The Bedrock CZN team seeks graduate students to work on a new, NSF-funded project focused on understanding linkages between subsurface weathering, surface processes, and ecosystems across a network of sites in the coterminous United States. This is transdisciplinary work at the interface between water, rock, and life and involves collaboration with top scientists at eight institutions across the country. Students with an interest in critical-zone science, ecohydrology, surface processes, low-temperature geochemistry and/or near-surface geophysics are encouraged to contact us and apply in the 2020-2021 application cycle for admission in Fall 2021.

Minimum requirements: Undergraduate degree in Earth or environmental science, or engineering, or a related field. We welcome applicants to our Ph.D. and M.S. programs. See department webpages of lead scientists for details on how to apply (links below).

Bedrock CZCN Study Sites

Map above shows locations of Sierra Nevada (SN), San Gabriel Mtn. (SGM), San Jacinto Mtn. (SJM), Laramie Range (LR), Boulder Ck. (BC), Pond Branch (PB), and South Carolina Piedmont (SCP) sites. These sites span wide ranges in climate, predicted shape of regolith profile, bedrock composition, and estimated relative fracture density. Our work will involve drilling, sampling, and imaging of the subsurface at each of these sites in a sweeping field campaign.