The Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM) is looking for a candidate for a predoctoral contract to join the Ecology of Marine Microbes (EMM) research group in the GRAMMI project, a project to study the microbial dimension of submarine groundwater discharge (SDG) in coastal areas of the Mediterranean Sea, considering the diversity, functional potential and connectivity of microbial communities at this terrestrial-marine interface.
The candidate will characterize the taxonomic and functional diversity of the microbial communities along the whole hydrologic continuum, from the coastal groundwater to the open coastal sea. Spatio-temporal samplings will be performed across different coastal aquifers sites in order to elucidate the microbial diversity hidden in these systems, its environmental drivers and its role in biogeochemical cycling at the land-sea interface. Also, the potential consequences of these groundwater inputs for the structure and functioning of marine microbial communities will be studied.
Applications can be submitted until 27th October 2020 at the following link. For further information, please check linked documents.