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Vacation: GS Soil

BGR  is searching for a Geoscientist to be hired as soon as possible, for the duration of the research project “GS Soil” until 31.05.2012.
The position is part of the BGR’s contributions to the project GS Soil (Assessment and Strategic De-velopment of INSPIRE-compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data www.gssoil.eu), financed under the EU eContentplus Programme.
Responsibilities and duties
− Analysis and comparison of content and structures of national and international geoscientific par-ticularly soil data bases
− Development of data specifications for soil information with respect to web-based data communica-tion
− Development of transformation methods to facilitate harmonized soil data exchange
− Development and presentation of interoperable soil data including meta data through the BGR soil information system
Employment conditions
Applicants must hold a University Diploma or MSc degree in a geoscientific discipline with a concen-tration on soil science and geoinformatics. The position requires excellent knowledge in the manage-ment of the components of geoscientific information systems: map and measurement data, as well as metadata. The project develops strategies to facilitate web-based communication of interoperable soil data in distributed systems. This requires the profound understanding of soil mapping data, soil no-menclatures, soil data bases, combined with experience of OGC/ISO standards related to web-GIS, metadata, data encoding and export (XML). The project work relies on a broad range of GIS applica-tion skills. Fluency in English language is required, basic knowledge in German or willingness to learn German would be an asset.
The place of work is the Hannover headquarters, maybe by personal preference our office in Berlin. Payment is based on E13 or E 14 due to the TVöD and depends on the individual qualification of the applicant. BGR is an equal opportunities employer. A full-time position is planned, part-time would be considered.
We ask you to provide us with your detailed application referring to „GS Soil Geoscientist“ and applica-tion number B 22/10 including CV, brief statement of research interests and accomplishments, copies of relevant certificates as well as individual project results/publications/links to demonstrate your level of experience. Please send your application until the 16.04.2010 to
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR)
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Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hanover, Germany
Information about BGR can be found at www.bgr.bund.de.
For more information, you are welcome to contact rainer.baritz@bgr.de, or by phone +49/511/643-2409.