Jobs:Job-01108
Apply before: 5 January 2023
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Position: PhD Positions
Apply before: 5 January 2023
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I’m recruiting new PhD students to join my research group at the University of Washington in beautiful Seattle, USA. Application deadline January 5, 2023, to start in September, 2023.
The first PhD student will study geomorphology and sedimentology of outburst floods in the tectonically active Eastern Himalaya. The project is part of recently funded NSF grant called "Collaborative Research: Geomorphic legacy of megaflood deposits on river processes and form, Eastern Himalaya (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2220336&HistoricalAwards=false). The student on this project will work with a great team of mentors including Profs. Karl Lang (Georgia Tech) and Charlie Shobe (West Virginia U), and interact with UW faculty in geomorphology (including anticipated new faculty hires) and other graduate and undergraduate students and postdocs working on different aspects of the project.
I am also recruiting a second PhD student to work on a carbonate clumped isotope geochemistry project related to tectonics, paleoclimate and/or petrology and geochronology, using all-new lab instrumentation that was recently funded by NSF (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2153799&HistoricalAwards=false) and that will be installed in our collaborative stable isotope lab (http://isolab.ess.washington.edu/isolab/) in January 2023.
The PhD students will be fully funded through graduate research (RA), teaching assistantship (TA), and university fellowships, including a full tuition waiver, stipend, and funds to support research activities and attend conferences and workshops.
My group studies the interactions of tectonics, erosion and climate in shaping Earth’s surface and shallow crust, over timescales ranging from geologic to human. Student projects draw from a broad range of fields including geomorphology, tectonics, structural geology, sedimentology and geochemistry, and combine field-based, laboratory and numerical modeling approaches. Students benefit from an incredibly collaborative and supportive environment, which includes our “structure/tectonics/geomorph/climate supergroup” made up of about 15-20 undergrads to postdocs and faculty that meets weekly to problem solve, collaborate and support each other’s research and professional development.
Applicants are encouraged to contact me at kate1@uw.edu for details about these opportunities and our research group. Prospective students should apply for admission to our PhD program in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences (https://www.ess.washington.edu/content/education/grad/research/admissions.php) at the University of Washington (https://grad.uw.edu/admission/apply-now/). Applicants can enter our PhD program directly from a Bachelors or from a MS degree. Students can also email essadmiss@uw.edu for more info on our graduate program and other faculty who are recruiting students for 2023-24.
All the best,
Kate Huntington
Kate Huntington, née Ruhl (she/her/hers)
Endowed Professor for the College of the Environment in Earth Systems
Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Winter 2022-23, Visiting Professor, Universita' Degli Studi Di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
