Stagiaire en modélisation du carbone des sols agricoles - Zurich

💡 Entreprise en transition
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Localisation Zurich
Publiée le 23/12/2022

AXA Climate

La Raison d'être d'AXA Climate est d'aider la planète Terre à devenir une véritable partie prenante de toutes les entreprises. Notre Mission est l'adaptation climatique et environnementale.

💡 Entreprise en transition

Cette entreprise a entamé sa transition pour améliorer son impact social et environnemental. Seuls les emplois contribuant directement à cette transition sont publiés ici, comme par exemple responsable RSE ou chef de projet bilan carbone.

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La Raison d’être d’AXA Climate est d’aider la planète Terre à devenir une véritable partie prenante de toutes les entreprises.
La Mission d’AXA Climate, c’est l’adaptation climatique et environnementale. Au service de cette mission, 4 différents métiers ! 

  • La formation - via des contenus digitaux, scientifiques pour mettre en mouvement tous les collaborateurs, leur donner les compétences et les outils. 
  • Le conseil - pour impacter en local, via des actions d’adaptation concrètes.
  • L’assurance et le financement - pour sécuriser celles et ceux qui s’adaptent, et impactent. 

AXA Climate and ETHZ are looking for a joint intern who will support applied research in the domain of agriculture and biodiversity risk management.

In line with climate change commitment and with consideration of the massive biodiversity loss, agriculture need to change rapidly. A set of practices such as using cover crops, extending crop rotation, reducing tillage, and agroforestry can help to restore soil health and biodiversity (“regenerative agriculture”).

Your mission will be focused on evaluating how those practices impact yields, carbon emission/sequestration and biodiversity.

Since only few reliable empirical datasets exists on this topic, you will also have to work with bio-physical crop models (STICS, Daisy, CropSys) to gain insights on how regenerative agricultural practices will impact yields and other parameters.

Your main task will include
• Conduct a literature review on how regenerative agriculture impact yield
• List and explore existing datasets on regenerative agriculture
• Compare crop models in their ability to account for a change in agricultural practices
• Use crop models to evaluate the potential outcome of different scenarios of adoption of regenerative practices

Your work will by key to convince investors, commodity buyers, food processors and other actors of the agri-food value chain that regenerative farming has a high potential to transform agriculture and is worthwhile investing in.

Profil recherché

Education:
• Bachelor or MSc program in agricultural or environmental sciences or any related fields.

Skills:
• Strong scientific skills: statistics, probabilities
• Coding experience with R or Python is required, experience with geodata or remotely sensed data is a plus
• Treatment of various data sets: reanalysis, satellite, etc.
• Soft skills: strong autonomy, Integrity, Team spirit
• A strong motivation to have a positive impact for our planet and create actionable change

Experience / Background:
• Knowledge of agriculture and regenerative practices
• Knowledge of soil and soil organic carbon is a plus
• Knowledges in bio-physical crop models is a plus (STICS, Daisy, CropSys)

Languages:
• Fluency in English required, any other language is a plus