2008-04-24

kareina: (BSE garnet)
2008-04-24 10:50 am
Entry tags:

wow, that is a lot of applicants!

Around the same time as I did my last "annual review" of my PhD progress, when we set the deadline of submitting my thesis at mid-year this year, I got to thinking about "what next?", and decided to do some looking as to what is available for people who want to stay in academia. I stumbled upon an advertisements for a teaching position at a small university in the Principality of the Mists, which would start in August of this year. At that point in time, I was still hopeful that I would actually be able to meet my "done by mid-year" goal, so I decided to put in an application for that position. I didn't really expect to get it, since I'm applying from the weak position of not-yet done with the PhD and the focus of what they are looking for isn't quite a perfect match with my current project (though when one considers my Master's Project, it wasn't to far off from my experience, and was a direction I wouldn't mind heading). I mostly applied just for the practice of gathering together all of the information one needs for such things, figuring that it is good to start thinking of these things early, so that when I am actually in a position to start the serious search, I'll be ready.

Today I received an e-mail from them which said:

"Thank you very much for your application for the Assistant Professor position in Lithospheric Processes and Evolution in our department. We received nearly 100 applications for this position, and the pool of applicants was very strong.
The search committee was impressed by the talent we saw in the applications for this position. We sincerely appreciate your interest in our department."

Wow! I guess that I will really have to work hard to come up with a good application packet when it is really time to start submitting them, if there are that many folk who want to work in this field! In a few months time, when I've got the thesis a bit further along, look for drafts of my CV showing up here in search of comments...
kareina: (BSE garnet)
2008-04-24 10:50 am
Entry tags:

wow, that is a lot of applicants!

Around the same time as I did my last "annual review" of my PhD progress, when we set the deadline of submitting my thesis at mid-year this year, I got to thinking about "what next?", and decided to do some looking as to what is available for people who want to stay in academia. I stumbled upon an advertisements for a teaching position at a small university in the Principality of the Mists, which would start in August of this year. At that point in time, I was still hopeful that I would actually be able to meet my "done by mid-year" goal, so I decided to put in an application for that position. I didn't really expect to get it, since I'm applying from the weak position of not-yet done with the PhD and the focus of what they are looking for isn't quite a perfect match with my current project (though when one considers my Master's Project, it wasn't to far off from my experience, and was a direction I wouldn't mind heading). I mostly applied just for the practice of gathering together all of the information one needs for such things, figuring that it is good to start thinking of these things early, so that when I am actually in a position to start the serious search, I'll be ready.

Today I received an e-mail from them which said:

"Thank you very much for your application for the Assistant Professor position in Lithospheric Processes and Evolution in our department. We received nearly 100 applications for this position, and the pool of applicants was very strong.
The search committee was impressed by the talent we saw in the applications for this position. We sincerely appreciate your interest in our department."

Wow! I guess that I will really have to work hard to come up with a good application packet when it is really time to start submitting them, if there are that many folk who want to work in this field! In a few months time, when I've got the thesis a bit further along, look for drafts of my CV showing up here in search of comments...
kareina: (BSE garnet)
2008-04-24 08:42 pm

mylonites

Thanks to a chat with my advisor this afternoon, I may have stumbled upon the first use of the term "mylonite" in a geologic publication. If not the very first, certainly an early one! He had commented that part of the reason I need to include some cross-sections of my field area in my thesis is because the last time anyone published such a thing for this area was in the 1960's before anyone knew about mylonites and what they tell us about the deformation of an area.

This got me to wondering about just *when* they learned about mylonites, and rather than ask my advisor, I checked on Scopus for papers published on the topic between 1960 and 1970. There was one, published in Nature in 1967. Alas, UTAS doesn't have a subscription to the on-line version of that journal, so it was necessary to walk all the way down to the library and get the paper copy and make a photocopy of it. Looking at that article, I noticed early on it in a reference to "Lapworth's definition" of mylonite, and saw that the list of references included a 1885 article by Charles Lapworth. So I checked, and sure enough, UTAS happens to have this journal going back that far! (It is so cool to handle the actually journal from that long ago!)

Therefore, for your reading pleasure, I typed up the article, with the relevant definitions in bold print. Expandearly mylonite definition )

(yes, I am silly enough to spend the time to type it up, both(!) paragraphs from the photocopy!) I found it odd that the paper describes what the author said, rather than simply saying it, but perhaps this is a summary of a presentation he gave somewhere?
kareina: (BSE garnet)
2008-04-24 08:42 pm

mylonites

Thanks to a chat with my advisor this afternoon, I may have stumbled upon the first use of the term "mylonite" in a geologic publication. If not the very first, certainly an early one! He had commented that part of the reason I need to include some cross-sections of my field area in my thesis is because the last time anyone published such a thing for this area was in the 1960's before anyone knew about mylonites and what they tell us about the deformation of an area.

This got me to wondering about just *when* they learned about mylonites, and rather than ask my advisor, I checked on Scopus for papers published on the topic between 1960 and 1970. There was one, published in Nature in 1967. Alas, UTAS doesn't have a subscription to the on-line version of that journal, so it was necessary to walk all the way down to the library and get the paper copy and make a photocopy of it. Looking at that article, I noticed early on it in a reference to "Lapworth's definition" of mylonite, and saw that the list of references included a 1885 article by Charles Lapworth. So I checked, and sure enough, UTAS happens to have this journal going back that far! (It is so cool to handle the actually journal from that long ago!)

Therefore, for your reading pleasure, I typed up the article, with the relevant definitions in bold print. Expandearly mylonite definition )

(yes, I am silly enough to spend the time to type it up, both(!) paragraphs from the photocopy!) I found it odd that the paper describes what the author said, rather than simply saying it, but perhaps this is a summary of a presentation he gave somewhere?