Employment Opportunity: International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Marine Technicians
The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) at Texas A&M University (TAMU) is planning to hire several full-time Marine Technicians (TAMU title: Research Associate) and/or temporary Marine Technicians (TAMU title: Program Aide). IODP Marine Technicians are required to sail on the Research Vessel JOIDES Resolution, which operates worldwide on two-month long scientific drilling expeditions. Employee shifts at sea are 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for each expedition. The work is physically demanding, requiring the ability to maintain balance on a moving ship, to carry objects (e.g., core sections) weighing up to 60 lbs., and to tolerate exposure to noise and dust. The employee must be able to pass a new employee seagoing physical exam and annual seagoing physical exams, and must be able to obtain and hold a passport and appropriate visas on a continuing basis. Both positions require a Bachelor’s degree with two years of relevant experience or a Master’s degree.
We will begin reviewing applications on 28 September 2018, but will continue to accept applications until candidates are selected for interviews. Additional details concerning these position are given in the full online job ads.
Link to the Research Associate Position: https://tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMU_External/job/Research-Associate_R-010787
Link to the Program Aide Position: https://tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMU_External/job/Program-Aide_R-010657-1
ANZIC Travel Support for Participants in the New Caledonia Peridotite Amphibious Drilling Workshop
Due to the high interest and relevance to ANZIC community, the ANZIC Governing Council has made available 4 x$1500 travel support grants to participate at this pre-proposal development meeting.
ANZIC institutional members can apply for support of which two of the travel support grants will be made available for ECRs.
Details regarding the meeting are:
22-24 January 2019, Montpellier, France – website and flyer – The actual workshop application deadline is the: 15 October 2018.
Conveners: Julien Collot, Marguerite Godard, Camille Clerc, Rupert Sutherland, Juerg Matter.
Participation: Scientists who are interested to take part in a workshop should contact the convenor (see links).
To apply for ANZIC support please submit your EOI to ANZIC.programscientis@anu.edu.au by Wednesday the 3rd Oct.
Your EOI should address the following:
- a summary of your expertise and experience (especially IODP/ICDP) relevant to the proposed objectives (max 300 words.)
- a plan of how you would participate at the workshop and then share the outcomes with the ANZIC community (max 200 words)
- an assessment of how attendance would benefit you professionally (please identify if you are an ECR here) (max 300 words)
- have you received ANZIC funding/support in the last 3 years? If so please list the outcomes/outputs you have produced to date.
CSDCO/LacCore newsletter
Register for short courses at the GSA conference
Please consider registering yourself or your students for the Limnogeology Division short course at this year’s Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
Short course #508
The Changing Face of Limnogeology—Tools and Methods for Analyzing Lacustrine Systems
Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Only $10 for students, $25 for others!
Instructors are current and former Limnogeology Division officers, LacCore/CSDCO scientific staff, and special guests!
Also check out short courses:
Short course #519 (Building Mobile Apps for Geoscience)
Short course #526 (Taking Students into the Field on Their Own Time: Design and Assessment of Student Self-Guided Field Experiences Using the Free, NSF-Funded Flyover Country Mobile App)
Both of these short courses are co-led by more CSDCO/LacCore people!
For more information on short courses, visit the GSA Annual Meeting Short Courses web page.
Apply for researcher and faculty positions
A number of advanced researcher and faculty positions in lake-related research are currently available at institutions within 2.5 hours of CSDCO/LacCore. We encourage you to apply!
Carleton College Assistant Professor: Climate Science
University of Minnesota-Duluth Natural Resources Research Institute Researcher 7: Aqueous Geochemist
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LacCore and CSDCO
University of Minnesota
Seminar on magnetic LWD in deep drilling projects
Hi all
Next Monday (24 Sept) there will be a talk in Physics of relevance to Scientific Ocean Drilling. Its about using MWD (measurement while drilling) of magnetic properties to help to target the direction of deep ocean drilling projects.
3pm, Room 314 in Science Building 3 at Otago.
A flyer is here: Ellen Clarke seminar
Minutes of 4 Sept meeting and next meeting details
Hi
Minutes of the meeting today (4 Sept) are Here.
Our next meeting will be 2 Oct 12:00-13:00 on AVC3 or via zoom:
Zoom Video Conference Information
Title: Science Drilling Meeting
Date and Time: 2 October at 12:00 pm
Click link to Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://otago.zoom.us/j/207435659
You can log into this meeting anytime to get set up and familiarise yourself with Zoom.
We would like to run a test with you prior to the day of your video conference to help ensure all is working correctly. Please email the eConferencing team at econferencing@otago.ac.nz to arrange a time.
