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Five PhD Positions Available
Polar Science
Centre for Ice, Cryosphere, Carbon, and Climate
Tromsø, Norway

Application deadline: 5 February 2024

For more information, go to:
https://ic3.uit.no/research-and-study-with-us

The Centre for Ice, Cryosphere, Carbon, and Climate (iC3) invites applications for five PhD positions in polar science. These positions will be located in Tromsø, Norway.

Available PhD opportunities include:

  • Beneath the Polar Ice: Investigate the basal substrate character, conditions and its geochemical signature beneath Arctic and Antarctic ice masses, with the ultimate goal of quantifying the global subglacial carbon inventory;
  • Ice, Carbon, and Nutrients: Quantify and understand greenhouse gas emissions and carbon and nutrient cycling around ice margins and recently deglaciated terrains, with a special focus on ice-marginal lakes;
  • Polar Glacial Sediments: Determine the importance of glaciogenic marine sediments for carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling in polar regions, working on glacially ground rock and coastal sediment biogeochemistry;
  • Arctic Marine Ecosystems: Study how marine ecosystems and ocean circulation responded to changing glacial ice dynamics along an ice-fjord-open ocean transect on Svalbard and Greenland over the last two centuries, to understand modern ecosystem response to cryosphere melting; and
  • Methane in Antarctica: Study where and how much methane hydrate and free gas is stored beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, and how this stock is influenced by transient forcing conditions associated with future projections of ice sheet change.

iC3 has a dedicated mentorship and graduate training program that actively helps early career researchers gain new skills, secure grant funding, get their research published, and build their professional networks. Each iC3 graduate student gains hands-on experience in polar research by being embedded in one of the centre’s working groups.

Application deadline: 5 February 2024

For more information, including how to apply, go to:
https://ic3.uit.no/research-and-study-with-us