Position Available
Canada Research Chair in Arctic Basin Dynamics
University of Calgary
Calgary, Canada
For further information, please search for Job ID 9242 at:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/hr/careers/careers_search.
The University of Calgary invites applications to a Tier II Canada
Research Chair position in Arctic Basin Dynamics.
As part of the university's strategic focus on Energy and Environment,
the incumbent will join a team of scholars in sedimentology, tectonics,
petroleum geoscience, geochemistry, and geophysics as well as research
scientists at Natural Resources Canada (Geological Survey of Canada) who
are involved in arctic basins research. The chair will be based in the
Department of Geoscience and will be part of the Calgary Geoscience
Research Centre, recently established in partnership with the Geological
Survey of Canada.
The successful applicant is expected to develop a first-class research
program that exploits geological and geophysical advances to investigate
the tectonic evolution and dynamics of sedimentary basins of northern
and Arctic Canada, neighboring Alaska and Greenland, as well as other
circum-arctic basins such as those in Siberia and the Barents Sea. These
vast and resource-rich sedimentary basins are of strategic national
importance and represent remarkable natural laboratories for applied and
theoretical research, as well as for training a new generation of
northern and arctic experts.
The chair holder will have access to a wealth of legacy data acquired
during the 1970s and 1980s in the many basins of Canada's Arctic (e.g.
Beaufort Mackenzie, Sverdrup Basin, Yukon Basin). Working in partnership
with industry, government, and academia, the successful applicant will
provide leadership in a variety of initiatives to acquire new onshore
and offshore data in order to develop a broad understanding of the
origins, evolution, and architecture of the many sedimentary basins of
the North and the Arctic. A multidisciplinary approach that combines
analysis of geological and geophysical data will enable the chair to
develop integrated multi-scale models of basin development. The chair
holder is expected to build a dynamic research team that includes
graduate students (MSc and PhD), postdoctoral fellows, and fellow
professors and researchers in the Department of Geoscience and at the
Geological Survey of Canada. An important element of the research will
be geodynamic models and interpretations that link tectono-stratigraphic
events in Canadian basins with contemporaneous global tectonic events. A
broad and far-reaching geological and geophysical expertise will be
considered an asset for this position. This is a tenure track Associate
Professor position conditional on a successful CRC application.
Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae, statement of research
interests, statement of teaching interests, evidence of teaching
effectiveness, five recent publications, and the names, addresses, phone
numbers, and email addresses of at least three referees.
Consideration of applicants will begin: Friday, 17 December 2010.
Applications should be sent to:
David Eaton
University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, N.W.
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Canada
Fax: 403-284-0074
Email: geojobs [at] ucalgary.ca
For further information, please search for Job ID 9242 at:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/hr/careers/careers_search.