Post-Doc and PhD positions available

Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement (LGGE), located near Grenoble in France, is seeking applications for a CNES/CNRS-funded PhD and/or a CNES-funded post-doc, both as part of the CONCORDIASI project.
Applications due 31 March 2009.

Research topic for the PhD:

http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-fr/7419-sujets-2010.php?view=item&item=2328

Partial (CNES) funding obtained, subject to candidate selection by CNES, please see http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-fr/7419-sujets-2010.php?view=item&item=2328. Co-funding (CNRS) pending.

Research topic for post-doc open in relation with CONCORDIASI, IASI and other IR sounders, clouds, radiation, precipitation, Antarctica, and LGGE field activities. Project and candidate selection by CNES, to apply see
http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-fr/7420-candidater.php
Outline available for a project focusing on clouds and surface temperature on the Antarctic plateau, contact C. Genthon (see below).

PhD and post-doc will be supervised by C. genthon at LGGE and C. Claud at Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (Paris)

CNES is the french space agency:
http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-fr/6919-cnes-tout-sur-l-espace.php

CNRS is the National Center for Scientific Research, http://www.cnrs.fr/

LGGE is a CNRS / Grenoble university laboratory: http://www-lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/

For further information, please contact Christophe Genthon: genthon@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, tel 33 4 76 82 42 15, and Chantal Claud, chantal.claud@lmd.polytechnique.fr, tel 33 1 69 33 51 29