Graduate students
I am looking for graduate students (MSc or PhD), preferably with a background in natural sciences (biogeochemistry, hydrology, chemistry, physics etc.) and an interest in numerical modeling.

Topics of interest include the following research areas:

Land-Ocean interface: Investigation of nutrient dynamics at the land-ocean interface, working on the implementation of reactive transport simulations for study sites at the GA coast.
Funding: Georgia Sea Grant

LTER: Several modeling projects are part of the Long-Term Ecological Research project studying the role of water transport in the ecological linkages between upland areas and the coastal zone in central Georgia.
Funding: NSF

Sediment metabolism: We are studying how changes in temperature influence the rate and efficiency of organic carbon mineralization by modeling low molecular weight organics and terminal metabolic products (CH4, CO2) in freshwater sediment.
Funding: NSF, Directorate of Biological Sciences, Ecosystem Studies

Bioirrigation: We integrate ecological and biogeochemical components central to benthic-pelagic coupling and aim at advancing the quantification of the role of benthic biodiversity on ecosystem function. The joint experimental and computational analysis of macrofaunal spatial arrangement, interactions, and behavior on benthic fluxes is designed to provide insight at the biogeochemical process and infaunal community level on benthic-pelagic coupling, to elucidate ecological interactions and to constrain the magnitude and inherent spatial variability in benthic solute exchange fluxes.

*** The student's focus will be on incorporating experimental data obtained from sediment microcosm experiments at the Chesapeake Biological Lab, in which (s)he will be expected to participate, into a three-dimensional reactive transport model, and the scaling up benthic nutrient exchange to larger areas. ***
Funding: NSF, Directorate of Geosciences, Chemical Oceanography

For further information please contact Dr. Christof Meile.