Opportunities for Students: Co-evolution of Earth and life across the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition

Funded by NSF-FRES (National Science Foundation Frontier Research in Earth Sciences Program), this collaborative project (Co-evolution of Earth and life across the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition: Integrated perspectives from outcrop and drill cores) offers multiple PhD graduate research assistantships to support research on the co-evolution of Earth and life across the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition through the integration of geochemical, paleontological, stratigraphic, sedimentological, geochronological, and paleogeographical data from both outcrops and drill cores. Graduate students working on this project will have opportunities to participate in field work in NW Canada, Mongolia, Namibia, and Morocco; to analyze drill cores from South China, Brazil, and Namibia; to study stable isotope geochemistry; and to learn numerical modeling techniques. Students will also have opportunities to interact scientists from eight research groups at six institutions (see PIs list below) as well as the ICDP GRIND-ECT project (https://www.icdp-online.org/projects/world/global-coverage/grind-ect/).

• Emmy Smith (Sedimentology, Stratigraphy; Johns Hopkins University, http://www.emmyfsmith.com, efsmith@jhu.edu)
• David Evans (Paleomagnetism; Yale University, https://people.earth.yale.edu/profile/david-evans/about, david.evans@yale.edu)
• C. Brenhin Keller (Modeling; Dartmouth College, https://brenhinkeller.github.io, brenhin.keller@dartmouth.edu)
• Kimberly V. Lau (Geochemistry; Pennsylvania State University, https://www.kimberlylau.com, kvlau@psu.edu)
• Alan Rooney (Geochronology; Yale University, https://rooneygroup.yale.edu, alan.rooney@yale.edu)
• Catherine V. Rose (Sedimentology, Stratigraphy; University of St Andrews, https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-sciences/people/cvr, cvr@st-andrews.ac.uk)
• Justin V. Strauss (Sedimentology, Stratigraphy; Dartmouth College, https://sites.dartmouth.edu/strausslab, Justin.V.Strauss@dartmouth.edu)
• Shuhai Xiao (Paleobiology; Virginia Tech, https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/geobiology, xiao@vt.edu)

Students who are interested in applying for these opportunities are encouraged to contact PIs listed above.