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Employment & Opportunities

5-year Researcher Position Focusing on Ocean and Climate Modelling and Ocean Dynamics - GEOMAR

Deadline: 14th October 2026

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is a foundation under public law jointly financed by the Federal Republic of Germany (90%) and the State of Schleswig-Holstein (10%). It is one of the internationally leading institutions in the field of marine research.

Through our research and our commitment to the transfer of knowledge and technology, we contribute significantly to the preservation of the function and protection of the ocean for future generations. The Ocean Dynamics Research Unit at GEOMAR employs numerical ocean and Earth system models, observational data, theory, and novel data science methods to advance our understanding of the physical processes governing the ocean and climate systems. Key areas of focus include: 1.) the global significance of ocean eddies, turbulence, and upwelling; 2.) the interplay of various physical processes and their role in ocean mixing; 3.) interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, and biogeochemistry; and 4.) the fundamental role of the oceans within the climate and Earth system. These focal areas are embedded within GEOMAR’s Research Division 1 (Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics), necessitating and facilitating close collaboration with observational and modeling research groups at GEOMAR, as well as broader interdisciplinary cooperation.

The Ocean Dynamics Research Unit is offering a fixed-term position, starting 01. January 2027 (pending funding availability), for up to 5 years as a postdoc (m/f/d) for ocean and climate modelling and ocean dynamics.

The information can also be found HERE.

News & Events

UBC Mathematics Department Colloquium - September 18th at 3 PM

Please join us this Friday, September 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM for a talk titled "Wind-wave breaking" by Dr. Luc Deike (Princeton University). 

Date: September 18, 2026
Time: 3 - 4 PM
Location: ESB 2012 & Online

Speaker: Luc Deike, Princeton University
Title: Wind-wave breaking
Abstract: Ocean waves forced by wind grow and eventually break, playing an important role in the coupling between the atmosphere and the ocean. Wave breaking modulates momentum and energy fluxes, controlling upper ocean currents affecting gas transfer and pollutant dispersion while air entrained by wave breaking modulates gas exchange and bursting bubbles contribute to the emission of sea spray aerosols to the atmosphere. Wind growth and wave breaking can be characterized by focusing on single events. However, the inherently multiscale nature of wind-forced wave breaking presents challenges for accurately characterizing the wave field, in terms of balance between wind input, nonlinear wave interactions, and dissipation due to breaking, as well as the associated turbulence generation. I will discuss recent efforts in bridging theoretical description of wind wave forcing and wave breaking at the level of individual events leveraging high resolution simulations at the meter scale with statistical representation of broad-banded wave fields, based on a recently developed multilayer framework to resolve broadband wave fields with waves spanning from O(1) to O(100) m. The resulting physical description of wind-wave breaking serves as basis to constrain air-sea fluxes at large scale and provides a path to incorporate waves' effects in parameterization used in ocean and earth system models.

Coffee, tea and snacks will be served in the PIMS Lounge (ESB 4th floor) from 2:30 PM to 3 PM.

Join Us for the Oceans@UBC Symposium – October 15

The Pacific Rim Initiative for Sustainable Marine Systems (PRISMS) Research Cluster is hosting the Oceans@UBC Symposium on October 15, 2026 at the University Golf Club (5185 University Blvd, Vancouver). 

The Symposium will bring together researchers from across disciplines at UBC to strengthen collaboration in ocean, coastal, and Arctic marine research, identify opportunities for future initiatives, and define where we can have the greatest scientific and societal impact in addressing key ocean challenges.

Learn more about the Symposium and explore the full agenda on the PRISMS’ Oceans@UBC Symposium page, found HERE. If you plan to attend, we kindly ask that you RSVP.

We are encouraging early-career researchers and graduate students to participate, notably by presenting research posters at the Symposium. For those interested in presenting a research poster at the Symposium, they can register through the following Qualtrics Survey, found HERE.

We look forward to welcoming everyone interested in ocean, coastal, and Arctic marine research!

Beneath the Surface: Discover Your Next Chapter with Ideon

Ideon Technologies is hosting a virtual open house for PhD students who are nearing the end of their thesis and starting to think about what's next, including what a move into industry could look like. We'll walk through our muon tomography technology and current projects, talk candidly about the transition from academia to industry, and leave plenty of time for Q&A.

Event details:

• Date: Thursday October 15th, 2026
• Time: 1:00-2:00PM PST
• Format: Virtual (Teams Webinar link shared upon RSVP)

How to RSVP: Students can [RSVP] here. We'll send the join link 60 minutes before the session to everyone who's registered.