The Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University is inviting applications for the Wiess and Pan Postdoctoral Research Fellowships. We are seeking candidates with independent research interests that intersect with one or more faculty within our department. Both domestic and international applicants are welcome, but applicants must have a Ph.D. awarded within three years of the time of appointment.

The Sierra Nevada Research Institute at the University of California, Merced invites applications for multiple postdoctoral positions. Postdoctoral scholars will have the opportunity to work as part of cross-campus, multi-university teams focused on forest-water solutions for the Sierra Nevada and downstream agricultural valleys. Postings are online at https://aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/apply.

The University of Texas at El Paso

College of Science

Department of Biological Sciences

Assistant Professor – Global Change Biologist

Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC)

SYNOPSIS

PhD Studentship: Impacts of fracking fluids on microbial communities in shale basins

Dr Heather Buss, Professor Michael Kendall (School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol) and Professor Fred Worrall (Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University)

Project enquiries: Dr Heather Buss, h.buss@bristol.ac.uk

Start date: flexible, ideally January-February 2019

Dear Critical Zoners! The call for sessions and workshops for Goldschmidt 2019 in Barcelona is now open until 1 November 2018. The number of themes has been reduced for 2019, in an effort to scale back on the overlap of recent years. Please consider proposing a session to Theme 9: Weathering, erosion and the critical zone

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Soil System Modeling at the University of Kansas 

Position Overview

Postdoctoral Scholar - Sierra Nevada Research Institute

RECRUITMENT PERIOD

Open September 10th, 2018 through October 10th, 2018

DESCRIPTION

The Council of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) held its 3rd Session in February 2018 and evaluated 35 projects consisting of 22 ongoing projects and 13 new proposals. 7 new projects have been approved and 4 projects will be on one extended term, which means they will remain active without funding from IGCP. In 2018, a total of 22 projects will be financed by UNESCO and IUGS.

IGCP is supporting work on the following five themes:

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Geoscience Department is seeking applicants for its MS and PhD programs for Spring and Fall of 2019.  Applications are due October 1, 2018 for Spring 2019 and February 1, 2019 for Fall 2019.  More information can be found here about the department: https://geoscience.unlv.edu/  and the admissions process: https://geoscience.unlv.edu/academics/gradua