Postdoctoral researcher – Terrestrial hydrogravimetry
Website GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geoscience
Terrestrial gravimetry has gained increasing visibility and importance in Earth sciences in the last decade, with extended and new applications in a broad field of topics. Besides traditional gravimeters, quantum gravimeters have evolved as a new type of instrument with a future-oriented technology and a broad application range.
The EU-Horizon funded project “EQUIP-G” will set up a prototype infrastructure of terrestrial quantum gravimeters in Europe. Besides metrological evaluations and the development of an EU-wide pool of quantum gravimeters, numerous use cases will be carried out, addressing relevant problems in the fields of hydrology, volcanology, climatology, geothermal energy and geodesy. These use cases will serve as a proof-of-concept of this new technology and demonstrate its added value for geoscientific applications. GFZ section hydrology will organise and lead 2 of 8 planned use cases within EQUIP-G and support the others in terms of equipment, measurements and data processing. Furthermore, this project will build and foster an EU-wide community around instrument and data infrastructures for terrestrial (quantum) gravimetry.
Your responsibilities:
- Operate quantum gravimeters, including data processing and evaluation
- Conduct hydrogravimetric surveys and field measurements
- Hydrogravitational modeling of near-surface processes
- Processing and analysis of gravity network measurements
- Inverse modelling of electric resistivity tomography (ERT) observations
- Plan and conduct an artificial sprinkling experiment for months-long outdoor measurements
- Active contribution to EQUIP-G project activities and collaborations
- Present results at international conferences and publish in highly-ranked international journals
Your qualifications:
- A Master`s degree or equivalent and a PhD in geodesy, geophysics, geosciences or a related discipline
- Solid background in geodetic or geophysical methods
- Experience with terrestrial gravimetry (processing, modelling and/or measurements)
- Proven experience with modelling of environmental processes
- Understanding of hydrological processes and systems is an asset
- Excellent programming skills in Python
- Experience with Git and Linux is an asset
- Ability to work independently, and excellent organisational and problem-solving skills
- Ability for and willingness to work in a multidisciplinary team and to actively communicate and cooperate with collaborators
- Proficiency in spoken and written English
- Willingness for field work up to a duration of 3 weeks per trip
- Driving license
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