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<span style="background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">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.</span><br class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Applicants need to submit a research proposal, a budget to support their research, transcripts, etc. by November 1, 2023.</span><br class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">The USGS Mendenhall Program: </span></span><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program" id="LPlnk656588">https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program</a><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">The exteme-event opportunity: </span><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program/22-21-multi-hazard-statistical-analysis-extreme" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview">https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program/22-21-multi-hazard-statistical-analysis-extreme</a></p>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Please contact Jeffrey J. Love for additional information (</span></span><a href="mailto:jlove@usgs.gov" id="OWAe6c60ada-117e-2175-004f-e8e5e6e502ad" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; background: white;">jlove@usgs.gov</span></a><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; background: white; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">).</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br class="ContentPasted0">
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