RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Overview: For Fiscal Year 2011, 73 Research Opportunities are being advertised (positions are to be filled depending on the availability of funds). The research opportunity title, proposed duty station, and Research Advisor(s) are listed below for each Research Opportunity, along with detailed descriptions, required qualifications, and the appropriate Human Resources 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 Human Resources Office Contacts: The Human Resources 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 Human Resources 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 Human Resources specialist in charge.
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Opportunity Number Research Opportunity Title Proposed Duty Station(s) Research Advisor(s) 1 The Impacts of Quaternary Climate Change on Karst Geomorphology and Hydrology in the Appalachian Region Reston, VA
Daniel Doctor, David Weary, Christopher Swezey, and Milan Pavich 2 Analysis of Ocean Circulation and Ocean-Atmosphere Modeling of Future Climate Scenarios Reston, VA
Harry Dowsett and Alan Haywood (University of Leeds) 3 Studies to Understand the Extended Continental Shelf of the United States Woods Hole, MA; Menlo Park, CA
Deborah Hutchinson, Ginger Barth, James Hein, Larry Mayer (University of New Hampshire), Andrew Armstrong (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), and James V. Gardner (University of New Hampshire) 4 Hydrodynamics-Based Numerical Modeling for Predicting Coastal Change Processes Woods Hole, MA
John Warner and Jeff List 5 Developing Sea Floor Disturbance Indices Based on Bottom Stress for Habitat Mapping and Marine Spatial Planning Woods Hole, MA
Bradford Butman, Richard Signell, Chris Sherwood, John Warner, and Page Valentine 6 How Big Was That Storm? Developing Metrics for Storm Impacts on Coastal and Marine Geologic Systems Woods Hole, MA; St. Petersburg, FL; Santa Cruz, CA
Bradford Butman, Chris Sherwood, Nathaniel Plant, and Patrick Barnard 7 Methane Hydrates and Global Climate Change Woods Hole, MA
Carolyn Ruppel and John Pohlman 8 Trace-Element Sequestration and Cycling Associated with Secondary Phases in Mine-Drainage Settings Reston, VA
Robert Seal, Mary Voytek, and I-Ming Chou 9 Microbial Methanogenesis of Fossil Organic Deposits Reston, VA
William Orem and Mary Voytek 10 Subsidence and Accommodation History of Arctic Alaska Reston, VA
David Houseknecht, Richard Saltus, Christopher Connors (Washington and Lee University), Bernard Coakley (University of Alaska—Fairbanks), and Kenneth Bird 11 Identifying Energy Production and Municipal Uses of Produced Waters from Oil, Gas, and Coal Bed Methane Production Reston, VA; Denver, CO
Mark Engle, James Otton, Richard Healy, Elizabeth Rowan, James Sams (U.S. Department of Energy), and Allan Kolker 12 Influence of North Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics on Alaskan Climate During the Past 5000 Years Denver, CO; Menlo Park, CA
Lesleigh Anderson, John Barron, and Bruce Finney (Idaho State University) 13 Improving Vegetation Model Simulations of Future Climate Change Effects on Public Lands in the United States Corvallis, OR
Sarah Shafer 14 Development of Joint Inverse Methods of Improved Characterization and Assessment of Groundwater, Mineral, and Petroleum Resources Denver, CO
Michael Friedel, Jeffrey Phillips, Alyssa Dausman, and Seth Haines 15 Role of Trace Metals in Cancer Origin, Development, and Outcome Denver, CO
Todor Todorov, Alan Koenig, Andre Kajdacsy-Balla (University of Illinois—Chicago), and Martin Goldhaber 16 Geologic Applications of Airborne Gravity Gradient Measurements Denver, CO
