a range of geosciences and engineering disciplines.

Environmental Earth Systems Science (EESS) is an academic department within the School of Earth Sciences that takes an inter?disciplinary approach to understanding environmental change on the local to global scale. EESS is also home to a variety of specialized shared facilities and laboratories that support the research activities of faculty within the School and from outside groups, and supports the cross?cutting nature of these endeavors.

Position Summary:

The Geobiology Lab Manager will support operations in two key research facilities: 1) a new biology lab facility, with both wet and dry lab components, that will support the research of multiple faculty and research groups in the School; and 2) a single faculty?run laboratory. The Lab Manager will be responsible for overseeing equipment maintenance and capability, ensuring availability of supplies and providing support for principal investigators, postdocs and graduate students. We are specifically interested in someone with skills in microbial growth and microbial community analysis. Some of the duties of this position are:

Geobiology Shared Lab Facility ? wet lab
? Oversee and ensure ongoing operations of all equipment, including contact and coordination with service personnel as necessary
? Maintain records of equipment performance and maintenance, for full range of biology laboratory items
? Independently maintain laboratory supply inventories to respond to user needs
? Provide training of facility equipment to all users, and serve as resource for any user problems or assistance with experimental protocols

Geobiology Shared Lab Facility ? dry lab
? Create a relational database for geobiology rock and specimen samples including key information to inform research use
? Manage and maintain dry lab equipment such as digital calipers, petrographic microscopes and field equipment
? Manage and maintain sample preparation facilities to obtain rock powders to be used in geochemical analyses and heavy liquid separation apparatus for separation of conodont microfossils from acid residues

Faculty Lab Facility
? Oversight of all lab operations

? Maintenance of technical equipment, ensuring ongoing operations
? Maintenance of lab supply inventory, and ensuring constant availability of necessary supplies and services
? Responsible for maintaining microbial lab strains and communities for research use
? Support lab group postdocs, students and affiliated staff and faculty with instruction, facility services and other support duties

Qualifications
? Bachelor?s degree, Master?s Degree highly desired or a combination of education and a

minimum of 3 years laboratory experience in a relevant field
? Experience in microbial culturing, maintenance and community analysis and associated analytical techniques
? Experience in providing instruction in use of laboratory equipment
? Experience in sterile operations and storage techniques
? Highly organized, detail?oriented, responsible for assigned outcomes
? Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
? Ability to multi?task, and maintain laboratory in professional manner
? Strong computer skills, including experience with word?processing, database, and other relevant programs
? Ability to work independently within a multi?disciplinary and multi?user research environment ? Experience with implementation and enforcement of lab safety protocols

Job: Research
Location: School of Earth Sciences Schedule: Full?time
Job Grade: 2P1

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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:04:00 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Correction: Research associate post, Hamburg
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Attached is a corrected version of this advert.

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:05:06 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Correction: Post Doctoral Research Fellowship at
Monash University (Australia)
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Monash University seeks to appoint a Research Fellow to undertake
research in large-scale climate variability and change using the
Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) model
family.

You will join the Monash University node of the Australian Research
Council's Centre of Excellence (COE) for Climate System Science. The
Centre is led by the University of New South Wales, and involves Monash
University, Melbourne University, the Australian National University and
the University of Tasmania as partner organisations. The Centre involves
multiple collaborative organisations including the Federal Department of
Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, the NSW Department of Climate
Change, Environment and Water, CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and the
National Computational Infrastructure, as well as several international
research organisations.

This position is part of the Centre's research program on "Drivers of
spatial and temporal climate variability in extra-tropical Australia",
led jointly by Chief Investigators at Monash University (Dietmar
Dommenget and Michael Redder).

Applications are online and must address the selection criteria.

Job description:

http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=520150

Enquiries to Dr Dietmar Dommenget, +61 3 9905 4495 or
<dietmar.dommenget@monash.edu<mailto:dietmar.dommenget@monash.edu><mailto:dietmar.dommenget@monash.edu>>

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