=========== Cryosphere Modeling Positions/UC Irvine ==============

UC Irvine's Earth System Science Department has opportunities for 
postdocs and grad. students interested in global-scale cryospheric
modeling. Our projects (http://www.ess.uci.edu/~zender#ans and
http://www.ess.uci.edu/~zender#ipy) examine aerosol interactions with
polar climate. We aim to 
1. Quantify how black carbon (BC) aerosols affect Arctic snow and ice. 
2. Identify the relative roles of surface and atmospheric BC forcing
on Arctic climate sensitivity (including land- and sea-ice responses). 
3. Quantify how GHGs and BC alter seasonal Arctic surface freshwater
reservoirs and fluxes such as snow depth, extent, and heat
conductivity, permafrost depth, soil moisture, and runoff.  
Observational data come from AMSR-E, CERES, GRACE, MISR, and MODIS
satellites and from IPY field programs including POLARCAT.  

Projects are collaborative among the groups of Professors 
Charlie Zender (Aerosols, Radiation, http://www.ess.uci.edu/~zender), 
Jay Famiglietti (Hydrology, http://www.ess.uci.edu/~famiglietti), and
Jim Randerson (Fire, C, H2O, http://www.ess.uci.edu/~jranders).
Participants will work directly with one or more of these groups. 
Collaborations with other groups will be encouraged and supported.
These include UCI (Dupont, Rignot, Velicogna), LANL (Hunke, Lipscomb),
LGGE (Domine), NCAR (Flanner, Rasch), and NSIDC (Khalsa). 

Applicants must have strong interest and/or background in one or more 
of three areas 1. Aerosol physics; 2. Snow/sea-ice/glaciers physics;
3. Arctic freshwater hydrology. Global studies will be conducted using
modified versions of NCAR's Community Climate System Model. 
Opportunistic microphysical and regional studies, particularly those
that explore POLARCAT IPY data, are also encouraged.
Applicants please e-mail your CV, statement of research interests, and
contact information for up to three references before 30 April 2008 to
Dr. Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu>.