The QUATERNARY GEOLOGY Department in Lund is announcing a PhD position
in Quaternary Geology, especially relative to sea level changes and
geophysical-glaciological modeling on Greenland. For further
information please contact:
Professor Svante Björck, Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund
University, Tornavägen 13, SE-223 63 Lund, Sweden. Tel.: +46 46 222 78
82, Fax: +46 46 222 48 30,
E-mail: svante.bjorck [at] geol.lu.se
or
Ass. Prof. Per Möller, Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund
University, Sölvegatan 13, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden. Tel.: +46 46 2229888,
Fax: +46 46 2224419,
E-mail: per.moller [at] geol.lu.se
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The late glacial history of the Greenland ice sheet is poorly known. One
way of constraining the past ice volumes is through an examination of
the isostatic rebound of Greenland. This rebound and associated
sea-level change is the result of the interactions between the
development of the ice sheet since the last glacial maximum, the
regional mantle rheology, and Earth's global eustatic development since
the last glacial maximum. A new detailed shore displacement curve
between 14,000-10,000 cal yr B.P. in the Kap Farvel area, southernmost
Greenland, is now available, which provides some indications of
late-glacial ice volume in southernmost Greenland. Within the project
this curve will be complemented with new data during the coming summer.
The fieldwork, in the form of corings of lake basins in the Nanortalik
area, and sampling and analyses of these data are part of the PhD
project. Through detailed shore displacement curves the local
post-glacial isostatic development is to be reconstructed. The key
component of the project is therefore, by coupling ice models to
isostatic models, to reconstruct the post-glacial history of the
Greenland ice sheet. The project is a joint cooperation between the
department in Lund, Ole Bennike at GEUS in Copenhagen, Kurt Lambeck in
Canberra and guest professor in Lund, and Per Holmlund and Johan Kleman
at the Institute for Physical Geography/Quaternary Geology in Stockholm.
We preferentially seek a Quaternary Geologist or Physical Geographer
with some experience in analysis of field data as well as in glacial
modeling leading to a coupling of ice and isostatic models. Familiarity
with numerical modeling in UNIX or similar environments, programming
(preferentially FORTRAN), PC/Mac software and data transfers into this
software, with graphics routines such as GMT and some knowledge of the
physical structure and properties of the Earth, is also desirable.
The 4-year-long position is financed by a faculty studentship (SEK13000
per month during the first 18 months followed by a salary of 16500
SEK/month) at Lund University, http://www.lu.se, and running costs are
paid by different grants. CANDIDATES MUST HAVE OBTAINED A B.SC. OR
EQUIVALENT (PREFERABLY A M.SC.) IN EARTH SCIENCES WITH EMPHASIS ON
QUATERNARY GEOLOGY or PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. Preference will be given to
those with experience of some of the methods mentioned above and ability
to publish in peer-reviewed journals. Candidates should be available by
1 June 2001.
Applications, labelled "Ref. MN B21 145/2001", including a curriculum
vitae, transcript of record, and other relevant documents (all
attested), must have arrived at the following address no later than 23
March 2001:
Registrator, Kansli MN
Lund University
Box 118
SE-221 00 Lund
SWEDEN
For further information please contact:
Professor Svante Björck, Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund
University, Tornavägen 13, SE-223 63 Lund, Sweden. Tel.: +46 46 222 78
82, Fax: +46 46 222 48 30,
E-mail: svante.bjorck [at] geol.lu.se
or
Ass. Prof. Per Möller, Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund
University, Sölvegatan 13, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden. Tel.: +46 46 2229888,
Fax: +46 46 2224419,
E-mail: per.moller [at] geol.lu.se