Research Technician in Soil Sensing
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Employer: Lancaster University |
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Job location: Lancaster UK |
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Apply before: 08 Jan 2020 |
Summary
Applications are invited for an NERC-funded technician position, tenable for 2 years at 1 FTE, within the NERC funded Soil Change (Detecting soil degradation and restoration through a novel coupled sensor and machine learning framework) project. You will support work at Lancaster and Colorado State University which aims to develop arrays of soil sensors suitable for sensing soil water, soil biological, soil chemical and surface properties.
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The successful applicant will be responsible for helping to develop low-cost sensor arrays, their deployment and subsequent communication with data retrieval systems as well as retrieving data and making it available to other members of the project team. Studies will take place in the laboratory and field (UK) and will link with other sites in the United State.
The project is part of an international consortium funded through the NERC-NSF programme on Sensors in the Soil. The project is led from the Lancaster Environment Centre, (Prof John Quinton and Dr Jess Davies) and will work closely with colleagues in Maths and Statistics (Dr Rebecca Killick, Dr Christopher Nemeth and the project Post Doc).
The position is available to scientists with a BSc in agricultural, plant, environmental, computer or earth sciences. Experience of environmental instrumentation or working with micro-computers e.g. Arduino, Raspberry PI would be an advantage.
The position is effective from the 1 February 2020 and is available until 31 May 2021. Informal enquiries to Professor John Quinton (email: j.quinton@lancaster.ac.uk or Telephone 01524 593654).
Further details of the Principal Investigators’ research can be found at:
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/john-quinton
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