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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#3E3E3E; background:white">the Felix Research Group
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#090808; background:white">in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The group’s research </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#3E3E3E; background:white">focuses on using stable isotope techniques to investigate the sources, transport, and fate of reactive nitr</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#2A2A2A; background:white">ogen
and volatile organic compounds in the environment</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#090808; background:white">. The group’s research across various earth systems provides a unique research experience that balances fieldwork with sample processing,
sample analysis and development of novel stable isotope analysis techniques. </span>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#090808; background:white">As part of a project funded by the Texas General Land Office, the potential student’s research will focus on using stable isotope techniques
to investigate nitrogen (e.g. ammonium, nitrate, dissolved organic nitrogen (DON)) loading into Texas coastal waters (e.g. bays, estuaries, Gulf of Mexico). The project will emphasize investigation of DON sources and dynamics in coastal ecosystems. The project’s
overall objective is to aid harmful algal bloom (HAB) mitigation strategies by understanding how DON and other nutrients are sustaining HABs. Potential students should be highly self-motivated and have a strong background in chemistry with extensive laboratory
experience. Applicants should have an MS or a very strong undergraduate research record. The project relies heavily on stable isotope techniques so experience with these techniques is desired but not necessary. PhD students will matriculate through the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:windowtext; background:white; text-decoration:none"><a href="http://gradschool.tamucc.edu/degrees/science/coastal_marine_sys_science.html" id="LPlnk72014" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">Coastal
and Marine System Science</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:windowtext; text-decoration:none"> </span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#090808; background:white">graduate program (http://gradschool.tamucc.edu/degrees/science/coastal_marine_sys_science.html).
Interested candidates should contact Dr. J. David Felix (</span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#3E3E3E; background:white">joseph.felix@tamucc.edu)</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#090808; background:white"> and provide a short statement
of interest and CV.<span style=""> </span>More information about the Felix Research Group and potential research can be found here
<u>felixlab.tamucc.edu</u>.<span style=""> </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">J. David Felix, Ph.D.</font></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">NRC 3102</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi</span></p>
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