[Geoldept] Fwd: [iris-bulk] PhD scholarships in Wellington New Zealand Deadline 28 Feb.

[Jackie Caplan-Auerbach]

Exciting Ph.D. opportunities in New Zealand for students interested in 
structural geology or earthquake seismology!


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Subject: 	[iris-bulk] PhD scholarships in Wellington New Zealand 
Deadline 28 Feb.
Date: 	Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:53:46 +0000
From: 	Martha Savage <Martha.Savage at vuw.ac.nz>
To: 	'bulkmail at iris.washington.edu' <bulkmail at iris.washington.edu>
CC: 	John Townend <John.Townend at vuw.ac.nz>



PhD students are sought to work on several seismological and geophysical topics within the Institute of Geophysics, School of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW).

1.	Deep Fault Drilling Project, Alpine Fault - several studies addressing the structure and evolution of the Alpine Fault in the South Island are underway, including analysis of data collected in shallow boreholes drilled into the fault in early 2011. Plans are now underway for a deeper borehole targeting the fault at 1.0 km depth (scheduled to commence in September 2014), and students interested in working on the microstructural, seismological, or pressure-/temperature-monitoring data from the boreholes are encouraged to contact us.

2.	The structure of the subduction margin in the Wellington North Island - an international consortium of researchers in New Zealand, the US and Japan has been studying this problem for several years using active and passive seismic methods. The recent earthquake sequence in Cook Strait and the northern South Island will provide a new set of data for a PhD student to use to accompany the earlier data to compare structures along the strike of the plate with those across the plate boundary. We are particularly interested in the properties of the plate boundary and how they relate to nearby areas of slow slip and to earthquake occurrence patterns.

3.	Volcano seismology - we are continuing to develop techniques to test whether time varying seismic properties such as isotropic velocity, anisotropy and attenuation can be used to determine changes in the magmatic system underneath volcanoes. Volcanoes in New Zealand and overseas are being targeted.

4.	Seismological studies of geothermal areas - we are developing projects focussed on seismicity and structure around geothermal fields in New Zealand. PhD projects of particular interest include: a) microearthquake characterization of geothermal fields in New Zealand; b) ambient noise imaging of geothermal areas of New Zealand: c) Rock properties characterisation through seismic wave propagation;

5.	Earthquake hydrology - understanding the hydrological effects of the Canterbury and other South Island earthquakes. This PhD will use unsurpassed hydrological and seismological datasets to understand earthquake-induced fluid redistribution, quantifying spatial variations in shaking, dynamic and static stresses, and their relationships to observed hydrologic responses. See http://tinyurl.com/EQhydrology for further details.

6.	Statistics and geophysics - students will work on statistical methods of developing and testing methods for determining properties of interest to geophysicists, for example, automatic determination of S arrival times, seismic anisotropy, and earthquake focal mechanisms.

The next deadline for scholarship applications is 1 March 2014 and the application is free of charge: successful scholarship applicants from any country receive a NZ$23,500 stipend and all tuition fee payments. Students should have completed an MSc degree prior to commencing study. Full details regarding the application process are available from the Faculty of Graduate Research at http://tinyurl.com/VUW-FGR. All prospective applicants should contact Professor Martha Savage (martha.savage at vuw.ac.nz) or Associate Professor John Townend (john.townend at vuw.ac.nz) at the earliest opportunity for further details regarding these projects.

Students wishing to work on topics related to the Deep Fault Drilling Project or earthquake hydrology are encouraged to contact Associate Professor John Townend (john.townend at vuw.ac.nz) for details of separate scholarship opportunities associated specific to these topics.



John Townend
Associate Professor and EQC Fellow in Seismic Studies
School of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington
P.O. Box 600
Wellington 6140
New Zealand

john.townend at vuw.ac.nz

ph. +64 (4) 463 5411
fax.+64 (4) 463 5186


Martha Savage
Professor of Geophysics
SGEES
Victoria University of Wellington
Te Whare Wananga o te Upoko o te Ika a Maui
Temporary office:  MY 1114
Box 600, Wellington, 6140
New Zealand

Email: Martha.Savage at vuw.ac.nz
DDI: +64 (0)4 463-5961
mobile:  021-262-7516



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