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PhD position on bio-optics, in the North Sea POWER (Progress in Offshore Wind Ecological Research) consortium - Op locatie - - Yerseke , Zeeland , Nederland - Estuarine & Delta Systems (EDS) Vacature details Solliciteren Functieomschrijving The Department of Estuarine & Delta Systems (EDS) - location Yerseke of NIOZ is looking for a highly motivated and proactive PhD candidate to investigate the underwater light climate around offshore wind farms in the North Sea ROYAL NIOZ NWO-NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research is the Dutch national oceanographic institute and principally performs academically excellent multidisciplinary, fundamental, and frontier applied marine research addressing important scientific and societal questions pertinent to the functioning of the ocean and seas. NIOZ includes the National Marine research Facilities (NMF) department that operates a fleet of research vessels and the national pool of large seagoing equipment, and supports excellence in multidisciplinary marine research, education, and policy development. THE PROJECT This position is one of twelve PhD and postdoc positions across the consortium. You will be part of a team working on shared questions, with joint meetings, fieldwork and training alongside your own project. You will be hosted at NIOZ in Yerseke, where you will study bio-optics in close collaboration with NIOZ on Texel, Deltares as well as University of Twente. THE POSITION Do you want to unravel how offshore wind farms (OWF's) are transforming the underwater light environment of the North Sea? To reveal this, you will develop inversion algorithms to derive the underwater light climate and other optical water quality parameters from satellite data of the North Sea. In this PhD position, you will measure spectra, light scattering, absorption and attenuation, and concentrations of optically active substances during North Sea ship cruises and in the laboratory. Using radia...