Graduate Student Research Opportunity:
We invite applications from prospective students interested in joining a project
examining the effect of climate variability
on sedimentological processes along the Pacific Northwest continental margin. We
have funding to support either a
Masters or Ph.D. student. The project will be jointly supervised by professors
P. Wiberg and M. Mann, and may involve
the development of an appropriate atmospheric dataset representative of storm
frequency and intensity in the Pacific
Northwest, the use of this dataset in driving theoretical models of margin
sedimentation, the establishment of a relationship
between local storminess statistics and indices of long-term climate
variability, and the potential extension of these
climate indices using paleoclimate "proxy" climate data.
This graduate research opportunity
is available within the
Department of Environmental Sciences
at the University of Virginia.
For more details, contact
Professor Michael E. Mann or Professor Patricia Wiberg