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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Graduate and Postgraduate Assistantships: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Climate controls on terrestrial-to-aquatic
biogeochemical fluxes in boreal forest watersheds</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">A postdoctoral research position and three graduate
assistantships are available for keen and motivated students interested in
research and training centered around understanding the impact of climate
change on boreal forest landscape biogeochemistry. These positions are available as part of a
new NSERC-Strategic Partnership Project focused on the Newfoundland and
Labrador Boreal Ecosystem Latitudinal Transect (NL-BELT; <a href="https://www.esd.mun.ca/nl-belt/" target="_blank">https://www.esd.mun.ca/nl-belt/</a>) and
made up of foreign collaborators, provincial and Canadian Forest Service
partners as well as Memorial University researchers in Earth Sciences and
Chemistry. The project is focused on
exploiting the established NL-BELT which consists of four large watersheds
located in western Newfoundland and southern Labrador to isolate the potential
impact of predicted increases in temperature and precipitation in the coming
century while maintaining an ability to apply the results to intact boreal
forest ecosystems and their watersheds. Our team has been conducting
investigations of soils and stream water along the NL-BELT and combining these
with manipulative warming experiments to develop biogeochemical indicators of
soil responses to increasing temperature. The increased ecosystem C fluxes with
climate warming established along this transect appears to occur without
significant changes to soil C stocks, however, they suggest important changes
relevant to the terrestrial-to-aquatic flux of materials in these
landscapes. It is anticipated that the new
postdoctoral researcher, MSc and two PhD students joining the Biogeochemistry
of Boreal Ecosystem Research Group (BBERG; <a href="http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Our_People/Faculty/Ziegler/" target="_blank">http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Our_People/Faculty/Ziegler/</a>)
will focus on the following areas within this boreal biome climate change
context:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">1. Fate and
geochemistry of dissolved organic matter in podzolic mineral soil horizons.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">2. Biogeochemistry
of organic matter through the terrestrial-to-aquatic interface.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">3. Nutrient
biogeochemistry of the terrestrial-to-aquatic interface.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">4. Impacts of
hydrology on soil respiratory responses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Experience with
aquatic or soil biogeochemistry, organic geochemistry, and/or environmental
chemistry particularly will be important.
All applicants should have a demonstrated background of experience in biogeochemistry,
environmental chemistry, ecosystem ecology or hydrogeochemistry. Applicants
should be willing and able to conduct field research at remote study sites for
weeks at a time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">These positions
are all available as early as January 1, 2016. The graduate assistantships can
be in either the Department of Earth Sciences or the Environmental Sciences
Graduate Programs at Memorial University (<a href="http://www.mun.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.mun.ca/</a>)
where program start dates are in May or September. Memorial is the largest
university in Atlantic Canada. As the province’s only university, Memorial
plays an integral role in the educational life of Newfoundland and Labrador (<a href="http://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com" target="_blank">http://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com</a>).
Offering a diverse set of undergraduate and graduate programs for approximately
18,000 students, Memorial provides a distinctive and stimulating environment
for learning in St. John’s (<a href="http://www.stjohns.ca/visiting-our-city" target="_blank">http://www.stjohns.ca/visiting-our-city</a>),
a very safe, friendly city with great historical charm, a vibrant cultural
life, and easy access to a wide range of outdoor activities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Please check the
BBERG website (<a href="http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Our_People/Faculty/Ziegler/" target="_blank">http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Our_People/Faculty/Ziegler/</a>)
for more information and group contacts, and direct further inquires or send
applications, including letter of interest and detailed curriculum vitae
(including contact information for 3 references), to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr. Susan Ziegler</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Canada Research
Chair in Environmental Science</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Department of
Earth Sciences</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Memorial
University<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">St. John’s,
NL A1B 3X5<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Canada<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="tel:709.864.2669" value="+17098642669" target="_blank">709.864.2669</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:sziegler@mun.ca" target="_blank">sziegler@mun.ca</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Our_People/Faculty/Ziegler/" target="_blank">http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Our_People/Faculty/Ziegler/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Review of
applications will commence <b>immediately </b>and
will continue until positions are filled.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Susan Ziegler<br>Canada Research Chair in Environmental Science<br>Department of Earth Sciences<br>Memorial University<br><a href="tel:709.864.2669" value="+17098642669" target="_blank">709.864.2669</a><br><a href="mailto:sziegler@mun.ca" target="_blank">sziegler@mun.ca</a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><a href="http://www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Our_People/Faculty/Ziegler/index.php" target="_blank">www.mun.ca/earthsciences/Our_People/Faculty/Ziegler/index.php</a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><br><br><br></div></span></span></div></div></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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