Scientist/Postdoc in Climate Change and Ocean Modeling
The Institute of Coastal Systems – Analysis and Modeling invites applications for a scientist position in the frame of the Project Coastal Futures – Scenarios to Promote Sustainable Futures of Contested Marine Areas that forms part of the German DAM Research Mission „Protection and Sustainable Use of Marine Spaces“. The project develops, simulates, and explores future human use scenarios and triggered impacts in the North and Baltic Sea and their estuaries, and explores existing protection measures and new management options together with stakeholders from maritime management and industry.
Coastal Futures concentrates on climate impacts and anticipated man-made pressures at basin scales from four management sectors:
- offshore renewable energy production,
- fisheries,
- nature-based coastal protection measures and
- eutrophication originating from terrestrial sources.
The position is initially limited to three years.
Your tasks:
- further implementation and validation of a flexible coupled (ocean, atmosphere, biogeochemistry, waves) modelling framework for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
- performance and analysis of coupled climate change and human use scenario simulations, and assessment of uncertainties
- assessment of the potential predictability of key variables relevant for selected management sectors
- working as an integrative part of a motivated multidisciplinary team within the institute and external partners
- writing scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals
- presentation of results at meetings and international conferences
Your profile:
- a degree (preferably PhD) in oceanography, meteorology, physics, environmental sciences or related disciplines
- modelling experience is desirable
- experience in scientific programming with FORTRAN and related analysing programming languages (e.g. MATLAB, R or Python) would be an advantage
- good knowledge of English (written and oral)
- good communication skills and ability to work in an interdisciplinary team of various fields of geosciences