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<p class="" style="margin-left:0cm"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Please find details below of a
potential (open competition) fully funded PhD project at the University of Sheffield,
UK. This is part of the </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN">NERC Doctoral Training
Partnership “ACCE” (Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">. Further
details of the project can be found on:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN"></span></font></p><font>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/phd/projects/investigating_drainage_ice_sheet_phd">http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/phd/projects/investigating_drainage_ice_sheet_phd</a></span></font></p>
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<font><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Investigating drainage beneath the British-Irish
Ice Sheet: groundwater flow modelling and meltwater channel networks</span></b></font></p><font>
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</font><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 3pt"><font><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Supervisors:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"> Professor Chris Clark
(Geography Department, University of Sheffield), Dr Stephen Livingstone
(Geography Department, University of Sheffield) and Professor Domenico Baú
(Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield)</span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 3pt"><font><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Contact:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">
<a href="mailto:s.j.livingstone@sheffield.ac.uk">s.j.livingstone@sheffield.ac.uk</a></span></font></p><font>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The
behaviour of ice sheets is largely controlled by conditions at their bed.
Observations made beneath the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets reveal
significant basal meltwater generation, storage and evacuation, which can
lubricate the bed causing rapid ice-flow. Unfortunately, the pattern of
meltwater flow beneath modern ice sheets is poorly understood. In particular,
glaciologists have tended to think of the bed as an impermeable surface.
However, the weight of an overlying ice mass has a major impact on groundwater
flow patterns, recharge rates and distribution of freshwater. Detailing the
complex aquifer--ice-sheet interactions is therefore crucial both for draining
meltwater and as a mechanism for landform and sediment genesis. </span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">In
this project we will use the bed of the British-Irish Ice Sheet, which has
fully retreated revealing a bewildering array of meltwater features, in tandem
with a numerical model, to reconstruct the form, evolution and drainage of
groundwater and basal meltwater. This will be explored through: (1) detailed
mapping of meltwater channels; (2) u</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">sing
a numerical model to reconstruct the pattern of groundwater drainage during the
last glacial.</span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Candidates
with knowledge and interests in glacial hydrology, groundwater/ice-sheet
modelling and/or glacial geomorphology are encouraged to apply. </span></font></p><font>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The studentship
will be tenable for three and a half years in the first instance. Candidates
must be an UK/EU resident to hold a NERC studentship.</span></font><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></font>
</p><font></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">To discuss your
suitability for this project and further information please email: <a href="mailto:s.j.livingstone@sheffield.ac.uk">s.j.livingstone@sheffield.ac.uk</a>
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<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Dr Stephen J. Livingstone<br>NERC and Vice Chancellor Research Fellow<br><br>Department of Geography<br>University of Sheffield<br>Sheffield <br>S10 2TN<br><br>Tel. <a value="+441142227959">+44 (0) 114 222 7990</a><br>
Email: <a href="mailto:s.j.livingstone@sheffield.ac.uk" target="_blank">s.j.livingstone@sheffield.ac.uk</a><br><br><a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/staff/livingstone_stephen/index" target="_blank">http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/staff/livingstone_stephen/index</a><br>
<br>Times Higher Education University of the Year 2011<br></div>
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