Current position calls are below, when available. In addition, ICCI welcomes proposals for internships and in-kind work, especially to create animations and graphics that can help spread better knowledge of cryosphere dynamics, but other proposals welcome! Past internships have included work on black carbon from woodstoves, summaries of recent cryosphere science, and satellite monitoring of open burning near the Arctic.
Antarctica Director / Post-doctoral Fellow
Virtual – Open to Qualified Applicants Worldwide
ICCI’s Antarctica Director seeks to bring forward Antarctic science and climate change impacts from Antarctica to a global audience, with a focus on what global warming impacts on Antarctica will have on the rest of the globe. Special emphasis will be given to ice sheet loss and committed sea-level rise well beyond this century; and acidification, warming and freshening of the Southern Ocean. The position is especially appropriate to early career scientists whose research focused on one of these aspects of Antarctic science, as well as those with a policy interest sea-level rise and polar ocean impacts. The position that can also be structured as a science-policy post-doctoral Fellowship.
This exciting and varied work includes contacts with media, the scientific community, governments, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations, especially the UNFCCC, Antarctic Treaty system and nations concerned with adaptation to, and loss and damage from sea-level rise. Major emphasis each year is the ATCM meetings, which will be hosted by India (2024), Italy (2025) and Japan (2026). Formal work may begin in May-June or at any point through September 2024; but the ideal candidate would be able to attend portions of the ATCM in late May, together with the current incumbent as a learning experience.
More information can be found in the document linked below.
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Please send a current CV and cover letter/expression of interest to info@iccinet.org. ICCI strongly supports a diverse and inclusive work culture and environment.
ICCI is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization in the United States, founded in 2010 in the wake of COP-15 in Copenhagen; and a non-profit organization, ICCI-Europe, founded in Sweden in 2012. ICCI works to protect the Earth’s frozen lands and waters – and thereby, the entire globe – from the impacts of climate change. The cryosphere spans areas of the planet covered seasonally or year-round in ice and snow, including the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets, glaciers, snow, sea ice, permafrost and our polar oceans. As a network of both senior policy experts and leading researchers, ICCI works with governments, civil society and other actors to highlight the consequences of the rapid changes taking place in the cryosphere and the dynamics that drive them; promote rapid emissions reductions of 50% by 2030 to slow these; and support small-scale demonstration projects in support of mitigation and adaptation in mountain and near-polar regions. A message of both warning, and hope — that it is NOT too late to prevent cryosphere collapse, but an active choice by global leaders and humanity — is a key part of ICCI’s outreach mission.