Employment & Opportunities

Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Quaternary Terrestrial Paleoclimatology - Department of Geoscience, Aarhaus University

The Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark invites applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Professorship or Associate Professorship in Terrestrial Palaeoclimatology. The expected appointment start is 1 January 2022 or at the nearest possible date.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate must demonstrate interdisciplinary research experience in Quaternary terrestrial environmental change with a focus on palaeoclimatology and palaeoecology utilizing multiple proxy records from sedimentary and biogenic archives. A scientist with an interest in quantitative analyses of depositional systems deciphering environmental evolution will be preferred. Experience with lacustrine archives, geochemical/isotopic proxies, biological proxies, dating techniques, and the interactions between natural habitats and humans in the context of climate change is advantageous.

The candidate is expected to have a strong international research standing and a broad multidisciplinary research network. Their scientific profile will be reflected in relevant publications in prominent international peer-reviewed journals. Proven ability to attract external research funding and documented teaching skills are required.

The candidate will expand research collaborations at the highest international level following his/her scientific interests and priorities, and establish a vibrant research group utilizing external funding from national and international sources. The appointee will develop and teach courses and supervise students at all academic levels.

Application procedure

The application deadline is 30 June 2021.

Shortlisting is used. This means that after the deadline for applications – and with the assistance from the assessment committee chairman, and the assessment committee if necessary, – the head of department selects the candidates to be evaluated. The selection is made on the basis of an assessment of who of the candidates are most relevant considering the requirements of the advertisement. All applicants will be notified within 6 weeks whether or not their applications have been sent to an expert assessment committee for evaluation. The selected applicants will be informed about the composition of the committee and will receive his/her assessment. Once the recruitment process is completed a final letter of rejection is sent to the deselected applicants.

Letter of reference: If you want a referee to upload a letter of reference on your behalf, please state the referee’s contact information when you submit your application. We strongly recommend that you make an agreement with the person in question before you enter the referee’s contact information, and that you ensure that the referee has enough time to write the letter of reference before the application deadline. Unfortunately, it is not possible to ensure that letters of reference received after the application deadline will be taken into consideration.

Formalities and salary range: Natural Sciences refers to the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Danish Universities under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

The application must be in English and include a curriculum vitae, degree certificate, a complete list of publications, a statement of future research plans and information about research activities, teaching portfolio and verified information on previous teaching experience (if any). Guidelines for applicants can be found here.

Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities.

Salary depends on seniority as agreed between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Confederation of Professional Associations.

All interested candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of their personal background. Research activities will be evaluated in relation to actual research time. Thus, we encourage applicants to specify periods of leave without research activities, in order to be able to subtract these periods from the span of the scientific career during the evaluation of scientific productivity.

Ensuring gender balance at Department of Geoscience is a high priority at Aarhus University, and we particularly encourage women to apply for this position. No candidate will be given preferential treatment, and all applicants will be assessed on the basis of their qualifications for the position in question.

News & Events

EOAS Colloquium: Karen McKinnon

Title: The statistics and physics of midlatitude heat extremes

Date & Time: Thursday, April 22nd at 11:00am

Place: Zoom Room!

Abstract:

A clear consequence of climate change is increasing global temperatures, with greater warming over land than ocean. The greatest impacts from continental warming occur due to extreme events; however, we do not have a good understanding of how to map from this large-scale picture to regional extremes. In this talk, I will present two different studies focused on better understanding the physics and statistics of heat extremes. First, we will explore how daily summer temperature distributions have changed over the historical record in order to assess how the tails of the distribution are changing with respect to the middle. Across the Northern Hemisphere, we find that changes in summer temperatures can primarily be described by a simple shift, but that some regions such as eastern Europe show greater warming for hot extremes. Cognizant that these observed changes reflect both a deterministic ("forced") response to human influence on the climate and a random sampling of internal variability, we also quantify trends in a climate model large ensemble, which suggests the dominance of the simple shift behavior. While heat extremes have commonly been described primarily by temperature alone, their impacts are mediated by humidity, highlighting the importance of jointly modeling changes in temperature and humidity extremes. Using a newly developed semiparametric quantile smoothing splines model, we identify important dependencies between changes in temperature and humidity extremes, including a decrease in specific humidity on the hottest days in the American Southwest. This trend is in contrast to the general expectation of increases in specific humidity as global temperatures warm, and emerges due to decreases in soil moisture, which are an important local moisture source. While it is unclear whether this trend will continue due to climate model biases and divergent projections, the result underscores the importance of a process-level understanding of regional climate trends, particularly for high-impact extremes.

EOAS Honours Theses Posters

Date & Time: Friday, April 23rd at 11:00am

Place: Zoom Room!

Lutairan (Max) Chen, BSc (Honours Environmental Sciences): "Young Farmers Engaged in Agroecology in China: A Reflection on Their Intentions, Current Status and Critical Obstacles"
Supervisors: Hannah Wittman and Tara Ivanochko

Luhong (Amy) Lu, BSC (Geophysics): "Deep Long-period Earthquakes beneath Mount Meager"
Supervisor: Michael Bostock

Nirab Sarma, BSC (Honours Geophysics): "Modeling Melt Insertion in Mercury’s Stagnant Lid at ~3.9 Ga"
Supervisor: Catherine L. Johnson

Tobias Schmidt , BSC (Combined Honours: Atmospheric Science and Computer Science): "Automated Detection and Segmentation of Ship Exhaust Tracks off the Californian Coast"
Supervisor: Phil Austin

Taking Adversity in Stride: Brian McKeever

The CSEG Mentorship Program is very excited to welcome Canada’s most decorated Paralympian, Brian McKeever, as their guest speaker at the 2021 CSEG Mentorship Development Workshop.  
 
Join them April 29th lunch hour (11:45 – 1:00 MDT) for an inspirational address from one of Canada’s most successful athletes as Brian shares his insights into success not in spite of but rather through challenge. Geoscience mentors, mentees, faculty and students are welcome to attend.  
 
To sign up, please respond to this Google form. CSEG Mentorship will send you a meeting invitation with the Zoom meeting link.