Ph.D. in paleoenvironmental change of Holocene sea level and climate change in eastern Cuba.
09 June, 2016
There is funding to recruit a Ph.D. student to undertake a paleoenvironmental investigation of Holocene sea level and climate change in eastern Cuba. The research will form a critical component of a larger inter-disciplinary project focused on better understanding prehistoric environmental-human interactions in the Caribbean, including questions to do with human migrations and early agriculture. The Ph.D. research will involve fieldwork in Cuba along with an analysis of proxy indicators such as pollen, micro-charcoal, and non-pollen palynomorphs, possibly in conjunction with XRF core scanning. The funding package will consist of $18,000CND/year, of which $9000/yr will be a stipend and $9000/yr will involve providing technical assistance in the laboratory for 7 to 8 hours/week. Ideally the candidate would begin in September 2016 or January 2017.
The Ph.D. candidate will be based at and working out of Bishop’s University (located in Sherbrooke, Québec), but will be enrolled in a Ph.D. program at a university elsewhere in the region. The laboratory the candidate would be joining at Bishop’s is newly built and contains a range of analytical and field equipment. More information on the laboratory can be found at: http://www.envirolab.ubishops.ca/home.html
Interested individuals should email an updated copy of their CV, an unofficial copy of their university transcripts, and the names of two referees to mperos@ubishops.ca as soon as they can.
Posted by Matthew Peros, Canada Research Chair in Climate and Environmental Change and Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Studies and Geography
Bishop’s University
Email: mperos@ubishops.ca