USGS ShakeAlert Chief Scientist

The USGS Earthquake Science Center is hiring a Chief Scientist for the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning (EEW) project. ShakeAlert is a system that provides alerts of impending earthquake ground shaking to end users, using data from seismic and geodetic monitoring networks along the west coast of the United States. The … Continue Reading »

PhD Student (m/f)

The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is the national research centre for Earth sciences in Germany. With approx. 1280 employees, the GFZ is conducting interdisciplinary research on the “System Earth” and the influence of humans on the planet. As a member of the Helmholtz Association, … Continue Reading »

PhD Positions available in Computational Seismic Imaging, Inversion and Time-Lapse Monitoring University of Texas at Dallas

We have openings for 4 new PhD positions starting in August 2018; applications are due Jan-Feb 2018. Our research group focuses on computational seismic imaging, inversion and time-lapse monitoring using advanced wave-theoretic and high-performance computational methods for seismic modeling, imaging, and full waveform inversion (FWI); using active-source or passive seismic … Continue Reading »

Research Geologist (USGS)

As a Research Geologist within the Earthquake Science Center, some of your specific duties will include: -Plan, design and conduct studies of active faults systems. -Prepare field data for analysis and publication. -Communicate results of neotectonic and paleoseismic studies. -Interact and collaborate on a multidisciplinary team of scientists and technicians.

Postdoc Fellow in Computational Seismology in Penn State

Our Applied Geophysics lab at Penn State Geosciences (https://sites.psu.edu/tzhu/) has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher to develop joint time-lapse full waveform inversion code for estimating seismic velocity and attenuation properties of injected CO2 plume. This project aims to constrain the temporal evolution of CO2 saturation after injection by using … Continue Reading »

Postdoctoral position in seismology

The successful candidate will join our research group at the Observatoire Midi Pyrenees working on high resolution imaging of the lithosphere with full waveform inversion approaches. This postdoc is funded by OROGEN (http://www.orogen-project.com), a very ambitious research project which aims at better understanding the formation and evolution of mountain belts. … Continue Reading »