Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program: Research Opportunities

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Overview. For Fiscal Year 2007, 39 Research Opportunities are being advertised (positions are to be filled depending on the availability of funds). The research field, proposed duty station, and Research Advisor(s) are listed below for each Research Opportunity, along with detailed descriptions, what qualifications are required, and the appropriate Personnel Office contact.
Role of Research Advisors. Research Advisors are appointed for each Mendenhall Fellowship position to direct project work. The Advisors are USGS scientists with whom the Mendenhall Fellows would work most closely. They will also be involved with reviewing application packages and interviewing candidates. Applicants are encouraged to contact the Research Advisor(s) listed in the opportunity for further information regarding the Research Opportunity and are strongly urged to coordinate the development of their research proposals with the Research Advisor(s).
Role of Personnel Contacts. The Personnel Office listed in the opportunity will receive application materials, review the backgrounds of the final candidates to make sure they are qualified for the opportunities, forward them to the Research Advisors and hiring official for consideration, and make official job offers. The Personnel Office is also available to provide information regarding the recruitment process and the status of applications.
Job Qualifications. Office of Personnel Management descriptions of the backgrounds required to perform the types of research listed in these opportunities. Other titles may be applicable depending on the applicant's background, education, and research proposal. The final classification of the position will be made by the Personnel specialist in charge.

Opportunity Number Field of Research Proposed Duty Station Research Advisor(s)

1 Development of an Index of Ecosystem Health in a Mineralized Area--Metal-Rhizosphere Interaction Reston, VA or Denver, CO Larry P. Gough, Bronwen Wang, Paul J. Lamothe, Lisa L. Stillings, Milan J. Pavich, Michael C. Amacher, and Cheryl Mackowiak

2 Transformation of Fossil Organic Matter in Aquatic Systems, and Impacts on Environmental Quality and Human Health Reston, VA Robert Eganhouse, William Orem, and Robert Burruss

3 Impact-Related Processes: ICDP-USGS Deep Corehole in the Central Crater of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Reston, VA Gregory Gohn, Wright Horton, David Powars, and Ward Sanford

4 Sources and Fluxes of Dissolved Iron to NE Pacific Surface Waters: A Driver of the Marine Ecosystem and Carbon Cycle Woods Hole, MA John Crusius and Eric Sundquist

5 Quantitative Evaluation of Tsunami Hazard to the Atlantic and Caribbean Coasts Woods Hole, MA Uri ten Brink, Eric Geist, and Homa Lee

6 The Occurrence and Behavior of Gas Hydrate in Natural Environments Woods Hole, MA or Denver, CO Deborah Hutchinson and Timothy Collett

7 Decision Support Systems for the Ecosystem-Based Management of Shallow Marine Habitats St. Petersburg, FL John C. Brock

8 Holocene Climate Variability from Gulf of Mexico Marine Sediments St. Petersburg, FL R. Z. Poore and T. Quinn (U South Florida)

9 Effects of Carbon Dioxide on Neritic Calcifying Organisms and Carbonate Sediments St. Petersburg, FL Robert B. Halley, Virginia H. Garrison, and Eric T. Sundquist

10 Real-Time Prediction of Hurricane-Induced Coastal Change Hazards St. Petersburg, FL Asbury Sallenger

11 Application of Sequence Stratigraphy to Delineate Heterogeneous Ground-Water Flow in Karstic Platform Carbonates Ft. Lauderdale, FL Kevin J. Cunningham and Eugene Shinn

12 Development of Geologic-Based Risk Assessment Methods and Protocols for Environmental Assessment of Federal Lands Affected by Historical Mining Denver, CO Stanley E. Church, William H. Clements (Colorado State University) and John M. Besser

13 Development of Stable-Metal Isotope Techniques to Determine Metal Pathways and Bioavailability to Aquatic Organisms Denver, CO Kathleen S. Smith, James F. Ranville (Colorado School of Mines), Stephen Brinkman (Colorado Division of Wildlife, Wildlife Research Center), and W. Ian Ridley

14 Biogeochemical Cycling of Cr in High Cr Geologic Terrains Denver, CO or Menlo Park, CA Martin B. Goldhaber, Andrea Foster, Larry Gough, Michael Pribil, and Martin Schoonen (SUNY Stony Brook)

