<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Graduate student positions available in marine trace metal biogeochemistry at Texas A&M Oceanography</b></font><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The </span><a href="http://geoscascade2.tamu.edu/ocean/people/faculty/fitzsimmonsjessica.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Fitzsimmons
Lab</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> in trace metal biogeochemistry in the </span><a href="http://ocean.tamu.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Department of Oceanography</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> at </span><a href="http://www.tamu.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Texas A&M University</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> seeks</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">creative and motivated graduate students at the Masters
and/or PhD level to join the lab in Fall 2015. Our research explores the
distribution, physicochemical state, and isotope ratios of trace metals in
seawater in order to better understand the cycling and biological usage of essential
micronutrient metals in the oceans. We are a sea-going group, collecting our
samples on research cruises and then analyzing them back in the laboratory. Our
primary analytical tool is inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
(ICP-MS), which is housed in the Williams Radiogenic Laboratory in the College
of Geosciences.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Potential research topics include (but are not
limited to) 1)</span> processes controlling distributions of<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> dissolved, colloidal, and particulate metals in the
ocean;</span> <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">2) the development of innovative
methods to explore the physicochemical speciation of iron in marine and coastal
waters; and 3) the measurement of micronutrient metal stable isotope ratios to
gain knowledge of the source and/or processes modulating metal distributions in
the oceans. Potential study locations include the Arctic Ocean (US </span></span><a href="http://www.geotraces.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">GEOTRACES</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">), the West Antarctic
Peninsula (</span><a href="http://pal.lternet.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Palmer LTER program</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">), the Southeast Pacific Ocean, coastal California and Maine,
and the Gulf of Mexico. Opportunities for participation in oceanographic
cruises will be available and encouraged. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Students</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">should
have a strong background in one or more of the following disciplines:</span>
chemistry, biogeochemistry, oceanography, and/or earth science<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">. Strong chemistry skills, excellent written and oral
communication in English, and</span> <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">most
importantly enthusiasm are required. Experience on oceanographic research
cruises, in clean labs, and/or with ICP-MS is desirable.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">**Application process**</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Interested and qualified candidates should send
an email describing their motivation and research interests</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">along with a CV to</span> <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dr. Jessica Fitzsimmons <</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="mailto:jessfitzsimmons@gmail.com" target="_blank">jessfitzsimmons@gmail.com</a>>. </span><a href="http://takethenextstep.tamu.edu/oceanography/graduate-programs/482-oceanography-graduate-applications" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Formal
graduate applications to Texas A&M Oceanography</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> are due January 1st. Financial support for graduate students
is available from</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">research assistantships,
teaching assistantships, and university</span> <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">fellowships,
and application to outside funding sources is also</span> <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">encouraged.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">*About Texas A&M Oceanography*</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Texas A&M University is a top-100 university
located in College Station, TX, between the metropolitan cities of Austin and
Houston, TX. It is a land-, sea-, and space-grant university with a dynamic and
international community of 172,000 people situated on 5200 acres of land.
Oceanography graduate faculty are housed primarily in College Station, with
associated scientists and graduate students also on the Galveston campus.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The more than 30 faculty and 60 graduate students in Oceanography
sail across the world to learn more about the ocean’s physical, geological,
chemical and biological properties. The academic curriculum emphasizes an
interdisciplinary approach to discovering the connection between the oceans’
past, present, and future. Research ranges from monitoring the hypoxic levels
and algal blooms of the Texas Gulf Coast to the understanding the influence of
climate change on the fragile ecosystems of the Arctic and Antarctic. The
department also maintains close ties with the Geochemical and Environmental
Research Group (</span><a href="http://gerg.tamu.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">GERG</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">), which is an applied research group that serves to link
academic education and research to the real-world needs of government and
industry. GERG expertise includes buoy design, fabrication, deployment, ocean
monitoring and modeling, as well as environmental contaminant assessments of
soil, water, air and organisms. The Oceanography department also works closely with
the rest of the Texas A&M </span><a href="http://geosciences.tamu.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">School
of Geosciences</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">, which includes the Departments of Atmospheric
Sciences, Geology and Geophysics, and Geography, the Berg-Hughes Center for
Petroleum Sedimentary Systems, the Integrated Ocean Discovery Program (IODP),
and Texas Sea Grant. Altogether this School includes >100 research faculty,
>200 research and administrative staff, and >350 graduate students.</span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Jessica Fitzsimmons, Ph.D.<br>Postdoctoral Associate<div>Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences</div><div>Rutgers University</div><div>71 Dudley Road</div><div>New Brunswick, NJ 08901</div><div>(848) 932-3397</div><div><a href="http://marine.rutgers.edu/main/IMCS-People-Details/People-Details-Jessica-Fitzsimmons.html" target="_blank">http://marine.rutgers.edu/main/IMCS-People-Details/People-Details-Jessica-Fitzsimmons.html</a><br></div></div>
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