ACAD107872

We are really pleased to announce a super-exciting opportunity for a postdoc (Senior Research Associate) to work on a blue-skies NERC-funded project, involving understanding changes in latitudinal temperature gradient in Earth's past history. Over the last 500 million years, the Earth has experienced massive changes in climate, spanning the extensive glaciations of the Permo-Carboniferous (~300 million years ago), to the mid-Cretaceous super-greenhouse (~100 million years ago). Such swings in climate are also accompanied by substantial changes in the spatial patterns of temperature change, in particular latitudinal temperature gradients, and it is these spatial patterns that ultimately determine the key impacts of climate change, for example on ecosystems and the carbon cycle, through time Characterising and understanding these changes in temperature gradients provides a first-order blue-skies "grand-challenge" - what were these gradient changes? And how/why did they occur? In this project the postdoc will work closely with collaborators at the University of Oxford, using an integrated model-data approach, to address these fundamental questions of the paleoclimatic history of our planet.What will you be doing? In this project the postdoc will work closely with collaborators at the University of Oxford, using an integrated model-data approach, to address these fundamental questions of the paleoclimatic history of our planet.

• Experience in running climate models and/or analysing climate model output, or equivalent.
• Evidence of scientific excellence.
• Evidence of the ability to write and publish first-author scientific papers, or equivalent.