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Research Assistant in Shallow Marine Sedimentology

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Global Academy Jobs
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
£27,511 to £32,817 p.a.
Closing date
Dec 3, 2020

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The School of Earth and Environment is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to support the development of a relational database of shallow-marine clastic sedimentary architecture.

Working in the Shallow-Marine Research Group (SMRG), you will be responsible for uploading information derived from the peer-reviewed literature and from independent research studies into the Shallow Marine Architecture Knowledge Store (SMAKS). SMAKS is a relational database designed to host information on shallow-marine and paralic clastic systems, which has been developed both as a research tool for academic studies and as a catalogue of geological analogues to clastic hydrocarbon reservoirs for industrial applications. You will be required to read widely across the relevant peer-reviewed literature, to become familiar with the database standard and to upload information from the literature into SMAKS to a reliably high standard.

You will work as valued member within a team of 30+ sedimentologists who are seeking to build a new generation of quantitative sedimentological (facies) models that can be used to investigate sedimentary system response to environmental change and to predict lithological variability within the subsurface.

You will have a Master's degree in Earth Sciences, and a documented ability to process large volumes of clastic sedimentology data. Experience of shallow-marine/paralic clastic systems is essential, as is the ability to code in SQL and R. You will have strong numerical and analytical skills with the ability to search and collate information, and effectively synthesise and summarise research outputs. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team. A PhD in clastic sedimentology and database experience would be advantageous.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Professor Bill McCaffrey , Professor of Clastic Sedimentology

Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6625

Email: W.D.McCaffrey@leeds.ac.uk

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