Jobs:Job-01016
Start reviewing process: 1 November 2019
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Posting:
Position: Graduate Students
Start reviewing process: 1 November 2019
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- Managed aquifer recharge, surface water – groundwater interactions, water quality, incentives for enhancing use of stormwater and floodwater for managed recharge; and
- Subseafloor geothermics and hydrothermal systems on Earth and Ocean Worlds
Project descriptions:
- We are helping to design, create, and operate managed recharge systems to improve water supplies and water quality, conducting field and laboratory research, managing a novel recharge incentive program, and running models of coupled processes to understand these systems. We may also have opportunities in surface water - groundwater interactions in stream/river systems. Our work involves GIS, numerical modeling, field studies, and laboratory experiments, in collaboration with colleagues at other universities, agencies, NGOs, and in the region.
- We recently secured funding for two new projects, working as part of research teams: designing, building, and testing the next generation of marine geothermal measurement systems, including software for data processing, and developing numerical models of coupled fluid-heat-solute transport below the icy shells of ocean worlds. We are also preparing two- and three-dimensional simulations of subseafloor hydrothermal circulation on Earth, and looking for new opportunities to conduct surveys and experiments at sea.
More information on projects and funding is available here: https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~afisher/Research/GraduateOpportunity190722.pdf
Successful applicants will have an outstanding academic record with a B.S./B.A. in some branch of Earth/Planetary Science, Hydrogeology, Engineering, Physics, Geochemistry, or a related discipline, including considerable quantitative coursework. Prior research experience is helpful, as will be strong writing and/or coding skills, interest in reading and discussing the scientific literature, enthusiasm for discovery, and technical ambition.
Other helpful skills/interests include: working with lab/field equipment, organizational skills, interest in working independently and as part of multidisciplinary teams, and ability to work long days in the field or lab. For field work: transit to distant sites, working on uneven ground/ships, occasional heavy lifting, attention to safety and doing quality work.
Please direct questions to Andy Fisher (Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UCSC), afisher.at.ucsc.edu, http://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~afisher.
