Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program: Research Opportunities

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Overview: For Fiscal Year 2013, 43 Research Opportunities are being advertised (positions are to be filled depending on the availability of funds). The Research Oppoertunity number and title, proposed duty station(s), 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). One of the first steps in the preparation of an application package is establishing contact 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.

Last modified: Thursday, 23-Feb-2012 14:42:41 EST

Opportunity Number	Research Opportunity Title	Proposed Duty Station(s)	Research Advisor(s)
1	What Controls Biological Productivity in the Northern Gulf of Alaska? Examining the Impact of Melting Glaciers on the Marine Ecosystem	Seattle, WA; Woods Hole, MA	John Crusius, Andrew Schroth, Steve Emerson (University of Washington), Rob Campbell (Prince William Sound Science Center), and Ed Boyle (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)
2	Exploring Fault Slip Modes in Alaska and the Aleutian Arc	Anchorage, AK; Seattle, WA	Stephanie Prejean, Joan Gomberg, Doug Christensen (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Jeffrey Freymueller (University of Alaska Fairbanks), and Peter Haeussler
3	Soil Microbial Community Development and Ecosystem Function on Kasatochi Volcano	Anchorage, AK	Sandra Talbot, Bronwen Wang, Chris Waythomas, and Fred Rainey (University of Alaska Anchorage)
4	Vulnerability of Coupled Human-Environmental Systems to Natural Hazards	Vancouver, WA; Boise, ID; Menlo Park, CA	Nathan Wood and Jason Kreitler
5	Investigation and Demonstration of Serious Games as a USGS Science Strategy	Menlo Park, CA	Anne Wein, Sky Bristol, Jon Keeley, and Bill Labiosa
6	Innovations in Model-Data Fusion for Improved Quantification and Mapping of Carbon Stocks in Ecosystems of the United States	Flagstaff, AZ	Dennis Dye, Jason Stoker, and Ralph Dubayah (University of Maryland)
7	Development of Scalable Landscape Level Ecological Integrity Indices	Menlo Park, CA; Reston, VA	Ronald Raunikar and Dianna Hogan
8	Life at the Freezing Point: Global Change and Permafrost Microbiology	Menlo Park, CA	Mark Waldrop, Burt Thomas, Kimberly Wickland, and Janet Jansson (Department of Energy, Lawence Berkeley National Lab)
9	Investigating Processes Underlying Volcanic and Tectonic Earthquake Swarms	Menlo Park, CA; Anchorage, AK	David Shelly, Stephanie Prejean, David Hill, and William Ellsworth
10	Novel Uses of Infrasound to Study Active Volcanism	Anchorage, AK	Matthew Haney, David Fee (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Victor Tsai (California Institute of Technology), and Jon Hagstrum
11	Assessing Geologic Hazards in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, by Improving Understanding of Quaternary Geology and Tectonics	Menlo Park, CA	Thomas Holzer, Keith Knudsen, Daniel Ponti, John Tinsley, and Elmira Wan
12	Operational Earthquake Forecasting	Pasadena, CA; Menlo Park, CA; Golden, CO	Morgan Page, Karen Felzer, Edward Field, and Andrew Michael
13	Mitigating the Seismic Hazard Associated with the Injection and Production of Fluid at Depth	Menlo Park, CA	Art McGarr, Colin Williams Stephen Hickman, David Oppenheimer, David Lockner, Tom Brocher, and Keith Knudsen
14	Variability and Uncertainty in Earthquake Stress Drops and Their Effects on Earthquake Ground Motion	Menlo Park, CA	David Boore, Tom Hanks, Jack Boatwright, Art McGarr, Norman Abrahamson (Pacific Gas & Electric), and Jack Baker (Stanford University)
15	San Andreas Fault System Mapping in the Third Dimension – In the Salton Trough, Central California, and the San Francisco Bay Area	Menlo Park, CA	Rufus Catchings, Gary Fuis, Michael Rymer, John Hole (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Rowena Lohman (Cornell University), Jeff McGuire (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Joann Stock (California Institute of Technology), Graham Kent (University of Nevada-Reno), and Neal Driscoll (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
16	Electromagnetic Studies of Geothermal Resource Areas, Western United States	Menlo Park, CA	Darcy McPhee, David Ponce, Colin Williams, Margaret Mangan, and Julie Donnelly-Nolan
17	Assessing the Nation's Landslide Hazards from Extreme Storms	Menlo Park, CA; Golden, CO	Jonathan Stock, Kevin Schmidt, Jonathan Godt, and Mark Reid
18	Neotectonics, Structure, and Hydrogeology of the Columbia Embayment, Washington and Oregon, as Illuminated by New Geophysical Surveys	Menlo Park, CA	Richard Blakely, Ray Wells, Brian Sherrod, Craig Weaver, Thomas Pratt, Charles Wicks, Terrence Conlon, and Erick Burns
19	The Impact Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change on Low-Lying U.S. Atolls	Santa Cruz, CA	Curt Storlazzi, Peter Swarzenski, Delwyn Oki, Steve Gingerich, and Tony Kimmit (U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service)
