Postdoctoral fellowship to Canada 2009-2010

Canada offers Postdoctoral stipend twelve months to Norwegian citizens who recently passed his Ph.D. in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences or technology.

Applicants must be citizens and have prepared doctorate in the past four years, or take the degree before the stay in Canada starts. Moreover, applicants must obtain an invitation for a twelve-month postdoctoral stay at the public Canadian university or research institutions of their choice.

The scholarship amounts to 32 000 Canadian dollars (about 180 000 dollars) and is not taxable in Canada. There is no family support.

The application deadline is 26 January 2009, and Post doctorate in Canada must be completed within 30 September 2009.

Get full application form, guidelines and attachments at the Canadian Embassy's website:

Canadian Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships (PDRF)

The University of Manitoba, Canada, MSc and PhD Positions in Geochemistry

The geochemistry group in the department of geological sciences, University of Manitoba have funds to support several M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. Projects include ore deposits, evolution of seawater and atmospheric composition, tectonics and geochronology.

Students interested in the application of stable and radiogenic isotopes to these or similar geological projects are encouraged to apply. The department of Geological Sciences has recently acquired several new instruments including, two Delta V Plus with peripherals for the analysis of H, C, O, N and S, and a Cameca 7f magnetic sector secondary ion mass spectrometer (SIMS) for light and heavy isotopic analysis. These new labs complement the X-ray and microbeam facilities, which include SX100 electron microprobe, SEM, LA-ICP-MS, FTIR, Mossbauer, and powder and single crystal diffractometers.

Interested students should contact:

* Andrey Bekker (Precambrian atmospheric and ocean composition)
bekker[ at ]cc.umanitoba.ca
* Alfredo Camacho (Tectonics and geochronology)
camacho[ at ]cc.umanitoba.ca
* Mostafa Fayek (Uranium deposit research and exploration)
fayek[ at ]cc.umanitoba.ca