The Center for Climate and Resilience Research (http://www.cr2.cl), funded by the Chilean Commission for Science and Technology (CONICYT, http://www.conicyt.cl/fondap/) aims at becoming a world-class research center focusing on Earth System Science, which in an interdisciplinary manner and in close relation to stakeholders, improves our understanding of the Earth System and is functional to the enhancement of societal resilience in Chile.

We hereby invite applications for two-years post-doctoral fellowships, beginning in early 2015 (~March), in the following themes:

1. Theme: Regional climate forcing by aerosols over and downwind Santiago (33.5S, 70.5W, 500 m.a.s.l.), with emphasis on absorbing aerosols, using a combined modeling and observational approach.

2. Theme: Ecosystem Services (ES) / Ecological Restoration (RE), especially water provision and carbon sequestration from forested ecosystems and the vulnerability of these ecosystems and services to climate change or fire; restoration ecology for the recovery of ecosystem services and biodiversity.

3. Theme: Addressing the impact of past, present and future drought conditions in water resources in central Chile. Of special relevance is the estimation of how much the precipitation deficit and temperature increase translate in changes in streamflow across a variety of geographical, environmental and physiographic conditions. This task may require observationnal analysis and hydrological modeling.

4. Theme: Assessing air-sea interaction processes along the Chilean coast based on measurements and observations, with emphasis on biogeochemical cycles and climate change impacts on ocean and other aquatic systems.

5. Theme: Land use and land use change in the context of adaptation to climate change, perspectives from law and/or society.

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