Postdoctoral Fellow II

About the role

The Department of Geosciences at Utah State University (USU) seeks a full-time postdoctoral researcher to join the NSF-supported collaborative project, “Biology on a Changing Planet Implementation: US-China: Multi-scale, multi-proxy, integrative investigation of functional biodiversity on a changing Proterozoic planet”. This program offers connections and science between, for example, the United States and China. The post-doctoral researcher will be supervised by Dr. Carol Dehler and will involve close collaboration with other project PIs and teams at Virginia Tech (Ben Gill, Shuhai Xiao), University of California Santa Barbara (Susannah Porter), University of New Mexico (Karl Karlstrom), as well as collaborators based in China (Ke Pang, University of Nanjing).

Responsibilities

• Develop and carry out independent and collaborative research, making use of field, laboratory, and/or analytical approaches, especially in the fields of geochronology and stratigraphy.
• Engage and collaborate with a team of Geoscientists at USU and partner institutions.
• Mentor and collaborate with graduate and undergraduate students engaged in the project at USU and partner institutions.
• Disseminate research through presentations at scientific meetings and publication in peer-reviewed journals.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: PhD in geosciences with experience in sedimentary systems, stratigraphy, geochronology and/or geochemistry.
• Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrate familiarity with Deep Time, the Geologic Time Scale, field and lab skills, especially geochronology.

Required Documents

• Resume/CV to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under “Resume/CV”
• Two professional references with contact information to be typed at the beginning of the application.
• A statement of research background and interests (maximum 2 pages) to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under “Documents 1-10”

Pay

$63,000/year plus benefits.

Schedule

This is a 12-month, full-time position.