Ice Core Post-doctoral Researcher
Ice Core Post-doctoral Researcher
BAS - British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge, United Kingdom
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is looking for two exceptional Ice Core Post-doctoral Researchers to join our ice core research team. BAS delivers and enables world-leading interdisciplinary research in the Polar Regions. We employ experts from many different professions to carry out our Science as well as keep the lights on, feed the research and support teams and keep everyone safe!
This exciting role offers the opportunity to contribute to two major, high-impact international projects that aim to unlock the secrets of Earth’s past climate and environmental change.
You will play a central role in Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice, a landmark European project aiming to recover and analyse the oldest ever Antarctic ice core. As part of a large international consortium, you will help deliver the impurities analysis of this core, which is being hosted in the BAS ice core labs. You will be instrumental in supporting a major analysis campaign, using Continuous Flow Analysis (CFA) to build a record of atmospheric and environmental conditions across the mid-Pleistocene transition (~0.7 – 1.2 million years ago).
In parallel, you will lead the impurities analysis for the NERC-funded REWIND project. REWIND is a new deep ice core drilling project on the Antarctic Peninsula, aiming to recover a 700-metre core spanning the past 20,000 years. The project seeks to reconstruct past sea ice extent, atmospheric circulation, and wind patterns to better understand their roles in the uptake and release of CO₂ from the Southern Ocean. These environmental records will be directly compared with a new high-resolution CO₂ dataset from the same core. The research will combine analyses of inorganic chemistry—including major ions, trace metals, and rare earth elements—with stable water isotope measurements to develop a comprehensive picture of past climate dynamics during the last deglaciation.
Within the role, there will be an opportunity to develop your analytical skills using a range of techniques. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to community-led research publications, lead their own research papers and present their research at international conferences.
You’ll be joining a world-leading interdisciplinary research organisation, that is committed to recruiting talented people like you, progressing your career and giving you the support, you need to thrive at BAS.
Some of your main responsibilities will include:
- Support the preparation and delivery of continuous flow analysis (CFA) campaigns to measure ice core impurities, stable water isotopes and particulate material;
- Work alongside the BAS ice core team on novel CFA method developments;
- Data processing using instrument software, MS excel and Matlab;
- Please download job description for more details.
For the role of Ice Core Post-Doctoral Researcher, we are looking for somebody who has:
- PhD in chemistry, earth sciences, paleoclimate, geosciences, geography, physics or related subject;
- Experience working in environmental and/or analytical chemistry laboratories;
- This role requires significant time in a -25 freezer.
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