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About the positionThe position is a full-time four-year PhD student position. The four-year contract includes a year of required duties. Alternatively, the candidate may choose a three-year position which excludes these duties. Applications are also open to this year's master's candidates, with the requirement that the master's degree must be completed by July 1st, 2025. The desired start date is during August, and no later than September 1st.The project Understanding the role of continuum emission in the auroral ionosphere aims to advance our understanding of the newly discovered broadband auroral emission, called continuum emission. Unlike the most commonly seen green and red light where only a very narrow spectral band is enhanced, the continuum emission enhancement includes the whole v...

About the position and projectThe Arctic Technology Department at UNIS is seeking a highly motivated, independent candidate for a full-time, four-year Ph.D position studying mercury (Hg) bioaccumulation in fish (Arctic char) on Svalbard. The four-year contract includes a year of required duties. Alternatively, the candidate may choose a three-year position which excludes these duties. Applications are also open to this year's master's candidates, with the requirement that the master's degree must be completed by July 1st, 2025. The desired start date is during August, and no later than September 1st. The project is a collaborative effort involving UNIS, NTNU, and international partners, including Aarhus University (Denmark).The vacant Ph.D position is within the field of Arctic environment...

About the position and projectThe position is a full-time four-year PhD student position. The four-year contract includes a year of required duties. Alternatively, the candidate may choose a three-year position which excludes these duties. Applications are also open to this year's master's candidates, with the requirement that the master's degree must be completed by July 1st, 2025. The desired start date is during August, and no later than September 1st. The PhD. position to be filled is titled “Assessing and improving the accuracy of cryosphere Essential Climate Variable (ECV) retrievals from European satellite missions” The candidate will work towards closing the recognized knowledge gaps for the future European satellite earth observation missions. Core of the project is collecting ref...

About the position and projectArctic Safety Centre is looking for a PhD candidate for a full-time four-year position on safety training in the Arctic. The four-year contract includes a year of required duties. Alternatively, the candidate may choose a three-year position which excludes these duties. Applications are also open to this year's master's candidates, with the requirement that the master's degree must be completed by July 1st, 2025. The desired start date is during August, and no later than September 1st. The vacant position is related to the project “Safety Training in The High-Arctic”. The overall project objective is to explore how effective and reliable current safety training is for High-Arctic fieldwork and if simulation technology could enhance safety and preparedness trai...

About the positionThe PhD employment contract is for four years. The four-year contract includes a year of required duties. Alternatively, the candidate may choose a three-year position which excludes these duties. Applications are also open to this year's master's candidates, with the requirement that the master's degree must be completed by July 1st, 2025. The desired start date is during August, and no later than September 1st.The project on auroral emission intensities aims to advance our understanding of what the auroral intensities can tell us about the near-Earth space connecting to the upper atmosphere. The goal is to construct a long-term and diurnal distribution of auroral intensities in human understandable units from several different optical auroral instruments over two differ...

About the positionThe Arctic Biology Department is looking for a highly motivated, independent marine ecologist for a full-time four-year PhD student position on the meiobenthos of Arctic methane-based ecosystems. The four-year contract includes a year of required duties. Alternatively, the candidate may choose a three-year position which excludes these duties. Applications are also open to this year's master's candidates, with the requirement that the master's degree must be completed by July 1st, 2025. The desired start date is during August, and no later than September 1st.The project will involve analyzing meiofauna samples collected from various Arctic locations where seafloor sediment is enriched in methane and sulfide due to subsurface reservoirs or transport from submarine groundwa...

About the positionThe department of Arctic Geology at UNIS is seeking candidates for a full-time four-year Ph.D position studying marine palaeoclimate on Svalbard. The four-year contract includes a year of required duties. Alternatively, the candidate may choose a three-year position which excludes these duties. Applications are also open to this year's master's candidates, with the requirement that the master's degree must be completed by July 1st. The desired start date is during August, and no later than September 1st.The overall aim of this Ph.D project is to characterise the impact, nature, and timing of humandriven climate warming on the marine environments and ecosystems of northern Svalbard fjords. The physical ramifications of human-driven climate warming are already being observe...

About the positionThe Arctic Geology Department is looking for a highly motivated, independent geo-scientist for a fulltime four-year PhD student position on the spatial and temporal natural gas emissions at present and in geological deep time. The four-year contract includes a year of required duties. Alternatively, the candidate may choose a three-year position which excludes these duties. Applications are also opento this year's master's candidates, with the requirement that the master's degree must be completed by July 1st, 2025. The desired start date is during August, and no later than September 1st.It is well documented that methane is actively leaking through the Barents Shelf, both onshore and in Svalbard’s fjords. Active gas seepage is well documented beneath the geologically rec...