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Grad student opportunities at Tulane
Tulane University, Louisiana, United States
Start reviewing process: 1 November 2019
Start reviewing process: 1 November 2019
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Position: PhD and MS positions
Start reviewing process: 1 November 2019
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I am recruiting graduate students to join our research team at Tulane (New Orleans, LA, USA). We are a diverse group of researchers at all levels - undergrads, grad students, post-docs, & well-seasoned person (me) - who are excited about studying surface processes and the movement of water at many scales. We also value our health, and regularly participate in K12 outreach and activities that promote inclusion.
Two graduate student opportunities:
- NSF funding to support a PhD student interested in source-to-sink sediment routing. We will use watersheds and deltas in Northeastern Italy to explore the processes controlling whether climatically and tectonically driven erosion gets recorded as a "signal" in the sink, and if such a signal exists, how do we interpret it. The field area will serve as motivation for building process components in Landlab, a python library for modeling earth surface processes. The student should be interested in coding and numerical modeling, as well as field work and DEM analysis. The student would be co-advised by Gasparini and Nathan Lyons at Tulane, and be part of a broader team that includes Frank Pazzaglia (Lehigh) and Tammy Rittenour (Utah State).
- National Park Service funding to support an MS student interested in swamp hydrology. We will be working in Jean Lafitte park (close to New Orleans) to quantify how human landuse change has impacted surface and subsurface water movement, with an aim to better manage the park in the face of climate change and subsidence. We will work closely with Julie Whitbeck, an ecologist at the park.
Students can also get involved in field work and research related to other ongoing projects:
- quantifying how rock properties affect landscape evolution in the Guadalupe Mountain in New Mexico
- quantifying links among weathering rate, grain size delivered to fluvial channels, and fluvial incision rates in the Rio Blanco, Puerto Rico
- quantifying the impact on hurricanes on erosion in Puerto Rico
Ideally both students would start in January 2020, but mostly I'm looking for students who will enjoy working with our team and contributing to these projects.
Please contact me if you are interested!
Nicole
Nicole M. Gasparini (She/Her)
Associate Professor
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Tulane University
ngaspari@tulane.edu
Of interest for: Terrestrial Working Group Hydrology Focus Research Group Geodynamics Focus Research Group
