MEDGATE
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| (Modified after Duggen et al, Nature 2003) |
MEDGATE is an EU-funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network to reconstruct the flow patterns between the Mediterranean and Atlantic 5-10 million years ago, when ~6% of the world's sea salt precipitated in the Mediterranean.
Fully funded PhD positions available:
- Quantitative constraints on the palaeogeographic evolution of the Betic-Riffian corridors from surface and subsurface data
- Reconstructing the Messinian Betic Strait from sub-surface data in the Guadalquivir basin, Spain
- Isotopic constraints on patterns of exchange through the Betic-Riffian Straits
- Assessing the impact of exchange on Mediterranean temperature and salinity
- Mio-Pleistocene reconstruction of Mediterranean Outflow in the Gulf of Cadiz
- Faunal constraints on margin to deep basin correlation across the Levantine continental margin during the Messian Salinity Crisis
- Reconstruction of surface and deep water environments along the Riffian Portal during the Messian Salinity Crisis
- Modelling gateway evolution and its impact on Mediterranean salinity and circulation
- Modelling the impact of Late Miocene Mediterranean Outflow Water on ocean circulation in the Atlantic
Post-doc position
Details
MEDGATE research summary - NEW
Great training and career prospects in both academia and the oil industry;
Fieldwork in Morocco and Spain with additional opportunities for international travel;
Excellent EU pay rates (>46,000 € / yr) and further information about eligibility
Podcast of presentation about MEDGATE - NEW
Closing date: 1st March 2012
The interviews for all positions will be held in Utrecht on 17-18th April 2012.
Start: July-Sept 2012
For more details, contact Dr Rachel Flecker (Network Coordinator)
Project partners:
- University of Bristol (Geography & Chemistry)
- University of Glasgow (SUERC)
- University of Utrecht (Earth Sciences)
- University of Salamanca (Oceanic Geosciences)
- REPSOL (Madrid)
Associate partners:
Casablanca, CASP, Montpellier, ONYM, Petrostrat, National Oceanography Centre