Advancing earthquake science worldwide
The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography has openings starting in 2018 for two postdoctoral Green Scholars. Funding from the Green Foundation for Earth Sciences is matched with extramural funds for specific research projects to support these positions. Prior to submitting an application, applicants … Continue Reading »
GeoHazards International is hiring a Project Manager to be based in its Menlo Park, California headquarters. This person will implement projects that build local technical capacities and disaster resilience in the world’s most vulnerable communities. The position requires schedule flexibility and occasional travel to project locations, which currently include India, Nepal, … Continue Reading »
Open Until: 2017-11-02 Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position in computational/numerical seismology for one year. A one year extension is possible depending on how the research project progresses. The objective of the project (‘4D Seismic in the South Iceland Seismic Zone: A tool for strong earthquake forecasting’) is to … Continue Reading »
Job reference number: AS-2017 Application deadline: October 1, 2017 Expertise: earthquake monitoring, bulletins, seismicity, tectonics Start Date: January 2018 Benefits: £26,411 – £28,844 per annum gross, 6 weeks paid annual leave Location: Thatcham, Berkshire, U.K. Term: 3 years with a strong possibility of continuation. Employer description: International Seismological Centre (ISC) … Continue Reading »
Institution: ETH ZürichOpen Until: 2017-10-31 The aim of this project is to investigate and characterize the nature of Earth’s mantle transition zone and the seismic discontinuities that bound it. While the transition zone is known to be bounded by the major seismic discontinuities (“410” and “660”), there are many fundamental … Continue Reading »
Institution: ETH ZürichOpen Until: 2017-10-31 The candidate is expected to develop methods based on e.g., waveform modeling, body- and surface-waves, normal modes, and attenuation structure to study the interior of a planet. The project is situated broadly in the domain of seismology and computational geophysics and is timed to overlap … Continue Reading »