USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Opportunity: Alaska

Announcement of a postdoctoral opportunity, forwarded by Joan Gomberg, USGS:

We would like to call to your attention to the following USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Opportunity. The USGS, in collaboration with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to study slow slip events, tremor, and earthquakes in Alaska and the Aleutian arc. This opportunity promises to provide key observational constraints and insights related to one of the newest and most exciting discovery in solid Earth science. Applicants may propose a variety of creative research directions. The application deadline for this opportunity is November 12, 2008. The successful applicant will be expected to start work at the USGS in Anchorage, Alaska, in late 2009 or early 2010. If you would like more information about this project, please contact one of the project supervisors (listed below), and visit the Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program webpage at http://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc/2010/opps/opp32.html.

Stephanie Prejean, sprejean@usgs.gov
Joan Gomberg, gomberg@usgs.gov
Doug Christensen, doug@giseis.alaska.edu
Jeffrey Freymueller, jeff@giseis.alaska.edu
Peter Haeussler, pheuslr@usgs.gov