Total 4 Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in Durham, County Durham

• Developing, implementing, and managing key procedures/aspects of the protocol within the scientific scope defined.
• Facilitating, coaching, and planning techniques to lead clinical research within the NICHD, Office of the Clinical Director.
• Independently evaluating critical feasibility issues such as those related to patient-population availability and recruitment, availability of resources.
• Coordinating and implementing clinical research protocols, including protocol development and implementation, patient recruitment, patient enrollment, data collection and organization, data analysis, safety monitoring.
• Ensuring compliance with protocol requirements to maintain data integrity; and supporting ongoing research and clinical programs at NIA.

• Contributes to a range of staff functions involving planning, policy development, and analysis necessary for key policy and program decisions by the division leadership.
• Develops reports and other staff documents on policies, programs, plans, research accomplishments, and other activities.
• Maintains awareness of scientific and legislative developments and issues having implications for current and planned health, social science, and/or bioethics research and research training programs.
• Consults with a wide range of individuals who are involved in scientific research to identify major issues, roadblocks, and potential actions necessary for policy development and interpretation.

• Contributes to a range of staff functions involving planning, policy development, and analysis necessary for key policy and program decisions by the division leadership.
• Develops reports and other staff documents on policies, programs, plans, research accomplishments, and other activities.
• Maintains awareness of scientific and legislative developments and issues having implications for current and planned health, social science, and/or bioethics research and research training programs.
• Consults with a wide range of individuals who are involved in scientific research to identify major issues, roadblocks, and potential actions necessary for policy development and interpretation.

As a PDRA on this project, the successful applicant will be required to develop relative sea-level reconstructions over the past few hundred years from salt-marshes in Greenland using diatoms as the main proxy, alongside XRF and other stratigraphic methods. These reconstructions will be compared to relative sea-level predictions from new Greenland-wide models of ice sheet change developed by collaborators on the project from Lincoln and Northumbria Universities. The main responsibilities will be to develop new modern and fossil diatom datasets from Greenland saltmarshes and statistical and chronological models that allow quantitative relative sea-level reconstructions from sites around the west coast of Greenland. A further responsibility will be to write applications for radiocarbon dating support, to prepare data, figures and text for publication and to communicate the interim and final findings of the research at collaborator workshops and international science meetings.

This is a great opportunity to work as part of a friendly team on a cutting-edge project. The PDRA will have access to outstanding resources including laboratory and microscope facilities and travel funding for conferences and collaboration.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience in developing relative sea-level reconstructions using diatom data and application of quantitative methods of RSL reconstruction. Previous experience working in salt-marshes would be an advantage.

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