Are you interested in emissions of greenhouse gasses from permafrost and climate change? Would you like to solve one of the Earth system’s big unknown feedbacks? Do you like to do field work in high latitudes and perform novel advanced analysis on the data?  Please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Locatie: AMSTERDAM FTE: 1

JOB DESCRIPTION

The permafrost area of Siberia is one of world’s largest stores of soil carbon. Thermokarst processes which are sensitive to climate change provide a very dynamic landscape in which thaw lakes and connecting waters can have access to  large amounts of carbon. The total emissions of greenhouse gasses from these inland waters and thaw lakes, primarily methane and carbon dioxide, can thus constit