Purdue has a MOU with UFZ in Germany and we are part of the TRACER project which has just been renewed for 3 more years. There will be opportunity for a few of you in existing PhD programs here at Purdue along with your mentors to attend some think tank sessions at UFZ if travel opens up as well as be a regular part of the TRACER program within your current PhD research.

This email is focused on a current opportunity for any of you completing an MS with a desire to go on into a PhD in Germany to apply for these fully funded fellowships. In the past, we have had students dual enrolled and getting degrees at both UFZ and Purdue, but right now with COVID-induced uncertainty with travel, this will likely be a challenge but no necessarily impossible – just depends on how things unfold this year and if you have a Purdue PhD mentor supportive of this and who wants to be involved with the TRACER group.

UFZ TRACER-funded 4 PhD positions are currently available. Specific topics and the corresponding link showing position descriptions and application channels are given below. Please distribute it to your colleagues and/or collaboration networks who may be interested in. Please contact Dr. Soohyun Yang (Purdue ESE graduate and now a post doc at UFZ. soohyun.yang@ufz.de) or Sandra Hille (sandra.hille@ufz.de) if more details are necessary.

· Predictors of the long-term fate of assimilated macronutrients in streams

https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/2282/Description/2

• · SLAP-2SPollution - Solving landscape puzzles to mitigate suspended solids pollution in rivers (Leads: Soohyun Yang, Stefano Basso & Dietrich Borchardt)

https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/2283/Description/2

• · Are all rivers losers? ‐ Understanding the role of losing streamflow conditions on water composition and solute export from catchments

https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/2281/Description/2

• · Spatial vs temporal variability in water quality (Leads: Jim Jawitz & Andreas Musolff)

https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/2280/Description/2

Linda S. Lee

B480 Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907; Office: (765) 494-8612; Cell (765) 414-3086; lslee@purdue.edu

Purdue University Dept. of Agronomy, Professor of Environmental Chemistry

Division of Environmental Ecological Engineering

COA Graduate Education and Research, Interim Asst. Dean

Interdisciplinary Ecological Science & Engineering (ESE) Graduate Program, Program Head, www.purdue.edu/ese