Palaeo Ice Sheet Modeller BAS 24/25

Benefits: We offer generous benefits

Location: BAS Cambridge

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Description 

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is looking for an exceptional Palaeo Ice Sheet Modeller to join our  team of palaeoglaciologists, glaciologists and numerical modellers.  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!

Working at BAS is rewarding.  Our skilled science, operational and support staff based in Cambridge, Antarctica and the Arctic, work together to deliver research that uses the Polar Regions to advance our understanding of Earth as a sustainable planet. Through our extensive logistic capability and know how BAS facilitates access for the British and international science community to the UK polar research operation. Numerous national and international collaborations, combined with an excellent infrastructure help sustain a world leading position for the UK in Antarctic affairs.  British Antarctic Survey is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), which is part of UK Research and Innovation www.ukri.org

As a valued member of our team, you’ll be eligible for the following benefits:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 2.5 privilege days
• Excellent civil service pension (with 26% or more employer contribution, depending on your band)
• 24 hours/365 days access to employee assistance programme (EAP – including support with physical, mental, social, health and financial issues)
• Flexible and family friendly working opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories and much more.

You’ll be joining our Palaeoenvironments, Ice Sheets and Climate Change (PICC) and Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate (IDP) teams. The role will be jointly supervised.

You’ll help us to deliver numerical simulations of ice-sheet change over long (geological) timescales, i.e. for time periods prior to the satellite era. We are motivated to use our wide range of geological, geophysical and palaeoclimate observational datasets to constrain ice-sheet models to explore how ice sheets respond to different environmental drivers over time.

Within the role, there will be an opportunity to develop and lead your own research avenue around palaeo-ice sheet modelling within the UK and international science community. This is likely to centre around modelling the Antarctic Ice Sheet over time periods of particular interest (e.g., past warm periods), as well as adapting and developing models to better represent key physical processes that affect ice sheets but are so far under-represented in models. Although our focus is on Antarctic Ice Sheet change, there will also be opportunities to work on Northern Hemisphere ice sheets if desirable.

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:

• To incorporate observational datasets into numerical ice-sheet models to help understand how ice sheets behave over long or “palaeo” timescales.
• To use ice-sheet configuration information (e.g., chronological records of retreat and surface exposure histories) and forcing data (e.g., changes in ocean and atmosphere temperatures, accumulation rates, wind strengths) to model past Antarctic Ice Sheet behaviour
• To write and/or implement model code to represent specific ice-sheet processes or boundary conditions e.g., subglacial kale drainage events, variable substrates.

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Current projects the team are working on include the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration ITGC-THOR (Thwaites Offshore Research) and ITCG-GHOST (Geophysical Habitat of Subglacial Thaiwtes) projects, the SWAIS 2C project, and the KANG-GLAC project.

For the role of Palaeo Ice Sheet Modeller, we are looking for somebody who has:

• First degree in physical science/mathematics plus PhD or equivalent postgraduate experience in a relevant subject
• Experience working with ice-sheet modelling
• Good understanding of the maths and physics relevant for ice-sheet models
• Interest in long/geological timescale application of numerical models

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What experiences can we offer you?

At BAS we believe everyone plays a vital role, is unique and valued, therefore, we embrace diversity as well as equality of opportunity and are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming working environment where everyone’s unique perspectives are valued.

Different perspectives and collaborative working help us achieve our best work and come together to form a high performing team which makes positive changes in the business. That’s the power of every individual.  Our cultural values are built on mutual respect, inclusion, commitment and excellence.

If you 're looking for an opportunity to work with world class and amazing people in one of the most unique places in the world, then British Antarctic Survey could be for you.