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<div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal">The </span><a href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~dchavas/" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:bold">Climate and Extreme Weather Laboratory</a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal"> in the </span><a href="http://www.eaps.purdue.edu/" style="font-variant-numeric:normal">Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences</a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal"> (EAPS) at Purdue University has one funded PhD position available beginning in</span> <span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:bold">Fall 2018</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal">. Potential project topics include</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal"> fundamental </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal">climate controls of severe thunderstorms or hurricanes on Earth.</span>
</font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal">Society is vulnerable to a range of extreme weather phenomena (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.) and their associated hazards</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal">. Our group uses theory, numerical modeling, and observations:</span></font></div><ol style=""><li><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">to understand the underlying physics of these phenomena and their associated hazards; and</font></span></li><li><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">to develop simple physics-based models for their representation in real-world risk applications</font></span></li></ol><div style=""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Purdue EAPS is a leader in the study of Earth’s atmosphere and is actively developing a new research and teaching program in the area of extreme weather and climate. Moreover, Purdue University boasts one of the best collections of high-performance research computing systems in the country maintained by a strong and active computing support staff to serve all your computing needs.</font></span></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal">If you are interested, please contact </span><a href="mailto:dchavas@purdue.edu" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:bold">Dan Chavas</a> <span style="font-variant-numeric:normal">(</span><a href="mailto:dchavas@purdue.edu" style="font-variant-numeric:normal">dchavas@purdue.edu</a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal">)</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal">. Students with strong backgrounds in physics/math are particularly encouraged to apply.</span>
</font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal">Information about application requirements is available at: </span><a href="https://www.eaps.purdue.edu/for_students/graduate/" style="font-variant-numeric:normal">https://www.eaps.purdue.edu/for_students/graduate/</a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal"> . </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:bold">Final deadline for applications is January 2, 2018</span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal">, though discussion prior to this date is welcome.</span></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">*******************************************************************<br><div><span style="font-size:small">Dan Chavas</span><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Assistant Professor</span><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Purdue University</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">t: 773.936.4510; e: </span><a href="mailto:drchavas@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">drchavas@gmail.com</a><br></div></div><div><font color="#0000ee" size="2"><u><a href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~dchavas" target="_blank">http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~dchavas</a></u></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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