Hydrochemist - Research Officer

at  Springer Nature

HYDROCHEMIST - RESEARCH OFFICER

Employer
Teagasc
Location
Wexford (County), Leinster (IE)
Salary
Research Officer with a Salary Scale of €38,558 to €74,094
Closing date
18 Mar 2024
Discipline
Chemistry
Job Type
Researcher
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Fixed term
Qualification
Undergraduate
Sector
Government
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To contribute, as part of a multidisciplinary team, to the provision of scientific evidence to support Irish agriculture in meeting the requirements of the Water Framework Directive which requires Ireland to attain and sustain at least good status for all our water. A particular emphasis will be on:

• Producing policy-relevant peer-reviewed scientific papers using existing and new data and disseminating the results to a wide audience
• Overseeing the implementation of a programme of high temporal resolution monitoring of hydro-metrics (stream water flow, groundwater flux and weather data) and chemo-metrics, such as of nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and carbon concentrations in six small (ca. 10 km2) study catchments
• Improving understanding on the processes of nutrient and sediment (or any other contaminant) loss to water in the agricultural landscape and the impacts on stream ecology
• Quality assuring and analysing the data produced in the programme to assess the effectiveness of mitigation measures
• Extend current baseline monitoring of water quality with multiple contaminants

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