USGS Mendenhall Post-doctoral Opportunity in Menlo Park

Announcing a new USGS Mendenhall Post-doctoral Opportunity, as submitted by Andy Michael, USGS Menlo Park:

Title: Detecting the Causes of Earthquake Rate Changes

We wish to draw your attention to a Postdoctoral opportunity that is currently being offered by the USGS Earthquake Hazards Team. Recently graduated or soon-to-be graduating PhD students are encouraged to develop a focused research program will address the challenges of differentiating normal from abnormal earthquake activity, identifying and characterizing the underlying changes in strain rate, and (or) integrating strain rate changes into seismic hazard assessment.

The full description of this opportunity (#32) can be found at:

http://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc/2011/opps/opp32.html

...and also by contacting one of this opportunity's advisors: Andrew Michael, (650) 329-4777, michael@usgs.gov; Jeanne Hardebeck, (650) 329-4711, jhardebeck@usgs.gov; Jessica Murray-Moraleda, (650) 329-4864, jrmurray@usgs.gov; Thomas Parsons, (650) 329-5074, tparsons@usgs.gov; Fred Pollitz, (650) 329-4821, fpollitz@usgs.gov

Information about the Mendenhall program and how to apply can be found at http://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc/ . Applications are due by November 9, 2009.