Graduate Research at the Stroud Water Research Center
Leading to a Degree
from the University of Delaware
Graduate Student Funding is available:
- Graduate Research Assistantships for new NSF-funded Critical Zone Observatory. Applications will be reviewed starting Feb. 15 until positions are filled.
We are seeking highly motivated Ph.D. students to study interactions among organic molecules, metals, minerals, and organisms and to scale these processes to soil, watershed, regional and global-scale carbon sequestration. Under these themes, several dissertation projects are available, including (1) erosion-driven watershed-scale carbon sequestration, (2) anthropogenic acceleration of mineral production and weathering, (3) mechanisms of abiotic and biologically mediated organo-mineral complexation and consequences to organic matter composition.
Selected applicants will be advised by Anthony Aufdenkampe, Lou Kaplan or Denis Newbold in cooperation with one or more CZO project faculty at the University of Delaware. Our combined expertise includes terrestrial to aquatic carbon cycle, organic geochemistry, stable isotope biogeochemistry, soil formation, hillslope geomorphology, and modeling. We also collaborate closely with a network of outstanding scientists with whom graduate students might also interact extensively. In addition to the experience and interests in the cycles of carbon, minerals, and metals, we share strong enthusiasm in mentoring graduate students and educating the next generation of earth/environmental scientists who are versatile in connecting and communicating across temporal and spatial scales, across field, laboratory, and modeling approaches, and across different disciplines.
Qualifications include a BS and/or MS that provides both a strong background in a field of earth, environmental, or ecological science and a strong background in chemistry, geochemistry or biogeochemistry.
If you are interested, please contact us to further discuss possible dissertation research. Then follow specific procedures described in the funding announcement above. Make sure you indicate your interest in the CRB-CZO program in your letter of application and statement of research.
Stroud Water Research Center seeks to advance the global knowledge of freshwater streams, rivers and lakes through research, education and public outreach, and to promote stewardship of freshwater among businesses, landowners, policy makers and individuals, around the world. The Center is an independent, privately endowed 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Stroud Water Research Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.