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Closing: 02-Feb-2025
Job Summary
Dates
- Opening Date: 16-Dec-2024
- Closing Date: 02-Feb-2025
Location
- Hobart, Tasmania
Salary
- Base salary within the range of $110,992 to 128,854 depending on experience plus 17% superannuation.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to assessing the impacts of climate change, sea level, sea ice & marine ecosystems.
- Support decision-makers with the knowledge needed to frame and respond to climate change.
- Support research to understand the role of the Antarctic region in the global climate system.
- Contribute to the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP) a research program funded through the Antarctic Science Collaboration Initiative.
- Undertake high quality research in evaluating changes in biogeochemical cycles using existing observations and model outputs.
- Identify underlying drivers of changes and early indicators of tipping points.
- Assess drivers of interannual to decadal variability in Southern Ocean CO2 uptake.
- Evaluate changes and occurrence of extreme events in the Southern Ocean using observations and model simulations.
- Participate in field programs, including repeat hydrographic surveys and process studies in the Southern Ocean.
Requirements
- A PhD or equivalent in a relevant field of science or engineering (e.g., oceanography, geochemistry, marine or environmental science, biogeochemistry).
- A good record of research that has achieved national recognition and made contributions to the field of biogeochemistry, demonstrated by quality publications and conference presentations.
- Experience working with large datasets and/or model simulations.
- Experience in sample collection, processing, and chemical analyses in remote environments.
- Record of contributing to effective links nationally and internationally within the discipline.
- Productive and innovative researcher capable of initiating and driving independent research ideas.
Benefits
- 26 Weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers.
- 17% Superannuation contribution.
- Health and fitness membership options.
- Accommodation and Car Hire discounts.
- Health Insurance and Banking options.
- Novated Leasing.
Notes
- This is a full time, fixed term position for three years.
- Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community.