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Environment, Science and Economy faculty

This new full-time post is available from November 2025 on a fixed term basis for 3 years (finishing no later than April 2029)

Ideally looking for a candidate who can work 1FTE but potentially open to someone working 0.8FTE.

The posts

The Faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Associates of three-years duration to work on UplandDep This post is fully funded by the following grantee and project:

• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) via the Improving pollutant deposition estimates to upland ecosystems project (UplandDep)

Atmospheric deposition is a major removal pathway of atmospheric pollutants, such as nitrogen, and deposition can lead to plant damage and affect biodiversity. Complex orography has a substantial impact on deposition, but this orographic impact has large uncertainties and is poorly represented in atmospheric chemistry and transport models. The UplandDep project will make significant progress in the understanding of deposition processes in complex upland terrain. The successful applicant will be expected to work on improving the representation of deposition processes in complex terrain within the Met Office’s atmospheric dispersion model, NAME, alongside colleagues at UKCEH working on the EMEP model. The tasks will involve analysing the accuracy and use of input meteorological data for deposition modelling in upland areas, implementing improvements to the representation in NAME of deposition processes such as seeder-feeder, occult (fog) deposition and turbulent dry deposition, and assessing the impact of model resolution on performance. Alongside this, model improvements will be assessed against new and historic measurement data and the impact of improvements on assessments of the UK nitrogen budget will be quantified. Full details of the position are given in the supporting documents.

The successful applicants will be expected to work closely with colleagues at the University of Exeter, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the University of Manchester and the UK Environment Agency but also with colleagues in the national and international arena and with colleagues at the Met Office. They will be expected to produce peer-reviewed papers documenting the results.

For further information please contact Dr Helen Webster, e-mail h.webster@exeter.ac.uk.

Apply online: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/etrec179gf.open?WVID=171839ediw&LANG=USA