Dear Colleagues:

The U.S. Geological Survey is pleased to announce that the U.S. Geological 
Survey Mendenhall (Post-Doctoral) Research Fellowship Program is now 
accepting applications for Fiscal Year 2011 (
http://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc).  Applications for these two-year 
Fellowships will be accepted until November 9, 2009.  Offers will be sent 
in mid-February 2010 for start dates as early as October 1, 2010.

Many of these Mendenhall research fellowships are for earthquake related 
research (see the list below or visit the above website).

Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the research 
advisors listed for specific research opportunities to learn more about 
the goals of the research project.  Contact information is provided on the 
above website.

Please visit the above website for more information about these research 
opportunities and to learn more about the Mendenhall application process. 
General questions about the Mendenhall Program may be addressed to Rama 
Kotra, USGS Mendenhall Coordinator, 703-648-6271 - rkotra@usgs.gov.





List of Earthquake related Mendenhall Opportunities:

Improving Ground Motion Forecasts for Future Earthquakes (Research 
advisors: Brad Aagaard, Robert Jachens, Paul Spudich, and Robert Simpson)

Mapping the San Andreas Fault System in the Third Dimension - In the 
Salton Trough, Central California, and the San Francisco Bay Area 
(Research advisors: Rufus Catchings, Gary Fuis, and Michael Rymer)

Earthquake Characterization in the Face of Complexity (Research advisors: 
Joan Gomberg, Craig Weaver, John Vidale (U Washington), and Paul Bodin (U 
Washington))

Dynamic Rupture, Ground Motion and High-Speed Fault Strength (Research 
advisors: Dave Lockner, Bill Ellsworth, Ruth Harris, Brad Aagaard, Joe 
Andrews, and Nick Beeler)

Detecting the Causes of Earthquake Rate Changes (Research advisors: Andrew 
Michael, Jeanne Hardebeck, Jessica Murray-Moraleda, Thomas Parsons, and 
Fred Pollitz)

Cascadia Subduction Zone: Transient Aseismic Deformation and Its Possible 
Relationship with Time-dependent Earthquake Hazards (Research advisors: 
Evelyn Roeloffs, Nick Beeler, Craig Weaver, and Nathan Wood (Geography D))

Joint US-Japan program to develop CoulombExpress, a near-realtime online 
earthquake forecasting tool for emergency responders and scientists 
(Research advisors: Ross Stein and Shinji Toda (Kyoto U))

Climate forcing of volcanic and earthquake hazards (Research advisors: 
David Hill, Shaul Hurwitz (Water Resources D/National Research Program), 
Jeanne Hardebeck, and David Shelly)

Real-time and High Data Rate GPS: Application to Natural Hazards 
Mitigation and The Search for Very to Ultra Long-Period (VLP to ULP) 
Events at Yellowstone (Research advisors: Michael Lisowski, Charles Wicks, 
Daniel Dzurisin, Michael Weber (GeoforshungsZentrum), and John Langbein)

Frontiers of Ambient Seismic Noise Analysis: Development of 
High-Resolution Velocity Models at Multiple Depth Scales for Computation 
of Synthetic Seismograms (Research advisors: William Stephenson, Harley 
Benz, Art Frankel, Robert Herrmann (St. Louis U))

Seismic Hazard and Risk Modeling?Building State-of-the-Art Models into 
End-to-End ?Ruptures to Rafters? Analysis (Research advisors: Edward 
Field, Nicolas Luco, David Wald, Mark Petersen, and Lucy Jones)

Reducing Risk from Damaging Earthquakes in the Central United States 
(Research advisors: Martitia Tuttle, Oliver Boyd, and Russell Wheeler)

Amplification of Strong Motion in Coastal and Estuarine Sediment Deposits 
of the Urbanized Western United States (Research advisor: Robert Kayen)



Jill McCarthy
Tom Brocher


Tom Brocher
Team Chief Scientist
Earthquake Hazards Team
W: (650) 329-4737, Cell: (650) 644-5927, Fax: (650) 329-5617
brocher@usgs.gov

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