<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Times"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">G’day, we are seeking a talented applicant for a fully funded PhD position in coastal dynamics funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Award. The project is a collaboration between Monash University, The University of Cambridge (UK) and Birkbeck University, London. The student will be based at Monash University (School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment) in Melbourne, Australia, but will require some travel to the UK.</span></font></div><p style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><font face="Times" size="3">The project focusses on the response of vegetated foreshores to sea level rise. The low elevation coastal zone contains 13% of the Australian population and is subject to intensive agriculture and urbanisation. Accelerating sea level rise is thus a major societal concern and its impacts on shorelines must be accurately determined. This Australian-UK collaboration aims to improve Australia’s capacity to predict changing shoreline position with sea level rise, better understand the role of vegetation in foreshore stabilisation and identify under what conditions the shoreline might suddenly shift landwards.</font></p><p style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><font face="Times" size="3">The successful applicant will apply field based wave and sedimentation measurements with remote sensing (drone and satellite) data within a numerical modelling framework to determine the forcings affecting shoreline retreat with sea level rise in Australia, in order to improve predictive capacity.</font></p><p style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><font face="Times" size="3">The candidate should hold, or expect to shortly obtain, at least an Honours 1 degree or equivalent in physical geography, oceanography, environmental science or other relevant disciplines.</font></p><p style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><font face="Times" size="3">Applications are now open. If you wish to be considered for the position, the application deadline is 12 noon on Thursday 21 December 2017, with interviews expected to be held mid-January.</font></p><p style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><font face="Times" size="3">Please send a cover letter detailing your motivation and research experience along with a CV to Dr Ruth Reef, <a href="mailto:ruth.reef@monash.edu" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 107, 17); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ruth.reef@monash.edu</a> Feel free to contact me for further information.</font></p><p style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><font face="Times" size="3">The funded position is open to high achieving domestic and international students and will provide a stipend and a living allowance according to the Monash University fee and scholarship schedule. </font></p><p style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><font face="Times" size="3"><br></font></p><p style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><font face="Times" size="3" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 107, 17); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/future-students/support/stipend" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(48, 107, 17); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/future-students/support/stipend</a></font></p><p style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arsenal; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">___</span></p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div id=""><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arsenal">Dr Ruth Reef</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arsenal"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arsenal">Lecturer | Coastal Research Group<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arsenal">School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment | Monash University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arsenal">Rainforest Walk 9 Room 209 | Clayton VIC 3800, Australia | Ph: +61 3 990(58309) | Email: ruth.reef@monash.edu | <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arsenal;color:#0F7001;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Be green, read from the screen</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arsenal;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arsenal;color:#0F7001;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">https://monashcoastal.wordpress.com</p></div></div></div><style><!--
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