The DFG-funded International Research Training Group ‘INTERCOAST – Integrated Coastal Zone and Shelf-Sea Research’ in collaboration between the Universities of Bremen (Germany) and Waikato (New Zealand) focus on investigation of global changes and environmental impacts on coastal zones and shelf-sea regions to develop new and innovative sustainable usage strategies. This research requires the interdisciplinary and international cooperation of relevant scientific fields from marine geosciences and marine biology to social sciences and law.
In this, INTERCOAST trains young scientists to become highly qualified, interdisciplinary thinking, internationally visible and independent scientists and to be prepared for their future professional careers.
INTERCOAST offers
12 PhD positions
(66% TVL-13; for the duration of 36 month) in the specific research fields:
Coastal ecosystem change: dynamics, perception and interpretation
• Coastal development: driven by environmental and anthropogenic forcing
• Coastal change and infrastructural development
Coastal development and sea-floor integrity
• Initiation of motion – marine biological factors controlling sediment stability
• Ecology of natural vs. artificial hard substrata in the marine coastal environment:
Substrate characteristics as facilitator of settlement and community stability
• Abiotic and biotic influenced acoustic patchiness of coarse grain habitats
• Protecting sea-floors: Towards a legal regime on marine soil protection
Pulses of Coastal Sediment Mobilisation – Causes, Consequences and Mitigation
• Sediment stability and (re)mobilisation in coastal areas of Germany and New Zealand
• Magnetic heavy minerals as stratigraphic markers of littoral sedimentation events
• Coastal flood protection in the law of Germany and New Zealand
The use of models in coastal research and law
• Modelling the dynamics of estuarine-inlet-beach exchange
• The modelling of environmental risks in administrative and judicial proceedings
• Uncertainties of regional ocean circulation projections
Location: Bremen, Germany and Waikato, New Zealand
Application deadline: 31st July 2015 or until the positions are filled.
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