Fully Funded PhD opportunity - Great Barrier Reef Catchment gully management (publicado 28 julio 2017)
The Griffith Centre for Coastal Management seeks a highly motivated student to undertake a PhD focused on aspects of alluvial gully management in key catchments draining to the Great Barrier Reef.
Applications close August 18th.
Postdoc position in the Netherlands: 'Airflow patterns over urbanized beaches’ (publicado 30 julio2017)
The Water Engineering and Management group of the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, is seeking a candidate for a postdoctoral position. A brief description of the position is added below. For a full description of the position and the profile of the candidate, please use the following link: Información buttom
Deadline for application is Friday September 8, 2017.
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PostDoc position ‘Airflow patterns over urbanized beaches’ (2 years, 0.8 fte)
The main task for the postdoc is to characterize and understand airflow patterns induced by various lay-outs of built environment in front of and/or on top of coastal dunes, especially in the region where the airflow affects the sediment transport. The results, which you are expected to publish in high standard scientific journals, will be used in the linked PhD project at the University of Twente on modelling coastal landscape evolution at the land-sea interface including the built environment. Hence you are expected to collaborate with the PhD candidate to integrate the insights on airflow patterns over built environment into the landscape evolution model.
The envisioned approach includes a combination of CFD modelling, for which you can collaborate with one of the project partners, and field studies. For the field studies you are expected to develop a stereo video imaging application to map air flow patterns around real-world beach hut arrays in front of the dunes in a field-scale PIV approach. You will be responsible for designing and organizing these field experiments.
We seek a talented, enthusiastic and inventive researcher with broad interests covering fieldwork, video imaging and CFD modelling. Candidates should have a background in or affinity with coastal aeolian morphodynamics and/or urban aerodynamics. Candidates should hold a PhD degree in the field of Aerodynamics, Fluid dynamics, Aeolian morphodynamics, or a related field. In particular we are looking for candidates who combine experience in CFD modelling with experience in experimental work or video imaging.
Post Doc in Mining Impacts at the University of Pittsburgh
Post-Doctoral Position in Underground Mining Impact Assessment
A post-doctoral position is available starting September 2017 to work with Dr. Daniel Bain in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
The successful candidate will play a key role in an assessment of the regulation of environmental impacts of underground coal mining in Pennsylvania. The candidate will play a central role in the project, coordinating scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History to gather, organize, and analyze data submitted to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Primary duties will include coordination of team logistics and communication with state partners, supervision of undergraduate researchers in the gathering and organization of geographic and written information, evaluation of data to identify and quantify hydrologic impacts following underground mining, and report writing. The successful candidate should have strong geographic information systems and data analysis skills and hold a PhD in environmental science or a closely related field. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the research, the successful candidate will receive training as needed to supplement their capabilities.
The position is for 1 year with the possibility of extension for an additional year and starts as early as September 1, 2017. Interested candidates should send a cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information of 3 references (name, address, email, and phone number) to dbain@pitt.edu
For more information please contact Dr. Daniel Bain (dbain@pitt.edu or 412 624 8766).
Review of applicants will begin immediately and proceed until the position is filled. The University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and values equality of opportunity, human dignity and diversity. Women, members of minority groups under-represented in academia, veterans, and disabled are especially encouraged to apply.