Jobs

CMC Containment and Monitoring Institute (CaMI)

Senior Project Lead

CMC Research Institutes, Inc. (CMC) is seeking a Senior Project Lead to work at the Containment and Monitoring Institute (CaMI). CaMI will focus on the field-based development and performance validation of a broad range of sensors, instruments and analyses approaches.

Subsurface Containment for Carbon Capture and Storage

M.Sc. STUDENT POSITION AVAILABLE

An M.Sc. student is being sought for an atmospheric transport and modelling project, under the supervision of Drs. Dave Risk and Bjorn Brooks in the Department of Earth Sciences at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX). The ideal candidate will have a strong background in computational sciences, physics, and environmental earth science (in that order). The project involves development and data processing for large-footprint surface Monitoring Verification and Accounting (MVA) techniques for carbon capture and storage projects. The student will be expected to interface with collaborators outside of the university, and also outside of the country. The student will be resident at StFX within a department with a vibrant graduate student culture and will be expected to take part in the StFX-NSERC CREATE Training Program for Climate Scientists (TPCS). Stipend support will be at NSERC rates (approximately $17,500), and tuition waiver may be available.

Ideal start date is September 2013.

CVs from prospective students may be forwarded to Bjorn Brooks (bbrooks@stfx.ca) and/or Dave Risk (drisk@stfx.ca) and consideration of such will begin immediately.

Carbon Management Microfluidics

POSTDOCTORAL & RESEARCH ENGINEERING POSITIONS AVAILABLE

University of Toronto has postdoctoral fellow and research engineering positions available with the Carbon Management Microfluidics team. These positions are part of a large effort, bringing together microfluidics, optofluidics and nanofluidics tools to (1) quantify CO2 transport and reactivity (2) develop new CO2 storage and oil recovery mechanisms (3) develop new monitoring techniques and down-hole fluid analysis methods, (4) screen for chemical and physical conditions at the pore-scale to increase the effectiveness of thermal oil recovery (5) perform fundamental studies of phase and transport phenomena in reservoir fluids. Recent engineering and PDF alumni have gone on to academic positions and high-level industry positions in oil & gas research.

Selected links relevant to this position:

Applicants with Mechanical, Chemical or Reservoir/Petroleum Engineering backgrounds and excellent communication skills will be given top priority. Please send c.v. and transcripts to:

Geochemistry and Habitability of Ancient Waters:

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AVAILABLE

The Stable Isotope Laboratory, University of Toronto is part of the Deep Energy Directorate program of the Sloan Foundation Deep Carbon Observatory. An exciting opportunity exists for a postdoctoral fellow to join the University of Toronto team investigating the fluid and gas geochemistry, noble gas residence times and implications for subsurface habitability of ancient fracture waters in Precambrian Shield rocks. Working with an international team of geochemists (in collaboration in particular with C.J. Ballentine - Oxford), the postdoctoral fellowship research will focus on understanding the distribution and residence times of ancient water in deep fractures; the relationship of fracture fluid geochemistry to the host rock and mineralizing fluids; and the water-rock reactions controlling the geochemistry and isotopic signatures of the waters. The research is part of a ten year interdisciplinary and international research program exploring the geochemistry and microbiology of deep Earth fluids and implications for Mars exploration and astrobiology.

Applicants must have a PhD in isotope geochemistry, geology, chemistry or related discipline. Send a detailed CV, statement of research interest and 3 letters of recommendation to:
Dr. B. Sherwood Lollar, Dept. of Earth Sciences
22 Russell St., University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 3B1
Tel: 416-978-0770

www.es.utoronto.ca/members/sherwood_lollar

Review of applications to begin July 28 until the position is filled.

Selected relevant references:
Holland, G., Sherwood Lollar, B., Li, L., Lacrampe-Couloume, G., Slater, G.F. and Ballentine, C.J. (2013) Deep
fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian. Nature 497(7449): 367-360.

Lippmann-Pipke, J., Sherwood Lollar, B., Neidermann, S., Stroncik, N.A., Naumann, R., van Heerden, E. and Onstott,
T.C. (2011) Neon identifies two billion year old fluid component in the Witwatersrand Basin. Chem GLG Vol. 283(3-4):287-296.

