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The Limnology program at the Department of Ecology and Genetics (https://www.uu.se/en/department/ecology-and-genetics/research/limnology) is, together with the field station at Lake Erken (https://www.uu.se/en/department/ecology-and-genetics/research/erken-laboratory), an internationally leading research environment for research, teaching and collaboration on the ecology of inland waters. We are now looking for a postdoctoral researcher in hydrodynamics at the littoral-pelagic interface of lakes to the Limnology program.

Project description

The littoral zone is an extensive habitat at the land-water interface of lakes, four times longer than the global ocean shoreline, and characterised by abundant growth of aquatic plants. The very high growth rates of these plants drive high carbon turnover. Therefore, littoral zones of lakes can exhibit high carbon sequestration, but also high emission of greenhouse gases. Current understanding is however very limited, as littoral zones are spatially complex and difficult to study. Within the RELITORATE project, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, a team of experts in flux measurement, remote sensing and numerical modelling will use new and emerging methodologies in order to gain a comprehensive and quantitative understanding of littoral carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes, beyond the scale of individual lakes.

The postdoctoral researcher will work in an exciting sub-project that through field measurements will investigate the lateral transport of water and carbon between the littoral and pelagic zones. The work takes place in close collaboration with other project team members including modelers, and under joint supervision together with meteorologists at the Department of Earth Sciences https://www.uu.se/en/department/earth-sciences/research/air-water-and-landscape-science/meteorology.

Duties

Research on the processes that control the lateral transport of water and carbon between the littoral and pelagic zones of lakes. The research will be based on field measurements of hydrodynamics as well as carbon concentrations, mainly at the lake Erken, 60 km east of Uppsala. The measurements will be based on longer ADCP deployments and various automatic sensors for water temperature, carbon dioxide and other water properties, as well as shorter intense field campaigns. The research work is carried out in close collaboration with other project members.