GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
DIVISION OF HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES

Ph.D. Graduate-level Research Assistantships in Hydrology and Polar Research
Desert Research Institute and University of Nevada, Reno

Applications are encouraged for two graduate research assistantships beginning in the summer or fall of 2010. Possible duration is three-to-four years with monthly salary support of $1,800 for Ph.D. candidates. Depending on available funding, students can be supported full time during the summer. Health insurance fees and tuition waivers are provided to graduate assistants. Enthusiastic candidates with strong backgrounds in chemistry, hydrology, climate modeling, earth or environmental science, and related fields should apply. NSF promotes diversity so applications from under-represented groups are encouraged.

Successful candidates will join DRI’s ice core research group and participate in NSF-funded paleoclimate studies in Greenland and Antarctica. The ice core group uses a world-leading ice core analytical facility to conduct a broad range of environmental studies. Topics include natural and human-caused changes in atmospheric and precipitation chemistry in polar regions during recent centuries to millennia and impacts of these changes on climate forcing. One of the successful candidates will focus on reconstructing a 2000-year history of aerosol concentrations, sources, and transport pathways at the Danish-led NEEM deep-drilling site in northern Greenland and other Arctic ice coring locations. The other successful candidate will focus on similar aerosol reconstructions spanning the last glacial to interglacial transition at the U.S.-led WAIS Divide deep-drilling site in West Antarctica.

An application package should be submitted to the UNR Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences with a copy to Dr. Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, NV, 89512. The package must include a detailed statement of interest, full curriculum vitae, and contact information for three professional or academic references in addition to the standard information for admission to graduate school at UNR. Information about DRI can be found at www.dri.edu and at www.hydro.unr.edu for the UNR Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences. Note that the deadline for fall 2010 applications will be extended for these positions.

For additional information on the research projects and ice core group, contact Joe McConnell at (775) 673-7348 ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). For information on the UNR Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, contact Greg Pohll at (775) 674-7523 ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

DRI is an AA/EEO employer that employs only U.S. citizens and aliens lawfully authorized to work in the U.S.
Women and under-represented groups are encouraged to apply.