The CSIRO is seeking a postdoctoral research fellow with a strong background in the field of physical oceanography to join their multi-disciplinary research team based in the Floreat research lab of CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research, Perth, Western Australian.
The appointee would be engaged in research which is part of the Western Australian Marine Science Institute (WAMSI) that aims to provide a better understanding of the physical dynamics of the Leeuwin Current, the eastern boundary current system off the west coast of Western Australia, its response to climate change, and their potential impacts on marine ecosystem off the coast of Western Australia.
The coast of Western Australia has one of the largest ENSO responses in world. The ENSO signals drive strong interannual variability in the Leeuwin Current, the eastern boundary current of the Indian Ocean, and the eddy energetics in the current system. Because the ENSO signal is transmitted so effectively into the WA region, we expect the impact of climate change to be also large, but it is as yet unknown. The Leeuwin Current and its eddy field have strong effect on the biogeochemical processes in the marine ecosystem off Western Australian coast and the impacts of ENSO and climate change on the marine ecosystem is also expected to be important.
The successful candidate will have detailed understanding of meso-scale ocean dynamics. The position will be working in a multi-disciplinary research team with the goal of projecting future climate on regional marine system off Western Australia. Beyond physical oceanography, the project offers an opportunity of a high level of teamwork and multidisciplinary research. The successful candidate will interpret regional model outputs and observational data, with the aim of describing how the ocean dynamics affect the biogeochemical processes in the marine ecosystem of the shelf environment, with an emphasis on the cross-shelf exchange processes driven by the mesoscale eddies in the boundary current system. The position will also help interpret the climate change scenarios of the Leeuwin Current system from high resolution numerical simulations.
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