Determining energy and water fluxes in the Lena Delta, Siberia, with
micrometeorological methods and downscaling from satellite remote sensing data

The Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is a member of the EOS Helmholtz Research Network „Integrated Earth Observing System“; (http://helmholtzeos.dlr.de/start_en.htm) offering an educational Ph.D. program. The purpose of the EOS research topic "Processes of the Land Surface" is to help optimize and improve earth observation technologies.
Within the EOS-II framework we are looking for a Ph.D. student to establish spatial and temporal linkages between water and energy fluxes at the landscape scale using
micrometeorological and earth observation (satellite) data in the Lena River Delta (Arctic Siberia, RU).

The tasks of the Ph.D. include: exploring the spatial dynamic of water and heat fluxes using micrometeorologic methods (including eddy covariance); evaluation of EO- parameters (surface temperature, PAR, Albedo) (mainly ENIVSAT-A(ATSR), ENIVSAT-MERIS, MODIS, LANDSAT) for the studied field sites.

The overall research questions are to identify
- water and energy fluxes at the landscape scale for heterogeneous polygonal tundra landscape
- methods that can be used to scale from satellite to ground for heterogeneous polygonal tundra landscape.
Requirements: Master/Diplom in physics, meteorology, geosciences or similar discipline; Arctic field work experience; excellent team work capabilities in a multidisciplinary team;
fluency in English (written and spoken)
Beneficial: Eddy covariance experience, programming skills, raster data analysis, EO-data processing; Russian language desirable

The PhD project will be carried out in AWI’s periglacial section, located in Potsdam, Germany, within the SPARC, Helmholtz University young investigator group, and in cooperation with the University of Hamburg (Department of Soil Sciences), Germany, and the EOS-II PhD student of the German Space Agency (DLR).

The position will be funded for 3 years. The salary will be paid following the German TVöD 13/2. AWI is an equal opportunity employer and especially encourages female scientists to apply. AWI supports balanced work-life career development via a variety of alternatives. Severely disabled applicants with essentially identical technical and personal suitability will be preferentially selected, please see our notification on our homepage under job offers/ jobs.

Applications are accepted until position is filled. For further information please contact: Dr. Birgit Heim (birgit.heim@awi.de).
Qualified applicants should send applications with the reference 83/P (including CV, a brief letter of motivation, and two references) to: Alfred-Wegener-Institut fuer Polar- und Meeresforschung, Forschungsstelle Potsdam, PO Box 60 01 49, D-14401 Potsdam; www.awi.de