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<font face="Calibri"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: gray"><span> </span></span></b><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #2f5496">Graduate Assistantship in Earth & Environmental Sciences
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<b><span style="COLOR: #2f5496"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Land Ocean Atmosphere Interactions Lab, CCNY/CUNY
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<b><span style="COLOR: #2f5496"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University</font></font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b>A Ph.D. or M.Sc. Graduate Assistantship in Earth & Environmental Sciences
</b>is available for motivated students interested in research on biogeochemical cycles and biological processes in wetlands, estuaries, and the coastal ocean. The assistantship provides competitive monthly stipend, tuition, health benefits, and coverage of
research and related travel expenses. </font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The successful applicant will
<span style="COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt">have an opportunity to</span> participate in NSF and NASA funded research that integrates rich field datasets, remote-sensing observations, process-focused experiments, and advanced modeling tools
<span style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt">to test key research hypotheses that are critical for understanding carbon sources, sinks and transformations across terrestrial-aquatic interfaces, and impacts of tidal wetland ecosystems on coastal carbon fluxes and budgets.
</span>The student will join an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and senior scientists at the City University of New York, Columbia University Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, NASA Goddard, and NOAA
CREST<span style="COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt">. </span><span style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt"></span></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b>Qualifications:</b> We are searching for highly motivated students with a
<span class="currenthithighlight">BSc</span>. or M.Sc. in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Oceanography, Biochemistry or closely related discipline, strong analytical skills, and strong research interest in aquatic biogeochemistry and optics. Experience on
programming (e.g., IDL, Matlab, Python), field data collection methods, and/or remote-sensing data analysis are desired but not required.</font></font></p>
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<font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><b>Contact and application information:</b> Please e-mail (i) statement of interest, (ii) a curriculum vitae, (iii) unofficial transcript(s), and (iv) contact information of two references to Dr. Maria Tzortziou (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mtzortziou@ccny.cuny.edu" target="_blank">mtzortziou@ccny.cuny.edu</a>
or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mt3123@columbia.edu" target="_blank">
mt3123@columbia.edu</a>) and Dr. Joaquim Goes (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jig@ldeo.columbia.edu" target="_blank">jig@ldeo.columbia.edu</a>). The start date is Fall 2016 to Fall 2017 depending upon student admittance into the Graduate Program.
Review of applications will begin immediately.</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">For more background, please visit our Lab websites:</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><a href="http://www.mariatzortziou.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">Tzortziou LOA Lab</font></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><a href="http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/user/jig" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">Goes Lab</font></a></p>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><b><i>Maria Tzortziou, PhD</i></b></span></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font size="1" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><i>NASA Deputy Program Applications Lead for ACE, PACE, and GEO-CAPE Missions</i></span></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font size="1" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><i>Associate Professor, EAS Dept., CCNY, City University of New York</i></span></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font size="1" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><i>Adj. Associate Professor, Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory</i></span></font></div>
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