15 Migration and Trapping of Natural Gas in Fine-Grained Siliciclastic Rocks Denver, CO Philip H. Nelson, Ronald C. Johnson, and Chris Neuzil

16 Methane Production from Coal: Investigating the Potential for Sustaining Natural Gas Production in Subsurface Coalbeds Denver, CO Charles E. Barker and Richard L. Smith

17 Controls on the Origin and Accumulation of Petroleum Condensates and Implications for Domestic Energy Supply Denver, CO Ronald Hill and Michael Lewan

18 Modeling the Interaction Between Carbon Cycling and Sedimentation at the Landscape Scale Denver, CO Rich Reynolds, Jennifer Harden, and Jason Neff (University of Colorado and USGS)

19 3-D Hydrogeologic Modeling of the Edwards and Trinity Aquifer Interface, South-Central Texas Denver, CO Charles Blome and George Ozuna

20 Characterizing and Modeling Post-Wildfire Fire Infiltration, Runoff and Erosive Processes Using Remotely-Sensed Data Golden, CO; Menlo Park, CA; Sacramento, CA Sue Cannon, Gerald Bawden, Kevin Schmidt, and John Moody

21 Deterministic Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide Hazard Forecasting Golden, CO Jonathan Godt, Rex Baum, Mark Reid, and Jim Verdin

22 Radar Remote Sensing for Landslide Monitoring and Prediction Golden, CO Jeff Coe, Zhong Lu, Jonathan Godt, and Mahta Moghaddam (University of Michigan)

23 Improved Real-time Estimates of Human Impact and Ground Shaking for Significant Earthquakes Worldwide Golden, CO Paul Earle and David Wald

24 Developing Predictive Models of Non-Linearity for Earthquake Hazard Assessment Memphis, TN Joan Gomberg, Paul Johnson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Paul Bodin (University of Memphis), and Chris Marone (Penn State University)

25 Study of Magnetic-Precursory Signals to Large Earthquakes Golden, CO Jeffrey Love, Howard Singer (NOAA), Malcolm Johnston, Arthur Frankel, and Daniel E. McNamara

26 Paleohydrology and Paleoclimate of Deserts from Study of Past Wetland Deposits Menlo Park, CA David Miller, Marith Reheis, Chris Menges, and Darrell Kaufman (Northern Arizona University)

27 Landscape Evolution Along Mountain-Range Fronts in Southern California: Building a Geologic and Geomorphic Framework by Establishing Stratigraphic and Chronologic Links Between Degradational Features in Rising Highlands and the Depositional Record in Adjoining Basins Tucson, AZ Bob Powell, Jon Matti, Chris Menges, John Tinsley, Martha Eppes (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Gary Landis, John Chesley (University of Arizona), and Ari Matmon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

28 Improved Tsunami Hazards Assessment Through Integration of Tsunami Inundation Models and Tsunami Deposits Menlo Park, CA Bruce Jaffe, Guy Gelfenbaum, and Eric Geist

29 Earthquake Physics in the Near-Source Region Menlo Park, CA William Ellsworth, Steve Hickman, and Mark Zoback (Stanford University)

30 Urban Earthquake Hazards in Southern California Pasadena, CA Susan Hough, Lucile Jones, and Ned Field

31 Studying Slow Earthquakes in Cascadia with Borehole Strainmeter Data Vancouver, WA Evelyn Roeloffs and Seth Moran

32 Using Seismicity to Evaluate the Cause of Current Unrest at Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska Anchorage, AK Stephanie Prejean, John Power, and Cliff Thurber (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

33 Quantitative Methods for Forecasting of Debris-Flow and Debris-Avalanche Hazards Menlo Park, CA and Vancouver, WA Mark Reid, Richard Iverson, and Roger Denlinger

34 Magmatic Underpinnings of Fluid-Driven Seismicity: The Generation of Trapped, High-Pressure CO₂-H₂O Reservoirs in the Deep Roots of Active Volcanoes Menlo Park, CA T.W. Sisson and M.T. Mangan

35 Developing an Operational Polarimetric InSAR Capability for Canopy Height Mapping Sioux Falls, SD Zhiliang Zhu, Zhong Lu, and Robert Treuhaft

