Jobs:Job-01673

From CSDMS
Recruiting multiple graduate students
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Start reviewing process: 15 December 2024


We are recruiting multiple graduate students funded by NSF and Volkswagen Foundation projects at Oregon State University, Corvallis. The projects are related to assessing the effects of wildfire on hydrological processes in montane humid forests in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The projects aim to disentangle the impacts of soil burn severity (SBS) and tree mortality on snow dynamics (accumulation/melt), infiltration (soil properties/flow paths), and runoff generation (runoff generation and water transit time) across catchments with contrasting storage capacity. The investigation will take place in the iconic H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (https://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu), a Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site of the NSF. We will leverage pre-fire hydrometric and water chemistry data to develop a unique design that examines:
  1. How soil burn severity (SBS) affects infiltration and runoff pathways,
  2. How vegetation loss affects snow dynamics, and
  3. How SBS and vegetation loss effects cascade to control runoff generation and transit time.

The project PIs are Catalina Segura, Pamela L. Sullivan, and Mark Raleigh. We are seeking multiple graduate students (particularly at the PhD level) to start in the summer of 2025. The deadline for fall admission varies by program between Dec 15, 2024, and Jan 15 2025. Well-qualified applicants will have a strong quantitative background and experience in hillslope or catchment hydrology. Programming experience in Python, Matlab, R, or other languages is a plus.

The student can apply to the Water Resources Graduate Program (https://gradwater.oregonstate.edu/), the Sustainable Forest Management (https://shorturl.at/jN8Hg; College of Forestry), Geology (https://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/geology-graduate-program) or Geography and Geospatial Science (https://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/geography-and-geospatial-science-faculty; College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science) through the graduate school at http://gradschool.oregonstate.edu/admissions/process. Interested applicants should contact the PIs at (segurac@oregonstate.edu, pamela.sullivan@oregonstate.edu, and raleigma@oregonstate.edu).

Questions regarding the application process can be addressed to Madison Dudley (Sustainable Forest Management) – Madison.Dudley@oregonstate.edu; Steve Good (Water Resources Graduate Program) – stephen.good@oregonstate.edu or Lori Hartline (Geology, Geography) – (lori.hartline@oregonstate.edu).

Oregon State University is located in Corvallis, a vibrant college town of 54,500 in the heart of western Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Corvallis consistently ranks among the best and safest cities to live in the U.S., as well as among the most environmentally responsible. OSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

PI websites:
Segura: https://people-facstaff.forestry.oregonstate.edu/catalina-segura/
Sullivan: https://sites.google.com/oregonstate.edu/sullivanlab/home

Raleigh: https://cryosight.org/

Of interest for:
  • Terrestrial Working Group