We are pleased to announce two fully funded 5-year PhD positions in Geophysics at Texas A&M University, USA, with a focus on sea level.
The PhD positions will involve merging glacial isostatic adjustment modeling, sea-level observations, statistical data assimilation, and machine learning approaches to investigate how ice sheet evolution influences past sea level variations and future projections. Field sites may include Arctic Alaska, the Olympic Peninsula, the Texas Gulf Coast, and/or low-latitude carbonate settings. Ideal candidates will have a background in physics, mathematics, sedimentology, Earth science, and/or computer science. Successful applicants will have opportunity to pursue their own research ideas as we develop projects of mutual interest.
The open positions include one supported by the Shifting Land, Rising Seas project, recently funded by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Students are encouraged to reach out to roger.creel@tamu.edu with expressions of interest; Applications are due December 1 (https://artsci.tamu.edu/geology-geophysics/academics/graduate/application.html).