Jeffrey Phillips, Richard Blakely, Mark Gettings, and Stephen Malys (National Geospatial Intelligence Agency) 17 Riparian Predators as Ecosystem Sentinels: Quantification for Biologically Mediated Metal Fluxes in Mineralized Alpine Ecosystems Denver, CO; Fort Collins, CO
Richard Wanty, Travis Schmidt, and David Walters 18 Frontiers of Ambient Seismic Noise Analysis: Development of High-Resolution Velocity Models at Multiple Depth Scales for Computation of Synthetic Seismograms Golden, CO
William Stephenson, Harley Benz, Art Frankel, and Robert Herrmann (St. Louis University) 19 Seismic Hazard and Risk Modeling—Building State-of-the-Art Models into End-to-End “Ruptures to Rafters” Analysis Golden, CO
Edward Field, Nicolas Luco, David Wald, Mark Petersen, and Lucy Jones 20 Magnetic Storms and Their Impact on Electric-Power Grids Golden, CO
Jeffrey Love, Jennifer Gannon, Kevin Forbes (Catholic University of America), Anne Wein, Richard Bernknopf, and David Perkins 21 Reducing Risk from Damaging Earthquakes in the Central United States Memphis, TN
Martitia Tuttle, Oliver Boyd, and Russell Wheeler 22 Examining Proterozoic Crustal Architecture Using Inherited Minerals in Plutons Menlo Park, CA
David Miller, Andrew Barth (Indiana University–Purdue University), and Joseph Wooden 23 Development of a Coastal Hazards Model for the U.S. West Coast Santa Cruz, CA; Woods Hole, MA
Patrick Barnard, Jonathan Warrick, and Cheryl Hapke 24 Integrated Coastal and Marine Geologic and Habitat Mapping-New Approaches and Products for the 21st Century Santa Cruz, CA
Samuel Johnson, Guy Cochrane, David Finlayson, Eric Grossman, Curt Storlazzi, and H. Gary Greene (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories) 25 Amplification of Strong Motion in Coastal and Estuarine Sediment Deposits of the Urbanized Western United States Menlo Park, CA
Robert Kayen 26 Sediment Cycling Between Estuarine Habitats Santa Cruz, CA
Jessica Lacy, Bruce Jaffe, Dave Schoellhamer, and Mark Stacey (University of California Berkeley) 27 Effects of Scarce, Technologically Important Metals (Li, In, Te, and Ga) on the Health of Humans and Ecosystems Seattle, WA; Menlo Park, CA; Reno, NV
Laurie Balistrieri, Andrea Foster, Larry Miller, Jim Rytuba, Lisa Stillings, and Scott Wood (U Idaho) 28 Improving Ground Motion Forecasts for Future Earthquakes Menlo Park, CA
Brad Aagaard, Robert Jachens, Paul Spudich, and Robert Simpson 29 Mapping the San Andreas Fault System in the Third Dimension—In the Salton Trough, Central California, and the San Francisco Bay Area Menlo Park, CA
Rufus Catchings, Gary Fuis, and Michael Rymer 30 Earthquake Characterization in the Face of Complexity Seattle, WA
Joan Gomberg, Craig Weaver, John Vidale (University of Washington), and Paul Bodin (University of Washington) 31 Dynamic Rupture, Ground Motion and High-Speed Fault Strength Menlo Park, CA
Dave Lockner, Bill Ellsworth, Ruth Harris, Brad Aagaard, Joe Andrews, and Nick Beeler 32 Detecting the Causes of Earthquake Rate Changes Menlo Park, CA
Andrew Michael, Jeanne Hardebeck, Jessica Murray-Moraleda, Thomas Parsons, and Fred Pollitz 33 Cascadia Subduction Zone: Transient Aseismic Deformation and Its Possible Relationship with Time-dependent Earthquake Hazards Vancouver, WA
Evelyn Roeloffs, Nick Beeler, Craig Weaver, and Nathan Wood 34 Joint U.S.-Japan Program to Develop CoulombExpress, a Near-Real-Time Online Earthquake Forecasting Tool for Emergency Responders and Scientists Menlo Park, CA
Ross Stein and Shinji Toda (Kyoto University) 35 Climate Forcing of Volcanic and Earthquake Hazards Menlo Park, CA
