<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mark_Waldrop?= <</span><a href="mailto:mwaldrop@USGS.GOV" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">mwaldrop@USGS.GOV</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subject: Position availble: PhD Research Chemist or Microbiologist Position studying soil carbon cycling</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">A GS-12 research chemist/microbiologist position is available at the USGS=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">=92 Menlo Park, CA, campus,=20</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">conducting fundamental research on soil carbon cycling that supports the =</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Climate and Land Use (CLU)=20</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">R&D program and externally funded USDA grant. The overarching goal is=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> to study the interactions=20</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">among mineral assemblages, microbial communities, and carbon forms that w=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ill ultimately inform=20</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">next-generation carbon cycle models. The research will encompass lab and =</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">field studies and will=20</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">employ a combination of spectroscopic, microbial, and isotopic techniques=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. Field studies will be=20</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">focused on climo-chronosequences along the California coastal range near =</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Santa Cruz and Mattole,=20</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CA. Laboratory studies will focus on constructed soil microcosms, and wil=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">l involve the development=20</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and use of microbeam Raman and infrared (IR) techniques as well as isotop=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">e tracing to visualize the=20</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">fate of carbon in the three dimensional structure of soil.=20=20</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For questions or more information please contact Mark Waldrop: mwaldrop@u=</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://sgs.gov/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">sgs.gov</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/387232400" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/387232400</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Job announcement number PAC-2015-0119</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Salary $82,275.00 to $106,955.00 / Per Year up to four years.</span><br></div>
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