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Apply before: 23 July 2021
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Position: PhD Position
Apply before: 23 July 2021
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"Understanding the effects of Bedrock Fractures and Weathering on critical zone hillslope hydrology and stability"
The research project will be in collaboration with Professor Seulgi Moon (University of California, Los Angeles) and Dr. PhD. Dino Bellugi (University of California, Berkeley).
Details on the research topic are available below and at the following link (https://www.unitn.it/alfresco/download/workspace/SpacesStore/63aef7b9-163e-4ee0-8ec3-a270abdcd8f8/research%20subjects-37-ICAM_def.pdf; check Scholarship A2 in the research subjects list, reference person: Giuseppe Formetta).
Coding and spatial data management skills are desired.
Applications should be submitted online by July 23 at 16:00 CET at: https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1954/announcement-of-selection
Giuseppe Formetta
Title: Understanding the Effects of Bedrock Fractures and Weathering on critical zone hillslope hydrology and stability
Earth’s Critical Zone is the thin outer layer of our planet from the top of the tree canopy to the bottom of water aquifers that supports almost all human activity. The critical zone is experiencing changes from growth in human population, wealth and climatic changes. Understanding, predicting and managing all the processes occurring in this important part of earth is crucial to predict and adapt to the intensification of extreme events and climate change. For example, landslides present one of the greatest geologic hazards that currently threaten human society and infrastructure (e.g. review in Sidle and Ochiai, 2006). Extreme precipitation caused more than 9,500 landslides resulting in more than 29,000 casualties globally since 2007 (Kirschbaum et al., 2010), with over $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage (Bowman, 2015).