Open PhD positions
The Landscape Archives and Earth Systems (LAYERS) Group is recruiting. We are a new research group in the Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, working in partnership with the FIRST Lab (PI: Dr. Troy Rasbury), which provides high quality isotopic analyses using state-of-the-art mass spectrometry. Through collaborations with scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s National Synchrotron Light Source II, students may also gain acccess to a national user research facility with exceptional analytical capabilities.
We welcome creative, outside-the-box directions and collaborations. We are building a diverse, multidisciplinary group that uses fieldwork and high-precision geochronology as a springboard for new ideas. Our goal is to learn how past climate and Earth systems ticked–and what those records signal for the future of the planet’s residents, human and not.
We are recruiting graduate students to join a research program focused on:
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Previously unrecognized ice sheet and mountain glacier responses to climate shifts.
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Abrupt rainbelt migrations–and their ecological and cultural consequences–across the mid-latitudes and tropics
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Cave speleothems as archives of past climate and environmental change
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Reconstructions of past sea level
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The interplay between tectonics, volcanism, and climate
These themes reflect current directions, not the limits of where we can go. Students are encouraged to explore, bring their own questions, and help shape new research directions for the group.
Interested applicants should apply through the Stony Brook Geosciences portal by January 15. Prospective students are welcome to email with questions and their scientific interests. I am happy to meet virtually, and I can also meet in person at the AGU Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Guleed Ali (guleed.ali@stonybrook.edu).