Geobulletin
March 18, 2005
SPRING 2004 LECTURE SCHEDULE ---- All lectures (unless otherwise noted) are held on Fridays at 330 PM in AB20 (Laudon Lecture Hall). Coffee and cookies are served in the lobby starting at 315 PM.
No lecture today
April 1 -------------- Jeff Dorale ---- University of Iowa ----
April 8 -------------- Simon Wilde --- Curtin University --- Australia
April 18 ---- MONDAY ----- Rob Gawthorpe
April 22 -------- Luis Marin ------ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Cd. Universitaria, Mexico City
April 29 -------- Chris Swezey ---- USGS
SPRING SEMESTER FACULTY MEETINGS ------ March 30, April 6, and May 4.
GEOBADGER ALUMNI WEEKEND ------ Reminder to PLEASE sign up for all the events you are planning to attend. It is the weekend of May 6 - 8, but deadline for signing up is April 1st!!!!! Activities start Friday, May 6th with the dedication of the west wing and culminate on Saturday evening with the Spring Banquet. Please get your registrations in ASAP.
INTERNATIONAL VOLCANOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL ----- The deadline for applications for the second annual International Volcanological Field School is April 1. Students can choose a two week session of scientific and cultural discovery in either the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai National Park, Alaska or Gorely and Mutnovsky Volcanoes, Kamchatka, Russia with 3 credits at the undergraduate or graduate levels. A grant from the National Science Foundation brings Russian Far East students to Alaska and subsidizes the cost of American students to travel to Kamchatka. For more information and to apply, visit www.uaf.edu/geology and click on "International Volcanological Field School". An article about the school will appear very shortly at www.geotimes.org. Contact person is John C Eichelberger ---- phone: 1-907-474-5530 ---- email: eich@gi.alaska.edu
ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN GEOSCIENTISTS ------ Several programs that benefit students and faculty as follows:
1. AWG-Conoco Phillips Distinguished Lecture Program ---- provides well-known female speakers in most disciplines of the geosciences. Departments can receive up to $800 per year toward speaker expenses.
2. Minority Scholarship ---- one or more awards for undergraduate women who are African-American, Hispanic or Native American. Applications due May 15.
3. Geologist-in-the-Parks ---- Four positions with stipends for women graduate students or professionals; applications due April 15.
For details about these and other programs visit the website at www.awg.org.
AVAILABLE POSITIONS ------ DETAILS EITHER IN THE OFFICE OR ON THE WEB
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH ------ Electron Microprobe Position ---- Operator / manager at the School of GeoSciences, available from August. Anyone who is interested, and has appropriate experience, is encouraged to apply. The application forms, details of post and procedures for appointments are available through the link www.jobs.ed.ac.uk (look then in jobs, New vacancies. job number 3003992, Research Fellow in Microanalysis). The closing date for applications is 19 April 2005.
RISK MANGEMENT SOLUTIONS (RMS) ------ A provider of products and services for the quantification and management of property catastrophe, natural hazard, and complex business risks. RMS clients include leading insurers, reinsurers, brokers, industrial corporations, and financial institutions. For more information please to to: http://www.rms.com Engineering Seismologist 05-032 (Assist in the development of stochastic risk models, with emphasis on Earthquake related risk models, evaluate and develop models to characterize the ground motion induced by earthquakes and its relationship to damage. Position Requirements
-Ability to apply scientific method in defining a problem, formulating alternative solutions, and selecting best alternative to achieve the stated objective(s)
-Excellent computer programming skills: FORTRAN, Visual Basic, C
-Experience in data management tools: SQL, MS Access, dBase, etc.
-Experience in GIS tools: MapInfo, ArcView, etc.
-Good oral and written communication skills, especially in presenting technical content to wide range of audience sophistication.
-Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Seismology, Geology, Geophysics, or related fields
-Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) or relevant professional experience preferred.
This position is located in Newark, CA and looking to hire immediately. Please forward your resume to Elizabeth Durand (510-505-3247) elizabeth.durand@rms.com.
RECRUITMENT WEEKEND ---------- This is our annual recruitment weekend. We have approximately 14 prospective grad students visiting this weekend so help make them feel welcome. Most arrived yesterday and will be staying until tomorrow or Sunday. We hope they all will want to come to Madison and spend a few years with us.
Western Michigan University - Department of Geosciences ------ Field Camp ----- Geos. 564; Summer I, 2005 ---- Professor W. Sauck will be offering an intensive 3 1/2 -week field course, beginning May 25 and ending June 22. Note that this is full-time, but covers only the latter half of the Summer I term. The prerequisite is an Introduction to Geophysics course or consent of the instructor. In addition to the University tuition, there is an additional course fee of $150 for transportation and related costs. Meals and lodging will be the responsibility of the individual students. Equipment familiarization work will begin at the WMU Geophysical Test Site, and then a series of projects will be done at environmental sites (including a former refinery), an archaeology site, and regional and glacial geology mapping sites. This is a hands-on course where the student will learn to use a variety of modern geophysical equipment and related software. For questions about the course, respond to W. Sauck, sauck@wmich.edu . Direct registration questions to Beth Steele elizabeth.steele@wmich.edu