Postdoctoral Research Position

South American Climate and Hydrologic Change Over the Past 60,000 Years
(Organic & Isotope Geochemistry, Paleoclimatology)

We are searching for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a NSF-P2C2 funded program to reconstruct late Quaternary paleohydrology and paleoclimate of the Amazon basin. To conduct this research, new sediment cores will be collected from offshore Brazil in February 2010.   The successful candidate will utilize the abundance of lipid biomarkers (higher plants and soil-derived) and their isotopic signatures (d¹³C and dD) to evaluate changing continental hydrologic conditions (river discharge, basin hydrology (arid/wet), vegetation changes, continental mean air temperature and soil pH). Together, with collaborators at Duke University who will be focusing on foraminiferal derived records of ocean climate variability (SST, E/P, SSS), linkages between ocean climate regimes and the response of the continental hydrologic conditions will be explored.

Applicants must have a strong background in organic geochemistry and/or biogeochemistry and have:

• PhD with emphasis on geochemistry, paleoenvironment and/or paleoclimate
• Laboratory experience with methods for lipid extraction
• Analytical experience with GC-MS/GC-FID and LC/MS for compound identification and with GC-IRMS coupling for compound-specific isotopic analyses is highly desirable.

The successful candidate will also have opportunity to participate in other ongoing research projects on paleoclimate studies and biogeochemistry, and is encouraged to develop new lines of research topics of mutual interests.

Applications will be reviewed as received.  The expected starting date is February 2010.   For the appropriate candidate we would delay the start time but strongly encourage participation on the coring expedition to offshore Brazil in February-March 2010.

The position is for two-years with a salary of $45,000, with benefits. For information regarding the available position, please contact Dr. David Hollander, 727-553-1019, davidh@marine.usf.edu. Interested candidates must apply both online at https://employment.usf.edu and directly to davidh@marine.usf.edu. Please send a curriculum vitae, names of three referees, a statement of your qualifications, and research interest no later than December 1, 2009.  For disability accommodations, please call (727) 553-3942 at least five (5) working days in advance of need.

USF is an EO/EA/AA Institution

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