The \u201c4\u2030 Soils for Food Security and Climate\u201d agreement has focussed regulators\u2019 and\u00a0scientists\u2019 minds alike on the role that carbon plays in fertility and global climate change.\u00a0Organic carbon is often implicitly linked with soil structure and its rapid loss from\u00a0conventionally managed agricultural soils is a cause of serious concern. Soil without\u00a0biology however, is just dirt: it is critical that we understand the consequences of carbon\u00a0and structural losses for soil metabolism. As the successful PhD candidate, you will work\u00a0within an experienced multidisciplinary team generating insight of soil as a metabolically active\u00a0system: one within which microbial activity \u2013 the engine of soil fertility – is explicit.\u00a0You will have access to imaging and modelling techniques to describe microbe-scale soil\u00a0structure and hydrodynamics, generate and analyse biological sequence data from soil\u00a0microbiomes and have opportunities to collaborate internationally on Australian and\u00a0African soils where carbon is severely limited.<\/p>\n
Applicants should hold a minimum of a UK Honours Degree at 2:1 level or equivalent in\u00a0appropriate subjects such as Soil, Biological or Environmental Sciences or Microbiology.<\/p>\n
For further details or to discuss any aspects of the project, contact Dr. Andrew Neal at\u00a0Rothamsted Research (andy.neal@rothamsted.ac.uk<\/a>) or Professor Karl Ritz at The\u00a0University of Nottingham (karl.ritz@nottingham.ac.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The \u201c4\u2030 Soils for Food Security and Climate\u201d agreement has focussed regulators\u2019 and\u00a0scientists\u2019 minds alike on the role that carbon plays in fertility and global climate change.\u00a0Organic carbon is often implicitly linked with soil structure and its rapid loss from\u00a0conventionally managed agricultural soils is a cause of serious concern. Soil without\u00a0biology however, is just dirt:… Read More »Metabolic constraints arising from the loss of organic carbon and structure from soils.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":5847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51],"tags":[44,15],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-51","tag-case","tag-rothamsted"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/files\/2017\/10\/Andrew-Neal-Image-400x400px.jpg?fit=400%2C400","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kFzn-1wi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}