Postdoc in high mountain permafrost mapping (M/F)

Researcher in statistical modelling and mapping of high mountain permafrost in the frame of the assessment of the risks from glacial and periglacial origins project funded by the French Ministry of Ecology. The recruited researcher will be part of the Morphodynamics team in the EDYTEM laboratory and will be supervised by Florence Magnin

The work will consist in collecting the data of about fifty sensors spread across 15 sites in the French Alp, processing and analyzing them, and to calibrate a statistical model explaining permafrost distribution with various environmental variables. The model will then be implemented in a Geographical Information System and the map will be analysed in the goal to write reports and scientific article. The researcher will also be involved in the communication of the results at meetings and national and/or international conferences.

The researches will be conducted in the pluridsciplinary EDYTEM laboratory, an “Unité Mixte de Recherche” (Mixed Research Unit) belonging to both the CNRS and Univeristy Savoie Mont Blanc, but whose common line is mountain environment. He/she will be related to the Morphodynamics team, which hosts about fifteen permanent researchers, an engineer and a lot of PhD candidates and postdocs, mostly in the fields of geology, geophysics and physical geography.