Job ref: LSX-08103
Anticipated start date: 1 July 2016

This is an opportunity for a highly motivated researcher to work on a 3 year, NERC-funded project which aims to experimentally test how reduced snow cover and shrub encroachment simultaneously modify soil microbial communities and their functioning in alpine grasslands.

You will work in collaboration with scientists at the University Innsbruck, the Technical University of Munich, and CEH Wallingford, which will involve a unique combination of experimental studies done at the landscape, field plot, and controlled environment scale, combined with the use of state of the art approaches to interrogate the taxonomic and functional biodiversity of the soil microbiome and its link to biogeochemical cycling.

Field experiments will to be carried out on high altitude alpine grassland in the UNESCO Biosphere Park Gurgler Kamm, Obergurgl, in the Austrian Alps.

For full details see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANN499/research-associate/