A postdoctoral research position is immediately available at the Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO) to undertake research on geomechanics issues related to mining at great depth.   The successful applicant will work under the supervision of Drs Peter K. Kaiser and Ming Cai at Laurentian University and will also be expected to train and mentor junior researchers and graduate students, write research reports and publications and assist in the preparation of research proposals. At this stage, the research may be related to the interpretation of monitoring data from pillar load testing, rock bursting and the determination of strainburst potential, and the collection of data in underground environments. For these reasons, applicants must demonstrate experience with underground work (tunnelling or mining), numerical modelling, and instrumentation as well as practical interpretation of field observations. 

Applications are invited from emerging leaders in the area of Basin Dynamics, for a Tier II Canada Research Chair position at the University of Calgary. As part of the university’s strategic focus on Energy and Environment, the incumbent will join a world-class team of scholars in sedimentology, tectonics, petroleum geoscience, geochemistry and geophysics as well as research scientists at Natural Resources Canada (Geological Survey of Canada) who are involved in Arctic Basins research.

The Planetary Exploration group is looking for two Post Doctoral fellows to work on various aspects of the Alpha-Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS). The APXS is an in-situ x-ray spectrometer for elemental analysis with a long history of successful deployments on Mars Pathfinder and the Mars Exploration Rover missions. An improved APXS will be launched on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) end of 2011.