Job Description
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Physical Geography \n Learn more about the general tasks related to this opportunity below, as well as required skills. \n- Durham The Role and DepartmentA 22-month fixed term full time Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position is available in the Department of Geography at Durham University The successful candidate will join the project 'NSFGEO-NERC Collaborative Research: Paleogeodesy at the Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone \n- Reconstructing Earthquake Deformation and Rupture Boundaries in Time and Space". \n The project is led at Durham by Dr.
\n Simon Engelhart and is funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council.As a PDRA on this project, the successful applicant will be required to undertake field-based research across two field seasons along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone and to develop reconstructions of past relative sea-level (land level) changes over the past few thousand years using diatoms as the main proxy, alongside other stratigraphic methods. \n These new records of past relative sea-level (land level) changes will be compared to existing records to reconstruct the patterns, timing, and magnitude of strain accumulation and release during past Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone earthquakes. \n The main responsibilities will be to develop new modern and fossil diatom datasets from Alaska-Aleutian coastal marshes and statistical and chronolog...