The Department of Physical Oceanography of CICESE is offering a postdoctoral scholarship to join the group that studies transport mechanisms of passive particles in the western Gulf of Mexico. This is within the work frame of a large multi-institutional and interdisciplinary project to generate scenarios and evaluate possible impacts of oil spills on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, performed by the Consorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM).

The aim of the postdoc is to study the environmental factors controlling particle dispersion at various scales, and how the properties of dispersion differ between the inner-shelf and deep water, as well as between the surface and the deeper layers. The Lagrangian data will be obtained from drifters and subsurface floats experiments in the field, as well as via numerical model experiments.

The applicant should have a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography or other si...