<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Postdoctoral Associates</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The University of <span class="gmail-m_8245106123508685246gmail-m_7327564076385096249m_6123235492197922152gmail-il">Arizona</span>, Dept. of Geosciences, is advertising a post-doc position studying the interaction between ice sheets and the solid earth in the Earth Dynamics Observatory. Applicants with backgrounds in geodesy, geodynamics, seismology, climate science, applied math, or other areas of geophysics/related fields will be considered. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The successful candidates will build on our previous work using spatio-spectral localization of satellite gravimetry to study the response of the cryosphere to climate change. They will work to investigate regional differences in cryosphere mass balance and the role these play in ongoing sea-level rise. Possible projects include, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">1) using gravity field data and geodynamic models to investigate lateral variations in upper mantle viscosity </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">and their relation to contemporary ice sheet mass balance, and </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">2) investigating the spatial relationships between ice sheet mass balance and the changes to the </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">climate which drive ice mass changes, such as temperature data, etc. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Familiarity with ice-sheet physics, geodynamic codes running on high-performance computing environments, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">global climate model output, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">strong writing skills, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">and the ability to program in MATLAB or a similar environment are preferred. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The UA Dept. of Geosciences is one of the top rated geosciences departments internationally, with a collaborative and collegial group of researchers. The University is located in Tucson, in the geologically and ecologically diverse Sonoran desert.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, contact information for three references, a writing sample, and a C.V. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">More details are included at the official announcement/posting at: </span><a href="https://uacareers.com/postings/16197" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#1155cc"><span style="font-size:12.8px">https://uacareers.com/post</span></font><font color="#1155cc"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><wbr>ings/16197</span></font></a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> More than one hire is likely. Applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Please send informal inquiries to </span><a href="mailto:charig@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">charig@email.<span class="gmail-m_8245106123508685246gmail-m_7327564076385096249m_6123235492197922152gmail-il">arizona</span>.edu</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Chris Harig</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://polarice.geo.arizona.edu/" target="_blank">http://polarice.geo.arizona.<wbr>edu/</a></div>
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