[Coral-List] postdoc opportunity in coral palaeoclimatology at University of Leicester (UK)

[Jens Zinke]

Dear coral listers,

The School of Geography, Geology and the Environment seeks to appoint a
postdoctoral researcher in the area of Palaeoclimatology and Geochemistry
to perform innovative research in a recently funded NERC Discovery Science
project. The research project is in collaboration with the University of
Southampton (UoS). The post will be based at the University of Leicester.

The paleo research unit where this position is based will transform
understanding of the Indonesian Throughflow and its role in global climate
teleconnections by producing new coral geochemical records from strategic
sites at the northwest Australian shelf. As part of the multidisciplinary
team, you will use the skeletons of giant massive corals to develop long,
continuous, high resolution (bi)monthly geochemical proxy records of
salinity and temperature from this key region of climate variability vital
to warming globally and monsoon climate variability around the world.

Analytical work will involve the high-resolution marine palaeoclimatology
laboratory at the UoL (ICP-MS) and the Stable Isotope Laboratory Research
Facility at the University of Southampton’s Waterfront Campus in its
Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate Research Group. Our project also
involves collaborations with climate modellers and oceanographers from the
Climate Research Centre at the UNSW Sydney (Australia), the Australian
Institute of Marine Science and the Commonwealth Research Organisation
(Australia).

Apply here by October 31st 2022:
https://jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/4892/research-associate-in-palaeoclimatology-and-geochemistry.html

best wishes,
Jens


*Jens Zinke    Professor in Palaeobiology*

*Royal Society Wolfson Fellow*

School of Geography, Geology and the Environment

Bennett Building

University of Leicester,
University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

*E: jz262*@le.ac.uk <ga16 at le.ac.uk>