The University of British Columbia

A U R O R A

 

THE NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND OCEAN SCIENCES, UBC

 

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PROGRAMS & FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

 

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) 2012 SCHOLARSHIPS

The main webpage with our scholarship, prizes and awards information is:

 

http://www.cmos.ca/awards.html

 

Here are links to the posters that contain information on all of our scholarships:

 

Undergraduate - http://www.cmos.ca/UndergraduateEN.pdf

Graduate - http://www.cmos.ca/GraduateEN.pdf, http://www.cmos.ca/PrizesandAwardsEN.pdf

 

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BULLETIN BOARD

 

CANADIAN FEDERATION OF EARTH SCIENCES NEWSLETTER

File is posted on the CCCESD website <http://cccesd.acadiau.ca/>  as

http://cccesd.acadiau.ca/CFES_newsletter_January_2012.pdf

 

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HPCS 2012 - CALL FOR PAPERS

 

HPCS 2012

May 1 - 3, 2012

Vancouver, BC

http://2012.hpcs.ca

 

HPCS, Canada's premier forum for High Performance Computing (HPC), is now accepting papers on

any HPC-related topic. The deadline for abstract submissions is March 15. Topics areas for

papers include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

 

- Applications of HPC to any discipline in the physical, life and social sciences, and

engineering

- Computer architectures

- Parallel/distributed/vector algorithms

- Grid or cloud computing and related tools

- Performance Modeling Evaluation

- Wide-area data transfer

- Management of large data sets

- Green HPC or energy-efficient data centres

- Visualization

- Systems and Management

 

For more information, or to submit your abstract online, please visit the HPCS 2012 website

<http://2012.hpcs.ca/program/>  or email var a,b,c,e;a='';a+= 'lto:';b+= '@';e = '';b+='hpcs.ca';document.write(a+b+c);MailMe">MailMe.

 

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Operation Groundswell <http://www.operationgroundswell.com/purpose>  is looking for adventurous

and committed students to volunteer and travel abroad with us this summer! We are a student-run

non-profit that looks to take students out of the classroom and into the world for some hands-on

learning. Join us on a 6-week summer program that combines cultural exchange, meaningful

volunteer work and off-the-beaten path adventure! Deadline to apply is February 5th but spots

are limited so make sure to apply today <http://www.operationgroundswell.com/apply> .

 

Deadline to apply is February 5th! Check out where we go

<http://www.operationgroundswell.com/programs/where-we-go> :

WEST AFRICA - EAST AFRICA - PERU - GUATEMALA - HAITI - SE ASIA - INDIA/NEPAL - MIDDLE EAST

For dates, prices, testimonials and past projects, go to www.operationgroundswell.com/purpose.

Don't forget to check out our story! 

 

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SBN'S BIOTECH EXPO AND CONFERENCE

 

Vancouver Convention Centre

1055 Canada Place, Vancouver

6 to 11: 30 PM

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

 

 

SBN has partnered with Technology Vision Group to provide a unique opportunity to students.  The

first 200 students who purchase a ticket to SBN’s Biotech Expo & Conference will gain access to

BioPartnering North America from 1:30pm – 6pm on Tuesday February 28th.  Learn firsthand about

the industry and the type of partnering deals that are being made from one of the largest global

life sciences partnering conferences.

 

Regular Registration: $30

Member Registration: $15*

*Members always pay 50% off regular rate!

 

Details

 

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Register

 

 

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My name is Jonathan Gilben and I studied Environmental Geography at theUniversity of Nottingham

and later co-founded GoEco, an organization dedicated to promoting student volunteering in

environmental, humanitarian, and social volunteer projects across the globe.

 

We offer excellent programs for students and faculty of Environmental Science, and related

fields, interested gaining practical hands-onexperience and personal development by way of

volunteering abroad. Iinvite you to explore a selection of our volunteer programs: Volunteer

Projects for Students & Faculty of Environmental

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SEMINARS

 

Thursday, Feb. 9 at 4:00 PM

EOS-Main 330A

Speaker:  Glenn Spinelli of New Mexico Tech

Title:  Effects of fluid circulation in oceanic crust on subduction zone temperatures

(Departmental Host: Bostock )

 

 

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Earth Sciences Seminar Series

 

Speaker:  Carl Mendoza - University of Alberta

Seminar:  Wetland-Forestland Interactions on the Boreal Plain:  Implications for Reconstruction

of Oil-Sands Mine Sites

 

Date and Locations:  FRIDAY February 3rd, 2012 in SSB 7172 at 12:00 pm

 

Abstract:

 

A major challenge for oil sands companies operating in the Western Boreal Forest is to develop

designs that lead to sustainable reconstructed landscapes, which consist of a mosaic of

interacting forestlands, wetlands, streams, and lakes.  The oil-sands mine operators assume that

if they correctly understand the characteristics and processes of these natural systems, and can

mimic them in the design parameters, they can successfully reconstruct a sustainable boreal

landscape.  To this end, for over a decade we have been studying a number of undisturbed

hydrologic landscapes on the Boreal Plain of Northern Alberta as natural analogues for

reconstructed landscapes.