Lin, L.-H., Wang, P.-L., Rumble, D., Lippmann-Pipke, J., Boice, E., Pratt, L., Sherwood Lollar, B., Brodie, E. Hazen,
T., Andersen, G., DeSantis, T., Moser, D.P., Kershaw, D. and Onstott, T.C. (2006) Long-term sustainability of a high energy, low diversity crustal biotome. Science 314:479-482.

Sherwood Lollar, B., Westgate, T., Ward, J., Slater, G.F., and Lacrampe-Couloume, G. (2002) Abiogenic formation
of alkanes in the Earth’s crust as a minor source for global hydrocarbon reservoirs. Nature Vol. 416:522-524.

STEaPP Provost Fellowships

UCL’s new Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) has now opened applications for our founding STEaPP Provost Fellowships.

These prestigious postdoctoral fellowships are designed to enable exceptionally talented early career researchers to develop their research, teaching and policy engagement experience sufficiently to make them very strong candidates for academic positions by the end of their tenure. These fellowships will include:
Dedicated time for pursuing an independent research project (a brief research proposal is required as part of the application);
Working as part of STEaPP’s foundational academic team to develop the Department’s collaborative research activities;
Contributing to STEaPP’s teaching activities; and
Helping develop the policy engagement profile of STEaPP and the related policy engagement and decision support institute.
Further information and application details can be found at:

Employment Opportunities

UCL STEaPP Provost (Research) Fellow x 5, - Ref:1346672

If you have any questions related to these positions, please do not hesitate to contact us at STEaPP@ucl.ac.uk

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Experimental Physical Chemistry of Carbon Capture under High Pressure Conditions

Department of Chemistry
College of Physical and Engineering Science
University of Guelph

Temporary full-time from May 1, 2013 to August 31, 2015
Hiring #2013-0020

Applications are sought for a postdoctoral fellow to conduct experimental research on the properties, structure and stability of aqueous species in amine-carbon dioxide mixtures using state-of-the-art high-precision solution calorimeters and solution-phase Raman spectroscopy. These are unique instruments, custom-made to operate at extremes of temperature and pressure. This international collaboration with the Université Blaise Pascale in Clermont Ferrand, France, includes Raman studies to determine the speciation of equilibrium liquid phases below and above the lower critical solution temperature; hydrothermal reactions that control oxide dissolution; calorimetric studies of the dissolution and phase separation processes; and the development of advanced thermodynamic models.

The position may include be opportunities for research exchange visits between the U. of Guelph and France.

Web-site: http://tremaine.cs.uoguelph.ca/

Dr. Peter Tremaine
Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
E-mail tremaine@uoguelph.ca;
Phone: 519-824-4120 ext 56076; Fax 519-766-1499

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CNRL seeking early career engineer

JOB: Projects and Technology Agreements Coordinate - Horizon Oil Sands

CNRL’s Horizon Oil Sands operation is expanding with project spending for 2012 forecast at approximately $1.55 billion with future projected spending of approximately $2 - 2.5 billion each year for the next several years.

The Projects and Technology Agreements Coordinator will support the Project Managers, execute projects and manage the technical agreements that Canadian Natural has or enters into with oil sands research consortiums, Universities and other operators. Applicants should have typically 5+ years of related industry experience and an Engineering Degree.

For more information and to apply.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Company: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta
Location: Edmonton, Alberta

Review of applications will begin immediately and applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

A postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Alberta to conduct research related to multi-component adsorption for air pollution control, adsorbate-adsorbent interaction, and regeneration of adsorbents. The successful applicant will also be expected to assist in the training and mentoring of graduate students, writing research proposals, progress reports, and papers.

The ideal candidate should have experience with adsorption principles and applications, material characterization techniques (pore size distribution, TGA/TPD, XPS, SEM, XRD,…), and analytical techniques (GC/MS,….), setting and conducting adsorption experiments for air treatment. The ideal candidate should hold a Ph.D. in Material Science or Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or other suitable field; and also have excellent communication skills and a record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals.

Applicants should send a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, the contact information of three referees, and sample of relevant publications to Dr. Zaher Hashisho.

Dr. Zaher Hashisho
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
3-088 NREF
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
T6G 2W2
hashisho@ualberta.ca

For further information on research in Dr. Hashisho’s group click here.