=========== Cryosphere Modeling Positions at UC Irvine ==============

UC Irvine's Earth System Science Department has two opportunities for 
grad. students or postdocs interested in global-scale cryospheric
modeling studies. Projects (http://www.ess.uci.edu/~zender#ipy) will
examine aerosol interactions with polar climate. Our objectives are to 
1. Quantify how timing and location of BC emissions affect Arctic
surface reflectance and atmospheric processes. 
2. Identify the relative roles of surface and atmospheric BC forcing
on Arctic climate sensitivity (including sea-ice response). 
3. Quantify how BC alters seasonality of Arctic surface freshwater
reservoirs and fluxes such as snowpack depth and extent, depth to
permafrost, soil moisture, and runoff. 
Observational data for process evaluation will 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). 

Applicant 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 likely. 
Applicants please e-mail a detailed CV, statement of research
interests, and contact information for up to three references 
before 1 October 2007 to Dr. Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu>.