<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Department
of</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Earth and Environmental Science at
Temple University seeks motivated students interested in pursuing MS (Geology)
or PhD (Geosciences) for the following projects:</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(1)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Combined land use of solar energy and agriculture for
socioeconomic and environmental co-benefits: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The project seeks to
design sustainable engineering solutions to lower the environmental and
economic cost of renewable energy development by providing novel analysis
methodologies and field data on solar PV – agriculture colocation approaches from
multiple sites (US, India, Indonesia). This interdisciplinary project will also
explore the techno-economic feasibility of small scale off-grid systems in geographically
isolated areas and the potential for improving rural livelihoods including rural
electrification, employment generation, retrofitting diesel electricity
generation, and electricity for processing agricultural products locally.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(2)</span><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><b style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Aeolian transport of microplastics</span></b><font face="Times New Roman, serif">: This project will
investigate the effect of hydroclimatic variables and interparticle bonding forces
on the wind-borne transport of microplastics from agricultural soils using a
combination of laboratory experiments, and wind tunnel studies, and theoretical modeling.</font></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The student will be advised by Sujith Ravi (Temple University,
PA </span><a href="https://sites.temple.edu/ravi/home/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://sites.temple.edu/ravi/home/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">). Undergraduate/</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Master’s degree in
geology, earth science or environmental sciences/engineering is preferred. Experience
or interest in quantitative data analysis, sensor networks, science education/outreach
activities is preferred. The graduate students will be fully funded by research
and teaching assistantships.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Temple University is
a comprehensive public research located in Philadelphia, PA. Temple University
is a dynamic urban university with around 40,000 students and provides one of
the nation’s most comprehensive and diverse learning environments. Temple is
classified as an university with the "highest research activity" (R1) and is ranked by the National Science Foundation
as among the top 100 universities in the country for research
expenditures. More information about our department is available at </span><a href="http://www.temple.edu/geology/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://www.temple.edu/geology/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> .</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more information
contact Sujith Ravi, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth &
Environmental Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (</span><a href="mailto:sravi@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">sravi@temple.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">).</span></p>
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