CEDAR email: USGS Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Multi-hazard, statistical analysis of extreme geophysical events

[Love, Jeffrey J]

USGS Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Multi-hazard, statistical analysis of extreme geophysical events

Applications are invited for a 2-year Mendenhall post-doctoral fellowship involving statistical analyses of the geographic expression, occurrence frequency, and/or impact of extreme (and rare) geophysical events, such as earthquakes, earthquake ground motion, magnetic storms, induced geoelectric fields, volcanic eruptions, floods, etc. Applicants are encouraged to review the literature on statistical treatments of historical data recording extreme geophysical events. Then, depending on what is found in the literature, the applicant should submit a proposal that introduces one or more statistical extensions to previous work that (1) will improve upon published results, (2) are physically plausible, and, (3) which, because of their generality, can be applied to more than one type of geophysical hazard. For example, an applicant might develop general arguments that can motivate choosing light or heavy distributional tail parameters. Alternatively, an applicant might develop arguments that motivate the choice of certain classes of Bayesian priors. Other topics might include, estimation of upper bounds on extreme-event sizes (if upper bounds are realistic), inversion methods that combine extreme-value distributions and inter-event times, non-Poisson statistics, joint inversion of multiple types of data, analysis methods accommodating non-stationary statistics, such as trends or temporal modulation, etc.

Applicants need to submit a research proposal, a budget to support their research, transcripts, etc. by November 1, 2023.

The USGS Mendenhall Program: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program


The exteme-event opportunity: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program/22-21-multi-hazard-statistical-analysis-extreme


How to apply: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program/when-and-how-apply

Please contact Jeffrey J. Love for additional information (jlove at usgs.gov<mailto:jlove at usgs.gov>).
https://jeffreylove.org<https://jeffreylove.org/>


Jeffrey J. Love

jlove at usgs.gov
303-273-8540


https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/jeffrey-j-love
https://jeffreylove.org


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