DECISION

Consolidación Investigadora research project (Ref: CNS2024-154895) (2025-2027) Spanish State Research Agency

Project overview

The purpose of DECISION is to test the pragmatic yet ambitious hypothesis that the onset and early rice cultivation and natural drivers of Ebro Delta long-term change and variability can be determined using a combination of aquatic palaeoecological proxies preserved in the sediments and Earth System’s modeling. First, we will examine past environmental conditions under which rice cultivation thrived following pre-dam and post-dam influences (last ca. 200 years). Then, we will reconstruct natural drivers of delta ecosystem change over the last 4000 years applying a combination of geochemistry (sediment provenance through XRF and foraminifera-based salinity paleoreconstructions) and modeling (past sea level curves and fluvial sediment discharges) methods. DECISION will finally translate past human-environmental dynamics to future simulations in the form of sensitivity maps to visualize where and when in the Ebro Delta natural and human-driven habitats may change.

My role

I am the principal investigator of the project.

Team

I’m looking for a PhD candidate. Submit your application including a cover letter (by stating how your background and research interests fit with the proposed PhD project) and Curriculum Vitae here: https://talent.irta.cat/en/jobs/6032732-phd-candidate-for-a-project-about-aquatic-paleoecology before July 9th.