Biodiversity-Lake Modeling: PhD, Postdoc & RA

Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, is an internationally networked aquatic research institute within the ETH Domain (Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology). Eawag conducts research, education, and expert consulting to achieve the dual goals of meeting direct human needs for water and maintaining the function and integrity of aquatic ecosystems.

PhD Student 100%, a Postdoc 80-100% and a Research Assistant 80-100%, (m/w/d)

Biodiversity-inspired lake modeling - linking processes from cells to ecosystems.

Climate change is causing lake surface waters to warm, which due to increased thermal stratification, often also reduces nutrient input from deeper waters. Projecting how these concurrent changes in temperature and nutrients affect lake ecosystems requires a mechanistic understanding of the impacts of combined changes in temperature and resource availability on phytoplankton physiology, biodiversity and functioning. In this project we will upgrade mechanistic lake models to incorporate greater planktonic biodiversity to a) predict diversity and community composition responses to combined gradients of warming and changes in resource availability (light, nitrogen and phosphorus), and b) improve predictions of ecosystem properties and functioning by including the impacts of phytoplankton diversity and composition.

This project is an international collaboration between research groups at Eawag (Narwani and Bouffard), Wageningen University (Velthuis), NIOO-KNAW (Van de Waal) and the University of Rhode Island (Inomura). It is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation Lead Agency process.

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