Employment & Opportunities

eLearning Content Creator - SEEQUENT

As an eLearning Content Creator at Seequent, you will assist with the development of a world class training experience for our users. You will have the opportunity to produce new e-learning courses to help our users efficiently and effectively use Geosoft and/or Leapfrog products to tackle their modelling challenges, as well as updating our existing training content with every new software release.

As part of the global Training Content Creation team you will collaborate and work closely with our Application Help technical writers and our Support teams to help equip our users with the knowledge they require to be proficient with the Seequent product suite.

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PhD Position in Paleoseanography/Physical Oceanography - University of Bergen

There is a vacancy for a PhD Research Fellow in physical paleoceanography / physical oceanography at the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen. The position is for a fixed-term period of 3 years. The position is offered within the project “FJO2RD: The effect of climate change on the deep-water renewal frequency of Norwegian fjords” which is funded by the Norwegian Research council.

The main objective of the project is to explore if, how and why the renewal frequency of Norwegian fjords has changed as a result of physical climate change and to determine its link to the deoxygenation of Norwegian fjords and the potential anthropogenic contribution. FJO2RD is an interdisciplinary project, involving experts on physical and chemical oceanography, regional modelling and paleoceanography.

The primary tasks for the successful candidate will be to establish a historical baseline for ongoing changes in the fjord environment by reconstructing the oxygenation history and freshwater influence of two Norwegian fjords over the last ca. 400 years, and to link the reconstructed variability to physical forcing and ocean dynamics.The approach includes the use of benthic foraminifera assemblage analysis and geochemical analysis.

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Further inquiries related should be addressed to Research Prof. B. Risebrobakken, NORCE (bjri@norceresearch.no) or Ass. Prof. E. Darelius, Geophysical Institute, UiB (elin.darelius@uib.no)

Vacant PhD position in paleoclimatology (sea ice reconstructions) - NORCE Climate and Environment

There is a vacancy for a full-time PhD position in paleoclimatology at NORCE Climate and Environment. The position is a fixed term position for 3 years. The candidate will be enrolled as a PhD student in the Department of Earth Science at the University of Bergen (UiB).

NORCE is one of Norway’s largest independent research institutes and a partner of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR), a leading international climate research centre with strong expertise in Arctic studies. NORCE Climate and Environment conduct both basic and applied research on the past, present and future climate system, on anthropogenic climate change and its impact on societies, and on the feasibility of climate change mitigation options. The working environment at NORCE Climate and Environment and BCCR is highly international.

About the project/work tasks
The position is offered within the project “ABRUPT Arctic Climate Change” which is funded by the Climate and Polar program of the Research Council of Norway. The main objective of the project is to chart the distribution of sea ice and ocean states in the Nordic Seas during past abrupt glacial climate changes, so called Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles, to further understand these enigmatic large amplitude climate shifts and to unravel mechanisms important for understanding the risk of similar changes in the future Arctic. The primary tasks for the successful candidate will be to reconstruct glacial sea ice variability in the Fram Strait, at high resolution, using biomarkers. The biomarker analysis will be done at the Alfred Wegner Institute (AWI), Germany. The candidate is expected to have extended research stay(s) at AWI to conduct the measurements in collaboration with our project partners there. The candidate is also expected to be involved in discussions and interpretation of the multi-proxy reconstructions to be produced by the project and synthesising results. ABRUPT is an interdisciplinary project, involving experts on different aspects of paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic research, empiricists as well as climate dynamitists and modellers. Close interaction across disciplines will be encouraged.

The main supervisor will be Research Prof. Bjørg Risebrobakken (NORCE Climate and Environment). Co-supervisors will be Prof. Eystein Jansen (Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen), Dr Kirsten Fahl and Prof Ruediger Stein (Alfred-Wegener-Institute Bremerhaven and University of Bremen, Germany).

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For further details about the position, please contact Research Prof. B. Risebrobakken, NORCE ( ).

Questions about the application process can be directed to Senior HR Adviser Monika Voit ( ).

Application deadline is September 30th, 2021.