Sd-25118 Postdoctoral Researcher On Soil Processes Modelling and Carbon Stocks in Forests

il y a 17 heures

EschsurAlzette, Luxembourg Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) Temps plein

Description
**Temporary contract | 36 months | Belvaux**:
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The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) is a Research and Technology Organization (RTO) active in the fields of materials, environment and IT. By generating relevant scientific knowledge and converting knowledge into technologies, smart data and tools, LIST empowers citizens in their choices, public authorities in their decisions and businesses in their strategies.

Forests contribute to stabilizing micro and macro climate, sustain and protect biodiversity, contribute to global carbon uptake and storage, support livelihoods, and help drive inclusive and sustainable growth. Luxembourg city is one of the country’s largest forest owners, with its 1,055 hectares of forests (managed by the ‘Administration de la nature et des Forêts - ANF)’ playing multiple roles - including (i) recreational purposes, (ii) drinking water production from the Luxembourg sandstone aquifer, (iii) air purification, and (iv) wood production. However, Luxembourg’s forests are far from being sheltered from threats related to global change. In recent years, they have shown a rapid decline in forest health, likely due to increasingly strong exposure to various pressures related to the combined effects of climate change (droughts, flash floods, insect pests and diseases), air pollution, and the development of newly urbanized areas. To maintain and protect the benefits of forests, there is thus a pressing need for a better understanding of these pressures, and more sustainable forest management strategies.

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**How will you contribute?**:
Increasing occurrence and severity of droughts and heat waves poses significant challenges to the performance and survival of forest trees and often leads to shifts in forest community composition. Species composition can alter the allocation of forest carbon above versus belowground, and the turnover rate of the different forest soil carbon pools, both of which influence forest carbon stocks. Quantifying forest carbon turnover is complex and requires a combination of long-term monitoring and innovative techniques, including process modelling and stable isotope assays.

Forest soil carbon pool turnover is strongly influenced by soil microbial community structure and physiology, and several microbially-explicit process models exist to predict how forest soil carbon will change in a changing environment. In this post-doctoral position, you will generate new knowledge about these forest systems using a microbially-explicit soil process model. In addition, you will contribute to baseline monitoring and mapping of the soil carbon stocks in Luxembourg City forests, including designing and contributing to field sampling and laboratory analysis. You will also collaborate with remote sensing scientists to estimate aboveground forest carbon.

You will interact with multi-disciplinary researchers in the FORLUX project, including plant ecophysiologists, geochemists, geophysicists, soil microbiologists, and biogeochemical and hydrological modelers, with the aim to develop a holistic understanding of the relevant interactions between different compartments of the forest ecosystem. In collaboration with two other postdoctoral researchers on FORLUX, one focusing on water-tree interactions and one on tree adaptation modelling, you will draw links between the water and carbon cycles at the studied forest sites and beyond. Regular exchange with non-scientific stakeholders and a strong association of FORLUX with a doctoral training unit on "Forest function under stress" (FORFUS) will further contribute to the holistic view of forests that you will help develop.

You will be mainly in charge of:

- Understanding the impact of drought and tree species shifts on soil carbon using a microbially-explicit soil process model.
- Contributing to collaborative research with Luxembourg forest stakeholders, including researchers, forest managers, and forest policy makers.
- Establishing baseline mapping of soil carbon stocks and future forest soil carbon monitoring for the City of Luxembourg (i.e., mixed urban and suburban forests).
- Collaborating with remote sensing researchers to estimate above-ground forest biomass carbon.
- Collaborating with PhD researchers to design cutting-edge experiments of how forest soil carbon responds to drought, using molecular-level analysis of soil carbon.

Your roles and responsibilities will include:

- An active contribution to progress in projects of regular size and scope.
- Discussion and definition with the task leader, the principal investigator (PI), and external stakeholders in the project, of the objectives and expected results of the forest carbon task (i.e., using a co-creation approach).
- Interaction in a collaborative manner with other team members to achieve goals.
- Organization of own work to meet objectives and deadlines. Informing regu

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