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Dear Colleagues, Please bring the advertisement below to the attention of people who, in your judgment, may be suitable candidates for these positions. Please excuse cross-posting. Thank you very much for this help. Tim Graduate Student Research Opportunities in Micropaleontology Carleton University, Ottawa I have received major funding for a research project entitled "High resolution Holocene paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic records from small lakes and anoxic basins along the British Columbia coast" Funding is for $600,000CAN from the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS) with a further $1.6 millionCAN in ship time and logistic support over the next three years from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the Geological Survey of Canada and NOAA. Part of the funding is earmarked to graduate student training with financial support being provided for 3 years (through 2004). Students with an expertise, or interest, in several areas of micropaleontological research (foraminifera, thecamoebians, palynology, and diatoms) are encouraged to apply. Please contact me with an indication of your research interests and for information on obtaining application forms for admission to graduate school at Carleton University. Project Overview Earth's climate is highly variable, and this natural variability must be understood if reliable predictions of future climate states are to be made. Geological and historical records from coastal B.C. provide clear evidence that the regional climate has oscillated on a variety of time-scales during the Holocene interglacial (0-10,000 years before present). The present climate of the west coast of Canada is influenced by the Aleutian Low, the Jet Stream, and El Niņo/La Niņa, which are interdependent and have sub-decadal cycles. Superimposed in these are less well understood, longer-scale events operating on a global scale. The interactions of these climate-forcing phenomena determine whether there will be costly droughts or flooding on land, and influence recruitment to many BC fisheries. The purpose of this research is to identify past changes in atmospheric and ocean conditions, and the relative timing of these changes, over the last 2,000 years from the sedimentary record in coastal BC inlets and lakes. This information is required by policy makers attempting to recognize and adapt to anthropogenic climate change. Recognition of the natural climatic cycles affecting the coastal ocean will also enable the commercial marine fishing industry to respond more strategically to natural variations in fish stocks. Bottom sediments of inlets along southern Vancouver Island contain a high-resolution record of climate change and paleoproductivity in the North American Upwelling Domain throughout the late Holocene. A reconnaissance cruise aboard the CCGS Vector in August 2000 found additional inlets with annually laminated sediments in Smith, Seymore, and Belize inlets and Frederick Sound, further up the coast in the Coastal Transition Domain. We will sample all these sites, together with adjacent lakes, and utilize a combination of oceanographic, sedimentological, geochemical, and micropaleontological methods to identify and correlate long and short-term climate cycles, impossible to resolve with the short, approximately 100-year instrument record. We will also determine the impact of coastal marine climate changes on the productivity and distribution of pelagic fish stocks along the B.C. coast by examining fish scales that are well preserved in core samples. -- ___________________ Dr. R. Timothy Patterson Professor of Geology Department of Earth Sciences 2240 Herzberg Building College of Natural Sciences Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 CANADA ___________________ (613) 520-2600 ex 4425 FAX: (613) 520-2569 tpatters@ccs.carleton.ca www.carleton.ca/~tpatters Personal Web Page http://www.carleton.ca/~tpatters NSERC Strategic Fisheries Initiative http://www.earthsci.carleton.ca/Museum/strategicfisheriesproject/ Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum http://www.earthsci.carleton.ca/Museum/hvpmdoor.html Climate Change: A Geological Perspective WWW Course http://www.carleton.ca/courses/67.242/ Message generated on a Apple Macintosh 450Mhz G4/System 9.04 This e-mail message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose, use, distribute, or copy this message or attachment in any way. If you received this e-mail message in error, please delete the e-mail and any attachments.
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