Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program
Research Opportunities
Overview: Open Research Opportunities will be filled depending on the availability of funds. All application materials must be submitted through USAJobs by 11:59 pm, US Eastern Standard Time, on the closing date.
Role of Research Advisors: Research Advisors direct project work and are those scientists with whom the Mendenhall Fellows will work most closely. One of the first steps in the preparation of an application package is establishing contact with the Research Advisor(s) to coordinate the development of a research proposal. Research Advisors also answer questions about a Research Opportunity and review application materials.
Role of Human Resources Office Contacts: The Human Resources Office receives and screens application materials, provides application materials for technical review and selection, reviews the backgrounds of the final candidates to make sure they are qualified for the opportunities, and makes the official job offers. The Human Resources Office is also available to provide information regarding the recruitment process and the status of applications.
| RO # | Research Opportunity Title | Proposed Duty Station | Research Advisor(s) | Closing Date | Apply Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S53 | Monitoring inland water features using fused ground and satellite radar observations | Leetown,WV Reston, VA or other USGS office in the U.S. |
Jack Eggleston, Cédric David, Renato Frasson, Chris Crawford, John Jones, Dave Bjerklie, Sang-Ho Yun | 3/15/2021 | Apply Here |
| 19-1 | Broadband earthquake rupture physics | Moffett Field, CA or Menlo Park, CA | Annemarie Baltay, Tom Hanks, Ben Brooks, Josie Nevitt, Brian Kilgore, Nick Beeler, Ben Melosh | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-2 | Earthquake rupture and the brittle-ductile transition: A Subduction Zone Science Team Project | Moffett Field, CA or Menlo Park, CA | Nick Beeler, Jeff McGuire, Tom Hanks, David Lockner, Annemarie Baltay | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-3 | Application of machine learning to forecasting ground motion characteristics and their evolution | Pasadena, CA, or Moffett Field, CA | Elizabeth Cochran, Sarah Minson, Clara Yoon, Annemarie Baltay | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-4 | Geotechnical investigations of submarine and subaerial slope stability in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: A Subduction Zone Science Team Project | Moffett Field, CA; Santa Cruz, CA; or Seattle, WA | Alex Grant, Jenna Hill, Danny Brothers, Jonathan Perkins, Joan Gomberg | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-5 | Next generation aftershock and earthquake forecasting methods and products | Moffett Field, CA; Pasadena, CA; Golden, CO | Andrew Michael, Jeanne Hardebeck, Sara McBride, Anne Wein, Ned Field, Andrea Llenos, Morgan Page, Nicholas van der Elst | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-6 | Understanding the physics of shallow fault slip and the hazard it poses | Moffett Field, CA or Pasadena, CA | Sarah Minson, Josie Nevitt, Elizabeth Cochran, Benjamin Brooks | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-7 | Sediment yield from watersheds on the U.S. West Coast: Projecting effects of future climate and river management | Santa Cruz, CA | Amy East, Joel Sankey, Jonathan Warrick | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-8 | Geology, geochemistry and global context of deep-ocean marine minerals | Santa Cruz, CA | Amy Gartman, Sarah Hayes, Douglas Kreiner | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-9 | Satellite remote-sensing advances for monitoring, analyzing, and predicting coastal change hazards | Santa Cruz, CA | Sean Vitousek | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-10 | Improving coastal change hazards forecasts | St. Petersburg, FL | Margaret Palmsten, Mark Buckley | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-11 | Connecting coastal change hazards to societally important risk assessments | St. Petersburg, FL; Woods Hole, MA | Margaret Palmsten, Erika Lentz, Amanda Cravens, Emily Himmelstoss | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-12 | Dynamic likelihood forecasts for coastal wetland landscapes | Woods Hole, MA | Meagan Eagle Gonneea, Erika Lentz | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-13 | Seismic imaging of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii | Hilo, Hawaii | Ninfa Bennington, Roger Denlinger, Ashton Flinders, Guoqing Lin, Matt Haney, Nori Nakata, Daniel O'Connell | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-14 | Frequency and sources of the largest explosive eruptions in Alaska from ocean core archives: Subduction zone science team project | Anchorage, Alaska | Matthew Loewen, Kristi Wallace, Michelle Coombs, Jason Addison, Seth Burgess, Mark Stelten | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-15 | Magma-physics based models of unrest at volcanoes in the continental western USA | Moffett Field, CA; Vancouver, WA | Emily Montgomery-Brown, Kyle Anderson, Jennifer Lynn Lewicki, Peter Kelly, Alicia Hotovec-Ellis, Chuck Wicks | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-16 | Developing a mixed-volatile solubility model for common hazardous magmas | Menlo Park, CA; Moffett Field, CA | Tom, Sisson, Dawnika Blatter, Peter Kelly | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-17 | Distributed volcanism and distributed volcanic hazards in the U.S. Intermountain West | Vancouver, WA | Wendy Stovall, Michael Poland, Emily Johnson, Mark Stelten, Michael Ort, Charles (Chuck) Connor | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-18 | Volcanic lightning for early warning and characterization of explosive eruptions—A Subduction Zone Science Team