The
Global Biogeochemical Silica Cycle: Linking the terrestrial and aquatic biogeochemical
cycles
A new Ph.D. stipend is available in the area of
global biogeochemical cycles. The research will be carried out at the Danish
National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) and at the Freshwater
Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen. The Danish Research Training
Council (FUR) supports this project.
The student will carry out experimental work to
quantify the relative importance of particulate biogenic silica inputs to the
world’s oceans via rivers from terrestrial ecosystems. The work includes
quantifying the dissolution kinetics of various types of particulate silica,
including phytoliths, and their role in the aquatic biogeochemical silica
cycle. The impacts of global change on the biogeochemical silica cycle will
also be investigated.
The COGCI PhD School (www.cogci.dk) at the
University of Copenhagen and NERI will co-arrange the project, with formal
responsibility at the University. The research will be conducted at NERI in
Roskilde, in the Department of Marine Ecology. The successful applicant will be
employed at NERI. Salary for the position is in accordance with Danish rules, as
is the conditions for the PhD study, which include teaching duties.
The successful candidate will participate in a
Research Training Network, Si-WEBS, funded by the European Commission
(http://www.pangaea.de/Projects/Si-WEBS/). Si-WEBS focuses on the global
biogeochemical cycle of silicon along the land-ocean continuum. The project
will be carried out in collaboration with 6 other Ph.D. students and post-docs
with partners from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece and The
Netherlands.
A committee will evaluate the applicants. According
to the rules applicants will only see their own evaluation and not the names
nor the evaluations of other applicants. The general application form must be used, and the
general rules can also be found at www.nat.ku.dk
. The conditions of funding are such that only EU citizens not from Denmark
can apply for the position. The successful applicant
will afterwards have to apply for immatriculation at the University.
The form can also be obtained from the COGCI secretariat,
Øster Voldgade 3, 1350 Copenhagen K., phone +45 35 32 42 53. The application
including attachments must be at the COGCI secretariat, Øster Voldgade 3,
DK-1350 Copenhagen K no later than December1st 2003. Please mark
your application “COGCI/BIOGEOCHEMICAL”. You must have obtained your final
MSc marks no later than December 15th 2003. Interested candidates
may contact Daniel Conley ([email protected]).