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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Drs. Kim and McGlue
seek a Ph.D. student for research on Holocene paleoclimate in the Eastern
Sierras. This collaborative project will include multiple institutions and
integrate seismic stratigraphy, chronological dating, carbonate isotope, and
leaf wax biomarker data from lacustrine cores taken in the Eastern Sierras. The
results of this project will be an original contribution to climate change and
glacial geology in the western U.S. We seek a student to focus on compound-specific
isotope analysis of leaf wax biomarkers. The student should be willing to
travel for fieldwork, have a background in stable isotope analysis and/or
biogeochemistry (MS in stable isotope geochemistry or paleolimnology preferred),
and interested in interdisciplinary research. After preliminary results, the student will
have some flexibility in the specific research questions to pursue. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">The student will
be based in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the University
of Kentucky in Lexington. The department has a stable isotope geochemistry lab
with three isotope ratio mass spectrometers and peripherals for a wide range of
isotopic measurements. We expect the student to learn the chemical and
analytical techniques with guidance from Dr. Kim, but be self-motivated to
generate and explore data, maintain instrumentation, and understand the
chemical, biological, and geoscience context of this project. Interested
students should contact Dr. McGlue (<a href="mailto:michael.mcglue@uky.edu"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">michael.mcglue@uky.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';color:black">; </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://ees.as.uky.edu/users/mmmc234"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">https://ees.as.uky.edu/users/mmmc234</span></a></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">) or Kim (<a href="mailto:sora@uchicago.edu">sora@uchicago.edu</a>; <a href="http://leekim.org/">http://leekim.org/</a>) for
further information and submit a mini application at <a href="http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/dgs/miniapp.html">http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/dgs/miniapp.html</a>.
More information on research clusters and facilities as well as the PhD program
at UK and its admission requirements can be found at <a href="https://ees.as.uky.edu/">https://ees.as.uky.edu/</a>.</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div>T.C. Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellow<div>Department of the Geophysical Sciences<br><div>University of Chicago, 331 Hinds</div><div><a href="http://www.leekim.org" target="_blank">www.leekim.org</a></div></div></div></div>
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