 

Understanding the dominant roles of the sub-humid climate and the deep unconsolidated geologic

substrates, of both the natural and reconstructed systems, is critical to the analyses,

particularly with respect to transferring knowledge between hydrologic systems.  The sub-humid

climate implies that the region is often in a water deficit, with precipitation less that

potential evapo-transpiration, with only occasional periods of excess moisture.  We have studied

the hydrologic behaviour of outwash sand deposits, disintegration moraine deposits and

lacustrine clay deposits.  The resulting hydrologic characteristics range from extensive

flow-through groundwater or peatland systems, to isolated, perched systems.  Consequently, the

water balance in the Western Boreal Forest is dominated by changes in water storage,

evapo-transpiration and groundwater recharge, and the traditional metric of correlated

precipitation and runoff is of little value.  These features must be accounted for when

designing and modelling reconstructed landscapes.  In many cases, if successful forestlands and

peatlands are desired, it will be necessary to design for the overall retention of water, rather

than the direct routing of water to large surface-water impoundments.

 

 

WATER SECURITY IN CANADA - See attached PDF for full details.

The evening seminar is open to public, and will be held at the

Vancouver Convention Centre on Feb 17th, 2012, from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm.

 

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POSITIONS AVAILABLE 

 

THE EARTH SCIENCES SECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI is part of the Applied

Sciences Department. We are currently opening a tenure-track position in the general field of

hydrogeology. Please find attached a description of the position in question. Could you please

post-it and transmit it to those it may concern.  The University operates in French and the

expected candidate is expected to have a working knowledge of this language. Thus, the

description is only in French.  Please see attached PDF.

 

 

PHD OPPORTUNITY , PORTSMOUTH UNIVERSITY with Dr. Phil Benson

TOPIC: Volcano seismicity and fluid-rock coupling: Laboratory simulations of fluid-induced

seismicity and implications for eruption forecasting.  URL to PhD Thesis topic:

http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/geoscience/portsmouth12011.html

 

 

LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL - DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE  -  Postdoctoral

Researcher in the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting

Closing Date:  Monday 12 March 2012  -  Interview Date:  Monday 26 March 2012 -  Reference:

A363

Please see attached PDF for full details.

 

You should have the potential to develop academic and applied research ofinternational standard;

research interest and expertise should include theareas of time series forecasting, and / or

time series data mining, eitherwith methods of statistics, econometrics, machine learning

orcomputational intelligence (e.g. artificial Neural Networks, etc),preferably in the context of

management science, operational research oroperations management. You should have, or almost

have, excellent Mastersand PhD degrees in management, engineering or computer science (or in

arelated subject area), with initial publications in preparation forleading scholarly journals.

Corporate experience from applied research andconsultancy projects is particularly valued. You

will also have excellentverbal/written communication skills, a strong quantitative background,

andbasic computer programming experience (in C#, Matlab, or R etc.).

 

 

THE MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND

ENGINEERING invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the assistant

professor level in Geology and Geophysics in the area of Neotectonics, Remote-Sensing, and

Geodynamics to begin September, 2012.  The successful candidate will be expected to develop an

externally-funded research program integrated with excellence in teaching at both the graduate

and undergraduate levels.  Teaching responsibilities will include courses in Tectonics and

Remote Sensing as well as others in the individual’s area of expertise.  Specific research

subfields of the successful applicant could include active deformation/geodesy/InSAR,

morphotectonics/dynamic-topography, and crustal/mantle dynamics that can build on departmental

strengths in Mechanical Earth Modeling, Tectonics, Geophysics/Seismology, and Natural Hazard

Mitigation. For a full position description including application procedures visit:

http://hraadi.mst.edu/hr/employment/geologygeophysics/

 

 

OTHER JOB POSTINGS see http://www.eos.ubc.ca/public/employ

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