The University of Wales Swansea has just advertised a prestigious 5-year Research Councils UK Fellowship under the umbrella of the Institute of Environmental Sustainability, School of Environment and Society. One of the preferred themes is: novel methods of high-resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. This Fellowship can be either part or fully funded and turns into a permanent academic post after 5yr. The IES has been awarded substantial infrastructure funding via the Welsh National Assembly to support research in stable isotope analyses of organic materials, including molecular isotope analyses, and is currently refurbishing laboratory space to provide new laboratories for palaeoecology and biogeochemistry. CF-IRMS, GC, pyrolysis GC-MS and GC-IRMS equipment are available or out to tender. UWS also houses the EPSRC Mass Spectrometry Unit. This post has been advertised on www.jobs.ac.uk Alayne