Jobs:Job-00590
Apply before: 10 January 2022
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Position: PhD scholar
Apply before: 10 January 2022
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The University of Córdoba (Spain) is offering a PhD scholarship, funded and co-hosted by EURAC Research (Italy) and titled: “Earth observation and hydrology in mountain areas in Mediterranean regions”.
This PhD position and its work will be supervised by the research group Earth Observation for Environmental Monitoring of the EURAC’s Institute for Earth Observation in cooperation with the research group Fluvial Dynamics and Hydrology of the University of Córdoba, and the candidate will be enrolled in the PhD Program Biogeochemical Fluxes and Applications.
The focus of the PhD will be to quantify the link between snow cover changes and water resources in mountain areas in the Mediterranean region, with special focus on sites where the snowpack’ dynamics shows a highly variable spatial and temporal pattern. In this context the research will focus on two main activities:
- Integration of new developed products into hydrological models for river discharge prediction in two mountain ranges European Alps and Sierra Nevada: The new developed Copernicus products in terms of snow cover extent, snow albedo, snow liquid water content, snow wetness will be ingested into hydrological models to improve the prediction of variable such as discharge. For the ingestion of data, machine learning approaches will be tested in two main mountain ranges, the European Alps and the Sierra Nevada (Spain), with significant snow presence and influence on the hydrological regime downstream but with strong differences in area and local altitudinal gradients. Sierra Nevada can be considered a snow island in the context of the European snow regions.
- Quantify the changes in snow cover extent and water resources in the Mediterranean “snow islands”. Through the combination of ground observation, physically based model simulations, Earth Observation data, the trends in the main “snow islands” of the Mediterranean basins will be quantified and analyzed. We expect to understand what is happening in the snow islands with respect to climate change in the last 20-30 years and how this information can be used to picture the future of other mountains in the world.
Requirements:
- Degree on Engineering (Civil, Forestry, Agriculture, Environmental), Geosciences, Physics, in any of its equivalent degrees in EU countries.
- Master degree in any field related to Environmental/Hydrological/Forestry/Civil Engineering, Hydrology, Remote Sensing, GeoSciences
- English skills equivalent to B2 or higher
Evaluation criteria:
- Highly motivated candidate (motivation letter mandatory)
- Research-oriented profile
- Programming skills (e.g. Python, R)
- Fluency in English (written and spoken)
- Specific knowledge of Earth Observation methods and hydrology will be considered an added value
- Expertise in field work and mountain hydrology is also valued
How to apply:
The interested candidate must submit his/her application through the virtual office of the University of Córdoba by 10 January, 2022, midnight (CEST),
https://sede.uco.es/GOnceOV/tramites/acceso.do?id=54
The announcement, deadlines and rules for application are published on the following website (in Spanish):
https://www.uco.es/investigacion/portal/convocatorias-de-contratos
https://www.uco.es/investigacion/portal/images/documentos/convocatoria/2022/1/Publicaci%C3%B3nconvocatoriaBOUCO01_22.pdf (pages 1-3, for general conditions of the call, point 9 describes the common mandatory documents to be included in the application; pages 68-69, for details on this contract, which indicates additional documents and information to be included in the application to be evaluated).
The applicants can be asked to attend an on-line meeting scheduled during 27 January-2 February, 2022, for which they will be called by an individual e-mail.
For any additional information on the research work, applicants can contact Prof. Polo (mjpolo@uco.es) or Dr. Notarnicola (claudia.notarnicola@eurac.edu).
For technical issues during the application process through the virtual offices, applicants can contact investigacion@uco.es, e-administracion@uco.es