20	Observing the Largest Planned River Sediment Release in History	Santa Cruz, CA	Jonathan Warrick, Amy Draut, Chris Magirl, Jennifer Bountry (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation), Matt Bierne (Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe), and Toby Minear
21	Hydrology, Geomorphology, and Riparian Habitat in the Upper and Middle Verde River	Tucson, AZ	Stephen Wiele and Anne Brasher
22	Can Climate Change Increase Fire Severity Independent of Fire Intensity?	Berkeley, CA; Arcata, CA	Phillip van Mantgem and Max Moritz (University of California Berkeley)
23	Assessing the Impact of Global Change on Landscape- to Regional-Scale Carbon Stocks in Dryland Ecosystems	Flagstaff, AZ	John Bradford, Sasha Reed, Michael Duniway, and Jayne Belnap
24	Defining the Future of Riparian Ecosystems of the Large Regulated Rivers of the Southwest	Flagstaff, AZ	John Schmidt, Paul Grams, Barbara Ralston, David Merritt (U.S. Forest Service), and Patrick Shafroth
25	Synthesis and Projection of Climate Change Impacts on Biological Nitrogen Fixation, and Feedbacks to Forest Productivity and Carbon Storage	Corvallis, OR	Steven Perakis, David Myrold (Oregon State University), and Dominique Bachelet (Conservation Biology Institute)
26	Climate Responses of Cheatgrass in Western Rangelands: Integrating Observations, Experimentation, and Research-Network Coordination to Enable Modeling of Range Expansion	Boise, ID	Matthew Germino and David Pyke
27	Iron-Oxide Copper Gold Deposits in the United States	Denver, CO	Albert Hofstra, Rich Goldfarb, Poul Emsbo, and Craig Johnson
28	Electrical and Electromagnetic Monitoring of Volcanic Processes	Denver, CO	Paul Bedrosian, Jim Kauahikaua, Burke Minsley, Shaul Hurwitz, and Matt Haney
29	Integrating Hydrologic and Geophysical Data for Groundwater Characterization: Method Development and Application to Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys	Denver, CO	Burke Minsley, Mary Hill, Ty Ferré (University of Arizona), and Jared Abraham
30	The Eolian Record of Holocene Droughts in the Platte River Drainage Basin of the Great Plains	Denver, CO	Daniel Muhs and Margaret Berry
31	Geological and Geophysical Controls on Intraplate Earthquakes	Golden, CO	Rich Briggs, Ryan Gold, Rob Williams, and Dan Clark (Geoscience Australia)
32	An Examination of Controls on Fault Rupture Segmentation	Golden, CO	Ryan Gold, Rich Briggs, Gavin Hayes, Peter Powers, and Ned Field
33	Geomorphic Calibration of Tsunami-Inundation Models at the Cascadia Subduction Zone	Golden, CO; Seattle, WA	Alan Nelson, Rob Witter, Brian Atwater, Brian Sherrod, and Craig Weaver
34	The Integration of Satellite and Airborne-based Datasets into Observations of Earthquake Finiteness	Golden, CO	Gavin Hayes, David Wald, Michael Hutt, Rob Graves, and Ken Hudnut
35	Montane Ecosystems in Flux with Contemporary Climate Changes: Using Integrated Analyses to Illuminate Distributional Patterns, Mechanisms of Change, and Conservation Opportunities	Bozeman, MT	Erik Beever, Thomas Millette (Mount Holyoke College) and Solomon Dobrowski (University of Montana)
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37	Consequences of Climate Change for Alpine Lake-Stream Networks and Native Fishes in the Southern Rocky Mountains	Fort Collins, CO	David Walters, Travis Schmidt, Kurt Fausch (Colorado State University), Andrew Todd, and Jeff Kershenr
38	Forecasting Ecological Responses to Climate and Land Cover Change in the Southeastern United States: Assessing Vulnerability and the Implications for Landscape Conservation	Lafayette, LA	Thomas Doyle, Michael Osland, John Tirpak (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), and Gregory Wathen (Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency)
39	Flood Risk Mitigation and Ecological Restoration of Large Rivers	Columbia, MO	Robert Jacobson, Brian Kelly, and David Galat (The Nature Conservancey Great Rivers Partnership)
40	Neotectonic and Paleoseismic Investigations in the Central and Eastern United States	Reston, VA	Richard Harrison and Steve Obermeier
41	Integration of Processes Associated with Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise	St. Petersburg, FL; Woods Hole, MA	Nathaniel Plant and Rob Thieler
42	Hydrothermal Redox Reactions: Implications for Mineral and Energy Resources	Reston, VA	I-Ming Chou, Robert Seal, and Robert Burruss
43	Reactive-Solute-Transport Models for Simulation of Nutrient Flux to the Coast and Through the Subterranean Estuary in Shallow Coastal Aquifers	Woods Hole, MA	John Colman, Kevin Kroeger, and Charles Harvey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
44	Seismicity and Mechanical Properties of East Coast Submarine Landslides	Woods Hole, MA	Uri ten Brink, Jeff McGuire (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), John Collins (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), and Jason Chaytor