Doctoral Assistantship Available Summer/Fall 2007 -
The Deep-sea Benthic Foraminiferal Culturing Facility at the University of South Carolina recently received funding by the National Science Foundation to investigate the biological response of trace element and stable isotope paleoproxies in benthic foraminfera to ambient pH/pCO2 variation. An integral part of the proposed research involves building, testing, and maintaining a novel pCO2 control system developed for the long-term cultures. Research areas associated with the project include but are not limited to – foraminiferal biomineralization and trace element uptake, elemental and isotopic analytical method development for microbiominerals, in situ physical, environmental, and chemical analysis method development, long-term aquaculture, trace element geochemistry, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), laser ablation ICP-MS, secondary ion microprobe spectrometry (SIMS), micro-Raman spectroscopy, environmentally-induced gene expression, and trace element paleoproxy development.
Oceanographic research cruises are slated for May 2006 and 2007.
Knowledge of chemical or paleoceanography, microbial laboratory techniques, computer control (automated PID controllers), aquaculture, water filtration and unit operations, or analytical chemistry are a bonus.
For more information or to send CV and brief letter of research interest, contact:
Dr. Christopher Hintz
chris.hintz@msci.sc.edu
The Deep-sea Benthic Foraminiferal Culturing Facility at the University of South Carolina recently received funding by the National Science Foundation to investigate the biological response of trace element and stable isotope paleoproxies in benthic foraminfera to ambient pH/pCO2 variation. An integral part of the proposed research involves building, testing, and maintaining a novel pCO2 control system developed for the long-term cultures. Research areas associated with the project include but are not limited to – foraminiferal biomineralization and trace element uptake, elemental and isotopic analytical method development for microbiominerals, in situ physical, environmental, and chemical analysis method development, long-term aquaculture, trace element geochemistry, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), laser ablation ICP-MS, secondary ion microprobe spectrometry (SIMS), micro-Raman spectroscopy, environmentally-induced gene expression, and trace element paleoproxy development.
Oceanographic research cruises are slated for May 2006 and 2007.
Knowledge of chemical or paleoceanography, microbial laboratory techniques, computer control (automated PID controllers), aquaculture, water filtration and unit operations, or analytical chemistry are a bonus.
For more information or to send CV and brief letter of research interest, contact:
Dr. Christopher Hintz
chris.hintz@msci.sc.edu
No comments:
Post a Comment