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align=justify><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I am happy to announce that
at the University of Pavia the application for PhD in Earth and Environmental
Sciences will be open soon.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=justify><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I have proposed a project
“<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Sub-orbital climate variability, trigger
and threshold of Mid-Pleistocene Transition</I>” </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=justify><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">where the student will work
on sediments recovered during IODP Exp. 368 (Site U1505, South China Sea)
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align=justify><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">and will collect data about
calcareous nannoplankton and clay minerals as proxies for primary productivity,
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=justify><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">carbonate
production/export/preservation and Asian monsoon evolution.
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=justify><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">He/she will benefit of a
joint supervision between the University of Pavia (Italy – Lupi Claudia) and the
Tongji University (China – Zhifei Liu). </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=justify><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><A
style='href: "http://phd-dsta.unipv.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/PhD_project_LUPI.pdf"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
color=#0000ff>http://phd-dsta.unipv.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/PhD_project_LUPI.pdf</FONT></FONT></A></SPAN></P>
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align=justify><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: en-us"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The applications will be
published on May 8th and will be made available from: </FONT></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A style='href: "http://phd.unipv.it/phd-eng/"'><FONT
color=#0000ff
face="Times New Roman">http://phd.unipv.it/phd-eng/</FONT></A></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">The deadline for applications
is June 13th. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: en-us"><A
style='href: "http://phd.unipv.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Brochure_PhD_2018_web.pdf"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
color=#0000ff>http://phd.unipv.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Brochure_PhD_2018_web.pdf</FONT></FONT></A></SPAN></P>
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the news.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Regards,</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">Claudia</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Lupi
Claudia, PhD<BR>Assistant Professor in Paleontology and
Paleoecology<BR>Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e
dell'Ambiente,<BR>Università degli Studi di Pavia<BR>via Ferrata 9, 27100
Pavia<BR>Italia<BR><BR>office +39 0382 985895<BR>fax +39 0382
985890<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>