Please find a guide on How to test your speakers & microphone https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/zoom/how-to-test-your-microphone-and-speakers-in-zoom/
As a backup option if you are experiencing issues on the day you can join by phone:
Here is a link to the Zoom International Dial-in Numbers: https://zoom.us/zoomconference (Toll charges may apply).
Enter Meeting ID: 207435659 followed by #
For more info on Zoom, please visit our https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/zoom/
For any questions or help with Zoom, please contact eConferencing on econferencing@otago.ac.nz or call +64 3 479 8440 during normal work hours (8:30am – 5:00pm NZ time).
4 Sept 12:00-13:00 – Monthly meeting for Scientific Drilling @ Otago
Our next monthly meeting will be 4 September 2018 at 12 noon
In person in AVC3 (Audio Visual Conferencing Room 3 in the Link Building)
August ANZIC Bulletin
In this issue:
Apply to join the ANZIC Science Committee
Host the ANZIC Masterclass in 2019
Introducing our New Zealand team
Late call Exp 385- diatom or nannofossil biostratigrapher
Welcome Yusuke Yokoyama
MARGO Proposal development workshop funding available
A PDF of the Bulletin is available.
LATE CALL -IODP Expedition 385 – biostratigrapher
The Co-Chief Scientists and Expedition Project Manager/Staff Scientist are offering a special call to ANZIC researchers with expertise in diatom or nannofossil biostratigraphy.
Expedition 385 will be at sea for two months between September and November 2019.
The team will core and log a series of sites in the Guaymas Basin to investigate the relationship of tectonics, magmatism, sedimentation, carbon cycling, and microbial activity.
The primary objectives are to:
(1) explore the physical and chemical gradients along active and extinct fluid pathways associated with sill emplacement;
(2) investigate subsurface microbial communities that are sustained by alteration products, in order to determine how efficiently they capture carbon-bearing alteration products; and
(3) advance our understanding of the conditions that limit life in the deep biosphere.
Applications from the ANZIC community must be forwarded to Leanne Armand (Anzic.programscientist@anu.edu.au) and ANZIC Science Committee Chair, Mike Coffin (mike.coffin@utas.edu.au) using the Application to sail submission form located at: https://iodp.org.au/for-scientists/application-to-sail/
Due Date for Special Call: 28th August 2018.
June ANZIC Bulletin
In this bulletin:
Geosciences 2018 – Napier
LATE CALL Expedition 383 DYNAPACC
ANZIC Team Update
Expedition 376
Geological Society of Japan -International Award
Rise and fall of the Great Barrier Reef
IODP School of Rock 2018
RV Investigator Supplementary applications now open.
AGU Fall Meeting 2018
Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference
Origins of Oil, old organics, and organisms.
Open ANZIC Bulletin 21 June 2018 for more info
July 9 2018 Monthly meeting – due today but happening via email instead
Hi everyone
I emailed you all last week asking if you could check this document (which is attached again here with my additions) and advise me of any changes – particularly to the tables at the end where there are lists of student and postdoc projects, associated research grants, and the section of the report which provides details of future drilling proposals (“Future IODP Proposals in New Zealand Region”). PLEASE ADD TO THIS AND RETURN TO ME BY THIS THURSDAY.
I will prepare and circulate a similar document for ICDP later this week in which I will try to summarize what I know of your associated research grants etc (we have a lost from the OAR application) but it will again require checking.
NZIODP Infrastructure VP 030718-PB-VT
2. Short course in scientific drilling
I have just finished teaching a very successful short course in Scientific Drilling at Hokkaido University. During this, 9 international (NZ, China, Italy, France, Nepal, Angora, Australia/USA) and 4 Japanese students learned about Structural Geological, Geophysical, and Paleoenvironmental analyses from a Japanese (Hokkaido, JAMSTEC, GSJ) and International (NZ = Chris Moy, Ireland) faculty group. They enjoyed a combination of lectures, practical classes that included examination of cores loaned to us by Kochi core repository, and fieldwork to validate and upscale drilling-related observations.
I think this was extremely successful – the student feedback confirms this – and am currently preparing an application for a similar course next year – but I will only be able to run the course next year if we get more enrollments than we did this year. The NZ BSc(Hons) and MSc students who participated were able to get credit for one 20 point 400-level course by participating and I will ensure this is also the case in 2019. However, applications for next year from international students have to be submitted by the end of February 2019… but this does not equate to a commitment to attend. So please advise your current students of this opportunity and get them thinking about it. I will send a flyer for the 2019 course in ~September this year.
Thanks everyone
V
