Employment & Opportunities

Postdoctoral Position in the Organic Geochemistry Group - University of Colorado Boulder

The Organic Geochemistry Group at the University of Colorado Boulder has an available postdoctoral position. Review of applications will begin in early July and the position will remain open until filled. The ideal starting date is fall 2021, but dates are flexible.

Please visit this page for more information on the position and how to apply.

PhD Position Available at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research - Bremerhaven, Germany

The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research has an open position for a PhD-project dealing with the use of cosmogencis radionuclides (mainly 10Be) to link different paleoclimate archives and study past climate dynamics.

Application deadline is July 9th. Please visit this page for more information about the project and the online application form.
Position: 21/115/D/Geo-b

Green Labs Waste Survey

Calling all laboratory users! Green Labs is looking for students, faculty, and staff to take their short waste survey to help identify barriers and opportunities around recycling laboratory waste at UBC. The responses to this survey will be used to inform the expansion of existing and new waste recycling programs and user engagement efforts at UBC.
 
Take the survey by Wednesday, June 30 to be entered into a prize draw for 1 of 2 TerraCycle PPE recycling boxes!

News & Events

Former professor K Fletcher awarded the Association of Applied Geochemists 2021 Gold Medal for a lifetime of achievements in exploration geochemistry

The Association of Applied Geochemists is pleased to announce that the 2021 Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to exploration geochemistry is awarded to Dr. W.K. Fletcher, Professor of Geological Sciences (retired) at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His exemplary record as a researcher, teacher and global ambassador for Exploration Geochemistry makes him a worthy recipient of the AAG’s Gold Medal. The medal presentation will take place at the upcoming 29th IAGS in Vina del Mar, Chile.

To read the full announcement, please visit the EXPLORE newsletter on the Association of Applied Geochemists website.

35th Online Course in Climate Time Series Analysis

This Online Course in Climate Time Series Analysis is specifically tailored to the needs of PhD students and postdocs, who wish to learn about an important combination of disciplines (climate change and time series analysis), but have had so far not much exposure to in-depth statistical teaching. It will also attract professional researchers, who wish to update their knowledge or to learn new statistical techniques. We assume that participants come from somewhere in the range of climatology, ecology, econometrics, environmental sciences, geosciences, hydrology, meteorology, or physics.

This online format has emerged in response partly to the Covid-19 situation (which started in 2020), but also to the general upward trend in need of electronic high-level quality education.

What distinguishes this from other online courses? First, the course provides videos that have been designed, recorded and edited with care. You can go repeatedly through the videos and make breaks as you need. You also receive and can study again the delivered course slides. Second, a daily chat meeting via a video platform over the full course duration allows you to prepare questions beforehand and get extensive response. Third, the individual feedback period of two months post-course (via email and, possibly, online meeting) preserves the interactive mode of joint data analysis, it allows to go in depth through real applications (perhaps on your own data), and it should keep the "open session" discursive atmosphere, which has been praised by the many offline participants I had here in the past.

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Registration Fee (net price, no VAT):

• without eBook: 1100 EUR
• with eBook: 1200 EUR

Registration Deadline: September 3, 2021

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Online 53rd and 54th Shortcourse on MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences

The interactive online webinars on MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences will be held on 14–18 September 2020.

53rd Shourtcourse on MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences, 5th Edition

• Interactive Online Seminar, 20-24 September 2021, delivery in English
• Shortcourse flyer & online registration

The courses are based on Martin H. Trauth's textbook MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences, 5th Edition (Springer 2021). From the cover of the new 5th edition:

MATLAB® is used in a wide range of geoscientific applications, e.g. for image processing in remote sensing, for creating and processing digital elevation models, and for analyzing time series. This book introduces readers to MATLAB-based data analysis methods used in the geosciences, including basic statistics for univariate, bivariate and multivariate datasets, time-series analysis, signal processing, the analysis of spatial and directional data, and image analysis. The revised and updated Fifth Edition includes seven new sections, and the majority of the chapters have been rewritten and significantly expanded. New sections include error analysis, the problem of classical linear regression of log-transformed data, aligning stratigraphic sequences, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Aitchison’s log-ratio transformation, graphical representation of spherical data, and statistics of spherical data. The book also includes numerous examples demonstrating how MATLAB can be used on datasets from the earth sciences. The supplementary electronic material (available online through SpringerLink) contains recipes that include all the MATLAB commands featured in the book and the sample data.