USGS Mendenhall Post-doctoral Fellowship Opportunity!

We seek recent PhD recipients to conduct research on "Constraining crustal structure, faulting, and earthquake effects through the application of new imaging and modeling methods in the Cascadia region." This broadly-defined project focuses on developing models of faulting and earthquake effects in the Pacific Northwest that integrate observations of long-term crustal processes recorded in the geologic structure with those reflecting contemporary processes of ruptures and radiated wavefields of modern earthquakes. Research may involve better defining geologic structures in the crust and subducted plate using new and improved imaging techniques, or it may involve modeling of earthquakes or deformation. New data sets and instrumentation that can be employed come from Earthscope's Transportable Array of seismic stations and Plate Boundary Observatory GPS network, the Seismic Hazard Investigations of Puget Sound, and other seismic experiments. While the PNW is the test bed, research may bring in observations from elsewhere and from theoretical modeling. Fellowships are 2-year term appointments to work in the USGS office on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington, with mentors Thomas Pratt, Brian Sherrod, Joan Gomberg, Art Frankel, and John Vidale. Fellowships start between Oct. 2008 and Mar. 2009, and are available to geologists, geophysicists, or civil engineers who received their PhD after November 9, 2002. See http://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc for details and contact information; this project is Opportunity #34.