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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">PhD Graduate Research Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences at Michigan State University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Department of Geological Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="http://www.geology.msu.edu/"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">www.geology.msu.edu</span></a><u><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#3366FF"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:blue">www.msu.edu/~jpz<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:blue">hydrogeology.glg.msu.edu<u>
<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The Department of Geological Sciences at Michigan State University has graduate assistantships and fellowships available for motivated doctoral students looking to
join the Hydroecology/Watershed Sciences or Hydrogeology research groups in 2014. Possible graduate research topics include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Hydroecology / Watershed Sciences:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Investigating the role of groundwater – stream water interactions on stream biogeochemistry (e.g., Nitrogen and Carbon cycling).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Revealing the impact of climate change and land use dynamics on the hydrologic controls of watershed solute export, namely, the export of organic carbon (dissolved and particulate) as
well as nitrogen and emerging contaminants <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Developing a theoretical framework for how hillslopes, shallow-aquifers, and streams interact to influence biogeochemical and ecological patterns in stream networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Hydrogeology:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Studying the role of groundwater in mediating and buffering impacts of climate and land use change on stream biogeochemistry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Simulating temperature and nutrient transport throughout the terrestrial water cycle with a regional integrated surface/subsurface hydrologic model.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Simulating impacts of extreme events of watershed nutrient export, and how those may respond to climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Understanding how agricultural land use and management impacts sustainable water use under a changing climate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Quantifying the impacts of changes in climate and land use on hydrology and ecosystems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Applicants must be self-motivated and hard-working, with good written and verbal communication skills. A strong background in hydrology, hydrogeology, biogeochemistry,
aquatic ecology, or physics is ideal. Past programming and GIS experience is highly desirable.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Our research groups are highly interdisciplinary and collaborative, and we encourage applicants with interests across the spectrum of basic to applied sciences. Students
interested in the intersection of policy and hydrologic sciences may be interested in pursuing an additional degree certification through the Environmental Sciences and Policy Program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Please contact Dr. Jay Zarnetske at
</span><a href="mailto:jpz@cns.msu.edu"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">jpz@cns.msu.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">, or Dr. David Hyndman at
</span><a href="mailto:hyndman@msu.edu"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">hyndman@msu.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""> if interested. Official applications for the graduate program in the Department of Geological Sciences
are due by December 1, 2013 for full consideration in additional fellowship and funding opportunities (applications received after December 1, 2013 will also be considered).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">We welcome emails prior to the application date that include: 1. current CV with list of references, 2. transcripts, 3. general GRE scores (with percentages), 4. writing
samples, and 5. a brief statement detailing your specific interests in graduate studies and these research topics, as well as your relevant research and computational experience.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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