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机电工程系的研究机会

For more information about the opportunities below, please contact the relevant faculty. 联系 information for EES faculty members 可以 found 在这里.

地质力学/水文:

亚历克斯·莱因哈特: projects on Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) - time-dependent high-pressure, high temperature fracture experiments, flow-through and batch experiments characterizing which fluid additives will enhance fracture, and the experiments simulating well-bore fracture at reservoir conditions, with national lab and other university collaborations

资助硕士研究助理学生职位. 目前正在申请M.S. student to begin in Fall 2023 focused on vadose zone hydrology. The student will explore how climate change-driven land-use changes the water balance 在农场规模上.  This work will involve monitoring soil moisture and soil water potential in farms in the High Plains of eastern New Mexico, as well as measuring water holding capacity and soil organic carbon in active fields, recently fallowed land (likely a future pathway), and land that hasn't been farmed for 50+ years. 结合 with estimating groundwater changes and evapotranspiration, the student will answer questions about likely changes in the farm-scale water balance under different climate 改变路径. They will also inform water-constrained economic models built by 合作者.联系 亚历克斯.rinehart@dftractor.com 了解更多信息.

地球化学:

亚历克斯Gysi: MS项目可在 hydrothermal geochemistry of rare earth elements in the Ore Deposits and Critical 矿物研究小组. More infos on current research from postdocs and students 可以 在这里找到.

妮可Hurtig: Various projects in economic geology, hydrothermal experimental geochemistry, 地热能与矿物学. 如需更多资料，请联络我(妮可.hurtig@dftractor.com).

地质:

Matt Heizler/马特·齐默: masters level student to conduct volcanology 研究 that includes significant geochronology to determine the eruption history of caldera forming ignimbrites in New Mexico and Colorado and perhaps elsew在这里 in the southwestern USA. This student will be integrated into a larger collaborative study seeking to understand the Cenozoic geological history of the Colorado Plateau region with emphasis on plateau 河流排水系统的隆升历史与演化

马特·齐默:  Opportunity for a MS student to work on volcanism in West Antarctica. 这个项目 involves 40Ar/39Ar dating of subglacial lava flows at Mount Waesche to understand Quaternary eruptions and their relationships to the evolution of the West Antarctic 最后一次间冰期的冰原

里奥格兰德裂谷La Jencia盆地的演化

瑞安猜疑的: 这个项目 will study the sedimentologic and paleoclimate evolution of the La Jencia basin, a sub-basin of the Rio Grande Rift just northwest of Socorro. This basin contains ~4 km of Miocene-Pleistocene lacustrine, fluvial, and alluvial fan strata that have never seen any detailed sedimentologic or provenance research. The exposure is excellent, t在这里 are numerous interbedded tuffs which will provide excellent age control, and it's about a 40 min drive from NMT. 研究将是领域 and laboratory-based, and the graduate student working on this project should expect to spend ~6 weeks in the field spread over their first year at NMT. 

地球物理:

约翰加洲:  PhD student to work on forward modeling of deformation within the 地球的构造板块. Specific topics may include opening of the Gulf California, transport of volatiles within active subduction zones, and development of new numerical 支持这些活动的方法. 合格的候选人应该有坚实的基础 in physics, math, and programming, and applicants with degrees in physics, applied math, engineering, and Earth science will all be considered!

苏珊Bilek: various projects in environmental seismology, subduction zone earthquake 研究

水文:

Dan Cadol: Over the past 4 years, my lab group has collaborated with the Bureau of Reclamation and the US Army Corps of Engineers on bedload sediment research in an 索科罗附近短暂的阿罗约. We have built a sediment monitoring station that includes direct bedload measurement (pit traps, aka slot samplers) acoustic surrogates (pipe-microphones) 还有地震替代物. I hope to hire one new student to use these results to evaluate and improve the sediment transport modules in the various models that the USACE has 发展:HEC-RAS(1-和2-D)和AdH. 这项研究的动机是河流系统 management, and the need to maintain sediment continuity, but t在这里 are many basic science questions we've been able to pursue, including the seismic work funded by NSF.

In order to advance goals related to resilience and sustainability, urban systems must be considered in the context of their surrounding regional rural systems. NMT, UNM, Colorado State, Washington State, U of Arizona, and Northern Arizona are collaborating on a proposal to the NSF Sustainable Regional Systems program to investigate trajectories 西部山间地区的可持续发展. NMT学生将专注于描述 of the potential impact of climate change and disturbance, especially wildfire, on 跨流域调水. 我们将探索脆弱性和复原力的来源 in both the contributing watershed and the receiving watershed. 风险是如何分配的? across the system of water users for different disturbances such as wildfire, pest-pathogen 爆发(e.g., pine beetle), medium-term (hydrological) drought, long-term (ecosystem) 干旱和过渡带转移?