36 An Ecoregional Analysis and Library of Spectral Change Sioux Falls, SD Alisa Gallant and Tom Loveland

37 Effects of Urban Growth and Climate Change on Societal Vulnerability to Multiple Hazards Menlo Park, CA Leonard J. Gaydos and Nathan Wood

38 RADAR Technology Exploitation for Everglades Surface Water Characterization Reston, VA John W. Jones and Zhong Lu

39 Linking Sea Ice and Meteorological Properties Resulting from the Upper Atmospheric Oscillations to Terrestrial Biological Phenomena Anchorage, AK Carl Markon, Bradley Reed, and Dennis Griffith

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Opportunity Number	Field of Research	Proposed Duty Station	Research Advisor(s)
1	Development of an Index of Ecosystem Health in a Mineralized Area--Metal-Rhizosphere Interaction	Reston, VA or Denver, CO	Larry P. Gough, Bronwen Wang, Paul J. Lamothe, Lisa L. Stillings, Milan J. Pavich, Michael C. Amacher, and Cheryl Mackowiak
2	Transformation of Fossil Organic Matter in Aquatic Systems, and Impacts on Environmental Quality and Human Health	Reston, VA	Robert Eganhouse, William Orem, and Robert Burruss
3	Impact-Related Processes: ICDP-USGS Deep Corehole in the Central Crater of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure	Reston, VA	Gregory Gohn, Wright Horton, David Powars, and Ward Sanford
4	Sources and Fluxes of Dissolved Iron to NE Pacific Surface Waters: A Driver of the Marine Ecosystem and Carbon Cycle	Woods Hole, MA	John Crusius and Eric Sundquist
5	Quantitative Evaluation of Tsunami Hazard to the Atlantic and Caribbean Coasts	Woods Hole, MA	Uri ten Brink, Eric Geist, and Homa Lee
6	The Occurrence and Behavior of Gas Hydrate in Natural Environments	Woods Hole, MA or Denver, CO	Deborah Hutchinson and Timothy Collett
7	Decision Support Systems for the Ecosystem-Based Management of Shallow Marine Habitats	St. Petersburg, FL	John C. Brock
8	Holocene Climate Variability from Gulf of Mexico Marine Sediments	St. Petersburg, FL	R. Z. Poore and T. Quinn (U South Florida)
9	Effects of Carbon Dioxide on Neritic Calcifying Organisms and Carbonate Sediments	St. Petersburg, FL	Robert B. Halley, Virginia H. Garrison, and Eric T. Sundquist
10	Real-Time Prediction of Hurricane-Induced Coastal Change Hazards	St. Petersburg, FL	Asbury Sallenger
11	Application of Sequence Stratigraphy to Delineate Heterogeneous Ground-Water Flow in Karstic Platform Carbonates	Ft. Lauderdale, FL	Kevin J. Cunningham and Eugene Shinn
12	Development of Geologic-Based Risk Assessment Methods and Protocols for Environmental Assessment of Federal Lands Affected by Historical Mining	Denver, CO	Stanley E. Church, William H. Clements (Colorado State University) and John M. Besser
13	Development of Stable-Metal Isotope Techniques to Determine Metal Pathways and Bioavailability to Aquatic Organisms	Denver, CO	Kathleen S. Smith, James F. Ranville (Colorado School of Mines), Stephen Brinkman (Colorado Division of Wildlife, Wildlife Research Center), and W. Ian Ridley
14	Biogeochemical Cycling of Cr in High Cr Geologic Terrains	Denver, CO or Menlo Park, CA	Martin B. Goldhaber, Andrea Foster, Larry Gough, Michael Pribil, and Martin Schoonen (SUNY Stony Brook)
15	Migration and Trapping of Natural Gas in Fine-Grained Siliciclastic Rocks	Denver, CO	Philip H. Nelson, Ronald C. Johnson, and Chris Neuzil
16	Methane Production from Coal: Investigating the Potential for Sustaining Natural Gas Production in Subsurface Coalbeds	Denver, CO	Charles E. Barker and Richard L. Smith
17	Controls on the Origin and Accumulation of Petroleum Condensates and Implications for Domestic Energy Supply	Denver, CO	Ronald Hill and Michael Lewan
18	Modeling the Interaction Between Carbon Cycling and Sedimentation at the Landscape Scale	Denver, CO	Rich Reynolds, Jennifer Harden, and Jason Neff (University of Colorado and USGS)
