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Postdoc. Postgrad. & Research Vacancies in HYDROMET, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Postdoctoral, Postgraduate and Research opportunities at HYDROMET

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Hydromet is an international, multidisciplinary and expanding research group with fully funded opportunities for suitably qualified individuals to pursue Ph.D. or M.Eng.Sc. research. We are now seeking to recruit a number of highly qualified people for full time research assistant positions at graduate and postdoctoral level.

To apply for any of the positions listed below, please forward a curriculum vitae to Prof. Ger Kiely, or as directed in the post description. Informal queries on any of the posts are also welcome. Further details of all vacancies are available at

http://www.hydromet.org/

Staff vacancies

Salaries quoted are gross (before tax). An additional pension contribution equivalent to 13.5 % of gross salary is paid by UCC.

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Position

Start date

Salary

Description

RA-2007-1

Post-doc

Jan. 2008

c. €40k p.a.

Grassland nitrous oxide emissions modelling and upscaling.

RA-2007-2

Post-doc

Jan. 2008

c. €45k p.a.

Nitrous oxide emissions modelling from grass/clover grazing systems

RA-2007-3

Post-doc

Jan. 2008

c. €42k p.a.

National Scale Soil Hydrology Study

RA-2007-4

Research Asst.

Jan. 2008

negotiable

Carbon Stocks and Stock Changes in Harvested Wood Products

Studentships

Ph.D. and M.Eng.Sc. stipends are tax free, i.e. the holder does not have to pay income tax on the stipend. In addition, normal (EU) course fees are met from project budgets and do not have to be paid by the student.

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Position

Start date

Stipend

Description

PG-2007-1

Ph.D.

Jan. 2008

€20k p.a.

Nitrous oxide flux evaluation by closed chambers and empirical models

PG-2007-2

Ph.D.

Jan. 2008

€20k p.a.

Greenhouse gas fluxes in peatland forests

PG-2007-3

Ph.D.

Jan. 2008

€20k p.a.

The effect of agricultural liming on carbon sequestration and soil N2O and CH4 fluxes

PG-2007-4

Ph.D.

Jan. 2008

€20k p.a.

Soil hydrology and soil threats modelling.

PG-2007-5

M.Eng.Sc.

2008

€18k p.a.

Predicting N2O emissions under altered management and climate scenarios.

Human Resources

Acmhainní Daonna

Ground Floor, Block E, Food Science Building, UCC

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