David Hill, Shaul Hurwitz, Jeanne Hardebeck, and David Shelly 36 Real-Time and High Data Rate GPS: Application to Natural Hazards Mitigation Vancouver, WA; Menlo Park, CA
Michael Lisowski, Charles Wicks, Daniel Dzurisin, Michael Weber (GeoforshungsZentrum), and John Langbein 37 Investigating the Active Plumbing System for Kilauea with Ambient Seismic Noise Hawaii National Park, HI; Menlo Park, CA
Paul Okubo, Matthew Haney (Boise State University), Bernard Chouet, and Shaul Hurwitz 38 Dynamics of Magma Migration, Magma Storage, and Stress Triggering at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai‘i Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, HI
M. Poland, A. Miklius, P. Okubo, J. Murray-Moraleda, and T. Masterlark (University of Alabama) 39 Paleoclimatic Controls of Lithium Metallogeny Anchorage, AK; Reno, NV; Reston, VA
Dwight Bradley, Alan Wallace, LeeAnn Munk (University of Alaska–Anchorage), Robert Ayuso, and Nora Foley 40 Methane Oxidation in Terrestrial Systems: Anaerobic Biodegradation Mechanisms Reston, VA Isabelle Cozzarelli and Michelle Lorah 41 Fine Sediment Transport, Storage, and Reactivity in Streams: The Role for Geomorphic, Hydrologic, and Biogeochemical Processes, with Application to Restoration Reston, VA Judson Harvey, Laurel Larsen, Mary Voytek, and John Karl Böhlke 42 Nutrient, Sediment, and Vegetation Interactions in Fluvial Wetlands Reston, VA Gregory Noe and Cliff Hupp 43 Key Indicators of Regional Climate Change: Dissolved Organic Matter Composition and Flux in the Yukon River Basin Boulder, CO; Sacramento, CA George Aiken, Kim Wickland, and Brian Bergamaschi 44 Simulating Interactive Responses of Stream Flow and Temperature Distributions to Climate Change Denver, CO; Bozeman, MT Lauren Hay, Steve Markstrom, Jeff Kershner, and Robert Gresswell 45 Integrating Multiple Environmental Tracers for Characterizing Large Aquifers Using Inverse Model Techniques Denver, CO Mary Hill, Andrew Manning, and Elizabeth Keating (Los Alamos National Laboratory) 46 Coupling Stream Bank Erosion with Sediment Transport in Channels Golden, CO; Boulder, CO; Columbia, MO Jonathan M. Nelson, Jason Kean, Jonathan Friedman, Robert Jacobson, and John Moody 47 Integration of Surface and Borehole Geophysical Methods in the Characterization of Hydrologic Systems Denver, CO; Storrs, CT Roger Morin and John Lane 48 Using Lagrangian Random Walk Particle Methods to Simulate Transport and Storage of Sediment and Associated Contaminants in Rivers Golden, CO; Denver, CO Ken Bencala, Jonathan Nelson, David Parkhurst, and David Rubin 49 Biogeochemistry of Aquatic Dissolved Organic Nitrogen in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge Boulder, CO Richard Smith, Rob Striegl, George Aiken, and J.K. Böhlke 50 The Role of Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs in Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Dioxide and Methane Exchange, and the Freshwater Carbon Budget Boulder, CO; Denver, CO Robert G. Striegl, David Clow, John Walker, and Edward Stets 51 Modeling Glacier-Climate Interactions Corvallis, OR; Bozeman, MT Steven Hostetler 52 Riverine Organic Matter: Is This a Significant Potential Contributor to Riverine and Coastal Hypoxia? Menlo Park, CA Carol Kendall, Steve Silva, Robert Rosenbauer, Peter Swarzenski, Valerie Kelly, and Brian Bergamaschi 53 Effects of Unsaturated-Zone Preferential Flow Water Quality, Ecosystems, and Climate Change-Affected Water Supply Menlo Park, CA John Nimmo, Chris Green, and Barbara Bekins 54 Microbial Biogeochemistry of Arsenic Redox Transformations in Hydrologic Systems Menlo Park, CA Ronald Oremland 55 Effects of Climate Change on Vegetation Phenology and Ecosystem Health Sioux Falls, SD; Reston, VA Jesslyn Brown, James Vogelmann, and