Deadline for application is 30 April 2013.

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The call for the position of Director General of ICOS is open.

The European ICOS Research Infrastructure (ICOS RI) carries out the long-term greenhouse gas (GHG) observations required to understand the present state and predict the future behavior of the global carbon cycle and greenhouse gas sinks/sources (see ICOS Preparatory Phase http://www.icos-infrastructure.eu/).

The ICOS RI seeks a distinguished Director General (DG) for a full-time position. The position is initially for 5 years but the General Assembly can decide upon the extent of the duration. The DG is the legal representative of the ICOS legal entity and the director of the Head Office of ICOS. It is expected that the DG will be selected by June 2013 and that he/she can start working by September 2013. The ICOS Head Office is based in Helsinki, Finland (the statutory seat), with a secondary node in Paris, France. The Head Office in Helsinki is hosted by the Kumpula Science Campus (see http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/english/index.html and http://www.fmi.fi/).

See the Director_General_Call_ICOS document for the detailed information.

With Best Regards, Timo Vesala

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Timo Vesala
Professor of Meteorology
Department of Physics
PO Box 48
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Tel: +358-405779008
Fax: +358-19150717

“The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) in the InGOS project under grant agreement n° 284274″

Some sessions relevant to InGOS are:

AS1.19 “Advances in Lagrangian Modelling of the Atmosphere”
Link to session info
Convenors: Harald Sodemann, Ignacio Pisso and Petra Seibert.
This is a new session at EGU, aiming to build upon the AGU Chapman conference, Grindelwald 2011. Contributions presenting advances in the development of Lagrangian transport and dispersion modelling in the atmosphere, model validation, inverse modelling, and numerous other applications will be accepted.

BG2.10 Climate extremes, ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles
link to session info
Conveners: Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn, Yiqi Luo, Dorothea Frank.
This session will describe responses of ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles to climate extremes and variability, and identify related feedback mechanisms from the biosphere to the climate system. We welcome conceptual, observational, experimental and modeling approaches, and studies from the local to the global scale. While the conveners are more familiar with terrestrial systems, contributions from aquatic systems would be very welcome as well
The venue: Vienna, Austria, 07-12 April 2013.

BG1.6 – Towards a full greenhouse gas balance of the biosphere (terrestrial & aquatic ecosystems)
link to session info
Convenors: Lutz Merbold, Bert Gielen, Christian Bruemmer, Donatella Zona, Timo Vesala, Tonya DelSontro, Penelope Serrano-Ortiz
This session will go beyond CO2 and instead focus on the investigation of methane (CH4) and/or nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from different ecosystems globally with a broader goal of synthesizing the current research in terrestrial and aquatic systems. Given the fact that both CH4 and N2O emissions from land and water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers, and streams) can easily offset known carbon sinks (when converted to CO2-eq.), and that knowledge on the drivers of CH4/N2O as well as their temporal and spatial variability is still lacking, we encourage measuring, monitoring and modeling studies of both of these greenhouse gases from either the terrestrial or aquatic environments. Studies that focus on testing hypotheses, isolating mechanisms and processes, upscaling, and identifying knowledge gaps are of particular interest. While studies that already integrate terrestrial and aquatic GHG budgets would be ideal for this session, studies that present only one or the other are still strongly encouraged as they will highlight and open up discussions regarding the lack of interaction between the two sides.

ERE5.1: Measurement of Greenhouse Gases at the Urban Scale
Link to session info
Convenors: E. Crosson, P. Ciais.
The measurement of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from urban centers in Europe and the U.S. is of extreme interest to academic researchers, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and industry. This interest is being driven by the fact that the identification and quantification of GHG emissions enable policy makers to make informed, metrics-based decisions and to incentivize changes in transportation and land use patterns In addition, anticipated regulatory changes to GHG emissions requirements, as well as recent claims by the natural gas industry that natural gas is the clean fuel of the future, have given rise to even more interest.
Utilizing a variety of measurement tools, including networks of analyzers, flux measurements, and measurements taken by aircraft and cars, just to name a few, knowledge about urban-scale GHG emissions is quickly growing.
This session is open to those focused on efforts to measure and quantify GHG emissions at the facility-level, the neighborhood-level, and also at city and regional scales. To this end, we welcome those involved with GHG concentration and emissions measurements around urban centers to present their work. In addition, because it is a very fast growing area, plans to develop such measurement capabilities around specific cities or regions are also welcomed. It is hoped that the session will bring together many researchers, and even policy makers, who are interested in pooling resources and collaborating on such projects.

Please be aware that the last date for submission of abstracts is 9 January 2013, and that EGU only accepts abstracts for which a processing fee of 40 Euro has been paid (this policy is not within the responsability of convenors).

