PhD Title: SEQUESTER - Sediment quantities- Understanding Sediment temporal environment records
Lakes play a critical role by providing archives of past environmental information for the surrounding catchment and the lake itself. Lake basins accumulate organic sediments and thus are also an important sink in the global carbon cycle. This project will use palaeolimnological techniques to examine physical, chemical, and biological information preserved in sediment profiles from Lough Feeagh in the Burrishoole catchment, Co. Mayo. Post-glacial and Holocene environmental changes will be reconstructed at centennial and millennial time-scales as a parallel for the history of fish populations being examined (using eDNA) in BEYOND 2020 (https://www.dkit.ie/beyond-2020). Following training, the successful student will analyse sediment physical and geochemical measurements, as well as biological fossils (diatoms), to shed light on long-term climate-induced catchment and lake productivity change and todiscriminate between in-lake and catchment-derived sediment sources. This study will feed into ongoing work at Burrishoole by integrating the longer sediment temporal context (geoscience) with ongoing catchment high frequency monitoring and ecology projects. Supervisors: Prof. Eleanor Jennings (DkIT) & Dr. Catherine Dalton (MIC-UL) For informal enquiries eleanor.jennings@dkit.ie [email protected] Funding Each successful candidate shall receive a postgraduate stipend of €16,000 per annum, plus fees and a contribution to their direct research project costs. The duration of each PhD studentship is 3 years. Terms and conditions will apply. Application process Please send a copy of your CV and a cover letter to [email protected] no later than 4 pm on Thursday April 9th 2020. Please use “Landscape PhD application LPhD14” in the subject title. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview. Please note, due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, it is envisioned that all interviews will be conducted remotely via phone or video conferencing.
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