Team hire (2 PhD students & 1 postdoc) within Vici project Fire from the Sky

Team hire (2 PhD students & 1 postdoc) within NWO Vici project FireSky ⚡: Fire from the Sky: impact and management of lightning fires on permafrost carbon

Your function

Are you passionate about the Earth and its climate? Do you want to make a difference in science and the world? Do you get excited about satellite images and venturing out to remote places?

This vacancy is part of a larger Vici project funded by the Dutch Research Council. FireSky is an interdisciplinary project combining field, remote sensing and modeling approaches to study feedbacks between climate warming, lightning and fires and permafrost thaw in the northern high latitudes. There is also a focus on climate-informed fire management strategies. The project includes funding for several field campaigns in Alaska (USA) and Canada. Project partners of FireSky include among others University of East Anglia, Woodwell Climate Research ...