Objectives:

To verify a variety of N₂O flux measurement setups using eddy covariance, REA or gradient method on the same field, for a duration of 4 weeks. All instruments will be running in parallel for the first few days measuring background conditions, and continue for a three week period following the fertilisation event.  All system will be calibrated together with the same gas standards. There will be the opportunity to interface various analysers with a common anemometer / data acquisition system or to test independent complete systems against a reference. Data analysis will be performed individually with own methodology and in parallel following a common protocol.

Field Site

The Easter Bush measurement site is located in a rural area 10 km south of Edinburgh, Scotland UK (3⁰12’W, 55^o52’N, 190 m a.s.l.). The site is situated on the border between two intensively-managed grassland fields of approximately 5 ha each. A full meteorological station is installed at the field site providing data for wind speed and direction, air humidity, solar radiation, soil T and moisture, atmospheric pressure, PAR, rainfall etc. The organic rich soil has consistently resulted in high N₂O emission factors from fertiliser application in previous studies (Di Marco et al., 2004; Flechard et al., 2009; Jones et al., 2012).

 Logistics

We will be providing mains power, equipment enclosures and ultrasonic anemometer, as well as a joint data logging system and broadband connection in the field. Desk space and WIFI connection will be available at the CEH Institute, a 5 minute walk from the site.

Participation:

Please register interest in participating in the campaign with Eiko Nemitz and Daniela Famulari (InGOSN2O@ceh.ac.uk; +44 131 4458523). Transnational access (TNA) funds to cover travel, subsistence and shipment costs can be applied for by eligible parties via the InGOS website (see http://www.ingos-infrastructure.eu/?page_id=509 ) after discussion with the organisers.

University Assistant (“pre-doc”)

at the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics is vacant.

The Research Group of Theoretical Meteorology at the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics of the University of Vienna seeks a scientific staff member (research and teaching)with a diploma or master degree. It is expected that the doctoral degree will be earned during the employment term.

Extent of Employment: 30 hours/week, duration: 4 years
Occupation group in accordance with collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 Grundstufe(praedoc). On top of this, relevant chargeable work experience determines the assessmentto a particular salary grade.

Areas of work:
The person selected will mainly work in meteorological model development and application (e.g., Lagrangian transport model). She/he should contribute to strengthening the application of professional information science methods in meteorology, especially with respect to software development and data handling. Tasks will include work on a dissertation, contribution to the tasks of the research group projects, and teaching.

Profile:
University degree (diploma, master) in meteorology or a related field. In-depth knowledge of topics (one or more) such as modelling, atmospheric dynamics, boundary layer, environmental meteorology is desired. Good programming experience (Fortran) and in-depth IT-knowledge in a scientific context (Linux, scripting languages, web, LaTeX, …) are required. Applications will also be considered from people who come from IT science or computational physics, if, due to suitable knowledge (e.g. in hydrodynamics) they are able to and willing to train in meteorology, also by visiting lecture courses. On the other hand, applications from meteorology should engage in training in informatics. Interest in scientific work and publication, contributing to research and
teaching, excellent communication skills, orally and in writing, ability to work in a team and willingness to communicate. Good knowledge of English required, proficiency in German is a plus.

Applications including a letter of motivation (German or English) should be sent via Job Center to the University of Vienna (http://jobcenter.univie.ac.at) no later than 20.11.2012 and be referenced to the identification number 3477. For further information please contact Univ.-Prof. Dr. Petra Seibert (http://homepage.univie.ac.at/petra.seibert/)

The University of Vienna intends to increase the number of women on its faculty, particularly in high-level positions, and therefore specifically invites applications by women. Among equally qualified applicants women will receive preferential consideration.
Human Resources and Gender Equality of the University of Vienna Identification number of advertisement: 3477
E-Mail: jobcenter@univie.ac.at
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Univ. Prof. Dr. Petra Seibert
Inst. f. Meteorologie u. Geophysik
Universität Wien
Althanstr. 14 / UZA II / 5G508
1090 Wien, Austria
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/petra.seibert/
petra.seibert@univie.ac.at
Tel. +43 1 4277-53790
Fax +43 1 4277-9537
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Univ. Prof. Dr. Petra Seibert
Inst. f. Meteorologie u. Geophysik
Universität Wien
Althanstr. 14 / UZA II / 5G508
1090 Wien, Austria
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/petra.seibert/
petra.seibert@univie.ac.at
Tel. +43 1 4277-53790
Fax +43 1 4277-9537

The ICOS project will soon become an offical European Research Infrastructure (ERIC). Part of ICOS will be a Carbon Portal that will provide external parties, main focus are scientists, with the ICOS data and products. The bid for offering this facility is now open. In order to facilitate the input from the modelling community in the definition of the interfaces and products of this Carbon Portal we will organise a workshop in Amsterdam in January 2013.

