Dear MARMAM Colleagues,
The Southern Ocean Persistent Pollutants Program (SOPOPP) at Griffith
University's Environmental Futures Research Institute, is currently seeking 3
highly motivated PhD students to join our team on 3 exciting research projects:
1) Cetacean Adiposity This project will investigate cetacean body
condition, bioenergetics, and the role that energy reserves play in the
toxicological risk posed by lipophilic chemical burdens. The project will, in
part, contribute to the SOPOPP Humpback Whale Sentinel Program which seeks to
capture and interpret change within the Antarctic sea-ice ecosystem. The right
candidate for this project will have a passion for, and demonstrate a strong
background in at least one of the following areas; organic chemistry, mammalian
physiology or biological modelling.
2) Humpback Whale Ecotoxicology Over the past 11 years, SOPOPP
have established a comprehensive timeline of POP exposure in the east coast of
Australia migrating breeding stock of humpback whales. In addition, it has
developed a number of tools for chemical effect assessment, including a
toxicokinetic model and the world's first humpback whale cell line. This
Project will utilise these tools, and implement new in-vitro methods, to
produce much needed cetacean toxicological effect assessment data for the
evaluation of toxicological risk in these species. The right candidate for this
project will have a passion for, and a strong background in biochemistry.
3) Biogeochemical Cycling of POPs in a Changing Antarctic Environment
Polar Regions are environmental ‘sinks’ for man-made POPs. The
unique biogeochemical processes governing POP behaviour in the Polar landscape
are not well understood yet are necessary to predict their impact in Polar
ecosystems. This project will investigate past and present accumulation of POPs
in Antarctic ice, seawater, air and Antarctic krill, and explore chemical
distribution and fate in a warming climate. The project will be linked to the
Scientific Community for Antarctic Research (SCAR) ImPACT (Input Pathways of
Persistent organic pollutants to AntarCTica) Action Group. The right candidate
for this project will have a keen interest in Polar science and a strong
background in organic chemistry.
The successful applicants will need to secure an Australian Postgraduate Award
Scholarship /Griffith University Postgraduate Scholarship. Scholarship
applications close Monday 29th April, 2019 for a late
2019 start. Scholarships are merit based and applicants will need to
demonstrate that they hold a 1st class honours or equivalent, or have been
leading author on at least one peer-reviewed journal article.
Application Details:
Interested applicants should send an expression of interest to Associate
Professor Susan Bengtson Nash
([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) no
later than 29th March, 2019
Associate Professor Susan Bengtson Nash
Program Director
Southern Ocean Persistent Organic Pollutants Program (SOPOPP)
SCAR: Chair of ImPACT | ARC: College of Experts | Editor: Scientific Reports
Environmental Futures Research Institute (EFRI), Griffith University, Nathan
Campus.
170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia.
Email: [email protected] | Phone: +61 (0)7 3735 5062 | Mobile:
+61 (0)437 888 711
Twitter: @Antarctica_POPs | Skype: s.bengtsonnash | Website:
http://www.griffith.edu.au/environment-planning-architecture/southern-ocean-persistent-organic-pollutants-program
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