19	3-D Hydrogeologic Modeling of the Edwards and Trinity Aquifer Interface, South-Central Texas	Denver, CO	Charles Blome and George Ozuna
20	Characterizing and Modeling Post-Wildfire Fire Infiltration, Runoff and Erosive Processes Using Remotely-Sensed Data	Golden, CO; Menlo Park, CA; Sacramento, CA	Sue Cannon, Gerald Bawden, Kevin Schmidt, and John Moody
21	Deterministic Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide Hazard Forecasting	Golden, CO	Jonathan Godt, Rex Baum, Mark Reid, and Jim Verdin
22	Radar Remote Sensing for Landslide Monitoring and Prediction	Golden, CO	Jeff Coe, Zhong Lu, Jonathan Godt, and Mahta Moghaddam (University of Michigan)
23	Improved Real-time Estimates of Human Impact and Ground Shaking for Significant Earthquakes Worldwide	Golden, CO	Paul Earle and David Wald
24	Developing Predictive Models of Non-Linearity for Earthquake Hazard Assessment	Memphis, TN	Joan Gomberg, Paul Johnson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Paul Bodin (University of Memphis), and Chris Marone (Penn State University)
25	Study of Magnetic-Precursory Signals to Large Earthquakes	Golden, CO	Jeffrey Love, Howard Singer (NOAA), Malcolm Johnston, Arthur Frankel, and Daniel E. McNamara
26	Paleohydrology and Paleoclimate of Deserts from Study of Past Wetland Deposits	Menlo Park, CA	David Miller, Marith Reheis, Chris Menges, and Darrell Kaufman (Northern Arizona University)
27	Landscape Evolution Along Mountain-Range Fronts in Southern California: Building a Geologic and Geomorphic Framework by Establishing Stratigraphic and Chronologic Links Between Degradational Features in Rising Highlands and the Depositional Record in Adjoining Basins	Tucson, AZ	Bob Powell, Jon Matti, Chris Menges, John Tinsley, Martha Eppes (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Gary Landis, John Chesley (University of Arizona), and Ari Matmon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
28	Improved Tsunami Hazards Assessment Through Integration of Tsunami Inundation Models and Tsunami Deposits	Menlo Park, CA	Bruce Jaffe, Guy Gelfenbaum, and Eric Geist
29	Earthquake Physics in the Near-Source Region	Menlo Park, CA	William Ellsworth, Steve Hickman, and Mark Zoback (Stanford University)
30	Urban Earthquake Hazards in Southern California	Pasadena, CA	Susan Hough, Lucile Jones, and Ned Field
31	Studying Slow Earthquakes in Cascadia with Borehole Strainmeter Data	Vancouver, WA	Evelyn Roeloffs and Seth Moran
32	Using Seismicity to Evaluate the Cause of Current Unrest at Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska	Anchorage, AK	Stephanie Prejean, John Power, and Cliff Thurber (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
33	Quantitative Methods for Forecasting of Debris-Flow and Debris-Avalanche Hazards	Menlo Park, CA and Vancouver, WA	Mark Reid, Richard Iverson, and Roger Denlinger
34	Magmatic Underpinnings of Fluid-Driven Seismicity: The Generation of Trapped, High-Pressure CO₂-H₂O Reservoirs in the Deep Roots of Active Volcanoes	Menlo Park, CA	T.W. Sisson and M.T. Mangan
35	Developing an Operational Polarimetric InSAR Capability for Canopy Height Mapping	Sioux Falls, SD	Zhiliang Zhu, Zhong Lu, and Robert Treuhaft
36	An Ecoregional Analysis and Library of Spectral Change	Sioux Falls, SD	Alisa Gallant and Tom Loveland
37	Effects of Urban Growth and Climate Change on Societal Vulnerability to Multiple Hazards	Menlo Park, CA	Leonard J. Gaydos and Nathan Wood
38	RADAR Technology Exploitation for Everglades Surface Water Characterization	Reston, VA	John W. Jones and Zhong Lu
39	Linking Sea Ice and Meteorological Properties Resulting from the Upper Atmospheric Oscillations to Terrestrial Biological Phenomena	Anchorage, AK	Carl Markon, Bradley Reed, and Dennis Griffith