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The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences announces a major expansion of its activities in climate science and seeks applicants for up to three faculty positions in Climate-related fields. Preference will be given to junior appointments at the assistant professor level, but a senior appointment can be considered for an individual with exceptional qualifications. Areas of specific interest include observations, models and theory of the atmosphere, ocean and cryosphere, and climates, biogeochemical cycles and ecology.
...read moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology invites applications for a postdoctoral research position focusing on rainfall extremes and surface processes. The successful candidate will work closely with Drs. Paul O'Gorman, Adam Schlosser, and Taylor Perron to study how variability in precipitation patterns associated with climate change will affect landslides and erosion.
...read moreMIT's Center for Global Change Science is seeking one or two postdoctoral scientists for the study of anthropogenic aerosol-cloud-climate interactions in global or regional scale. The successful applicants will join a small team of MIT and NCAR scientists in an effort to continually develop interactive aerosol-cloud-chemistry-climate models in global and regional scales, and use these models to study the roles of anthropogenic pollutants in climate change.
...read moreModelling of physical/ biogeochemical interactions on the mesoscale/submesoscale, an NSF-funded project.
...read moreModeling of phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic. Our group has recently put forward the hypothesis that blooms start when the heat loss at the ocean surface subsides and turns into heat gain at the end of winter (http://web.mit.edu/raffaele/www/Publications_files/TaylorFerrari2011a.pdf). The work will involve formulating models of the physics and biology of phytoplankton blooms, running numerical simulations of phytoplankton blooms and analyzing in situ measurements to be collected in 2012 as part of an observational program in collaboration with UK colleagues. " target="_blank">http://web.mit.edu/raffaele/www/Publications_files/TaylorFerrari2011a.pdf). The work will involve formulating models of the physics and biology of phytoplankton blooms, running numerical simulations of phytoplankton blooms and analyzing in situ measurements to be collected in 2012 as part of an observational program in collaboration with UK colleagues.
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