Job Advertisement: Closing Date 31st July 2011
POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITION
Geomagnetic Hazard Specialist
Full details at http://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/vacancies.html
The British Geological Survey, part of the Natural Environment Research
Council, is the UK's premier geo-science strategic mapping and research
organisation. We are offering a 3 year post doctoral research position
based at our office in Edinburgh, working within the Natural Environment
Research Council (NERC) Research Associate Training Programme.
There is a growing need within the Geomagnetism team for geomagnetic,
geophysical and solar-terrestrial physics (STP) skills at an advanced
level. The Geomagnetic Hazard Specialist role therefore offers an
excellent opportunity for an ambitious scientist to develop a research career
and to learn new skills.
During the appointment you will support BGS research, together with European
scientific colleagues, within the EU-funded 'European Risk from Geomagnetically
Induced Currents' (EURISGIC) space weather hazard project. This major new
project will investigate how space weather impacts the European-wide
electrical power network. EURISGIC provides an outstanding opportunity to
undertake cutting edge scientific research and apply it to a 'real-world'
problem. You will also undertake more general research leading to improved
scientific understanding of geomagnetic and space weather hazard and you
will apply the results of that research to improve products and services,
provided by BGS to the electrical power industry, to the academic
community and for others.
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