PhD position in Marine Geology

The Department of Arctic geology of the University Centre in Svalbard has a vacancy for a PhD position for four years in marine geology and geophysics.

UNIS is the world’s northernmost institution for higher education and research, located in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Approximately half of the staff and students are from abroad, and all teaching is in English. UNIS has modern facilities to support educational and research activities, in the class room and laboratories as well as in the field and at sea.

Staff Geophysicist Position in the research unit “geodynamics” of the research division “Dynamics of the Ocean Floor”.

Job Description / Duties

The successful candidate will be in charge of developing his/her own research portfolio in the field of marine slope stability. Possible working areas include sedimentology, seismic imaging, tsunami modelling, slope and landslide mechanics, and marine geodesy. We expect the successful candidate to participate in marine geophysical expeditions and corresponding experience will be an asset.

Assistant-Professor (tenure track) in Organic Marine Microfossils, Organic Geochemistry and Paleoceanography

We are seeking a highly motivated and outstanding scientist from across all aspects of organic marine fossil remains and paleoceanography to join our multidisciplinary research group Marine Palynology and Paleoceanography.

PhD position «The Caribbean Seaway – Mesozoic ocean circulation, radiolarite distribution and the marine silica cycle»

The Institute of Earth Sciences, at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) advertises a PhD position funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Research topic: The Caribbean Seaway – Mesozoic ocean circulation, radiolarite distribution and the marine silica cycle.

Paleoceanographer

Duties: The College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida invites applications for a tenure-track, nine-month academic faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. We are seeking a Paleoceanographer who will contribute to an understanding of the ocean/climate system, past, present, and future. Qualified candidates will employ modern tools of multi-disciplinary science to understand global issues critical to the ocean system.

Lecturer in Sediment Dynamics/Coastal Morphodynamics

The School of Ocean Sciences wishes to appoint a permanent, full-time Lecturer with proven research experience in the field of sedimentary processes and transport and/or coastal morphodynamics. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in modelling and/or field observation who will collaborate with researchers working in rivers, river catchments, coastal zone, and shelf seas.

2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Applications for the postdoctoral fellowship program at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) are currently being accepted. MBARI is dedicated to the development of state-of-the-art instrumentation, systems, and methods for scientific research in the oceans. Ongoing programs in marine robotics, ocean physics, chemistry, geology, and biology as well as information management and ocean instrumentation research and development exist at MBARI. Located in Moss Landing, California at the head of Monterey Bay, MBARI enjoys convenient access to diverse oceanographic environments.

PhD student position «Two million year history of the Indian Monsoon»

Job Description:

The project will use the unique long sediment cores obtained by the IODP vessel JOIDES Resolution in the Andaman Sea to examine the past variability of Indian Monsoon precipitation on the Indian sub-continent and directly over the ocean. A multi-proxy approach including foraminifera shell geochemistry (trace element/Ca ratios, radiogenic (Nd) and stable O and C isotopes by mass spectrometry), bulk sediment chemistry from XRF scanning and clay mineralogy will be employed. These proxies will reveal changes in continental weathering, runoff and direct precipitation on orbital timescales for the last 2 million years filling a fundamental gap in our understanding of the Indian Monsoon in the past.

Marine Geoscientists (3 posts)

The British Geological Survey (BGS), founded in 1835, is part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and is the world’s longest-established national geological survey and the UK’s premier centre for earth science information and expertise. New opportunities have arisen to join our Marine and Petroleum Geology research teams at our office in Edinburgh.

Post-Doctoral Research Scientist

The Borehole Research Group of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, as the logging services operator for the U.S. component of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), is seeking to fill one or more positions of Logging Scientist at the Post-Doctoral Research Scientist level.