The University of Western Australia and Minderoo Foundation joined forces in 2021 to establish a world leading deep-ocean research centre, to increase understanding about the deepest parts of the ocean. This collaboration aims to comprehensively explore the deepest areas of the Indian Ocean – mapping the ocean floor, characterising and discovering new species, assessing marine biodiversity and charting deep-sea habitats, with a focus on abyssal plains and hadal subduction trenches. The Minderoo UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre is supported with a major five-year grant from Minderoo Foundation’s Flourishing Oceans initiative.
Offer description
- Exciting opportunity for a passionate geologist to be part of a multi-disciplinary team, underpinned by state-of-the-art deep-sea technology.
- Fixed term appointment for three years with an immediate start.
- Salary range: Level B $100,374 – $118,776 p.a. plus 17% superannuation.
Skills/ qualifications
- An earned PhD and preferably postdoctoral experience demonstrating substantive work on the mapping and interpretation of subsea features using both acoustic and visual methods.
- Knowledge and skills to lead and implement a research program to understand the geological setting of hadal and abyssal features at multiple scales.
- Extensive experience planning and implementing scientific expeditions including post-voyage reporting and effective data archiving.
- Knowledge, skills, and experience operating subsea equipment and operating multibeam echo sounders, with appropriate acquisition, processing and interpretation software.
- Established or emerging reputation for research excellence and academic achievement relative to career stage and opportunity as evidenced by publication history.
- Being a team player with exceptional interpersonal skills able to foster an atmosphere of innovation, creativity, and excellence among others.
- Ability to engage, communicate, build relationships, and negotiate with a diverse group of people, including local and international scientists, ship crew and students.
- Superior written and oral communication skills.
- Experience with interpretation statistics and modelling.
- Preferably have a track-record in a variety of communication and outreach activities including but not restricted to social media and radio, TV and news, public and school presentations.
Organisation
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Location
Australia
Research field
Environmental science
Geosciences
Deadline
11 October 2021
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