{"id":33293,"date":"2020-06-18T15:47:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=33293"},"modified":"2020-06-18T15:47:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T22:47:28","slug":"phd-doctorate-in-laboratory-study-of-subglacial-drainage-eth-zurich-zurich-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/phd-doctorate-in-laboratory-study-of-subglacial-drainage-eth-zurich-zurich-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD: Doctorate in laboratory study of subglacial drainage ETH Z\u00fcrich (Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Subglacial water flow plays a pivotal role in glacier dynamics via impacting sliding speeds, erosion rates, and glacier lake drainages. However, the decade-old theories of subglacial drainage remain only weakly tested as direct observations are difficult. The avenue of testing these theories in laboratory experiments remains largely unexplored.<\/p>\n<p>Our institute, the\u00a0<strong>Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW)<\/strong>, has both a long-standing expertise in subglacial drainage studies as well as a world renown hydraulics laboratory. This project aims to combine those two fields of expertise to investigate subglacial drainage in a laboratory setting. A novel flume experiment will be constructed and used to simulate the subglacial conditions.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"h2 description__expectation\">Job description<\/h4>\n<p>The project aims at simulating the hydraulics, sediment transport, and till dynamics in a setting designed to mimic the subglacial environment of a till-bedded glacier. With the experiments you will test existing theories of so-called canal drainage. A particular focus will be on canal inception, steady states, till dynamics, and whether a canal drainage system is distributed or channelised.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve these measurements you will design and construct a novel type of flume allowing for pressurised water flow and till compression.<\/p>\n<p>The starting date is negotiable, the latest start being envisioned for 1 September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The planned project duration is 3.5 years.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"h2 description__profile\">Your profile<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A Master degree in science or engineering<\/li>\n<li>Fluency in English<\/li>\n<li>Curiosity about and intuition of fluid dynamical processes<\/li>\n<li>Eagerness and skill to design and construct a large and novel experimental setup<\/li>\n<li>Effective at communication with our workshop &amp; construction team as well as the ability to do hands-on work<\/li>\n<li>Experience in writing code and a willingness to produce an excellent software pipeline to evaluate model measurements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Website link here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jobs.ethz.ch\/job\/view\/JOPG_ethz_VKjgHXvZDLfOBs0Zco\">https:\/\/www.jobs.ethz.ch\/job\/view\/JOPG_ethz_VKjgHXvZDLfOBs0Zco<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[22],"tags":[21,13,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}