<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">I am seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join the Environmental & Water Resources Eng. group in the Department of Civil, Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA).</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">The student will conduct research in the disciplines of hydrology and remote sensing. Specifically, (s)he will be involved with a project titled “Optimal Precipitation Estimation for Land Surface Modeling” and funded by the NOAA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (<a href="http://www.jcsda.noaa.gov/" style="color: purple;">http://www.jcsda.noaa.gov/</a>). This project proposes a new method to improve land surface model skills by optimally merging precipitation estimates from different data sources to produce the best forcing precipitation estimate that minimizes the land surface simulation errors.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">The prospective student should be passionate and committed, have strong analytical and communication skills, possess excellent Fortran programming skills, has background in optimization, land surface modeling, and data assimilation.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">If interested, please contact Dr. Viviana Maggioni at </span><u><span style="color: rgb(17, 78, 230);"><a href="mailto:vmaggion@gmu.edu" style="color: purple;">vmaggion@gmu.edu</a></span></u><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">. More information can be found at<a href="https://volgenau.gmu.edu/how-to-apply" style="color: purple;">https://volgenau.gmu.edu/how-to-apply</a> and <a href="http://civil.gmu.edu/graduate/" style="color: purple;">http://civil.gmu.edu/graduate/</a>. The application deadline is 19 October 2015. Start date: January 2016.</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">All the best,</span></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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text-align: -webkit-auto;">Dept. of Civil, Environmental & Infrastructure Engineering</span></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Futura">George Mason University</font></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Futura;">4400 University Drive, MS-6C1</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; 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