I am currently recruiting a PhD student (starting Fall 2022) to work on a funded NSF project studying basin evolution and the onset of uplift in the Mongolian Altai (western Mongolia). This project will involve 2-3 field seasons, hopefully beginning during the summer of 2022, and will incorporate sedimentology, stratigraphy, provenance analysis, geochronology, and paleoclimate research.
There are two other graduate opportunities supported by this grant including one PhD project at Indiana University that will use thermochronometry to understand the timing of uplift of the Mongolian Altai supervised by Andrea Stevens Goddard; and one MS project at New Mexico Tech focusing on geodynamic modelling of Mongolian Altai deformation supervised by Jolante van Wijk.
Please contact me, Andrea Stevens Goddard, and/or Jolante van Wijk for more information. The deadline for graduate applications at NMT is January 15, 2022.