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Stanford Isotope Geochemistry Facility Manager See more...

As Lab Manager for the Stanford Isotope GeochemistryFacility in the School of Earth Sciences, the successful applicant will haveresponsibilities in the following areas: 

Analytical: 

• Design and maintain a teaching/research facility in radiogenic and non-traditional stable isotope geochemistry that enables users across the University attain their research goals.
• Train, advise, collaborate and provide technical support for all users of the facility on instrumentation and methodologies. Users will include graduate students, postdocs, undergraduate students, research staff, outside collaborators, etc.
• Integrate previous technical experience with new advances in the field in order to develop and improve analytical methods and instrumentation.
• Maintain facility’s analytical equipment and environment, including a large clean laboratory, 2 ICP-MS instruments (a Nu multi-collector and single-collector) and a TIMS (Finigan MAT 262).
• Maintain quality control of all data and standards and consistently track and archive all standard and sample data from facility. 

Growth, Innovation and Improvement: 

• Design, manage and grow facility under general guidance of faculty director and advisory board.
• Proactively market the facility on a University level to maximize utility to the Stanford community.
• Cultivate relationships with other facilities to develop new procedures, promote exchange of ideas and to maintain optimal analytical protocols and standards.

Supervision: 

• Supervise users of the facility and provide them with technical information and training.
• The lab manager will also be responsible for maintaining a facility that conforms to all University and applicable state and federal safety standards, and for ensuring that users are observing all safety protocols.  
• Supervise other part-time or full-time staff working in the facility. 
• Postdocs and graduate students should be mentored to assume some maintenance, management and analytical duties during their tenure in the facility.
• Maintain interactive website which schedules facility use and expedites downloading of user data

 

Financial: Establish and oversee the facility’s financial operating budget.  Bill users, purchase equipment andsupplies, and set user fees.

To apply for this position,go to the Jobs website, http://jobs.stanford.edu/, and search forJob Requisition 32221.

 

Post-Doctoral Positions

If you are interested in postdoctoral research, you should contact a faculty member in your field of study. Opportunities for postdoctoral research in the School of Earth Sciences are occasionally advertised here, but most are handled directly by individual faculty members.

Thompson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geophysics See more...

The Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, has established the Thompson Postdoctoral Fellowship to be awarded to a candidate preferably within two years of receipt of the Ph.D. The fellowship is open to applicants in any area of geophysics including new areas of research that cross existing disciplinary boundaries, so that students and recent graduates in Earth science, physics, chemistry, biology, or computational sciences with interests in the geophysical sciences are also encouraged to apply. Our department is currently active in crustal geophysics, exploration and production geophysics, seismic imaging, rock physics, earthquake seismology, crustal deformation, stress and geomechanics, environmental geophysics, and atmospheric, ocean, and planetary sciences.

Appointments are for a one- to two-year term that can start any time in the academic year 2008/2009. The salary is $50k to $55k per year depending on experience, plus a $5k research allowance for travel and miscellaneous expenses. Applications received by January 2, 2008, will receive fullest consideration. Applicants should submit a statement of research interests and proposed research, a curriculum vita, a list of publications and names of three potential referees, by email (as .pdf files, with the applicant name as part of the file name) to thompsonfellowship@sesmail.stanford.edu (see also http://geo.stanford.edu/GP/research)

Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing to the diversity among its students, staff, and faculty. It welcomes nominations of and applications from minority groups and women, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the university's research, teaching and service missions.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Geophysics See more...

The Stanford Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides opportunity for research in a wide range of geophysics topics, but the primary focus of the position is the development of course materials for undergraduate and graduate classes in computational geosciences. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in a geoscience, engineering, physics, or related discipline with strong emphasis on computational methods. Prior teaching experience or interest is desirable but not required. This is a one-year appointment initially with opportunity for renewal for a second year. The successful applicant may start at any time in the academic year 2008/09. The salary is $50k to $55k per year depending on experience, plus a $5k allowance for travel and miscellaneous expenses. The position will remain open until filled, though applications received by January 15, 2009 are guaranteed to receive fullest consideration. Applicants should submit a statement of teaching and research interests and background, a curriculum vitae, a list of publications and names of three potential referees, by email (as .pdf files) to Claudia Baroni.

Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing to the diversity of its students, staff, and faculty. It welcomes nominations of and applications from women and members of minority groups, as well as from others who would bring additional dimensions to the university's research, teaching and service missions.