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Dr Vasile Ersek
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Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
About the Project
Project Description
Southeast Europe hosts some of the most important metal deposits (Cu-Pb-Zn-Sn-As; Au-Ag) in Europe, with the largest gold-silver (Romania) and copper (Serbia) continental reserves. This area played a crucial role in the history of metallurgy, with evidence that ore extraction and processing commenced at a regional scale as early as 7500-8500 years B.P. Furthermore, the Carpathian-Balkan area has one of Europe’s largest inventories of pre-Antiquity metal artefacts providing another argument for the profound cultural and technological advancements that originated here, especially during Neolithic and early Metal Ages. However, most reconstructions of long-term continental anthropogenic pollution at centennial to millennial time-scales discuss past developments without reference to the Carpathian-Balkan area.
This project will develop a combination of peat bog and speleothem records with the aim to address the following objectives:
1. Establish a representative regional network of sedimentary records that would allow assessing at high resolution and through a multi-proxy (Pb, O, C isotopes, and elements that are normally associated with mining and smelting, e.g. Cu, Zn, Au, Ag, etc) approach at the Holocene scale the imprint of past anthropogenic activities.
2. Provide long and detailed chemical and isotopic stratigraphies of elements related to such millennia-long anthropogenic activities.
3. Assess the extent to which the postulated archaeological assumptions and temporal and spatial reconstructions of metal mining proposed by this field of research are comparable. Assess lead and lags.
4. Provide clear constraints on the interplay between anthropogenic activities, natural climate change and their reflection in peatbog and speleothem data.
Informal Enquiries
Enquiries regarding this studentship should be made to : [Email Address Removed]
Eligibility criteria:
Applicants should hold a first or upper second class honours degree (in a relevant subject) from a British higher education institution, or equivalent. Students who are not UK/EU residents are eligible to apply, provided they hold the relevant academic qualifications, together with an IELTS score of at least 6.5.
To apply, e-mail [Email Address Removed] to request the appropriate application form, quoting the advert reference above. Alternatively, use the application link on this page.
Deadline for applications: 07 April 2014
Start Date: 1 October 2014
Southeast Europe hosts some of the most important metal deposits (Cu-Pb-Zn-Sn-As; Au-Ag) in Europe, with the largest gold-silver (Romania) and copper (Serbia) continental reserves. This area played a crucial role in the history of metallurgy, with evidence that ore extraction and processing commenced at a regional scale as early as 7500-8500 years B.P. Furthermore, the Carpathian-Balkan area has one of Europe’s largest inventories of pre-Antiquity metal artefacts providing another argument for the profound cultural and technological advancements that originated here, especially during Neolithic and early Metal Ages. However, most reconstructions of long-term continental anthropogenic pollution at centennial to millennial time-scales discuss past developments without reference to the Carpathian-Balkan area.
This project will develop a combination of peat bog and speleothem records with the aim to address the following objectives:
1. Establish a representative regional network of sedimentary records that would allow assessing at high resolution and through a multi-proxy (Pb, O, C isotopes, and elements that are normally associated with mining and smelting, e.g. Cu, Zn, Au, Ag, etc) approach at the Holocene scale the imprint of past anthropogenic activities.
2. Provide long and detailed chemical and isotopic stratigraphies of elements related to such millennia-long anthropogenic activities.
3. Assess the extent to which the postulated archaeological assumptions and temporal and spatial reconstructions of metal mining proposed by this field of research are comparable. Assess lead and lags.
4. Provide clear constraints on the interplay between anthropogenic activities, natural climate change and their reflection in peatbog and speleothem data.
Informal Enquiries
Enquiries regarding this studentship should be made to : [Email Address Removed]
Eligibility criteria:
Applicants should hold a first or upper second class honours degree (in a relevant subject) from a British higher education institution, or equivalent. Students who are not UK/EU residents are eligible to apply, provided they hold the relevant academic qualifications, together with an IELTS score of at least 6.5.
To apply, e-mail [Email Address Removed] to request the appropriate application form, quoting the advert reference above. Alternatively, use the application link on this page.
Deadline for applications: 07 April 2014
Start Date: 1 October 2014
Funding Notes
The studentship includes a full stipend, paid for three years at RCUK rates (in 2014/15 this is 13,863 pa) and Home/EU fees. Overseas candidates are also eligible to apply.
References
Ersek, V., Clark, P.U., Mix, A.C., Cheng, H. Edwards, R.L., 2012, Holocene winter climate variability in mid-latitude western North America, Nature Communications, 3:1219 doi: 10.1038/ncomms2222
Ersek, V., Mix, A.C., Clark, P.U., 2010, Variations of δ18O in rainwater from southwestern Oregon, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2009JD013345.
Ersek, V., Hostetler, S.W., Cheng, S.W., Clark, P.U., Anslow, F.S., Mix, A.C., Edwards, R.L., 2009: Environmental influences on speleothem growth in southwestern Oregon during the last 380000 years, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 279, p. 316-325, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.008.
Ersek, V., Mix, A.C., Clark, P.U., 2010, Variations of δ18O in rainwater from southwestern Oregon, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2009JD013345.
Ersek, V., Hostetler, S.W., Cheng, S.W., Clark, P.U., Anslow, F.S., Mix, A.C., Edwards, R.L., 2009: Environmental influences on speleothem growth in southwestern Oregon during the last 380000 years, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 279, p. 316-325, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.008.
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