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<div style="margin:0px">We would appreciate your help in circulating our<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span data-markjs="true" class="x_x_markl9bchw5ha" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin:0px">Mendenhall</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>Postdoctoral
Opportunity,<span style="margin:0px"> </span><b>Marine Minerals and the Ocean Environment</b>. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated recent PhD to develop and pursue research of their own design. <b style="color:rgb(32, 31, 30);font-size:15px">No
prior research experience with marine minerals is necessary and the specific research topic is flexible, within the limits of the advertisement</b><span style="font-size:15px;margin:0px;color:rgb(32, 31, 30)">.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program/21-31-marine-minerals-and-ocean-environment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px">https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program/21-31-marine-minerals-and-ocean-environment</a></div>
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Closing Date: November 1, 2022 This Research Opportunity will be filled depending on the availability of funds. All application materials must be submitted through USAJobs by 11:59 pm, US Eastern Standard Time, on the closing date.</div>
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<span style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;background-color:white">These positions are competitive and filled based on availability of funds and qualified applicants; the deadline for submission of applications, which include research proposals, will be<span style="margin:0px"> </span><b>November
1, 2022</b>. Further information about the prestigious<span style="margin:0px"> </span><span data-markjs="true" class="x_x_markl9bchw5ha" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin:0px">Mendenhall</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span>program
may be found here (<a href="https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px">Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program | U.S. Geological
Survey (usgs.gov)</a>).<span style="margin:0px"> </span><b style="color:rgb(32, 31, 30);font-size:15px">As part of the application, candidates will be required to develop a research proposal</b><span style="font-size:15px;margin:0px;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white">. <span style="margin:0px"> </span></span>Applicants
are encouraged to contact us early to discuss proposal ideas (contact details are in the job posting).</span>
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In Fiscal Year 2001, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) started a new postdoctoral research program called the Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program (now the Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program) in honor of Walter C. Mendenhall (1871-1957),
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