Four Post doctoral positions
1) Two positions within the “CarboFrance”
project: “Impact of climate anomalies on
ecosystem CO2 fluxes and carbon stocks over
France”.
- One position at Meteo-France (Toulouse)
- One position at LSCE (Paris)
2) One position on “improving soil organic
matter dynamics modeling” at LSCE (Paris)
3) One position on “modeling of climate change
impact on permafrost biogeochemistry” at
LSCE (Paris)
Post-doctoral fellowship
at CNRM
(METEO-FRANCE, CNRS)
Applications are invited for one postdoctoral research fellowship starting
in May 2008, at Météo-France, in the
Mesoscale Modelling Group at Centre
National de la Recherche
Météorologique (CNRM-GAME) in
Toulouse, France
(http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr/) to
work on the following subject:
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Decennial simulation of carbon
fluxes over France: a model
intercomparison
(12 months contract)
Project: CarboFrance
The CarboFrance project (2008-2010)
funded by the French Ministry of
Environment, aims at assessing the impact
of the seasonal and interannual variability of
climate on ecosystem CO2 fluxes and
carbon stocks over France. For this purpose,
advanced high resolution carbon-waterenergy models will be used. Two models
will be run over the period 1994-2007 at a
spatial resolution of 8 km and hourly time
step with new climate forcing data from
Meteo France. It is the first time that such
high resolution will be attained in large scale
terrestrial carbon modelling. The two
models are the SURFEX platform (ISBA) of
Météo-France, and the ORCHIDEE model
developed at IPSL.
The post-doctorate fellow will perform the
SURFEX simulations, and compare
SURFEX and ORCHIDEE results. The
simulations will be tested against
agricultural
statistics,
biometric
measurements,
and
remote
sensing
observations that are part of the
CARBOFRANCE project. Exciting new
scientific publications in peer-reviewed
journals are expected.
The net monthly salary will be about 2400
Euro before income tax.
Application should be done by email by
sending a resume, CV, and the names,
telephone and email address of 2 referees to:
jean-christophe.calvet@meteo.fr
The closing date for applications is 20
March 2005. The candidate should be
familiar with programming languages
(Fortran) and have notions of graphic
softwares (PVWave, Matlab, or IDL).
Knowledge of land surface models is
recommended. The successful applicant will
be expected to start in May 2007.
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Post-doctoral fellowship at LSCE
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’environnement)
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ)
Applications are invited for 18
months post-doctoral research
fellowship starting April 2008, at
LSCE (CEA) near Paris, France, in
the Biogeochemical modelling team
(http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/) to work on
the following subject:
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Decennial simulation of carbon
fluxes at few stations: comparison
with eddy-covariance fluxes and
ecosystem data
(18 months contract)
Project: CarboFrance
The CarboFrance project (2008-2010)
funded by the French Ministry of
Environment, aims at assessing the impact
of the seasonal and interannual variability of
climate on ecosystem CO2 fluxes and
carbon stocks over France. For this purpose,
two state of the art carbon-water-energy
models will be used and compared to eddycovariance
fluxes
and
ecosystem
measurements made at more than 10 sites in
France (part of the CarboFrance project). In
a parallel task of the project a synthesis of
the different processes controlling the
variability of the carbon fluxes will be
achieved. The objective is to thus confront
model simulations to these data in order to
improve/validate our understanding and
predictive capacity of the impact of climate
extremes on carbon fluxes.
The two models are the SURFEX platform
(ISBA) of Météo-France, and the
ORCHIDEE model developed at IPSL.
They will be run at hourly time step with
local climate forcing from the different sites.
The post-doctorate fellow will perform the
ORCHIDEE simulations at the different
sites, and compare SURFEX and
ORCHIDEE results at each site with
ecophysiological data. Exciting new
scientific publications in peer-reviewed
journals are expected.
The net monthly salary will be about 2400
Euro before income tax.
Application should be send by email with a
resume, CV, and the names, telephone and
email address of 2 referees to:
peylin@lsce.ipsl.fr
The candidate should be familiar with
programming languages (i.e., Fortran) and
graphic
softwares.
Knowledge
of
ecophysiology is also recommended.
