ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE OR SENIOR SCIENTIST
Biogeochemical Sedimentology
The Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured scientific staff position in Biogeochemical Sedimentology. The successful applicant will be expected to conduct research in areas relevant to carbon-burial fluxes and to the formation and preservation of biologically controlled paleoenvironmental records in sea-floor sediments. Development of paleoenvironmental proxies and matters of timing and transport are of particular interest:
What can distributions of molecular biomarkers reveal about community structure?

What are the relationships between sedimentary records and processes that may be episodic or only quasi-continuous?

How do fluxes of biogenic particles vary temporally and spatially in the modern water column?

Where, how frequently, and with what temporal consequences are sediments redistributed?

Collaboration with paleoceanographers, biologists, and marine geologists in all departments at WHOI is encouraged. Women and minority candidates are particularly encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. Candidates are expected to establish externally funded research programs to support their research. The level of appointment will depend on background, experience and tenure suitability. Opportunities exist for participation in our graduate education program, the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. Review of applications will begin August 4, 2002.

Send a Curriculum Vitae, a statement of research interests and names and addresses of four references to: Human Resources, MS#15, PJG Box Number 120 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Tel.: (508) 289-2253, Fax:(508) 457-2173, TDD (508) 457-2197, EMAIL: employment@whoi.edu. An equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V. WHOI is smoke free workplace.

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