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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Postdoctoral Research Associate position<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Area: reactive transport during carbon storage in seafloor basalts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Duration: Up to 3 years, depending on progress and funding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Start date: January 2020 (negotiable)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Salary: ™$45,000/year plus benefits – negotiable based on funding, qualifications, and experience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Application Deadline: Evaluation of applications will begin on November 29, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position funded for up to 3 years by the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions working on a joint project between the Universities of Calgary, British<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Columbia, and Victoria. The project is aimed at understanding the processes governing CO2 storage in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">oceanic basalts. More information about the scale and scope of the project may be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://www.uvic.ca/news/media/2019+solid-carbon-partnership+media-release" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.uvic.ca/news/media/2019+solid-carbon-partnership+media-release</span></a>.
The successful candidate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">will employ a reactive transport modeling approach to assess the feasible rates of CO2 injection at Ocean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Networks Canada’s Cascadia Basin site in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and adapt this approach to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">evaluation of other prospective sites globally. Hydrogeologic and reactive transport modeling of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">associated processes will be the primary focus, with additional work effort dedicated to performing fluid-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">rock reaction experiments at conditions matching those in the study area to calibrate the modelling efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The successful candidate will have a PhD in the geosciences or a closely related field, including but not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">limited to geology, geochemistry, or hydrogeology. Experience using hydrogeological and/or reactive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">transport models is imperative. Familiarity with performing water-rock interaction experiments will be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">viewed favorably. The position requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills, intellectual<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">independence, and a willingness to explore unfamiliar aspects of the geosciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The successful candidate will be working under the supervision of Drs. Benjamin Tutolo and Rachel Lauer at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">the University of Calgary and Dr. Laurence Coogan at the University of Victoria, in collaboration with Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Gregory Dipple at the University of British Columbia and other members of the “Solid Carbon” project<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">partnership team. They will have routine access to the University of Calgary’s Advanced Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Computing cluster and hydrogeologic, geochemical, and reactive transport modeling software as well as an<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">extensive suite of experimental and analytical tools for performing and characterizing water-rock-CO2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">interaction experiments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Major Duties/Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">• Simulate the fate of injected CO2 under a wide range of pumping scenarios and hydrological<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">conditions in close collaboration with the project’s engineering team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">• Simulate leakage scenarios and develop recommendations for detection in close collaboration with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">the project’s technological acceptance team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">• Use the model results to parameterize a simplified model of CO2 injection and storage that can be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">used as a preliminary tool for screening other areas of the ocean basins, and work with team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">members to develop this into an open access web tool<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">• Perform fluid-rock reaction experiments to parameterize and calibrate the reactive transport models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">• Present and report research results in peer-reviewed journals in a timely manner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">• Co-supervise undergraduate students’ complementary research projects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">• Maintain a safe, collegial, interactive, and welcoming research environment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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