Postdoc

Postdoc position: Past Carbon, Future Climate: Decoding Jurassic Cold Snaps - On-site - - 't Horntje, Texel , Noord-Holland , Netherlands - Marine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry (MMB) Job description The department of Marine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry (MMB) at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research is looking for a highly motivated and proactive postdoctoral researcher (3 years) with a background in (bio)geochemistry and Earth Sciences to investigate past carbon cycle changes associated with the transition from short-lived Mesozoic icehouse to greenhouse transitions. The research is part of a NWO-M1 project called "Past Carbon, Future Climate: Decoding Jurassic Cold Snaps". The postdoc will be employed and based at the NIOZ (Texel, the Netherlands). THE INSTITUTE NWO-NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research is the national oceanographic research institute. The mission of NIOZ is to perform academically excellent multidisciplinary fundamental and frontier-applied marine research addressing important scientific and societal questions pertinent to the functioning of oceans and seas. NIOZ also serves as national marine research facilitator (NMF) for the Netherlands scientific community, and stimulates and supports national and international marine research, marine education programs and marine policy development. THE DEPARTMENT The Marine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry Department (MMB) studies microorganisms and biogeochemical processes across marine environments and timescales, from estuaries to the deep ocean and from past to present. Using fieldwork, lab experiments, and biochemical, genomic, and analytical techniques, we investigate the diversity, evolution, physiology, and activity of eukaryotes, prokaryotes, and viruses. THE PROJECT In this project we aim to reconstruct Jurassic carbon-cycle dynamics in order to disentangle the secular evolution of Jurassic carbon-climate interaction during rapid ...