Postdoctoral Fellow In High Resolution Coastal Lazio

Postdoctoral Fellow In High Resolution Coastal
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Lazio, Lazio

Postdoctoral Fellow in high resolution coastal water quality remote sensing Posted about 2 days ago Expires on October, About the team|job EMBL seeks a postdoctoral researcher in the context of the new transversal research theme Planetary Biology which aims to understand, from the molecular to the population level, how micro

- and macroorganisms respond to each other and to their environment and what the effects are that they and their relationships have on their ecosystems.

The TREC (Transversing European Coastlines) project is a large and highly collaborative endeavor that EMBL is coordinating together with other EMBL member states' scientists and institutions.

This flagship project aims to sample and study the coastal land-water interface along the European coastlines to monitor the local and global human footprint on oceans, seas, and estuaries, with regard to urbanization, agriculture, coastal exploitation, various forms of contamination as well as impacts of climate change.

The postdoctoral researcher will assist in the preparatory phase of TREC by assembling historical data from satellites, validate the water quality retrievals and, once TREC is underway, participate in some data collection activities, and generation of match-ups with satellites.

This position is ideally suited for an applicant who: