[ES_JOBS_NET] PhD and Postdoc positions for a geomorphology cyberinfrastructure project

[Eric Barefoot]

Dear colleagues,

A multi-institution team spanning UMN, UC Riverside, CU Boulder, and Texas
A&M are beginning a 4-year NSF-funded project to build cyber infrastructure
for sharing and analyzing common data products across geomorphology.

*We have three PhD student opportunities, and one postdoc opportunity
funded through this project.* The whole PI team will work closely together
and the students and postdoc working on this project can anticipate being
part of a cohort, visiting the other institutions often and collaborating
as part of a team.

Potential projects will revolve around the Salton Sea, CA, USA. Due to
water shortages in the Colorado River, the Salton Sea is quickly shrinking,
exposing the lake bed to wind that blows potentially hazardous dust into
nearby communities.

The potential science outcomes and topics are quite flexible, but will
broadly address aspects of this societally-relevant geomorphological
problem. However, all of the work for this proposal will heavily involve
computational tools, software development, and a wide range of other
research approaches spanning field work, remote sensing, and physical
experiments.

*If you are a soon-to-graduate PhD student looking for a postdoc*, please
reach out to *Eric Barefoot *(eric.barefoot at ucr.edu) at UC Riverside.
Preferred qualifications include strong computational literacy, fluency in
python, and an interest in developing computational tools to accelerate
science.

*If you are seeking a PhD program*, reach out to either *Eric
Barefoot* or *Andrew
Moodie *(amoodie at tamu.edu), there are three PhD positions available, two
will be based at Texas A&M, and one at UC Riverside. We anticipate matching
students to each institution based on research interests. A major component
of these projects will involve computation, so computer science,
mathematics, and coding skills are a plus, *however*, the only requirement
is that applicants should be eager to gain these skills.

*If you are a faculty member* with promising students who would fit these
descriptions, please refer them to us, or reach out to us directly to
recommend them and provide some contact information. Thank you for your
help as we recruit to assemble a strong cohort that will thrive and support
our project.

Sincerely,

Eric Barefoot and Andrew Moodie

eric.barefoot at ucr.edu  --  amoodie at tamu.edu
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