The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is looking for two ocean and ice sheet modellers to join our Polar Oceans and Ice Dynamics teams. These posts are part of two interlinked projects within the ARIA-funded Forecasting Tipping Points programme. The Ice/Ocean Modeller will join the PROMOTE project (Progressing Earth System Modelling for Tipping Point Early Warning Systems), a collaboration across 7 UK institutions using the UK Earth System Model (UKESM) to study tipping points in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre and Greenland Ice Sheet. The Ice Modeller/Emulation Scientist will join GIANT (Greenland Ice sheet to AtlaNtic Tipping points from ice loss), a large international collaboration across 14 institutions that is dedicated to observing and modelling the melting and calving of glaciers in Greenland fjords.

For the Ice Modeller/Emulation Scientist role, we are looking for someone to run ice-sheet simulations of key Greenland glaciers and examine their response to perturbations from melting and calving at the glacier face. They will then use AI frameworks to create statistical emulators of glacier and fjord models, which will be used to examine the potential for tipping points in Greenland glaciers. The postholder will collaborate with GIANT scientists across BAS (Ice Dynamics, Polar Oceans, AI Lab and Digital Innovation Team) and externally (e.g. University of Leeds).