Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Positions Available
Aerosol Interactions in Polar Climates
Earth System Science Department
University of California Irvine
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 30 April 2008
For further information, please contact:
Charlie Zender
Email: zender [at] uci.edu
The University of California Irvine's Earth System Science Department
announces opportunities for postdoc and graduate students interested in
global-scale cryospheric modeling. The projects examine aerosol
interactions with polar climate. The studies aim to:
1. Quantify how black carbon (BC) aerosols affect arctic snow and ice
2. Identify the relative roles of surface and atmospheric BC forcing on
arctic climate sensitivity (including land- and sea-ice responses)
3. Quantify how GHGs and BC alter seasonal arctic surface freshwater
reservoirs and fluxes such as snow depth, extent, and heat conductivity,
permafrost depth, soil moisture, and runoff.
Observational data come from AMSR-E, CERES, GRACE, MISR, and MODIS
satellites and from IPY field programs including POLARCAT.
Projects are collaborative among groups of professors, including:
Charlie Zender (Aerosols, Radiation; http://www.ess.uci.edu/~zender)
Jay Famiglietti (Hydrology; http://www.ess.uci.edu/~famiglietti)
Jim Randerson (Fire, C, H2O; http://www.ess.uci.edu/~jranders)
Participants will work directly with one or more of these groups.
Collaborations with other groups will be encouraged and supported. These
include: UCI (Dupont, Rignot, Velicogna), LANL (Hunke, Lipscomb), LGGE
(Domine), NCAR (Flanner, Rasch), and NSIDC (Khalsa). Global studies will
be conducted using modified versions of NCAR's Community Climate System
Model. Opportunistic microphysical and regional studies, particularly
those that explore POLARCAT IPY data, will also be encouraged.
Applicants must have a strong interest and/or background in one or more
of three areas:
1. Aerosol physics
2. Snow/sea-ice/glaciers physics
3. Arctic freshwater hydrology
To apply, email your CV, statement of research interests, and contact
information for up to three references, before 30 April 2008, to:
Charlie Zender
Email: zender [at] uci.edu