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Fully-funded PhD positions in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (University of Portsmouth)

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Four fully-funded PhD studentship are available for the following topics:
  1. Controls and impacts of benthic communities and bioturbation in marginal marine environments: testing the application of trace fossils (description here)
  2. Mass extinctions and the trace fossil record (description here)
  3. Petrochronology and mineral chemistry of mid-crustal shear zones: new tools for tectonics and mineral exploration (description here)
  4. Response of baddeleyite to shock metamorphism in large meteorite impacts: new opportunities in Solar System chronology (description here)
Full details of each project together with the names of the supervisors are provided in the links “description here”. Applicants MUST be from the UK/EU only. Funding is for three years and will cover University tuition fees and provide an annual stipend at standard RCUK rates for postgraduate research students (£13,726 in autumn 2013). There will be a requirement to carry out c. 6 hrs per week of laboratory demonstrating duties to undergraduate classes.
The successful candidate will have a minimum of an Upper Second Class Honours degree and be available to start 1st October 2013. Please contact the first-named supervisor with a covering letter that details your interest in the chosen project and a cv (including the contact details of two referees) by midday Friday 30th August. Interviews will be held on either 12th or 13th September.
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth,

Burnaby Rd, Portsmouth, PO1 3QL, UK

Convocatoria Becas de Colaboración para el curso 2013/14

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¿Estás terminando la carrera y todavía no sabes qué hacer después?
Comienza solicitando una de las 71 Becas de Colaboración que ofrece el Ministerio de Educación  a proyectos asociados a departamentos, de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 
Aquí está la carta de presentación sobre las Becas de Colaboración 2013/14

Y en este enlace encontraréis la convocatoria publicada en el BOE (en el artículo 6 aparecen los requisitos de los estudiantes desde grado hasta primer curso de Master, que deseen solicitarla)

Apply for a job online: Three PhD Fellowships in Environmental Engineering and Process Modelling

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Three years full salary for doing a PhD.

The Department of Environmental Engineering is looking for 3 PhD students for an international and cross-disciplinary research project (LaGas), with the objective to untangle the mystery behind biological production and consumption of N2O in waste water treatment operations

Positions at the Technical University of Denmark are available on the topics:
PhD 1: Development and implementation of a novel whole-plant quantification tool to estimate GHG emissions based on gas plume measurements. The student will use a very promising gas plume method to measure downwind N2O gas concentrations using a dynamic sampling approach. The concept behind this approach has earlier been applied to measure methane emissions from landfills. Emphasis will be on the development of a best practice guide for quantification of N2O emission from full-scale wastewater treatment plants by conducting measurements under different tracer configuration and meteorological conditions, and the best practice guide will be used to measure gas emissions at several sites under different management conditions of the plants.

PhD 2: Investigations on N2O production and emission at reactor-scale from conventional and innovative mainstream and side-stream nitrogen removal technologies. In collaboration with PhD 1, the student will measure and analyze N2O production and emission at reactor-scale at several full-scale WWTPs and in controlled laboratory settings. Comprehensive real-time on-line N2O measurements will be performed in both liquid and gas phase to continuously monitor and record the overall N2O emissions at WWTPs using different process configuration for nitrogen removal, and at different nitrogen loads, operational conditions and different seasons. The ultimate goal is obtain rigorous N2O footprints across a representative set of process configurations and operations.

PhD 3: Development and validation of physiochemical and biokinetic process models for N2O dynamics in wastewater. The PhD fellow will develop biokinetic process models for mixed autotrophic nitrifying, heterotrophic denitrifying and anammox communities, which will explicitly include dissolution and liquid-to-gas mass-transfer of N2O. Lab-scale experiments will be performed in collaboration with a post doctoral associate to estimate model parameters for all studied systems and calibrate and validate models. Model identification, calibration and evaluation exercises are carried out using laboratory- and full-scale measurements in close collaborations with PhD 2 and the PhD student at The University of Southern Denmark (please see Job Opportunities at LaGas). The models are subsequently explored for individual scenario analysis to identify best- and worst-case operational conditions. The candidate will mainly use several simulation platforms (Matlab®, Simulink® and WEST®).

More info in:
http://www.job.dtu.dk/English.aspx?guid=b78d15ff-c9e3-4914-9712-72898ea85d88