Location: Leibniz-Institut für Angewandte Geophysik
Team including: Thomas Wonik, Christian Zeeden, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, William Gosling
We are looking for a researcher with a geosciences background to explore the physical properties of the sediments recovered from Lake Bosumtwi (Ghana). The Lake Bosumtwi sediments we recovered by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program in 2004 and have been found to span the last c. 1.07 million years (Koerbel et al., 2005). This project will examine the borehole data and relate this ongoing palaeoenvironmental studies at the site (Miller & Gosling, 2014; Miller et al., 2016).
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Deadline for applications: 31/07/2021
References
Koeberl C, Peck J, King JW, Milkereit B, Overpeck JT, Scholz CA. 2005. The ICDP Lake Bosumtwi drilling project: A first report. Scientific Drilling 1:23-27. https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.sd.1.04.2005
Miller CS, Gosling WD. 2014. Quaternary forest associations in lowland tropical West Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 84(0):7-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.027
Miller CS, Gosling WD, Kemp DB, Coe AL, Gilmour I. 2016. Drivers of ecosystem and climate change in tropical West Africa over the past ∼540 000 years. Journal of Quaternary Science 31:671-677. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2893
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