PhD in Marine Biology

We invite applications for a PhD position in the 4-year research project PAST, funded by the Dutch Research Council. Project PAST, “A proxy-model alliance to decode storms in warmer climates”, aims to quantify the occurrence of storms over western Europe during warmer climates. PAST develops the first reconstructions of storms in the geological past using fossil shells, produces new, high-resolution computer models of the warm Last Interglacial period, and synthesises these approaches through advanced statistics. The PhD candidate will lead biological growth experiments with live molluscs at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), analyse shells in the NIGEL geochemistry lab, and apply knowledge to reconstruct storm distributions during the Last Interglacial period using fossil shells from the Netherlands, Canary Islands and the Azores.