********************************************************************* From: Colin Wilson <cjn.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ********************************************************************* Dear Colleagues, This is to let you know of two funded studentships now open for application. Colin Wilson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ph.D. opportunities to study Supervolcanoes: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. A consortium of New Zealand and UK researchers has obtained funding for 3 years from the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand with support for two Ph.D. studentships in studies of New Zealand supereruptions. This project will study three of the resulting huge deposits, combining field-based knowledge with cutting-edge micro-analytical techniques to measure the chemical and isotopic characteristics of minerals and glasses. From these data we will establish how and where such huge volumes of magma were created and stored. Deposits of preceding and following eruptions will also be studied to monitor the growth and subsequent demise of the super-sized magma chambers. Techniques developed by us for modelling compositional variations within crystals will be used to estimate time scales of the subsurface processes, from the tens of thousands of years (or more) over which the magma bodies were assembled, down to the periods over which the final conditions for eruption were established. This project will address fundamental questions on the origins, rates and sizes of large-scale silicic volcanism in New Zealand, and will be linked with other global studies to provide insights into supervolcanoes worldwide. The project involves two fully funded (fees plus stipend) Ph.D. scholarships, to be supervised by Prof. Colin Wilson, Prof. Joel Baker and Dr Richard Wysoczanski and tenured in the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Wilson is currently at the University of Auckland, but will be moving to Wellington to lead this project. Victoria University of Wellington has recently established a Geochemistry Laboratory equipped with an ultraclean laboratory, laser ablation ICPMS, multiple collector ICP-MS, and a new electron microprobe is scheduled to be installed in 2009. Linked field, theoretical and analytical studies are under way with Dr Bruce Charlier (Open University, UK), Dr David Pyle (University of Oxford, UK) and Dr Dan Morgan (University of Leeds, UK), and exchange of students and researchers is anticipated. The ideal candidates will have a B.Sc. (Hons.) or M.Sc. degree in Earth Sciences including some chemistry, mathematics or physics. Experience in micro-analytical techniques would be an advantage. Interested applicants should send a cv and email addresses of two referees to: cjn.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, from whom further details can be obtained. Applications will be reviewed as they come in. Start date is 1 March 2009, but is flexible for the right candidate. ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
