Job Vacancies in Geomagnetism at the British Geological Survey

Two three-year appointments within the Geomagnetism group of the British Geological Survey,
based in Edinburgh, are now available.

These posts are concerned mainly with research into the internal magnetic field of the Earth, but
one has an external field (space science) aspect to it too. We’re keen to attract enthusiastic, self-
motivated research scientists, with an interest in both pure research and in real-world applications
of geomagnetism science.

Further details may be found at http://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/vacancies.html

Closing date for applications is 27th January 2012.

Post 1: Global Geomagnetic Field Modeller
The post holder will carry out research leading to improved scientific modelling and understanding
of global geomagnetic fields. They will apply the results of that research to improve the products
and services provided by BGS geomagnetism to the oil industry consortium that supports the BGS
Global Geomagnetic Model, the defence industry that supports the World Magnetic Model and
the academic community that uses global magnetic field models. In addition the successful
candidate will maintain and enhance the scientific reputation of BGS geomagnetism by publishing
scientific advances in geomagnetic field modelling and by developing and maintaining links with
other leading research groups in geomagnetism.

Post 2: Geomagnetic Field Researcher
The successful candidate will support BGS research and will investigate the application of potential
field methods to estimate local crustal magnetic field vector anomalies at depth from magnetic
total intensity surveys, in order to improve the magnetic directional referencing services BGS
provides to the oil industry. In addition the post holder will investigate methods to estimate the
time varying ionospheric and magnetospheric magnetic fields and to apply the results of that
research to improve the magnetic directional referencing services BGS provides to the oil industry.
The post holder will also improve the confidence in quoted uncertainties associated with model
estimates of the local crustal and time-varying external magnetic fields and contribute to
geomagnetism team response to oil industry customers.

Enquiries to Dr Alan Thomson (awpt@bgs.ac.uk)