PhD: Environmental Geochemistry (fully funded)
Metal isotope tracing of heavy metal pollutants
University of Otago
Level: PhD (funded with stipend)
Summary
The Geology Department has an opportunity for a fully-funded PhD project (with stipend) investigating the sources and environmental pathways of heavy-metal contaminants across the rapidly growing urban centre of Auckland.
This project will characterise the distributions and isotope signatures of heavy-metals across mixed land-use catchments in Auckland to trace the sources, pathways and fate of heavy-metal contaminants from ‘source-to-sink’. This new information will help regulatory authorities incentivise sustainable urbanisation and resource use. This project involves field sampling, ‘clean-room’ geochemistry, biogeochemical modelling, collaboration between U. Otago, NIWA, ANU and Auckland Council, and off-campus exchange visits.
Closing Date: 21 January 2022 (or until filled)
Contact: Claudine Stirling
Geoscience Society of New Zealand
PO Box 7003
Newtown
Wellington 6242
Administrator:
Nicki Sayers
Newsletter articles for consideration:
Editor@gsnz.org.nz
The GSNZ is a member organisation of the Royal Society
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