More information and registration for the workshop

The goal of the campaign is to compare different instruments (e.g. FTIR; Off‐axis LGR; Campbell; GC) applied for concentration and/or flux measurements by micro‐meteorological or chamber based approaches.

The campaign will take place at the Risø DTU TNA‐site willow‐plantation, in Zealand, DK. The plantation will becut in the winter 2012/2013, and ca. one week prior to commence of the campaign measurements, the site will be fertilized with digested slurry to achieve a significant N2O emission rate.

The campaign will begin Monday 15.4.2013, and is envisioned to run for two weeks, or longer if needed. Prior to this date, the site will be available for e.g. instrument preparation, installation and pre‐calibration, or other actions needed in order to initiate measurements on the desired date.

Access to a limited number of guest‐rooms is available at the Risø DTU campus, and will be available on a first-come first‐served basis.

A number of conventional hostel/hotel accommodation options are available in the city of Roskilde, ca. 5‐7 km from the test site.
http://www.danhostelroskilde.dk/#!prettyPhoto
http://www.hotelprindsen.dk/prindsen/PRINDSEN/Forside.html
http://www.scandichotels.com/Hotels/Countries/Denmark/Roskilde/Hotels/Scandic‐Roskilde/
http://www.comwellroskilde.dk/

The test site is equipped with mains power and i‐net. See further details at the relevant InGOS website page

Application for site‐access is also available at the InGOS website

If you are interested in participating in this campaign, and for further information, please contact:

Professor Per Ambus
Centre for Ecosystems and Environmental Sustainability (ECO)
DTU Chemical Engineering
Technical University of Denmark
mail: peam@kt.dtu.dk
Tel: +45 2132 5398

Detailed information on the position

Details about the grantholder contracts can be found here.

The deadline for application is 11 November 2012.

26.09.12-27.09.12
University of Bristol
School of Chemistry,
Cantock’s Close
Bristol

The meeting will be held in the University of Bristol, School of Chemistry from 26th – 27th September 2012.

Go to the porters desk inside the main entrance of the School of Chemistry and you will be directed to the meeting room. Directions of how to get to Bristol and the School of Chemistry can be found at: directions

AGENDA

Wednesday, 26.09.2012
10:00-10:30
1. Welcome, organizational matter, Introduction (S. O’Doherty)
10:30-12:00
2. stations/instruments (NA4: Data assurance halocarbon measurements)
a. update of stations (measured halocarbons/new sites/campaigns)
b. Summary of current status network/stations/intrument (S. O’Doherty)
c. concept and plans for improving the network/ additional sites (link to national networks)/campaigns/data centre (S. O’Doherty)

13:00-14:00
3. Lab visit (O’Doherty)

14:00-17:00
4. Quality assurance
5. Intercomparisons/standard propagation (O’Doherty)
a.
b. Quality assurance 1 (inlet lines/sampling/water treatment) Common strategy? (all)
c. Quality assurance 2 (post-measurement analysis, softwares, methods): Common strategy? (all)
d. Recommendations for good practice of atmospheric halocarbon Measurements (NILU)

19:00 Dinner at the Harbour

Tuesday, 27.10.2011

09:30-12:00
6. JRA5 Innovation in halocarbon measurement techniques
a. Detection of new halogenated greenhouse gases in the atmospherecriteria (UEA)
b. Implementation of new ToF-MS instrumentation (GUF)
c. Further development of the existing state-of-the art in GCMS technology (Empa)
12:00-13:00
Lunch

13:00-14:00
7. Data submission (Fiaeraa/NILU)
a. 2011 data sets
b. Old data sets

14:00-16:30
8. Outlook InGOS (all)
a) Next steps deliverables, next meetings
b) Outreach (internal in InGOS/external)
c) further calls
d) other issues

You can stay at a range of hotels which offer discount to the University of Bristol, a selection of these hotels are illustrated below:

The Avon Gorge Hotel
* Sion Hill
* Clifton
* Bristol
* BS8 4LD
* Tel: 0117 973 8955
* Fax: 0117 973 8955
* Email: rooms@theavongorge.com
* Website: www.theavongorge.com
How to Book
When making your reservation please quote University of Bristol to ensure that you receive the correct rates.
Room Rates
* Single room – £71.00
* Double room for single occupancy – £81.00
* Double occupancy room – £91.00
Rates are subject to availability and include full English breakfast, free Wi-Fi internet access, free access to Clifton College Leisure facilities (with hotel pass) and VAT.

Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel
* College Green
* Bristol
* BS1 5TA
* Tel: 0117 925 5100
* Fax: 0117 925 1515
* Website: www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/travel/brsry-bristol-marriott-royal-hotel/
Beschreibung: Log into Proactis
Supplier Number: ZBRI00383
How to Book
When making your reservations please quote University of Bristol to ensure that you receive the correct rates
Payment is due on departure, or you can arrange a departmental account prior to stay.
Bed & Breakfast Rates
Single £109.00
Double/twin £119.00

Clifton House
* 4 Tyndall’s Park Road
* Clifton
* Bristol
* BS8 1PG
* Tel: 0117 973 5407
* Fax: 0117 923 7965
* Email: enquiries@cliftonhousebristol.com
* Website: http://cliftonhousebristol.com/
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Supplier Number: ZCLI04301
How to book
When making your reservation please quote University of Bristol to ensure that you receive the correct rates.
Room rates
* Single room (Single bed) – £50.00
* Double room (for single or double occupancy) – £65.00
* Superior Double room for a single occupancy – £75.00 (add £10.00 for extra person)

Ibis Hotel Bristol Harbourside
* Explore Lane
* Bristol
* BS1 5TY
* Tel: 0117 989 7200
* Fax: 0117 989 7210
* Email: h5547@accor.com
* Website: www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel-5547-ibis-bristol-centre/index.shtml
How to Book
When making your reservation please quote University of Bristol to ensure that you receive the correct rates.
Payment can be made on account with prior arrangement or by credit card on departure.
Bed & Breakfast Rates
Standard room (single or double occupancy) £62.00
All rates include continental breakfast.

Premier Inn, The Haymarket
* The Haymarket
* Bristol
* BS1 3LR
* Tel: 0117 910 0600
* Fax: 0117 910 0619
* Website: www.travelinn.co.uk
Beschreibung: Log into Proactis
Supplier Number: ZPRE01791
How to Book
Contact Reservations on:
* Tel: 0117 910 0600
* Fax: 0117 910 0619
* Email: Bristol.pi@premierinn.com
Quote ‘University of Bristol’ for our special discounted rates. Payment is due on arrival, or you can arrange a departmental account prior to stay.
Pricing
£67.00 Single room occupancy
£7.95 room supplement for a twin or double occupancy room
All rates include full English breakfast & VAT
Location
Situated on the Northern edge of Broadmead, close to the Bus station, the Premier Inn provides comfortable and convenient location; being just a short walk from the main campus area.

Radisson Blu Hotel
* Broad Quay
* Bristol
* BS1 4BY
* Tel: 01179 349500
* Email: info.bristol@radissonblu.com
* Website: www.radissonblu.co.uk/hotel-bristol
How to Book
When making your reservation please quote University of Bristol to ensure that you receive the correct rates.
Room Rates
Single room – £95.00
Double occupancy room – £105.00

The Regency Bristol Hotel
* 40-44 St Pauls Road
* Clifton
* Bristol
* BS8 1LR
* Tel: 0117 923 8788
* Email: staff@theregencybristol.com
* Website: www.theregencyhotelbristol.co.uk
Beschreibung: Log into Proactis
Supplier Number: ZREG06528
How to book
When making your reservation please quote University of Bristol to ensure that you receive the correct rates.
Room rates
* Single room (single bed) – £56.00
* Double room for single occupancy – £66.00
* Double occupancy room – £77.00

Victoria Square Hotel
* Victoria Square
* Clifton
* Bristol
* BS8 4EW
* Tel: 0117 973 9058
* Fax: 0117 970 6929
* Email: info@victoriasquarehotel.co.uk
* Website: www.victoriasquarehotel.co.uk
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Supplier Number: ZVIC02784
How to Book
When making your reservations please quote University of Bristol to ensure that you receive the correct rates
Payment is due on departure, or you can arrange a departmental account prior to stay.
Bed & Breakfast Rates
Double room for single occupancy: £69.00
Double room for double occupancy: £79.00
NB: All rates include full English breakfast and VAT
Location
An extremely well presented privately owned 2 star hotel, situated on Victoria Square in the heart of cosmopolitan Clifton, just a 15 minute walk from the University precinct and a 2 minute stroll away from the many restaurants, bars and shops in Clifton Village.
All of the hotels’ 40 ensuite bedrooms are non-smoking and equipped with WIFI, satellite, TV, hairdryer, trouser press and tea/coffee making facilities. There is a small private car par at the hotel (on a first-come-first-serve basis), and unrestricted local on-street parking.

Please read the detailed job description attached herewith and visit the websites below for more information. The position will be filled as soon as the appropriate candidate has been found. Thanks a lot.

Reinhart Ceulemans

More info:

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