The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR; http://www.bjerknes.uib.no/) is a joint climate research venture between the University of Bergen (UiB), the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) and the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC). The BCCR integrates observationalists and modellers in a concerted interdisciplinary research effort. The BCCR comprises the largest climate research group in Norway and has the status of national Center of Excellence. The BCCR´s Secretariat is as unit of Unifob AS (http://www.unifob.uib.no/).

A 3 years postdoctoral position in land carbon cycle modelling is available at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) from 1 July 2008.

We are looking for a motivated researcher in order to complete our biogeochemistry team. The person should be eager to firmly establish the field of terrestrial carbon cycle modelling within the research centre. The successful candidate will work with land vegetation carbon cycle modules in the framework of the Bergen Climate Model (BCM) and contribute to interactive carbon cycle climate future scenarios. Goal of the work is a quantification of carbon cycle climate feedbacks and an assessment of the uncertainties in respective predictions. Research foci include links between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles and improvements of soil carbon parameterisations such as permafrost/peat/wetland implementations.

Further details are available at: http://www.bjerknes.uib.no/vacancies.
Contact for informal enquiries: Prof. Christoph Heinze, heinze@gfi.uib.no, phone +47 55 58 98 44.

Applications (marked "08/351") must be submitted in 3 copies, each with a complete overview over education and previous practice (CV), list of publications, certified copies of certificates and diplomas, as well as names and addresses of 2 scientific references to the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Allégt. 55, N-5007 Bergen, Norway, by 19 May 2008.

Do not submit applications by e-mail.