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Post-doctoral fellowship at LSCE
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’environnement)
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ)
Applications are invited for 18
months post-doctoral research
fellowship starting April 2008, at
LSCE (CEA) near Paris, France, in
the Biogeochemical modelling team
(http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/) to work on
the following subject:
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Improving soil organic matter
dynamics modelling at regional to
global scales
(18 months contract)
Project: CarboSol
The CarboSol project (2008-2010) funded
by the Groupement d'intérêt scientifique
(GIS)
”Climate-Environment-Society”,
aims at an improved understanding of the
vulnerability of soil organic matter to global
change. For this purpose, the project aims at
improving existing models of soil organic
matter
dynamics
based
on
the
complementary
expertise
of
the
participating
research
institutions
(BIOEMCO, ESE, LSCE). The objective is
to integrate knowledge from new and
existing (manipulative) field studies and
theoretical modeling approaches to improve
soil organic matter dynamics models at the
large scale. The four major topics to be
addressed are: a) the sensitivity of
decomposition processes to temperature and
humidity, b) the control of decomposition
through substrate and microbial biomass, c)
the effect of vertical profiles, and d) effects
of soil management.
The post-doctorate fellow will help to
generalize novel point-scale modeling
approaches to improve soil organic matter
modeling in the global dynamic vegetation
model ORCHIDEE developed at IPSL. The
generalized model will be evaluated and
calibrated against CarboSol datasets in
close collaboration with soil scientists at
BIOEMCO. Finally, new model will be
used to assess the vulnerability of regional
and global soil carbon stocks to global
change. Exciting new scientific publications
in peer-reviewed journals are expected.
The net monthly salary will be between
2000 and 2500 Euro before income tax
depending on qualification.
Application should be send by email with a
resume, CV, and the names, telephone and
email address of 2 referees to:
Soenke.Zaehle@lsce.ipsl.fr
peylin@lsce.ipsl.fr
The successful candidate will have a
background in environmental modelling and
some knowledge of soil sciences.
Knowledge of at least one programming
language (i.e., Fortran) and graphic
software is essential.
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Post-doctoral fellowship at LSCE
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’environnement)
(CEA-CNRS-UVSQ)
Applications are invited for 10
months post-doctoral research
fellowship starting April 2008, at
LSCE (CEA/CNRS) near Paris,
France, in the Biogeochemical
modelling team
(http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/) to work
on the following subject:
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Modeling of climat change
impact on permafrost
biogeochemistry
(10 months contract)
Project: IMPACT-BOREAL
The IMPACT-BOREAL project, funded
by the French Agence Nationale de la
Recherche (ANR), aims to understand the
impact of climate change on hydrology and
methane production in anaerobic soils in
boreal
regions.
Based
on
the
complementary
expertise
of
the
participating research laboratories (LSCE,
LERMA, LEGOS, CNRM and LGGE),
the project is articulated around four axes, a)
development
of
hydrology
and
biogeochemistry of boreal ecosystems, b)
evaluation of wetlands dynamics using remote
sensing data, c) evaluation of methane
dynamics using historical and ice core record
and d) impact of climate change on methane
emissions.
The post-doctorate fellow will integrate an
existing
model
of
permafrost
biogeochemistry in ORCHIDEE, the
dynamic global vegetation model of IPSL.
This will allow to estimate the thermal and
hydrological conditions of permafrost soil
and to evaluate their soil carbon
decomposition leading to atmospheric
sources of CO2 and CH4. The seasonal as
well as the long term dynamic of the
model will be evaluated against available
data. Impact of future climate change on
permafrost extent and emissions of carbon
dioxide and methane will be estimated,
allowing to investigate the potential for a
positive feedback between climate change
and permafrost melt. Exciting new
scientific publications in peer-reviewed
journals are expected.
The net monthly salary will be about 2400
Euro before income tax. A 6 month
extension beyond the initial contract
should be possible.
Application should be send by email with
a resume, CV, and the names, telephone
and email address of 2 referees to:
pierre.friedlingstein@lsce.ipsl.fr
The successful candidate will have a
background in environmental modelling.
Knowledge of at least one programming
language (i.e., Fortran) and graphic
software is essential.
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