[Geoqus] 3-year Postdoc on " Improvement of Regional Glacial Isostasy Models with GOCE "

[Hugo Schotman]

At TU Delft, The Netherlands, there is a vacancy for a 3-year Postdoc on

  " Improvement of Regional Glacial Isostasy Models with GOCE "

Project description:

  The project aims to couple interactively a regional (flat) 3D
  high-resolution finite-element model to a 3D thermomechanical
  ice-sheet model that includes ice shelves. The focus of the
  application of this model will be on Northern Europe because of
  the availability of high-quality GPS and sea-level data.
  Mantle properties in this region are to be partly derived from
  available rock samples. Gravity field predictions will be sensitive
  to relatively shallow earth properties, and are therefore expected
  to excite those high spherical harmonics that will become detectable
  by GOCE, ESAs gravity satellite mission to be launched early in 2008
  (www.esa.int/esaLP/LPgoce.html). 

  Hence, the project should provide additional constraints on properties
  of the shallow earth and improve estimates of present-day sea level
  change in Northern Europe. This project will be done in close
  collaboration with the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research
  Utrecht (IMAU) and the Structural Geology and Tectonics group of the
  Institute for Earth Sciences Utrecht.

Applications deadline is Sep 15; expected start of the project November.

For full vacancy text and an online application form, visit

  www.vacaturesindelft.nl/phd/vacature.php?Id=811&Cat=17

Sincerely,

Bert Vermeersen


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 Dr. Bert L.A. Vermeersen
 Delft University of Technology        Tel. +31 15 27 88272  (voice)
 DEOS - Fac. Aerospace Engineering     Tel. +31 6 51454755  (cell)
 Astrodynamics and Satellite Systems   FAX  +31 15 27 85322
 Kluyverweg 1                          email L.L.A.Vermeersen at tudelft.nl
 NL-2629 HS  Delft
 The Netherlands

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