Jobs:Job-00161
Start reviewing process: 10 July 2020
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Posting:
Position: MSc and PhD students (and postdocs – see below)
Start reviewing process: 10 July 2020
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I’m a geologist/geomorphologist, and my research focuses on how climate change affects landscapes, surface processes, and terrestrial sediments. You can find out more about me here (https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/mitchdarcy).
Start dates are flexible and various funding options are possible, including 4-year PhD scholarships that cover tuition. Funding is in place for field work, lab work, and international conference attendance.
I’m looking for students who are enthusiastic about geomorphology and curious about Earth’s climate and history. Some geological or geomorphological experience in the field is valuable because projects will typically involve field data collection and mapping. An interest in chemistry or remote sensing is advantageous, but not essential.
Projects could involve field work, geochronology, geochemistry, remote sensing and GIS, and/or modelling depending on what the student finds exciting and interesting. I have specific project ideas ready to go, involving topics such as:
- Orbital climate changes and their effects on erosion and sedimentation
- Recovering palaeoclimate signals from alluvial sediments
- Rapid climate changes in Earth’s history, and the responses of large source-to-sink systems
- Weathering processes over 1-100 kyr timescales
- Late Quaternary climate dynamics in North America and South America
- Cosmogenic nuclides and determining the ages of landscape features and the rates of surface processes
UBC is an excellent place to study, and consistently ranks among the top 20 public universities globally. Vancouver is also a great place to live with a highly-rated quality of life.
Interested students can contact me at: mdarcy@eoas.ubc.ca. Please include a copy of your CV and some information about you and your scientific interests. Students of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. More information about graduate studies at UBC is available here (https://www.grad.ubc.ca/), and about our department here (https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/).
Postdocs – I am also interested in recruiting postdocs, but I do ask prospective postdocs to apply for fellowship funding. There are various funding options available, which are highly competitive and require submitting a research proposal. If you’re interested in developing a proposal then please contact me to discuss.
Best wishes,
Mitch
Mitch D'Arcy
mdarcy@eoas.ubc.ca
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
The University of British Columbia
