(Fixed Term Contract - 10 months full-time from Date of Appointment, ideally 1st November 2009)
Salary, Grade 5: Fixed Point - £20,226 per annum, pro-rata

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work on a NERC funded project which will examine the production of carbonates by tropical marine fish species and assess the potential contributions made by this novel source of marine carbonate to shallow water tropical carbonate sedimentary environments. Specifically, you will assist with the collection and subsequent analysis of carbonate sediment samples collected from environments around Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. The project is jointly co-ordinated by researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Exeter.

You will be expected to contribute to, and assist with, both field and lab-based sampling of carbonate sediments. This will include a period of approximately 3 weeks overseas on fieldwork.

You should have a minimum of a good BSc (Hons) degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of Earth Science, Physical Geography, Environmental Science or Marine Ecology, and a good knowledge of marine and coastal sedimentology and/or tropical marine ecology.

For further information about the post please contact Prof Chris Perry by e-mail c.t.perry@mmu.ac.uk, and/or visit our website http://www.egs.mmu.ac.uk/users/cperry/Tropicalcoastal/tcmr-home.html

Interviews will be held early in September 2009.

For more information and to apply online, visit http://www.jobs.mmu.ac.uk. If you do not have access to the internet or require an application in an alternative format please contact Human Resources on 0161 2476464 quoting reference number SN/026. Closing date for receipt of applications is 3^rd July 2009.