About the University of Utah
The University of Utah (the U, U of U, UofU, or simply Utah) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. It received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900.
As of Fall 2022, there were 26,355 undergraduate students and 8,350 graduate students, for an enrollment total of 34,705, making it the second largest public university in the state after Utah Valley University. Graduate studies include the S.J. Quinney College of Law and the School of Medicine, Utah's first medical school. It is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".
According to the National Science Foundation, the university received $552 million in research and development funding in 2018, ranking it 45th in the nation. The university's health care system includes four hospitals, including the University of Utah Hospital and Huntsman Cancer Institute, along with twelve community clinics and specialty centers such as the Moran Eye Center. The university's athletic teams, the Utes, participate in NCAA Division I athletics (FBS for football) as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. On August 4, 2023, the university applied and was accepted to join the Big 12 Conference starting in 2024.
About the Position
Assistant Professor Juan Carlos de Obeso is recruiting motivated students to join his group towards Masters or PhD at the University of Utah - Department of Geology & Geophysics for Fall 2024. Potential projects are around water-rock interactions. Projects can be tailored to student interest. Some potential ideas involve the alteration of mantle rocks with implications for the global carbon cycle, carbon mineralization and hydrogen production or kinetics of mineral reactions during carbon stage. he his seeking candidates interested in working with natural samples (Oman and Mexico) within a laboratory setting, with potential field work. The projects will involve experiments under hydrothermal conditions combined with analytical work at the University of Utah state of the art facilities (ICP-MS lab, EMPA, NanoFab) and modeling components. Interested students should send CV and expression of interest to juancarlos.deobeso@utah.edu
About Professor Juan Carlos de Obeso
Professor Juan Carlos de Obeso is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics. If you are interested in working on fluid-rock interactions contact me. His work focuses on hydrothermal alteration of peridotites/basalts using natural samples and novel experimental techniques.
He has worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Reactive Transport Group of the Department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary from 2020 to 2022. In Calgary he worked on experimental basalt carbonation as part of the Solid Carbon project. Solid Carbon is an ambitious project to permanently and safely sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) as rock.
He is also a member of the Oman Drilling Project science team working with cores from different boreholes to understand past and modern serpentinization and carbonation of mantle peridotite in the Sultanate of Oman.
Research Interest:
Professor Juan Carlos de Obeso work focuses around the alteration of mafic and ultramafic rocks by hydrous and carbonated fluids. To do this, he use a variety of analytical techniques including petrography, x-ray diffraction, x-ray fluorescence, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and electron microprobe together with hydrothermal experiments and geochemical modelling to constrain temperatures, water/rock, chemical and mineralogical changes and track alteration of rocks. These processes occur globally and have occurred throughout geologic history.
He his interested in investigating the role of rock weathering in seawater chemistry, atmospheric CO2 changes and element cycling mainly using land based analogues like ophiolites.
He is currently investigating the potential of long-term carbon storage in carbonate minerals during fluid-rock interactions in mafic and ultramafic rocks.
How to Contact:
- Department of Geology and Geophysics
- University of Utah
- Frederick Albert Sutton Building
- 115 S 1460 E
- Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0102
- juancarlos.deobeso@utah.edu
You can find the call to application here:
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