SAGES Vacancies

All SAGES posts are currently filled. Information on SAGES appointed staff can be found on the SAGES appointees page.

Opportunities still exist each year for SAGES members or SAGES Associate studentships. Please send note of membership interest stating interest area and an updated CV to email:SAGES Administrator, Heather Russell .

Vacancies external to SAGES

As part of a large network of organisations and people working in the climate change field the SAGES office oftens receives information about positions vacant both in Scotland and abroad which may be of interest to SAGES members. If you are interested in any of the vacancies below please go to the respective weblink for more information.

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PhD opportunity

Machair Vulnerability and Landscape Resilience in South Uist and Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Recent storms have demonstrated the sensitivity of the low-lying machair landscapes of the Outer Isles to extreme events and, in particular, their vulnerability to a changing climate and projected future increases in relative sea level rise and storminess. This 3 year fully funded PhD project offers the successful candidate an opportunity to quantify the vulnerability of the machair areas of South Uist and Benebcula while learning several methodologies. These methodologies include Pb210 and Cs137 dating of lake sediments to build a chronology of storm and flooding events, compiling past records of land use and crop yields for the machair areas and experiments to estimate the movement of sediment and the proportion of soil exposed to wind erosion and sediment movement. The relationships between land management and sediment dynamics will also be explored.
Click on PhD Machair CECHR project for more details.
Closing date: 4TH FEB 2011
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IPCC Scholarship Programme

A call for Proposals for the IPCC Scholarship Programme was announced yesterday on their website (www.ipcc.ch).

Please see link for more information IPCC Scholarship Programme

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