Palaeo Ice Sheet Modeller - Cambridge, United Kingdom - British Antarctic Survey
Description
Contract Type
Full Time
Duration
Open-ended appointment
Salary
£48,802 to £53,682 per annum
Benefits
We offer
generous benefits
Team
Palaeo Environments Ice Sheets and Climate Change
Location
BAS Cambridge
Closing Date
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Job Profile
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Description
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is looking for an exceptional Palaeo Ice Sheet Modeller to join our team of palaeoglaciologists, glaciologists and numerical modellers.
Working at BAS is rewarding.
Our skilled science, operational and support staff based in Cambridge, Antarctica and the Arctic, work together to deliver research that uses the Polar Regions to advance our understanding of Earth as a sustainable planet.
Through our extensive logistic capability and know how BAS facilitates access for the British and international science community to the UK polar research operation.
Numerous national and international collaborations, combined with an excellent infrastructure help sustain a world leading position for the UK in Antarctic affairs.
British Antarctic Survey is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), which is part of UKAs a valued member of our team, you'll be eligible for the following benefits:
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 2.5 privilege days
- Excellent civil service pension (with 26% or more employer contribution, depending on your band)
- 24 hours/365 days access to employee assistance programme (EAP including support with physical, mental, social, health and financial issues)
- Flexible and family friendly working opportunities
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories and much more.
You'll help us to deliver numerical simulations of ice-sheet change over long (geological) timescales, i.e. for time periods prior to the satellite era.
We are motivated to use our wide range of geological, geophysical and palaeoclimate observational datasets to constrain ice-sheet models to explore how ice sheets respond to different environmental drivers over time.
Within the role, there will be an opportunity to develop and lead your own research avenue around palaeo-ice sheet modelling within the UK and international science community.
This is likely to centre around modelling the Antarctic Ice Sheet over time periods of particular interest (e.g., past warm periods), as well as adapting and developing models to better represent key physical processes that affect ice sheets but are so far under-represented in models.
Although our focus is on Antarctic Ice Sheet change, there will also be opportunities to work on Northern Hemisphere ice sheets if desirable.
You'll be joining a world-leading interdisciplinary research organisation, that is committed to recruiting talented people like you, progressing your career and giving you the support, you need to thrive at BAS.
Some **of your main responsibilities will include:
- To incorporate observational datasets into numerical ice-sheet models to help understand how ice sheets behave over long or "palaeo" timescales.
- To use icesheet configuration information (e.g., chronological records of retreat and surface exposure histories) and forcing data (e.g., changes in ocean and atmosphere temperatures, accumulation rates, wind strengths) to model past Antarctic Ice Sheet behaviour
- To write and/or implement model code to represent specific icesheet processes or boundary conditions e.g., subglacial kale drainage events, variable substrates.
Current projects the team are working on include the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration ITGC-THOR (Thwaites Offshore Research) and ITCG-GHOST (Geophysical Habitat of Subglacial Thaiwtes) projects, the SWAIS 2C project, and the KANG-GLAC project.
- Good understanding of the maths and physics relevant for icesheet models
What experiences can we offer you?
At BAS we believe everyone plays a vital role, is unique and valued, therefore, we embrace diversity as well as equality of opportunity and are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming working environment where everyone's unique perspectives are valued.
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