Jobs:Job-01861
Start reviewing process: 31 August 2025
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Posting:
Position: PHD or MS Student Opportunity
Start reviewing process: 31 August 2025
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Project title: Monitoring and modeling natural erosion processes in the vicinity of shallow radioactive waste repositories
Project Goals:
- Contribute to development of site-specific model parameterization using high-resolution topography data, hydrometeorological time series, and other data.
- Simulate land erosion dynamics under various future rainfall scenarios characterized by stochastic rainfall events.
- Use landscape evolution models to estimate future site conditions, and to analyze how various erosional factors affect downstream erosion and sediment budgets during large storm and/or geological events.
This research will be conducted in close coordination with researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratories. As such, it is anticipated that the student working on this project will gain experience in both applied and basic research, as well as gain experience working within a dynamic team environment.
- Due to the nature of this work and funding requirements, prospective students should be US citizens.
Note, the standard application deadline for Spring admissions at NMT is September 15. If you have any questions about this position or are interested in other positions starting in Fall 2026, please reach out to me at joel.leonard@nmt.edu.
Joel S. Leonard
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
