The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, is seeking a graduate student at the PhD level in urban climatology/micrometeorology. The position is part of a collaborative research network on ‘Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities’ (EPiCC) funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS). The successful PhD candidate will receive three years of full-time support at a yearly minimum rate of CAD 18300 with a possibility to extend to 4 years through internal funding.

The research will involve eddy covariance measurements and modeling of energy, water and carbon exchange between urban environments and the atmosphere. It will focus on temporal dynamics of fluxes with special respect to anthropogenic activities, urban vegetation and irrigation. Existing rural and suburban tower sites and upcoming mobile measurements will allow addressing urban-rural differences as well as intra-urban variability.