The Department of Physical Oceanography of the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Mexico (CICESE) is offering a postdoctoral scholarship to join the group that will study 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.

The aim of the full time position 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 exp...