Dear List Members:

Ph.D position available


A Ph.D position financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation is
currently available at the Laboratory of Limnogeology of the
Geologisches Institut, ETH Zuerich.


The project entitled:


THE PATAGONIA LAKE TRANSECT: RECONSTRUCTING LATE QUATERNARY
PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

aims to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental evolution of southern
Patagonia, Argentina.  The limnogeological investigations of two
extra-Andean closed lake basins will produce one of the first
long-continental climate record for this region of the southern
hemisphere. The two sites included in this study are part of an
international research effort that involves scientists from Argentina,
Germany, USA and Switzerland.  The expected outcome of this project
will provide evidence on the character, rate and spatial extent of
global climate change and its forcing mechanisms.


The ideal applicant has a broad geological background with experience
in both field and laboratory work.  He/she is expected to participate
in a multidisciplinary study that integrates sedimentological,
geochemical and geophysical analyses and implies active interaction
with other scientists.  Two field campaigns are planned for early 1998
and 1999 to obtain high-resolution seismic profiles, to retrieve
sediment cores and to sample modern lake and terrestrial environments.
After completion of each field campaign, the applicant will process and
interpret the seismic data, measure petrophysical core-properties using
an automated multisensortrack, and perform sedimentological and
geochemical analyses on the cores.

The first expedition to Patagonia will start in January 1998.  Thesis
begin could be as early as October 1997.


  For further information please contact Dr. Daniel Ariztegui
([log in to unmask]; Tel. 41-1-632 36 73), Dr. Flavio Anselmetti
([log in to unmask]; Tel. 41-1-632 65 69) or Prof. Judith A. McKenzie
([log in to unmask]; Tel. 41-1-632 38 28).

See also our web site at
http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/institutes/geology/ESS/LimnoLab/Limno.html.


Applications including Curriculum Vitae should be sent to:


Dr. Daniel Ariztegui

Geological Institute-ETHZ
Sonneggstrasse 5
8092 Zuerich
Switzerland