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Open positions in the ICOS field
Field Engineer (B.Sc) (f/m/d) Meteorology, Hydrology, Environmental Engineering, Instrumentation, Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Braunschweig, Germany (deadline: 30th September 2025)
The Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, located in Braunschweig, is seeking a bachelor's graduate (f/m/d) in meteorology, hydrology, environmental engineering, instrumentation or a comparable field to work full-time (currently 39 hours/week) in the research project Living Lab Teufelsmoor, limited to 31.12.2028.
The model and demonstration projects (MuD) on "Peat Soil Protection Including the Use of Renewable Resources from Paludiculture" funded by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity (BMLEH), will prepare large-scale conversion to wet peatland management and demonstrate the climate protection effects and other ecosystem services of paludiculture. The "Living Lab Teufelsmoor" project will conduct site selection and preparation, as well as the implementation of rewetting and land management on a practical scale. It will also identify and implement solutions for the utilization and marketing of current and future paludiculture products. The Thünen Institute is responsible for quantifying the GHG balance of two wet meadow paludiculture sites and one reference site. Other tasks include the determination of nutrient leaching, hydrological monitoring, and elevation changes depending on soil properties and groundwater table levels. The position is located at the Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture in a working group that conducts national and international research on organic soils.
Main tasks:
- Maintenance of three eddy-covariance stations for measuring greenhouse gas fluxes of CO2, CH4, and H2O
- Design of two discharge measurement stations including associated procurement
- Installation of measurement equipment (e.g., discharge measurements, automatic water samplers) and installation of platforms and frames for manual chamber measurements of nitrous oxide in a team with other project staff
- Organization and implementation of regular field campaigns for measuring nitrous oxide fluxes (manual chamber method) as well as taking water, vegetation, and soil samples, if necessary, supported by other team members
- Maintenance and servicing of other field measurement equipment
Data backup, processing, and quality assurance
Deadline for applications is 30th September 2025.
PhD opportunities: AI, Land-Atmosphere interactions, Wildfire/Hydroclimatic risk, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA (deadline 10th November 2025)
The Land Intelligence (LI) lab at The University of Texas at Austin is seeking three fully-funded PhD students (tuition and stipend), starting in the Fall of 2026.
Our lab examines how terrestrial ecosystems interact with human activities and hydroclimatic hazards, with a particular focus on wildfires and land-atmosphere interactions of carbon, water, and energy. We aim to better monitor, predict, and reduce hydroclimatic risks to people and ecosystems by leveraging advances in Artificial Intelligence (e.g., machine learning), Earth observations (e.g., satellite remote sensing, field measurements), and Earth system models. Please see our website for more information.
Students interested in one of the following topics with strong quantitative and programming skills, are encouraged to apply:
- AI: Machine learning, causality inference, foundation models
- Data science: Remote sensing/GIS, geospatial/environmental data science
- Environmental/Earth system science: wildfire or hydroclimatic hazard/impact/risk modeling, terrestrial ecosystem modeling, carbon-water-energy cycles, human-environment interactions, land-atmosphere interaction.
We encourage research directions beyond those listed, but within the lab’s overall research umbrella.
Applicants must meet the UT Austin Graduate school’s admission requirements. Successful candidates have opportunities to work with collaborators at Stanford University, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and other leading research institutions.
Deadline for applications is 10th November 2025.
Postdoctoral Researcher, greenhouse gases and carbon cycle, Climate System Research unit, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland (deadline 25th September 2025)
The Climate System Research unit of the Finnish Meteorological Institute is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a fixed-term three-year position in Helsinki to study greenhouse gases and the carbon cycle in agricultural and forest ecosystems.
Our unit conducts extensive field measurements, data analysis, and modelling in boreal conditions, with a particular focus on ecosystem carbon fluxes and soil carbon stock dynamics. We work in a multidisciplinary research environment that combines measurements, modelling, data analytics, and method development. We are now looking for an expert in greenhouse gas and/or carbon cycle research to strengthen our ongoing projects.
You may have expertise in one or more of the following areas:
• Eddy covariance (EC) measurements, data processing, and analysis
• Ecosystem and process modelling of the carbon cycle (e.g. carbon sequestration in agriculture and/or forestry and its climate impacts)
• Integration of remote sensing data with ecosystem modelling and/or ecological field data
• Application of machine learning methods to data analysis
• Statistical modelling of long time series
• Use of biogeochemical and process-based models
• Integration of the carbon cycle into climate roadmaps or land-use scenarios
Your work will include the planning, implementation, and reporting of research. You will also publish results in international peer-reviewed journals, participate in societal interaction and science communication, contribute, when possible, to the supervision of postgraduate students, and collaborate with national and international research networks.
Deadline for applications is 25th September 2025.