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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brian<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">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.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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<b> </b>dynamics and interactions of (micro)plastic<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>materials<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>terrestrial<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> soil </span>environments. We are using carbon stable isotopes (<sup>13</sup>C) to study microplastic decomposition, assimilation into biomass (phospholipid fatty acids, PLFAs), and mineralization to end-point
gases, CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub>. Additional <span style="color:#1B1B1B;background:white">
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.</span> This project is supported by the National Science Foundation and includes collaborators at Columbia University, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bahnschrift Light Condensed",sans-serif;color:#767171;mso-ligatures:none">Brian M. Giebel, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bahnschrift Light Condensed",sans-serif;color:#767171;mso-ligatures:none">Assistant Research Professor, Environmental Sciences Initiative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bahnschrift Light Condensed",sans-serif;color:#767171;mso-ligatures:none">Core Facility Director, Advanced Laboratory for Chemical & Isotopic Signatures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bahnschrift Light Condensed",sans-serif;color:#767171;mso-ligatures:none">CUNY Advanced Science Research Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bahnschrift Light Condensed",sans-serif;color:#767171;mso-ligatures:none">85 Saint Nicholas Terrace<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bahnschrift Light Condensed",sans-serif;color:#767171;mso-ligatures:none">New York, NY 10031<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bahnschrift Light Condensed",sans-serif;color:#767171;mso-ligatures:none">phone: +1 212 413 3151<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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