[ES_JOBS_NET] Funded Postdoctoral and MS position at City University of New York, Advanced Science Research Center

[Brian Giebel]

Dear Colleagues,

I am recruiting a postdoctoral associate and masters student - a brief description of the project is below. Please circulate this email and the attachments to interested students and candidates. I can be contacted directly for questions.

Thank you,
Brian

The City University of New York is the nation's largest urban public university, and The Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) is a 200,000 square-foot facility in upper Manhattan (New York City) designed to promote collaboration among scientists in five areas of global research and innovation: nanoscience, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience, and environmental sciences.

The Environmental Sciences Initiative and the Advanced Laboratory for Chemical and Isotopic Signatures at the ASRC is welcoming applications for a postdoctoral associate and masters student to advance studies related to the dynamics and interactions of (micro)plastic materials in terrestrial soil environments. We are using carbon stable isotopes (13C) to study microplastic decomposition, assimilation into biomass (phospholipid fatty acids, PLFAs), and mineralization to end-point gases, CO2 and CH4. Additional spectroscopy-based approaches (i.e., synchrotron-based scanning transmission X-ray microscopy and near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy) will be used to account for the plastics' reactivity and association with soil aggregates. These tools along with isotopic mass balance approaches will help establish an understanding of plastic decomposition, and include a modeling of their assimilation and mineralization, transformation to lower weight products, and final conversion to carbon dioxide and methane in soil. This project is supported by the National Science Foundation and includes collaborators at Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Brian M. Giebel, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Professor, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Core Facility Director, Advanced Laboratory for Chemical & Isotopic Signatures
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
85 Saint Nicholas Terrace
New York, NY 10031

phone: +1 212 413 3151



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