<div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000">Dear Colleagues:<br>
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Please pass along the attached PhD student assistantship
in Dendrochronology & geochemistry to anyone you think might be interested. </font><font color="#000000"><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman Bold" size="+1">Graduate Research Position
in Experimental Tree-Ring Science</font></font><font color="#000000"><br>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="+1">Applications are invited for a
Ph.D. student to fill a graduate research position that is currently
available in the DendroLab (</font></font><font color="#0F36A0" face="Times New Roman" size="+1"><a href="http://dendrolab.org/" target="_blank">http://dendrolab.org/</a></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1">) at the University
of Nevada Reno.</font><font color="#000000"><br>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="+1">(</font></font><font color="#0F36A0" face="Times New Roman" size="+1"><a href="http://www.unr.edu" target="_blank">http://www.unr.edu</a></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1">). This position is part of a newly funded
NSF project entitled "</font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman Italic" size="+1">Past extension of the North American Monsoon
System (NAMS) into the Great Basin reconstructed from
cell-to-ecosystem dendrochronology</font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1">". The successful applicant will be
part of a multi-disciplinary team that includes experts on stable
isotopic analysis, wood anatomy, dendrochronology, and numerical
analysis. The specific hypotheses that will be tested by the research
team concern tree-ring reconstructions of monsoonal climate,
especially with regard to formation of intra-annual density
fluctuations (false rings) in ponderosa pine (</font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman Italic" size="+1">Pinus
ponderosa</font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1">). The project will leverage the recently built NevCAN
(Nevada Climate and Ecohydrological Assessment
Network, </font><font color="#0F36A0" face="Times New Roman" size="+1"><a href="http://sensor.nevada.edu/NCCP/Climate%20Monitoring/Network.aspx" target="_blank">http://sensor.nevada.edu/NCCP/Climate%20Monitoring/Network.aspx</a></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1">) instrumental
transects. These valley-to-mountain-top observatories span 2000-m
elevation gradients in the Snake Range (eastern Nevada) and in the
Sheep Range (southern Nevada), which is included in the northwestern
limit of the North American Monsoon System. This project is also part
of an ongoing collaboration between the DendroLab and the
Département des Sciences Fondamentales, Université du Québec à
Chicoutimi, Canada.</font><font color="#000000"><br>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="+1">Financial support includes a
monthly stipend, support for travel to scientific meetings, field and
laboratory analyses, tuition and health insurance. The position is
available starting in January 2015, and will remain open until filled.
The appointment will be initially for one year, with a possibility of
renewal for the two additional years of the grant. Applicants should
have an undergraduate or graduate degree in chemistry, biology, wood
science, hydrology, ecology, or a related field. The ideal
candidate should have a strong quantitative background and interest in
interdisciplinary and experimental approaches to the development of
proxy climate records. Experience in one or more of these areas is
particularly welcomed: stable isotopic analysis, numerical analysis in
script-based environments (such as R or SAS), and wood anatomy. It is
expected that the primary role of the student will be in field and
laboratory activities related to stable isotope
analyses.</font></font><font color="#000000"><br>
<font face="Times New Roman" size="+1">Candidates need to apply for
graduate admission on-line (</font></font><font color="#0F36A0" face="Times New Roman" size="+1"><a href="http://www.unr.edu/grad/admissions" target="_blank">http://www.unr.edu/grad/admissions</a></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1">), and will become
eligible for the position after being accepted by the UNR Graduate
School in one of these two graduate programs (depending on the
student's interests): Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology
(</font><font color="#0F36A0" face="Times New Roman" size="+1"><a href="http://environment.unr.edu/eecb/" target="_blank">http://environment.unr.edu/eecb/</a></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1">) or Hydrologic
Sciences (</font><font color="#0F36A0" face="Times New Roman" size="+1"><a href="http://www.hydro.unr.edu/home/" target="_blank">http://www.hydro.unr.edu/home/</a></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1">). International
applicants can find additional information on admission requirements
on the Graduate School website (</font><font color="#0F36A0" face="Times New Roman" size="+1"><a href="http://www.unr.edu/grad/admissions/international-requirements" target="_blank">http://www.unr.edu/grad/admissions/international-requirements</a></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1">). For questions or
additional details on the position, please contact Prof. Franco Biondi
(</font><font color="#0F36A0" face="Times New Roman" size="+1"><u><a href="mailto:fbiondi@unr.edu" target="_blank">fbiondi@unr.edu</a></u></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1">, +1 775
784-6921).<br><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="+1"><br></font></div>
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