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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Project and Department:

We are looking to recruit an independent and ambitious Post Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in glaciology to work full time on a NERC-funded three-year research project entitled: 'Greenland ice marginal lake evolution as a driver of ice sheet change - how important are rising lake temperatures?' The project will focus on the hitherto sparsely-studied ice-marginal lake environment and seek to quantify its role in shaping the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS).

Over the past 50 years, the Arctic has warmed at more than twice the global rate and it is virtually certain that this will continue.

In response to this, the GrIS has lost mass, and consequently the retreat of ice margins and increasing amounts of melt have led to a substantial growth in the number and size of ice-marginal lakes.

These lakes are important because they play a key role in controlling rates of ice marginal melt as well as impacting up-glacier ice dynamics.

We currently have almost no data on how their thermal characteristics have changed (or not) over recent decades, and even less firm evidence to quantify how they will evolve into the future and the likely effect that will have on melt.

The aim of this proposal is, therefore, to characterise the temporal and spatial thermal regime of Greenlandic ice-marginal lakes, and their impact on ice margin dynamics and recession.

Role:

Skills, Experience & Qualification needed:

Interview date:
Week commencing 12 June 2023

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