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Post-doc funding at ESA ("The Changing Earth")

February 3, 2010 - 16:29 by admin  
Mar 29 2010 09:00
Mar 29 2010 23:00
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ESA is again offering young scientists the opportunity to undertake innovative research projects aimed at advancing the understanding of the Earth system, with a call for proposals for the Changing Earth Science Network initiative.
This initiative, launched last year, supports European postdoctoral scientists for two years to undertake innovative research projects that address specific scientific challenges outlined in ESA’s science strategy for Earth observation (EO). Up to 10 postdoctoral scientists from Member States will be selected. The deadline for the proposal submission is 29 March 201.

Job description: 

The topics addressed covered cutting-edge research in oceanic, land, atmospheric and solid Earth thematic areas, including improvements in the retrievals of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Envisat’s Sciamachy instrument; assimilation of ocean colour data from Envisat’s optical MERIS instrument into biogeochemical ocean models in order to gain a more precise insight into the carbon fluxes between the ocean and the atmosphere; and the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar data to understand the geophysical processes leading to the formation of the rift valley in East Africa.

Requirements: 

Proposals will be selected on the basis of a peer review process by a Scientific Committee. The selection process will be carried out on the basis of the following criteria:

  • Scientific background and experience of the candidate as well as the host institution, including the adequacy of the proposed laboratory facilities, data sets availability and required EO data.
  • Relevance of the proposed work responding to the specific challenges of the Living Planet Program maximising the use of ESA EO assets;
  • Excellence of scientific proposal demonstrating a contribution to science beyond the state of the art and providing a significant advancement towards the achievement of the scientific challenges of the Living Planet program;
  • Adequacy of the proposed methodology, work plan, scientific approach, proposed EO data procurement and available data sets;
  • Impacts of concrete project outputs in terms of scientific results, data sets, products, models and target publications and potential further developments;

After the selection process ESA will send an e-mail only to the selected candidates informing them about the positive result of their application.

Annual brutto salary: 
NA
Job duration: 
2 years
Contact: 

EOScience@esa.int

URL: 

http://dup.esrin.esa.int/STSE/news/news157.asp

Location: 
ESRIN Frascati
Italy
41° 48' 22.3344" N, 12° 40' 49.548" E
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