John W. Jones 56 Science Quality Environmental Data Sets for Terrestrial Monitoring Sioux Falls, SD Tom Loveland 57 Mapping, Valuation, and Optimization of Ecosystem Service Flows Denver, CO; Fort Collins, CO Darius Semmens, Jay Diffendorfer, Todd Hawbaker, and Lynne Koontz 58 Impacts of Mountain Pine Beetles on Carbon Sequestration in South Rocky Mountain Forests Denver, CO; Fort Collins, CO Todd Hawbaker, Jenny Briggs, Steve Garman, and Dave Clow 59 Quantitative Methods to Assess the Impacts of Urban Growth on BLM Lands in the Western United States Denver, CO Steven L. Garman and James E. Diffendorfer 60 Impacts of Irrigated Water Use in a Changing Climate: Measuring, Mapping, and Modeling Trends and Changes in Agricultural Water Productivity for California Flagstaff, AZ Prasad Thenkabail and Dennis Dye 61 Linking Field Observations of Phenology to Satellite-Based Phenometrics and Climate in Semi-arid Ecosystems of the Southwestern United States Tucson, AZ Cynthia Wallace and Jake Weltzin 62 Multi-Hazard Models and Tools to Assess Societal Vulnerability to Natural Hazards in the Pacific Northwest Vancouver, WA Nathan Wood 63 Hierarchical Modeling of Climate Change Effects: Land Use Impacts on Brook Trout Population Persistence Turner Falls, MA Ben Letcher, Andy Royle, Keith Nislow (U.S. Forest Service), Y.Q. Wang (University of Rhode Island), Casey Brown (University of Massachusetts), and David Ahfeld (University of Massachusetts) 64 Exploring the Microbial Link between High Elevation Deglaciation and Headwater Biogeochemistry Fort Collins, CO Jill Baron, Travis Schmidt, Matthew Wallenstein (Colorado State University), and Andrew Fountain (Portland State University) 65 Evaluating the Influence of Climate Change on Western Ungulates: A Trans-Boundary, Regional Collaboration Among Researchers and Managers Laramie, WY; Logan, UT; Missoula, MT Matthew Kauffman, Mike Mitchell, and John Bissonette 66 Forecasting the Effects of Climate Change on the Interactions of Native and Nonnative Salmonids Bozeman, MT Jeff Kershner, Bob Gresswell, Clint Muhlfeld, Al Zale, and Molly Webb (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) 67 Forecasting Changes in Plant Community Composition and Ecosystem Function in the Southwestern United States Moab, UT; Flagstaff, AZ; Denver, CO; Tucson, AZ Jayne Belnap, Rich Reynolds, Mike Dettinger, Robert Webb, Jeff Herrick (U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service), and Greg Okin 68 Historical Thermal Regimes, Climate Change, and Impacts on Riverine Biota Corvallis, OR Jason Dunham, Sherri Johnson (U.S. Forest Service), John Risley, and Ashley Steel (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) 69 Predicting Effects of Climate Change on Pacific Coast Intertidal Foragers Corvallis, OR Susan Haig, Matthew Johnson, and Bruce Menge (Oregon State University) 70 Pacific Walrus Response to Rapidly Accelerating Arctic Change: Bioenergetics Modeling to Inform Forecasting of Future Population Status Anchorage, AK Chadwick Jay and Karen Oakley 71 Climate Change and a Declining Endemic: Can the Olympic Marmot Survive in a Warming World? Port Angeles, WA Kurt Jenkins 72 Regional Climate Change and Carbon Cycling on the Colorado Plateau Moab, UT; Boulder, CO; Denver, CO; Menlo Park, CA; La Jolla, CA Sasha Reed, Jayne Belnap, Nichole Barger (University of Colorado), Rich Reynolds, Michael Dettinger, Carol Kendall, and Jennifer Harden 73 Effects of Climate Change on the Roof of the World: Migratory Birds and Wetlands in the Central Asian Flyway Vallejo, CA John Takekawa, Diann Prosser, and Xiangming Xiao (University of Oklahoma)
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