Project | Anchorage, AK or Vancouver, WA | Alexa Van Eaton, Larry Mastin, Matt Haney, David Schneider, Michael Pavolonis, Hans Schwaiger | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-19 | Frontline and under-served communities: Multi-hazard research, engagement, and products to inform risk reduction | Moffett Field, CA | Anne Wein, Karen Jenni, Kristin Ludwig, David Damby, Patrick Barnard, Stephen Jackson, Sara McBride | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-20 | Forging next generation earthquake forecast models | Golden, CO, Moffett Field, CA, Pasadena, CA, or Seattle, WA | Ned Field, Mark Petersen, Ryan Gold, Kishor Jaiswal, Morgan Page, Susan Hough, Nicholas (Nick) Beeler, Fred Pollitz, Andrew Michael | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-21 | Scientific and operational cloud computing | Golden, CO | Lynda Lastowka, Eric Martinez, Jeremy Fee, Michelle Guy, David J. Wald | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-22 | Testing the 2018 National Seismic Hazard Model | Golden, CO | Mark Petersen, Peter Powers, Allison Shumway, Kishor Jaiswal, Ned Field, Susan Hough, Sarah Minson, Annemarie Baltay | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-23 | Improving the U.S. Geological Survey response to local and regional earthquakes | Albuquerque, NM | Adam Ringler, Emily Wolin, David Wilson, Elizabeth Cochran, Lind Gee, Robert Anthony | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-24 | Rapid, robust characterization of earthquake uncertainties for advanced monitoring and research applications | Golden, CO | David Shelly, Paul Stanton Earle, William Yeck, Sarah Minson | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-25 | Applications of full-waveform inversion for high-resolution seismic velocity models and site response in support of earthquake ground motion investigations | Golden, CO | William Stephenson, Oliver Boyd, Morgan Moschetti, Ebru Bozdag, Arthur Frankel | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-26 | Developing socially equitable USGS earthquake risk strategies and solutions | Golden, CO | David Wald, Kristin Ludwig, Lori Peek | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-27 | Leveraging machine learning for next-generation global earthquake monitoring | Golden, CO | William Yeck, Paul Stanton Earle, David Shelly, Michelle Guy | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-28 | Towards a National landslide susceptibility map of the United States | Golden, CO | Ben Mirus, Nathan Wood, Kate Allstadt, Dani Or, Ben Leshchinski, Matt Crawford | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-29 | Revitalization of hydraulically fractured shale oil and gas wells through enhanced microbial natural gas production | Reston, VA or Helena, MT | Matthew Varonka, Elliott Barnhart, William Orem, Jenna Shelton | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-30 | Application of high spatial resolution image sources for hyperspectral studies of critical minerals, geologic mapping, and/or characterization of abandoned mine lands | Reston, VA | Bernard Hubbard, John Mars | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-31 | Three-dimensional geophysical imaging of subsurface geology associated with critical mineral deposits in the northeastern U.S. | Lakewood, CO | Anjana (Anji) Shah, Gregory Walsh | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-32 | Developing regional- and national-scale methods for assessing underground thermal energy storage, focusing on Aquifer and Reservoir Thermal Energy Storage (ATES and RTES) | Portland, OR; Mounds View, MN; or Reston, VA | Erick Burns, Chris Langevin, Yu-Feng Lin, Marc Buursink, Peter Warwick, Colin Williams | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-33 | Machine learning and the next generation of geothermal energy assessments | Portland, OR or Moffett Field, CA | Erick Burns, John Lipor, Jonathan Glen, Drew Siler, Jake DeAngelo, Andy Barbour, Colin Williams | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-34 | Paleo fluid model for critical minerals on the Colorado Plateau | Lakewood, CO | Susan Hall, Bradley Van Gosen | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-35 | Ecological and climactic influences on human tick-borne illness | Bozeman, MT | Paul Cross, Danielle Buttke, Howard Ginsberg | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-36 | Natural Resource Economist for improving invasive species management | Gainesville, FL | Wesley Daniel, Julien Martin | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-37 | Research computing for the advancement of Earth science | Lakewood, CO | Jeff Falgout | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-38 | Knowledge engineering of topographic features | Rolla, MO | Samantha Arundel | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-39 | Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP): Translating imagery and weather into predictions of surface reflectance | Sioux Falls, SD or Santa Barbara, CA | Heather Tollerud, Chris Funk | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-40 | Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP): Improving the detection of land surface change using satellite time series data | Sioux Falls, SD | Heather Tollerud, Jesslyn Brown | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-41 | Development of water monitoring systems based on fusion of ground and multi-sensor satellite data and application of machine learning | Leetown, WV; Reston, VA; or Location where there is a USGS Office | Jack Eggleston, John Jones, Jordan Read, Alison Appling, Roland Viger, Janice Gordon, Jeff Falgout | 1/04/2021 | Closed |
| 19-42 | Wildfire impacts on water availability in the Upper Colorado Basin | Lakewood, CO | Brian Ebel, Michelle Walvoord, Sheila Murphy | 1/04/2021 | Closed |